Karl Caspar

Karl Caspar ( born March 13, 1879 in Friedrichshafen, † September 21, 1956 in Brannenburg ) was a German painter who lived primarily in Munich and worked.

Life and work

After studying at the Art Academy in Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1904 he joined the Stuttgart Artists Association and in 1906 member of the German Association of Artists. In 1907 he married the painter Maria Caspar- Filser. In 1913 he was a founding member of the artist group New Munich Secession ( cf. Munich Secession ), which also included the painter Alexej von Jawlensky, Adolf Erbsloh, Vladimir Bechtejeff, Paul Klee and Alexander Kanoldt. In 1919 he became chairman of this group.

In the years 1922-1937 he was a professor at the Munich Academy. In the opened in Munich on July 19, 1937 the exhibition " Degenerate Art" also works of Karl Caspar were shown. In the period following his Christian outlook, from Impressionism and Expressionism equally influenced paintings and graphics were removed from German museums and public collections and / or destroyed. He was forced to retire. He therefore left in the same year ( other sources give the year 1944, after the local property was destroyed in a bombing raid ) Munich and settled in Brann castle, where his grave is.

As early as 1946 was his re- appointment as professor at the Munich Academy. In 1948 he was one of the founding members of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. In the same year he participated in the Venice Biennale. In 1950 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1952 together with his wife the first ever Upper Swabian art prize. 1955, a year before his death, he was a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

His students include Joseph Loher and Gretel Loher Schmeck, which are attributed to the lost generation, as well as Richard Stumm and Peter Paul Etz.

Public collections

Germany

  • Municipal Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
  • Zeppelin Museum

Poland

  • Sztuki Museum, Lodz

USA

  • Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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