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Carl Coven Schirm (born November 24, 1852 in Wiesbaden , † April 3, 1928 in Amelinghausen ) was a German landscape painter . He is the youngest of the series of realistic Wiesbaden painters Ludwig Knaus , Adolf Seel and Kaspar Kögler .
Life
Carl Schirm attended the humanistic grammar school in Wiesbaden and graduated from high school there. After initially studying chemistry and physics in Bonn , he decided to become a painter in 1875 on the advice of Christian Eduard Böttcher and studied at the Grand Ducal Badische Kunstschule Karlsruhe with Hans Fredrik Gude , Wilhelm Riefstahl , Carl Gussow and Ernst Hildebrand . He became a master student of Gude, whose daughter Gunhild he married in 1882.
In 1880/81 he went on a long study trip with the painter Eugen Bracht through Syria , Palestine and Egypt , from where he brought studies with him, which he converted into paintings that are once again particularly popular today. In 1882/83 he worked for Anton von Werner and Eugen Bracht's Sedan Panorama in Berlin. Around 1887/1888 his studies took him to Lübeck , the Gothmund traverse region and the Baltic Sea. From 1883 to 1889, Schirm was head of the landscape painting studio of the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Breslau and then from 1898 to 1913 in Berlin . Until 1907 he worked here for his brother-in-law Otto Lessing and for this he created handicrafts in enamel and ceramics , including in 1902 for the Roland fountain in Berlin-Tiergarten , the refreshment room in the Wertheim department store and the Trarbach restaurant. In Berlin, he joined the Werkring artists' association, he was also a member of the General German Art Cooperative .
Schirm's loyalty to Wiesbaden is documented by his participation in various exhibitions, such as the "Köglerische Malschule", in which he made his oriental paintings known in 1881 in Wiesbaden, which at that time had "around 51,000 souls". One of them, representing the Jordan plain , is kept in the Wiesbaden Museum. At the “Jubilee Art Exhibition” of the Nassauischer Kunstverein in 1897 to mark its 50th anniversary, he was represented with five paintings, two of which, interestingly, were loaned by Hermann Pagenstecher .
From 1907, Schirm again devoted himself intensively to landscape painting and frequently visited the Lüneburg Heath , where he settled in Amelinghausen- Sottorf in 1918 . Ten years later he died there at the age of 75. He was buried in Wiesbaden.
literature
- Friedrich Boetticher : Painters Works of the Nineteenth Century. Contribution to art history . Volume 2, 2, Dresden 1901, pp. 565-566 ( digitized version ).
- Umbrella, Carll . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 86 .
- Frido Witte : CC Schirm, a painter from the Lüneburg Heath . Museum Association for the Principality of Lüneburg, Lüneburg 1954.
- Frido Witte: memories of CC Schirm. In: The Lower Saxony , Sunday supplement of the Böhme newspaper , June 25, 1955.
Web links
- Carl Coven umbrella website
- Carl Coven umbrella on kuenstlerkolonie-gothmund.de by Heiko Jäckstein
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wiesbadener Bade-Blatt of August 21, 1881.
- ↑ Kasr el Jehŭde , 1881, oil / canvas, 115 cm x 250 cm - Museum Wiesbaden, inventory no. M 358
- ↑ Catalog of the anniversary art exhibition of the Nassau Art Association in the ballroom of the city hall of Wiesbaden. Wiesbaden 1897, No. 144, “Dead Sea; No. 145, Port of Lübeck; No. 146, Port of Lübeck; No. 147, Sinai (property of Professor Dr. Herm. Pagenstecher); No. 148, Marine (same). "
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Umbrella, Carl Coven |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schirm, Karl Johann Cowen; Schirm, Carl (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1928 |
| Place of death | Amelinghausen |