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Carl Strathmann
Carl Strathmann (11 September 1866, Düsseldorf - 29 July 1939, Munich) was a German painter in the Art Nouveau and Symbolist styles. Biography His father, also named Carl Strathmann, was a merchant and manufacturer, who later served as Consul (representative), consul in Chile. His mother, Alice, was originally from Huddersfield, England, and was an art enthusiast. From 1882 to 1886, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, with Hugo Crola, Heinrich Lauenstein and Adolf Schill. After being dismissed for a "lack of talent", he enrolled at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar where, from 1888 to 1889, he studied in the master class taught by Leopold von Kalckreuth.Walter Rothes: "Carl Strathmann", In: ''Die Kunst für Alle'',, University of Heidelberg, Vol.29, 1920, pg.505 f.Online When Kalckreuth left, he did as well; moving to Munich, where he lived a Bohemianism, Bohemian lifestyle as a free-lance artist, and met the painter Lovis Corinth, who became a lifelong friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Strathmann
Carl Strathmann (11 September 1866, Düsseldorf - 29 July 1939, Munich) was a German painter in the Art Nouveau and Symbolist styles. Biography His father, also named Carl Strathmann, was a merchant and manufacturer, who later served as Consul (representative), consul in Chile. His mother, Alice, was originally from Huddersfield, England, and was an art enthusiast. From 1882 to 1886, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, with Hugo Crola, Heinrich Lauenstein and Adolf Schill. After being dismissed for a "lack of talent", he enrolled at the Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar where, from 1888 to 1889, he studied in the master class taught by Leopold von Kalckreuth.Walter Rothes: "Carl Strathmann", In: ''Die Kunst für Alle'',, University of Heidelberg, Vol.29, 1920, pg.505 f.Online When Kalckreuth left, he did as well; moving to Munich, where he lived a Bohemianism, Bohemian lifestyle as a free-lance artist, and met the painter Lovis Corinth, who became a lifelong friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salammbô
''Salammbô'' (1862) is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt (241–237 BCE). Flaubert's principal source was Book I of the '' Histories'', written by the Greek historian Polybius. The novel was enormously popular when first published and jumpstarted a renewed interest in the history of the Roman Republic's conflict with the North African Phoenician outpost of Carthage. Genesis After the legal troubles that followed the publication of ''Madame Bovary'', when he was tried and acquitted on charges of "immorality", Flaubert sought a less controversial subject for his next novel. In 1857, Flaubert decided to conduct research in Carthage, writing in March to Félicien de Saulcy, a French archeologist about his plans. In a letter to Madame de Chantepie dated 23 January 1858, he described his anticipation: "I absolutely have to go to Africa. This is why, around the end of March, I will go back to the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Jakob Hertling
Wilhelm Jakob Hertling (16 December 1849, Katzenelnbogen - 8 October 1926, Munich) was a German landscape and Genre art, genre painter. Life and work He was born to Jacob Hertling, a tradesman, and his wife Caroline née Meyer. His interests in music and drawing developed early. After his father's death, he and his mother went to the United States. There, he worked in an establishment that mass-produced copies of popular art works; a sort of painting factory. Although his musical talent was noted, he made no effort to seek professional training. In 1870, he returned to Germany, alone. From 1873 to 1874, he studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main with Eduard von Steinle. In 1875, he went to live in the artists' colony at Kronberg im Taunus, where he continued his studies with Adolf Schreyer and Anton Burger (artist), Anton Burger until 1879. Further studies followed at the Universität der Künste Berlin, Kunstakademie Berlin with Hans Fredrik Gude. In either 1882 or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Köselitz
