Curt Agthe

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View of San Vigilio on Lake Garda

Curt Agthe (born July 28, 1862 in Berlin as Kurt Friedrich Coelestin Agthe ; † July 3, 1943 ibid) was a German genre and landscape painter .

Life

Curt Agthe was born in Berlin as the son of the piano maker Oscar Agthe (May 23, 1835 - July 18, 1909) . Little is known about his training at the Berlin Academy . One of the teachers was the history painter Anton von Werner , who had been the academy director since 1875 . Agthe himself names Max Michael , who has been teaching at the Academy since 1875, as a teacher. The painter Eduard Hildebrandt can also be proven as a teacher . One of Agthe's classmates is the painter Felix Borchardt . From 1891 to at least 1939 Agthe was a member of the Association of Berlin Artists . His pictures were exhibited regularly around the turn of the century. In 1937 his pergola was shown in Anacapri at the Great German Art Exhibition , but his paintings were rarely collected by the major museums. In 1939 the painter Heinrich Lorenzen (1900–1977), who was friends with Agthe, made a portrait showing Agthe, a white cockatoo on his shoulder, in his own studio (Berlin, private property). Curt Agthe died in 1943 and was buried in the 2nd cemetery of the Trinity Community at Bergmannstrasse 39-41 in Berlin-Kreuzberg, field M.

Agthe worked for many years as an illustrator for the art and culture series Velhagen & Klasings monthly magazines. For this art magazine, depictions of historical buildings and gardens were created (e.g. as an illustration for an article by Hans Mackowsky on Rheinsberg Castle and Park (1909)), sculptures, paintings, applied arts and fashion. Some of Agthe's works were also reproduced in the form of art postcards and distributed internationally. In the 1920s Agthe stayed several times in Rothenburg ob der Tauber (where he had been for the first time in 1887) and painted a wealth of motifs from this city. He also copied and restored old paintings or added unfinished works by other painters.

For his views from Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Curt Agthe did not choose the common motifs popular with painters and the public, but rather unusual perspectives, side streets and almost gloomy colors. The color of his pictures seems to depend on the subject. His genre paintings are based on the brown tones of Dutch painting, whereas the landscapes of Lake Garda have more brilliant colors.

Works (selection)

Figurative motifs

In addition to portraits, there are nudes from mythology and fairy tales (spring nymphs, tree nymphs, etc.) as well as historical subjects.

