Paul Müller-Kaempff (1861–1941) was a German painter, illustrator and

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. He is associated with the

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Biography

Kaempff received his first training from 1883 to 1886 at the

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, then at the Academy of

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under :de:Gustav Schönleber (1851–1917) and finally at the Berlin Academy in the studio of

Hans Gude Hans Fredrik Gude (March 13, 1825August 17, 1903) was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters. He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Ro ...

(1825–1903). In 1905 he married his student, , and was appointed professor a year later. From 1908 he lived in

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, later becoming a member of the Hamburg Artists Association. In 1904 he and his wife were founder members of the Oldenburg Art Society. Müller-Kaempff was a successful landscape artist. He produced watercolours, pastels and drawings as well as furniture designs and a multitude of postcards. He was also an accomplished lithographer and produced bird illustrations for the revised edition of Naumann's ''"Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas"''. During his lifetime his works were acquired by museums in Rostock, Oldenburg, Kiel and Hamburg, and bought by numerous private collectors as far afield as

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and

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Prince Eitel Friedrich Prince Wilhelm Eitel Friedrich Christian Karl of Prussia (7 July 1883 – 8 December 1942) was the second son of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany by his first wife, Princess Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. He was bo ...

, the second son of

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, acquired several of Müller-Kaempff's pieces for the imperial court in 1908. Müller-Kaempff stayed in touch with his former fellow-student, Georg Müller vom Siel, and visited him at

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in June 1908. On a hike in 1889 with his friend, Oskar Frenzel (1855–1915), they discovered the secluded fishing village of

Ahrenshoop Ahrenshoop is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany on the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula of the Baltic Sea. It used to be a small fishing village, but is today known for its tourism and as a holi ...

. Müller-Kaempff was so inspired by the isolated hamlet that he moved there, built himself a house in 1892, and started the painting school of St. Lucas in 1894. Fellow artists followed his lead, and soon the artists' colony was home to Anna Gerresheim (1852–1921), Elisabeth von Eicken (1862–1940),

Friedrich Wachenhusen Adolf Friedrich Wilhelm Wachenhusen (27 May 1859 – 2 May 1925) was a German landscape artist, draftsman and etcher. The focus of his work was on the countryside of his home region, Mecklenburg. Life At the urging of his father, a Schwerin min ...

(1859–1925), (1850–1924), (1859–1922), (1866–1913) and (1854–1904).

Selected paintings

Paul Müller-Kaempff03.jpg, Farmstead with Cornfield File:Paul Müller-Kaempf - Die Ostsee bei Ahrenshoop.jpg, The

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near Ahrenshoop File:Müller-Kaempf P.@Ahrenshop v Hohen Ufer.JPG, The High Path at Ahrenshoop File:Paul Müller-Kaempff Darß Winter 21.jpg,

Darß The Darß or Darss is the middle part of the peninsula of Fischland-Darß-Zingst on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The peninsula's name is of Slavic origin. There is a large forest in ...

Winter

Sources

* Paul Müller-Kaempff: "Erinnerungen an Ahrenshoop" In: ''Mecklenburgische Monatshefte'', Schwerin, Bd. 2 (1926), 7, S. 333–336.
Digitalized
* Konrad Mahlfeld: ''Paul Müller-Kaempff. Begründer der Künstlerkolonie Ahrenshoop''. Hasenverlag, Halle (Saale) 2010, . * Wolf Karge: Paul Müller-Kaempff : 1841 Oldenburg – Ahrenshoop – Berlin 1941. Mit einem Beitrag von Friedrich Schulz, Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2006, . *Paul Müller-Kaempff. In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker u. a.: ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart''. Vol. XXV, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1931, S. 245. *Paul Müller-Kaempff. In: Hans Vollmer: ''Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts''. Vol. 5. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1961, S. 409

References

External links

website

@ the Mecklenburg Kunst Galerie. {{DEFAULTSORT:Muller-Kaempff, Paul 1861 births 1941 deaths German painters German artists German male painters German male artists 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German lithographers Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni Prussian Academy of Arts alumni 20th-century German printmakers 20th-century lithographers Düsseldorf school of painting