Paul Müller-Kaempff
Paul Müller- Kaempff ( born October 16, 1861 in Oldenburg, † December 5, 1941 in Berlin) was a German painter, draftsman and lithographer.
Training
Paul Müller- Kaempff was the sixth child of the Grand Ducal Oldenburgische military doctor Dode Emken Müller (1822-1896) and Marie Christine Wilhelmine Müller, born Kaempff. He trained first as a student of the Art Academy Dusseldorf, 1883-1886 Academy of Karlsruhe with Gustav Schönleber (1851-1917) and 1886-1888 of the Berlin Academy in the master studio with Hans Fredrik Gude ( 1825-1903 ). At this time George Muller stayed the Dredge (1865-1939) in Berlin. He was in 1886 with Hans Fredrik Gude also students.
Life and work
The name Paul Müller- Kaempff is primarily for the creation of the artist colony Ahrenshoop on the Darß. On the occasion of a fish- stay with his friend Oskar Frenzel (1855-1915) in 1889, they had discovered the remote fishing village. He built a house there in 1892 and began in 1894 with the painting school of St. Lucas. Fellow artists followed his example, so Ahrenshoop was also the home of Anna Gerresheim (1852-1921), Elisabeth von Eicken (1862-1940), Friedrich Wachenhusen (1859-1925), Fritz Grebe (1850-1924), Heinrich Schlotermann (1859 - 1922), Theobald Schorn ( 1866-1913 ) and Hugo Richter Lefensdorf ( 1854-1904 ). In 1909 he was instrumental in the construction of Ahrenshooper Kunstkatens. To his Oldenburg home he stopped at this time always connect.
In 1904 Müller- Kaempff and his future wife (1905 ) and former pupil Else Schwager co-founder of the Oldenburger Kunstverein (Oldenburg in Oldenburg), in 1905 he received the Oldenburg State Medal and in 1907 he co-founded the Association of Northwest German artist. In 1906 he was appointed professor. He lived from 1908 in Hamburg and was a member of the "Hamburg Artists' Union of 1832 ".
Müller- Kaempff was very successful as a landscape painter and counted the late 19th century to the most advanced and best-known landscape painters of his time. In addition to paintings, watercolors, pastels and drawings by him are also designs for furniture handed down and become known a variety of postcards. In addition, he produced lithographs for home portfolios and illustrated books (including " natural history of the birds of Central Europe ", 1905). Images were acquired during his lifetime not only of museums in Rostock, Oldenburg iO, Kiel and Hamburg, as well as many private collectors bought his pictures. Prince Eitel Friedrich, the second son of Emperor Wilhelm II, acquired in 1908 several works for the imperial court. The whereabouts of most of the paintings is unknown. Many pictures are in private collections and some are scattered all over the world. Even during his lifetime he was able to sell pictures to Argentina and China.
After the common Hans Fredrik Gude studies in Berlin in contact with Georg Müller from the Dredge not ripped off later. In May / June 1908 visited Paul Müller- Kaempff Georg Müller from the Dredge in the artists' colony Dötlingen. Müller- Kaempff created in Dötlingen a series of landscape paintings. There were also the other Dötlinger artists favorite motifs: The Hunte, the heath and typical of this landscape houses. On July 6, 1908 Müller- Kaempff devoted a folder with Oldenburgische landscapes the Grand Duke of Oldenburg in Oldenburg.