Alexander Kanoldt
Kanoldt Alexander ( born September 29, 1881 in Karlsruhe, † January 24, 1939 in Berlin) was a German painter and professor at the Art Academy in Berlin.
Life and work
During his art studies at the Karlsruhe academy he was a student at Ernst Schurth and Friedrich Fehr, from 1906 to 1909 his master pupil. Here he learned, first in Neo-Impressionist style painting, Adolf Erbsloh, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. With him and Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Gabriele Münter, Marianne von Werefkin and others, he founded in 1909 the New Artists ' Association of Munich ( NKVM ), from the 1911 emerged the editors of Der Blaue Reiter. Within the N.K.V.M. it came to three major group exhibitions at the Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser in Munich.
Besides Alexej von Jawlensky, Adolf Erbsloh, Vladimir Bechtejeff, Paul Klee and Karl Caspar he also belonged to the group of artists in 1913 founded Munich's Neue Secession. During the World War he served from 1914 to 1918 as an officer in service.
After the war, he maintained close relations with Georg Schrimpf, with whom he took a magical- realistic variant of the New Objectivity. During a lengthy stay in Italy together with Adolf Erbsloh he developed multi -perspective architectural landscapes, magical rigidly nested in shape. In 1925 he participated in the exhibition part of New Objectivity in Mannheim, where he was represented alongside Max Beckmann with the largest group of works.
From 1925 to 1931 he was professor at the State Academy of Fine and Applied Arts Wroclaw.
After 1927 he became a member of the Baden Secession and from 1932 a member of the Munich artists' group " The Seven".
1932 planned Kanoldt together with Erbsloh a fourth exhibition of NKVM for 1934 at the Munich Kunstverein of its formation 25 years ago. You should show works of former members of the Munich and the last few years. The exhibition idea could not be realized because after the handover of power to the Nazis on 30 January 1933, the painting not only the members of the former NKVM was branded as degenerate.
Kanoldt had joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and was duly appointed in 1933 as professor and director of the Berlin Academy, and as a senator to the Prussian Academy of Arts. Nevertheless, his work in the period of National Socialism were considered "degenerate" and in 1937 from public collections in Hamburg and Essen. As early as 1936 he had to leave for health reasons his professorship in Berlin.