Rudolf Köselitz (born 23 October 1861 in Annaberg-Buchholz; died 21 January 1948 in Munich) was a German painter and Illustrator. Early life and education Rudolf Köselitz was born in 1861 to Gustav Hermann Köselitz, vice mayor of Annaberg-Buchholz. He was the younger brother of Heinrich Köselitz, a German author and composer. Both the brothers received early education in fine art. Heinrich turned to studying music while Rudolf was drawn to painting. Rudolf's talent was discovered by a drawing teacher at the secondary school. The latter proposed to the father that the fifteen-year-old study at the Leipzig Art Academy, which the latter also allowed. In 1881, Köselitz joined art academy in Munich to continue his studies. He was taught there by Carl Theodor von Piloty. His first study trip took him to Venice in the same year. There he was inspired by the Italian Renaissance and met here with his brother Heinrich, who was getting musical inspiration for his opera - The Lio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Beat Wieland
Hans Beat Wieland (11 June 1867 – 23 August 1945)Chappuis, I.: Wieland, Hans Beat', Swiss Institute of Art Research, 1998. URL last accessed 2006-10-12. was a Swiss painter, best known for his realist paintings of Alpine sceneries. Wieland was born in Gallusberg, Mörschwil, canton of St. Gallen, but he grew up in Basel. He left school shortly before the Matura in 1883, preferring to pursue a career in painting over the school degree. Two years later, he moved to Munich, where he studied first at the private art school of Paul Nauen and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. Together with Michael Zeno Diemer (1867 - 1939), he painted a large panoramic painting for the World's Fair of 1893 in Chicago, and in 1894, he joined the Munich Secession. In 1896/97, he travelled to Spitsbergen to witness the take-off of Salomon Andrée's balloon expedition to the North Pole. In 1898, he married Elsa Henkell, whom he had first met at the Academy in Munich. Wieland specialized on reali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Reinicke
René Reinicke (1860–1926) was a German painter and illustrator. Biography René Reinicke was born in Strenznaundorf, Saxony-Anhalt in 1860. He first studied art in Weimar and later in Düsseldorf and Munich. Reinicke worked as graphic designer and illustrator for several well-known Art Nouveau magazines. He died in 1926 in Steingaden. See also * Adolph Menzel * Eduard von Gebhardt Franz Karl Eduard von Gebhardt (13 June 1838 – 3 February 1925) was a Baltic German painter of portraits and historical scenes, and a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Biography He was born to Ferdinand Theodor von Gebhardt (1803 ... Footnotes Gallery File:GesprächaufdemBalkon.jpg File:Maskenball-ReneReinicke.jpg File:Frau im Park.jpg File:Feuerwehr Skizze.jpg File:René Reinicke Gouache.jpg External links René Reinicke (1860–1926) 1860 births 1926 deaths People from Saxony-Anhalt 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich Secession
The Munich Secession was an association of visual artists who broke away from the mainstream Munich Artists' Association in 1892, to promote and defend their art in the face of what they considered official paternalism and its conservative policies. They acted as a form of cooperative, using their influence to assure their economic survival and obtain commissions. In 1901, the association split again when some dissatisfied members formed the group Phalanx. Another split occurred in 1913, with the founding of the New Munich Secession. Background By the end of the nineteenth century, more artists lived in Munich than lived in Vienna and Berlin put together. However, the art community there was dominated by the conservative attitudes of the Munich Artists' Association and its supporters in the government. These attitudes found expression in the official "mission statements", written by the so-called "Prince of Painters" (''Malerfürst'') Franz von Lenbach. Matters came to a head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simplicissimus
:''Simplicissimus is also a name for the 1668 novel Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus, Simplicius Simplicissimus and its protagonist.'' ''Simplicissimus'' () was a satire, satirical German language, German weekly magazine, headquartered in Munich, and founded by Albert Langen in April 1896. It continued publishing until 1967, interrupted by a hiatus from 1944–1954, and became a biweekly in 1964. It took its name from the protagonist of Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Grimmelshausen's 1668 novel ''Der Abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch''. Combining brash and politically daring content, with a bright, immediate, and surprisingly modern graphic style, ''Simplicissimus'' published the work of writers such as Thomas Mann and Rainer Maria Rilke. Its most reliable targets for caricature were stiff Prussian military figures, and rigid German social and class distinctions as seen from the more relaxed, liberal atmosphere of Munich. Contributors included Hermann Hesse, Gusta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jugend (magazine)
