Alexander Hubert von Volborth

Alexander Hubert von Volborth (born February 2, 1885 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire , † 1973 in Biberach an der Riss ) was a German-Russian landscape painter , graphic artist and illustrator .

Life

Von Volborth studied painting at the Stuttgart , Düsseldorf (1908) and Berlin academies . There Anton von Werner , Max Slevogt , Joseph Scheurenberg and Arthur Kampf were his teachers. Von Volborth was also active in Biberach an der Riss.

In 1912 von Volborth played a trick on the expressionist artist Max Pechstein by sending him two supposedly serious modern drawings, which von Volborth had made as caricatures. Pechstein was supposed to help him publish the drawings. The fact that Pechstein fell for this trick amused conservative art critics at the time. In 1911 and 1912 he made the Art Nouveau picture decorations for the fairy tale book Der Elfenraub by Marie Charlotte Siedentopf .

literature

Charlotte Fergg-Frowein (ed.): Kürschner's graphic artist manual. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Illustrators, commercial artists, typographers . Berlin 1967, p. 311.
General artist lexicon. Bio-bibliographical Index A-Z . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-23920-3 , Volume 10, p. 317.

Web links

Alexander Hubert von Volborth , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )

Individual evidence

↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 442
^ Bernhard Fulda, Aya Soika: Max Pechstein: The Rise and Fall of Expressionism . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-029662-4 , p. IX ( Google Earth )
^ Marie Charlotte Siedentopf : The elf robbery . Reprint, Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-86047-926-1

personal data
SURNAME	Volborth, Alexander Hubert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Russian landscape painter, graphic artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	February 2, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	1973
Place of death	Biberach an der Riss

[1] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 442

[2] Bernhard Fulda, Aya Soika: Max Pechstein: The Rise and Fall of Expressionism . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-029662-4 , p. IX ( Google Earth )

[3] Marie Charlotte Siedentopf : The elf robbery . Reprint, Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-86047-926-1