Alma del Banco - Porträt des Malers Paul Kayser (1910-17)

Paul Kayser (22 September 1869, in

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– 23 September 1942, in

Donaueschingen Donaueschingen (; Low Alemannic: ''Eschinge'') is a German town in the Black Forest in the southwest of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg in the Schwarzwald-Baar '' Kreis''. It stands near the confluence of the two sources of the river Da ...

) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Biography

He began with an apprenticeship as a decorative painter at the firm of Wirth & Bay then, from 1886 to 1889, attended the

Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule München The Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule München (abbreviation KGS) was founded October 1, 1868 in Maxvorstadt, Munich after a formal decision of King Maximilian II of Bavaria dated June 29, 1868. Along with the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and the Nu ...

, followed by the . From 1890 to 1894, he worked as a decorative painter in

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. In 1902, he married Melanie Hertz, daughter of the physicist

Heinrich Hertz Heinrich Rudolf Hertz ( ; ; 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's Maxwell's equations, equations of electrom ...

, and they had two children. At that time, he was a private art teacher. From 1906 to 1939 (interrupted by service in

Schleswig The Duchy of Schleswig ( da, Hertugdømmet Slesvig; german: Herzogtum Schleswig; nds, Hartogdom Sleswig; frr, Härtochduum Slaswik) was a duchy in Southern Jutland () covering the area between about 60 km (35 miles) north and 70 km ...

during World War I) he taught at the art school operated by . Due to the destruction resulting from World War II, he left Hamburg in 1941 to settle in Donaueschingen, on the Swiss border, where he died one year later. He was a founding member of the and, from 1897, a participant in the , a group of young artists and writers, modelled on the

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 polic ...

. He was also a member of the . His style was heavily influenced by

Albert Marquet Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturali ...

, whom he had met in 1909, and reunited with during a trip to Paris in 1933. His notable works include two large paintings that were created as decorations for the ocean liner ''

SS Imperator SS ''Imperator'' was a German ocean liner built for the Hamburg America Line ( Hamburg Amerikanische Paketfahrt Aktien Gesellschaft, or HAPAG), launched in 1912. At the time of his completion in June 1913, he was the largest passenger ship in th ...

''. His works were part of a major exhibition in 2019: ''Hamburger Schule – Das 19. Jahrhundert neu entdeckt'' at the

Hamburger Kunsthalle The Hamburger Kunsthalle is the art museum of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany. It is one of the largest art museums in the country. The museum consists of three connected buildings, dating from 1869 (main building), 1921 (Kuppelsaa ...

Selected paintings

File:PaulKayserKoppelblick1910.jpg, View from Gerda Koppel's Art School File:Paul Kayser Auf der Elbe.jpg, On the

Elbe The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Repu ...

File:Paul Kayser - Stilleben (1914).jpg, Still-life File:Paul Kayser Venedig 1910.jpg, Venice File:Paul Kayser - Interieur mit Melanie (1915).jpg, Interior with Melanie

Sources

* * Hamburger Kunsthalle, ''Hamburger Ansichten. Maler sehen die Stadt.'' Wienand Verlag, Köln 2009, , pg.190. * Anna Lena Meyer: ''Paul Kayser, Maler.'' In: Olaf Matthes and Ortwin Pelc: ''Menschen in der Revolution. Hamburger Porträts 1918/19.'' Husum Verlag, Husum 2018, , pgs.92–94. * ''Kayser, Paul.'' In:

Ernst Rump Ernst August Max Friedrich Rump (13 October 1872, Hamburg - 12 January 1921, Hamburg) was a German merchant, art patron and collector. In 1912, he wrote the ''Lexikon der bildenden Künstler Hamburgs, Altonas und der näheren Umgebung'' (Encyclope ...

(Ed.): ''Lexikon der bildenden Künstler Hamburgs, Altonas und der näheren Umgebung.'' Bröcker, Hamburg 1912 * Kayser, Paul. In: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Vol. 20: Kaufmann–Knilling. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1927, pg.46

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