Albert Wood

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Albert Holz (born February 27, 1884 in Düsseldorf , † 1954 ibid) was a German animal and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Initially autodidact, Albert Holz studied privately in Düsseldorf from 1908 with the animal and landscape painter Christian Kröner , who died in 1911 and whose last master student was Holz. He then trained with Georg Hacker , who had been based in Düsseldorf since 1896. Until 1928 Hacker was the director of the painting hall at the Stadttheater; In addition, from 1919 to 1928 he headed the stage design class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. As a student of Hacker, Holz was at times employed as a painter at the Düsseldorf City Theater. Information about Albert Holz's further life is not yet available.

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In the Düsseldorf exhibitions, Holz was already noticed by one of his first pictures, a view of Neuss , which was followed by other architectural depictions, such as "The market square in Düsseldorf" with the stalls of market women and their customers in front of the equestrian statue of Jan Wellem . Then he devoted himself increasingly and entirely in the footsteps of his first teacher Christian Kröner to landscape painting, whose motifs he found in the Eifel, on the Moselle and on the Lower Rhine, less often in other regions, for example with the painting Kaysersberg in Alsace . He characterized the landscapes in the typical moods of the time of day and seasons and often animated them with grazing sheep or herds and individual depictions of large and small game: In the Hocheifel near Adenau , view from the mountains of a castle complex in the valley in the Eifel , Flower meadow in the Eifel with grazing deer or meadow landscape with grazing cows . Winter motifs show lurking foxes in front of the mouse hole in the snow , laced foxes in the snow or herds of wild boars in winter . Occasionally people are also included in the compositions, for example a farmer with a scythe in gorse blossom in the Eifel with a shepherd and herd , hunters on their way home at night on the old Mörsenbroicher Weg or old acquaintances - country mail carriers and deer pack in a summer landscape . Since the artist did not date his works, it is difficult to place them in chronological order. A special commission for Albert Holz were the panoramas for the open enclosures of the Düsseldorf zoo, Nordland and the African steppe. probably originated in connection with the renovation of the polar bear enclosure, 1925, and the preparation of the Reichsausstellung Schaffendes Volk (motto Africa in Düsseldorf ), 1937. Watercolors and drawings, especially depictions of animals, are also known by the artist.

literature

  • Dressler's art manual . 1922.
  • General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists. prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller, edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer. Volume 6, Supplements, Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1922.
  • Aachen art sheets. 1924, no.11, register.
  • Velhagen & Klasings monthly books. 53 I, Leipzig 1938/39, pp. 132-133, p. 136 (fig.).
  • Düsseldorfer Nachrichten. March 2, 1954 (obituary).
  • The art and the beautiful home. Monthly magazine for painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture and home decor . 1954, No. 52, supplement, p. 158 (death report).
  • Wood, Albert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955.
  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , pp. 132-133 (fig.).
  • Wood, Albert. In: Saur General Artist Lexicon , bio-bibliographical index A - Z. Volume 5: Hodunov - Laborier. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-598-23915-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fig .: Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Volume 2.
  2. ↑ Fig .: Eifel calendar. 1932, between pp. 80 and 81 .
  3. ^ Auction van Ham, Cologne, April 6, 2006, No. 1836; Catalog fig.
  4. ↑ Gallery Wilhelm Körs, Dusseldorf in 1988; Catalog fig.
  5. ^ Hergetsheimer auction, Düsseldorf, September 19, 2014; Catalog fig.
personal data
SURNAME Wood, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH 1954
Place of death Dusseldorf