Anton Klamroth

Anton Klamroth

Anton Klamroth (born April 29, 1860 in Moscow , † February 11, 1929 in Leipzig ) was a German portrait painter specializing in pastel and watercolor painting .

Life

Anton Klamroth was the son of the German violinist , composer , music teacher and concert master at the Imperial Moscow Opera (1856–1901) Karl Klamroth (1828–1912). Anton's sister Marie Lomnitz-Klamroth was the well-known director of the German Central Library for the Blind .

After completing high school in Moscow and Gotha , he attended the Bauakademie in Berlin from 1882 to 1884 and from 1883 studied at the same time at the Berlin Academy of the Arts , with Paul Thumann and Carl Gustaf Hellqvist , among others .

From 1890 to 1892 Klamroth lived as a freelance portrait painter in Meiningen . In 1893 he opened a painting and drawing school for women in Leipzig, his most important place of residence and work . In 1903 Klamroth married his student Hermine von Walther (born July 12, 1877).

He also made a name for himself as a collector of tin soldiers and the founder of the German collectors' association for tin figures KLIO :

"K. is the owner of the most important collection of tin soldiers in Europe and has occasionally written about this area. "

- General encyclopedia of fine artists from antiquity to the present.

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Anton Klamroth was best known for a significant number of portraits of princes, including a. Paintings of the German imperial couple Wilhelm II and Auguste Viktoria as well as the Saxon King Friedrich August III. Likewise, through his pastel portraits of citizens of Leipzig a. by Adolf Wach , Wilhelm Ostwald , Arthur Nikisch , Ferdinand Pfohl , Carl Bruno Tröndlin and Rudolf Dittrich , which were also exhibited in Berlin and Paris .

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  Arthur Nikisch , pastel, 1896

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  Carl Bruno Trondlin , pastel, 1900

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  Adolf Wach , pastel, 1900

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  Rudolf Dittrich

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  Hugo Licht , chalk drawing

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  Paul Thorer

Awards and Appointments

• Silver medal for art and science, Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Ducal Saxony-Ernestine House Order , Commander's Cross
• 1909: Royal Saxon Councilor

Memberships

• Société nationale des beaux-arts , Paris
• General German Art Cooperative
• Munich artists' cooperative
• Leipzig Artists Association

literature

• Exhibition Anton Klamroth, Leipzig. Under the rectorate Sr. Royal Highness of Duke Carl Eduard von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha . Organized by the Kunstverein zu Gotha, April 27, 1913-18. May 1913, Leipzig [1913]. (10 p.)
• Georg Brand: Anton Klamroth. A contribution to the history of pastel painting . Wigand, Leipzig [1908]. (68 p.)
• Klamroth, Anton . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 406-407 .
• Klamroth, Anton . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 56 .
• A. Rosenberg: A. Klamroth, a master of pastel painting. Hermann Seemann successor, Leipzig 1902 (38 pages)

Web links

Commons : Anton Klamroth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Anton Klamroth (Moscow 1860–1929 Leipzig) . oldandnewmasters.com