Carl Holzapfel (painter)

Fisherman with a lantern

Carl Holzapfel (born November 30, 1865 in Berlin ; † October 6, 1926 there ) was a German landscape painter.

Life

Carl Holzapfel was born in Berlin in 1865. He first studied from 1883 to 1890 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he was a student in Eugen Dücker's landscape class from 1886 to 1890 . From 1892 to 1896 studies at the art school in Weimar under Theodor Hagen followed . From 1897 he lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Between 1903 and 1915 he worked as a teacher (professor) at the academy in Kassel. From 1893 Holzapfel was regularly represented with his works at the great Berlin art exhibitions and the exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace . He died in Berlin in 1926 as a result of lead poisoning that he contracted in Kassel.

Works (selection)

The works shown at the aforementioned exhibitions in Berlin and Munich were generally landscapes or coastal motifs. Most of the topics were located in northern Germany. The pictures had titles such as:
East Holstein Landscape; On the heath - thunderstorm mood; Cranz a. Elbe; On the Elbe dike; Shipyard on the Este near Hamburg; Mudflats; In the port of Borstel near Hamburg; Dune Valley List a. Sylt; From the Lüneburg Heath; Potato harvest in East Frisia; Shepherd on the Wadden Sea; On the Elbe near Hamburg; Fishing cutter on the Elbe;

student

Helfrich Dern

literature

Crabapple, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 414 .

Web links

Commons : Carl Holzapfel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Works by Carl Holzapfel on artnet

Individual evidence

^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147

↑ Carl Holzapfel † . In: Vossische Zeitung , October 10, 1926

↑ Catalog of the art exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace 1908, Figure 90 (digital copy BSB online)

↑ Illustration in an article on the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1915 In: German Art and Decoration . Vol. 36, Darmstadt 1915, p. 330 (digitized version of Heidelberg University)

personal data
SURNAME	Crabapple, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	November 30, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	October 6, 1926
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147

[2] Carl Holzapfel † . In: Vossische Zeitung , October 10, 1926

[3] Catalog of the art exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace 1908, Figure 90 (digital copy BSB online)

[4] Illustration in an article on the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1915 In: German Art and Decoration . Vol. 36, Darmstadt 1915, p. 330 (digitized version of Heidelberg University)