Carl Deiker

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Carl Deiker (born March 8, 1879 in Düsseldorf ; † October 29, 1958 there ) was a German animal painter from the Düsseldorf School and a writer .

Life

Deiker grew up as the son of the Düsseldorf hunting painter Carl Friedrich Deiker in Düsseldorf. His uncle was Johannes Deiker , also a prominent hunting painter. He received his first artistic training from his father. In 1894 he attended Heinrich Lauenstein's elementary class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Until 1898 he also attended the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts . Study trips took him to the Harz Mountains , Tyrol and Northern Italy . In 1904 he exhibited in the Munich Glass Palace , in 1907 he took part in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . He adorned his poetry collections Epheuranken (1901) and Irrlichte with book illustrations .

Deiker was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . In 1910 Deiker founded a committee with the Düsseldorf journalist Wilhelm Pieper (1885-1945) and others to advise on measures to protect the writer Karl May . Karl May had been publicly attacked from 1904 onwards by various publications by the journalist and politician Rudolf Lebius . On September 27, 1910, Karl May and his second wife visited Klara Deiker in his apartment at Böcklinstrasse 14, Düsseldorf- Grafenberg .

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  1. Cf. No. 428 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
  2. ^ Dieter Sudhoff , Hans-Dieter Steinmetz : Karl-May-Chronik . Volume V: Special volume on the collected works, Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg / Radebeul 2008, ISBN 978-3-7802-0170-6 , pp. 179, 209, 324