Alfred Mahlau (21 June 1894 – 22 January 1967) German painter, illustrator and teacher.
Biography
Alfred Mahlau was born in
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
on 21 June 1894.
He was best known for his graphical work and illustrations, and for the large stained glass window,
Dance of Death
The ''Danse Macabre'' (; ) (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death.
The ''Danse Macabre'' consists of the dead, or a personification of ...
, in the
Lübeck Marienkirche (St. Mary's Church in Lübeck), which paid homage to a famous mural of the Dance of Death in the church that was destroyed in the bombing of
Lübeck
Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the stat ...
during World War II. His books include a number of works with paintings and drawings of Hamburg and the Hamburg port. The product design for
Niederegger
J. G. Niederegger GmbH & Co. KG is a producer of marzipan and sweets which is based in Lübeck, Germany.
Niederegger was founded in Lübeck on 1 March 1806 by Johann Georg Niederegger (1777–1856). The company is a family-owned limited priva ...
from the twenties is still in use.
He died in
Hamburg
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on 22 January 1967.
Among his students were
Horst Janssen
Horst Janssen (14 November 192931 August 1995) was a German draftsman, printmaker, poster artist and illustrator. He had a prolific output of drawings, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs and wood engravings.
Janssen was a student of Alfred Mahla ...
and
Vicco von Bülow
Bernhard-Viktor Christoph-Carl von Bülow (12 November 1923 – 22 August 2011), known as Vicco von Bülow or Loriot (), was a German comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer.
He was best known for his cartoons, the sk ...
. His work is collected by the
Busch-Reisinger Museum
The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985), and four research ...
, among others.
References
1894 births
1967 deaths
Artists from Berlin
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
German male painters
German graphic designers
German illustrators
Stained glass artists and manufacturers
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