  • 1884: Elegant lady with a parasol, sitting in front of a farm , pencil drawing (art trade)
  • around 1889: Forest idyll , oil on canvas (National Gallery, Berlin)
  • 1894: Portrait of a girl , oil on canvas (art trade)
  • before 1902: Echo (life-size female nude) (Städtische Galerie, Rostock - preserved?)
  • before 1906: At the source , oil on canvas (exhibited in 1906, image at Wikimedia Commons )
  • around 1915: Portrait of Paul von Hindenburg , oil on canvas ( picture at Wikimedia Commons )
  • 1931: Portrait of a girl , oil on canvas ( picture at Wikimedia Commons )
  • Dryad (nymph at the lake, wood nymph), oil on canvas (private property, Great Britain), also proven as an art postcard motif (Ebay 2012)
  • Group of four people , paintings
  • Master drink (Mayor Georg Nusch and General Tilly ) , oil
  • Six samer , pastel
  • Mermaid , oil
Landscape motifs from Germany
  • 1882: Landscape near Erkner (Jacobysches Feld) , oil (on the reverse with a dedication Agthes to his 2-year-old niece Elly Müller from 1923; auctioned on ebay in 2012; private collection, Rothenburg ob der Tauber)
  • 1887: Rainy mood in Saxon Switzerland , oil on cardboard (art trade, Dresden)
  • 1923: A hot day in Rothenburg od Tauber (in Burggasse) , oil on cardboard (art trade, Dresden)
  • At the Black Forest lake
  • The town hall in Frickenhausen , oil
  • The Rödertor in Rothenburg ob der Tauber , oil on canvas (RothenburgMuseum, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, image at Wikimedia Commons )
  • The White Tower in Marktbreit am Main , Oil
  • Erkner, Dämeritzsee with Müggelbergen
  • Malerwinkel in Marktbreit am Main
Landscape motifs from Northern Italy
  • 1922: Spring afternoon on Lake Garda or autumn evening on Lake Garda (San Vigilio: a building and trees on the lake shore), oil on canvas (art trade, London; image at Wikimedia Commons )
  • Autumn evening on Lake Garda (San Vigilio), oil on canvas (art trade, Warsaw; image at Wikimedia Commons )
  • View of San Vigilio on Lake Garda in the evening glow or Punta San Vigilio on Lake Garda , oil on canvas (Kunsthandel, Warsaw; image above and at Wikimedia Commons )
  • In the park of San Vigilio (Lago di Garda) , oil on canvas (art trade, Munich)
  • Riva on Lake Garda , painting
  • Riva on Lake Garda. View from the steep west bank
  • Vignentor in Torbole on Lake Garda , oil on canvas (art trade, Berlin)
Landscape motifs from southern Italy
  • 1890: Capri, the Great Marina , pen drawing (art trade)
  • 1892: Motif from Anacapri (view of Ischia) , oil on wood (art trade, Dresden)
  • 1935: Gathering weather in the Campagna Romana - Anio , oil on panel, inscribed, signed and dated on the reverse (private property, Northern Germany)
  • View of Mount Aetna with boys bathing , oil
  • Capri , pen drawing
  • Pergola in Anacapri , oil (issued 1937)
Other landscapes
  • Cliffs , oil
  • Landscape , painting
  • Town view , oil
  • Villes sur mer , oil
Genre and still life
  • 1884: Still life , oil (private collection)
  • 1910: Dead poultry (copy after Jan Fyt ) , oil on canvas (National Gallery, Berlin)
  • In the studio , oil (private property)
  • Composition , gouache (private collection)
Book and magazine illustrations
  • Velhagen & Klasings monthly books (see also Wikisource with a list of digital copies)
  • Otto Kaemmel : Rome and the Campagna . With 161 illustrations based on photographs, 4 paintings by Hans Busse and 2 watercolors by Curt Agthe as well as 1 colored map (=  country and people . Volume 12 ). 3. Edition. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1913, DNB  580320065 (1st edition 1902).
  • Rudolf Baumbach : Truggold . Illustrated by P. Grot Johann. Set in color by Curt Agthe. Neufeld & Henius Verlag, Berlin 1910, DNB  994081383 (title drawing and marginal strips by Curt Agthe).

