Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth

Leopold Karl Walter Graf von Kalckreuth ( born May 15, 1855 in Dusseldorf, † December 1, 1928 at Gut Eddelsen, Hittfeld at Hamburg, now part of Seevetal ) was a German painter, printmaker and teacher at the art school of Weimar, at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. He was portrait, genre and landscape painter of naturalistic direction and is assigned to the realism. He was one of the painters who. 2nd half of the 19th century and around the turn of the century painting authoritative certain ( Thoma, Leibl, Liebermann and others)

Life

The son of the painter Stanislaus Graf von Kalckreuth attended from 1863 to 1866 the school in Keilhau. He studied under his father at the art school in Weimar in 1878 and moved to Munich, where he met Franz Spranger. From 1885 he worked as an artist and art teacher in Weimar.

In 1895 he came to the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, sat down, however, in opposition to Ferdinand Keller and left Karlsruhe, 1899, after pleading I could not prevail with Grand Duke Friedrich of Baden. He was also active in Stuttgart and from 1906 near Hamburg. With the royal appointment of King William II of Württemberg, Count Leopold von Kalckreuth and his colleagues in Karlsruhe Robert Poetzelberger and Carlos Grethe went to the Stuttgart Academy. From Kalckreuth made ​​sure that the Stuttgart artist got a forum that allowed them exhibitions. In 1898 he founded with six other founding members of the Stuttgart eV Künstlerbund which still exists today and is the oldest artists' association in Germany.

In 1908 he scored in Wroclaw at the founding members of the Artists' Association Silesia. Since 1926 was from a member of the Pour le Mérite Kalckreuth of Science and Arts.

He belonged to the preferred selection of contemporary artists who proposed the " Komite for collecting and assessing Stollwerck images " the Cologne Chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck to commission for drafts.

Leopold von Kalckreuth died in December 1928 at the age of 73 years on Good Eddelsen at Hittfeld / Seevetal in Lower Saxony near Hamburg.

He was married to Bertha Countess Yorck von Wartenberg (* July 2, 1864, † February 25, 1928 ) and father of the young divorced from the life of poet and translator of Kalckreuth Wolf ( 1887-1906 ) and John of Kalckreuth, of his biography wrote. His daughter Anna married the German - Dutch banker and art collector Franz Koenigs. His students included, among others, Ernst Biedermann, Karl Hofer, Wilhelm Laage and Emil Rudolf Weiß.

Selections

Landscape paintings, portraits, scenes of rural life, including:

  • Summer (1890, Kunsthalle Bremen )
  • Cherry dining Boy (1893, art collection to Weimar in the Castle Museum )
  • Dachau funeral canvas, 170 x 300 cm (1883, art collections to Weimar)
  • Sunday mood at the pier (1901, Hamburg, Kunsthalle )
  • Alfred Lichtwark (1912, Hamburg, Kunsthalle ) 99 × 86 cm.
  • Alexander Schnütgen, art collectors (1910 ), Cologne, Museum Schnütgen
  • Gleaners, 1894, canvas, 178 × 167 cm. Stuttgart State Gallery.
  • Gleaners, 1888, canvas, 70 × 95 cm.Köln, Wallraf- Richartz Museum.
  • Twilight, 1909, canvas, 81 × 111 cm. Hamburg Kunsthalle.
  • The Age, 1894, canvas, 116 × 172 cm.Dresden, Pillnitz.
  • Little John, 1899, canvas, 62 × 45 cm.Wiesbaden, Municipal Museum and gallery.
  • The Rainbow, 1896, canvas, 70 × 100 cm.München, New State Gallery.
  • The actor Karl Bozenhard, 1926, canvas, 85 × 80 cm.Hamburg, Kunsthalle.
  • Dückdalben in the Port of Hamburg, 1894, canvas, 140 × 201 cm.Hamburg, Kunsthalle.
  • The sailing ship, when painted unknown. Unknown size, pressure, 30 x 25 cm.Fuerteventura, private collection
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