Adda Kesselkaul

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Adda Kesselkaul (born September 20, 1895 in Frankfurt am Main , † July 1, 1969 in Munich ) was a German artist who became known as an animal painter.

Life

Adda Kesselkaul is the daughter of the district administrator of Düren Otto Kesselkaul and Elisabeth Kesselkaul, née Tillman. She grew up in Düren . She received her artistic training at the Düsseldorf Academy with Professor Julius Junghanns in the subject of animal painting and in 1923 with Angelo Jank in Munich. Adda Kesselkaul became his master student. Study trips to India, China, Japan and Africa followed. Further studies took place in Berlin, with the impressionist Eugen Spiro , and in Paris with André Lhote . The artist also devoted herself to landscape painting, but many works from the early years were lost in World War II . The painter's interest and motifs were primarily directed towards the animal world. Her depictions of animals, especially horses, were mostly done in watercolors, but she also mastered oil painting. She also created charcoal drawings. At an advanced age she went on study trips to Egypt, Lebanon and Italy, accompanied by the painter Kurt Hubertus Paesler-Luschkowko . She was also friends with Wolfgang Gurlitt . After initially living in Bonn, she moved to Munich in 1954, where she died in 1969.

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Kesselkaul, Adda . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 41 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Animal pictures by Adda Kesselkaul - 38 single and multi-colored illustrations - introductions by Arthur Ruemann - Verlag F. Bruckmann Munich 1961
  2. ↑ Mare and Wirehaired Fox in the Museum Ludwig
  3. ↑ Watercolor with dedication, 1963
  4. ↑ Hans Ries: Kesselkaul, Adda . In: General Artist Lexicon. 2014. KG Saur. Accessed December 31, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Kesselkaul, Adda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 1st July 1969
Place of death Munich