''Jugend'' (German: "Youth") (1896–1940) was an influential German arts magazine. Founded in Munich by Georg Hirth who edited it until his death in 1916, the weekly was originally intended to showcase German Arts and Crafts, but became famous for showcasing the German version of Art Nouveau instead. It was also famed for its "shockingly brilliant covers and radical editorial tone" and for its avant-garde influence on German arts and culture for decades, ultimately launching the eponymous Jugendstil ("Youth Style") movement in Munich, Weimar and Germany's Darmstadt Artists' Colony. The magazine, along with several others that launched more or less concurrently, including '' Pan, Simplicissimus'', ''Dekorative Kunst'' ("Decorative Art") and ''Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration'' ("German Art and Decoration") collectively roused interest among wealthy industrialists and the artistocracy, which further spread interest in Jugendstil from 2D art (graphic design) to 3D art (architecture), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fliegende Blätter
The ' ("Flying Leaves"; also translated as "Flying Pages" or "Loose Sheets") was a German weekly humor and satire magazine appearing between 1845 and 1944 in Munich. Many of the illustrations were by well-known artists such as Wilhelm Busch, Count Franz Pocci, Hermann Vogel, Carl Spitzweg, Julius Klinger, Edmund Harburger, Adolf Oberländer and others. It was published by , a company belonging to the wood engraver Kaspar Braun and illustrator Friedrich Schneider. Aimed at the German bourgeoisie, it reached a maximum circulation of c.95,000 copies by 1895. It merged in 1928 with a competitor, the ''Meggendorfer-Blätter ''Meggendorfer-Blätter'' was a German language, German art and satirical magazine, which was published in Munich, Germany, from 1888 to 1944. The magazine was closely related to the illustrator and painter Lothar Meggendorfer (1847-1925). Histo ...'' and was published until 1944 as ' by the in Esslingen am Neckar. Sample illustrations File:Kaninchen und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan (magazine)
''Pan'' (1895-1915) was a Berlin-based German arts magazine, published by the PAN co-operative of artists, poets and critics. Focused on literature, theatre and music, the magazine published more than 20 issues "without reference to commercial, moral, personal or polemical questions, appreciating only the purely aesthetic viewpoint.” The magazine's mission was democratic in its commitment to '' Gesamtkunstwerk'' ("synthesized artwork"), and providing support to young artists of all kinds. To that end, the magazine sold tiered subscriptions: standard and luxury, and quickly "became the most expensive German art magazine of its era. Its artists-first commitment also led to its becoming one of the best representations of pan-European art in the early days of Abstract and Expressionist art. History Co-founded by Richard Dehmel and published from 1895 to 1900 in Berlin by Otto Julius Bierbaum and Julius Meier-Graefe, the group only ended up publishing three issues. In 1910, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Hanfstaengl
Edgar Hanfstaengl (15 July 1842, in Munich – 28 May 1910, in Munich) was a chief clerk, commercial purchaser and art publisher. He was significantly the son of a famous Bavarian court photographer who was connected with the circle of Ludwig II and became a close confidant of Duchess Sophie in Bavaria. He was also the father of the political figure Ernst Hanfstaengl. Origins and young life Edgar Hanfstaengl was born in Munich, the son of the photographer Franz Hanfstaengl (1804–1877) and his first wife Franziska Wegmeier (1809–1860). Edgar completed a training as commercial purchaser in Stettin and with a London wholesaler. At the beginning of the 1860s Edgar set out for Asia, to work as financial clerk to the Clark Tea Wholesaler's Company. In 1867 he returned to Munich to his father's Art business, where he was put to work as head clerk. In the same year he embarked upon a love-affair with the fiancée of Ludwig II of Bavaria, Duchess Sophie in Bavaria. On 12 November 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