literature

Web links

Commons : Curt Agthe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "You saw his pictures at the international art exhibitions in Berlin in 1891, 1896, 1904, 1904 and in Düsseldorf in 1902 and 1904." - Agthe, Curt . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 137 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Peter-Klaus Schuster (Ed.): The ›Art City‹ Munich 1937. National Socialism and ›Degenerate Art‹ . 3. Edition. Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7913-0843-2 , pp. 224 .
  3. ↑ The Berlin National Gallery owns two paintings: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Totes Geflügel (copy after Jan Fyt), oil / canvas, 1910. - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Waldidylle, Öl / Lwd., Around 1889. - Not mentioned in: Barbara Dieterich, Peter Krieger, Elisabeth Krimmel-Decker (arrangement): National Gallery Berlin. State museums Prussian cultural heritage. Directory of paintings and sculptures of the 19th century . Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1976, DNB  770637000 (no information on Curt Agthe). Nothing in Berlin (Berlinische Galerie), Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and Munich: Berlinische Galerie - Museum of Modern Art: Collection online. (No information on Curt Agthe's works in the inventory). - Horst Zimmermann, Helga Fuhrmann (editor): Gemäldegalerie Dresden - New Masters. 19th and 20th centuries . Inventory catalog and directory of the paintings that were confiscated, destroyed and missing. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden 1987, DNB 891039546 (no information on Curt Agthe). - Eva Maria Krafft, Carl-Wolfgang Schümann (arrangement): Catalog of the masters of the 19th century in the Hamburger Kunsthalle . Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 1969, DNB 457282991 (no information on Curt Agthe). - Helga Hofmann, Janni Müller-Hauck (arr.): Catalog of the masters of the 20th century in the Hamburger Kunsthalle . Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 1969, DNB 457015535 (no information on Curt Agthe). - Rolf Andree (arrangement): Catalog of the paintings of the 19th century in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (= Gert von der Osten, Horst Keller [Ed.]: Catalogs of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum . Volume
        1 ). Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne 1964, DNB  452334047 (no information on Curt Agthe). - Evelyn Weiss: Catalog of the paintings of the 20th century, the older generations up to 1915 in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum - with parts of the Ludwig Collection - and in the Kunstgewerbemuseum (= Gert von der Osten, Horst Keller [ed.]: Catalogs of Wallraf -Richartz-Museum . Volume 7 ). Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne 1974, DNB  750922893 (no information on Curt Agthe). - Bavarian State Painting Collections :     Collection. (no hit when searching for "Agthe").
  4. ^ Exhibition Curt Agthe in the Reichsstadtmuseum Rothenburg ob der Tauber (now RothenburgMuseum): Curt Agthe (1862–1943) - The undiscovered painter. Special exhibition for the 150th birthday; Rothenburg, Imperial City Museum. In: Museums in Hohenlohe-Franconia. Working group museums and castles in Hohenlohe-Franken, 2012 .;
  5. ^ National Museums in Berlin: Dead Poultry (copy after Jan Fyt), oil / canvas, 1910.
  6. ↑ Michael Zeller Auction House, Lindau: Auction 129, June 2016, No. 1568 .: “Painters at the end of the 18th century: elegant hunting party at a picnic. View of small lake with mountain background. Rev. re. Curt Agthe restores Berlin in 1935. Oil / canvas. 173 × 109 cm. "
  7. ^ National Museums in Berlin: The old picture gallery in the Schinkel Museum by Karl Bennewitz von Löfen the Elder. J .: “In 1880/81, while still a student of Carl Gussow, Bennewitz von Löfen (the younger) created the present view of the gallery (...) Nevertheless, the picture remained unfinished and on the left, below the protective rods, in a sketchy condition. The painter Curt Agthe completed this part while the artist was still alive. "
  8. ^ Curt Agthe (1862-1943) - The undiscovered painter. Special exhibition for the 150th birthday; Rothenburg, Imperial City Museum. In: Museums in Hohenlohe-Franconia. Working group museums and castles in Hohenlohe-Franken, 2012 .;
  9. ↑ Dead poultry (copy after Jan Fyt) (1910), Waldidylle (around 1889), An der Quelle (before 1906).
  10. ^ National Museums in Berlin: Waldidylle, oil / canvas, around 1889.
  11. ^ Schmidt Kunstauktionen Dresden: Curt Agthe. In: Auction 27, March 5, 2011.
  12. ^ Schmidt Kunstauktionen Dresden: Curt Agthe. In: Auction 62, December 7, 2019.
  13. ↑ The picture was auctioned twice, once under the title Spring Afternoon on Lake Garda ( in May 2005 ) and once under the title Autumn Afternoon on Lake Garda ( in February 2010 ).
  14. ↑ Photo archive Marburg: In the park of San Vigilio (Lago di Garda).
  15. ^ Schmidt Kunstauktionen Dresden: Curt Agthe. In: Auction 21, September 19, 2009. (The unusual, narrow portrait format of 34.2 × 17.5 cm underlines the narrowness of the alley and the strong focus on the neighboring island on the horizon.).
  16. ↑ Peter-Klaus Schuster (Ed.): The ›Art City‹ Munich 1937. National Socialism and ›Degenerate Art‹ . 3. Edition. Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7913-0843-2 , pp. 224 .
  17. ^ National Museums in Berlin: Dead Poultry (copy after Jan Fyt), oil / canvas, 1910.
  18. ↑ Curt Agthe's work for the magazine could be quite extensive. The first volume of the 24th year alone (September to December 1909) contained reproductions of 12 watercolors for a contribution on inland sailing and 12 oil studies on The Northern Italian Lakes .
personal data
SURNAME Agthe, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1943
Place of death Berlin