Carl Horn (painter)

Carl Horn: Female nude from the back

Carl (Karl) Horn (born April 27, 1874 in Kassel ; † January 21, 1945 in Bad Oberdorf near Bad Hindelang in the Allgäu ) was a German painter and director of the Nordic Art Academy in Bremen .

biography

Horn studied from 1893 to 1894 with Gabriel von Hackl at the Art Academy in Kassel and from 1896 to 1898 with Carl von Marr at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He worked as a painter of nudes, figures and landscapes and was a portraitist in Munich .

In the 1920s, Horn married Elsa Pröhl for the second time, the mother of Ilse Heß - wife of Rudolf Heß , Hitler's deputy in the NSDAP . Horn was Hess's step-in-law. Horn maintains close relationships with the highest levels of the NSDAP.

In 1934 the Bremen School of Applied Arts became the Nordic School of Art . It was the only re-establishment of an art college during the Nazi era, which was intended to build up a species-specific culture in the spirit of Adolf Hitler and to attempt to implement the Nazi racial ideology in the field of art.

The founding university directors were Fritz Mackensen and Eduard Scotland and shortly afterwards Ernst Gorsemann . In 1934 Horn was appointed professor. Horn was appointed university director from February 1935 to 1942. During this time he denounced a. a. a student who therefore had to serve seven years in a concentration camp . Mackensen, who initially welcomed Horn's appointment, increasingly turned against him. Horn took part in the Great German Art Exhibitions from 1937 to 1944 in Munich.

After Hess's "England flight" to Scotland on May 10, 1941, Horn was advised by the Senator for Education, Richard von Hoff , to submit his early departure. At the end of 1941 he gave up the management of the university.
He lived in Bremen- Oberneuland , Oberneulander Strasse. He died in 1945 in Bad Oberdorf, the place where his stepdaughter Ilse Hess lived. Elsa Horn stayed in Oberneuland. The stepdaughter Ilse later moved to Lilienthal .

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At the beginning of the 20th century he created numerous Art Nouveau ex-libris . He created landscapes and seascapes of Bornholm , Rügen , Italy , ports , cityscapes of Dachau and Fritzlar . Horn was also a genre painter , painting figurines , portraits and nudes in watercolor and oil. His lyric realism is characterized by a sensitive, harmonious, color-intensive palette .

Exhibitions

• 1895: Fritzlar Art Association
• 1896: Eschwege
• 1897: Marburg an der Lahn
• 1900: Berlin
• 1901: Munich

Works

• Portrait of Rudolf Hess, 1937
• Portrait Ernst Gorsemann, 1937
• In Biedermeier dress, around 1937
• Still life with flowers and coffee cup, 1902
• Peasant woman with prayer book and young woman with knitting, 1902
• Courting grouse, before 1900

literature

• Bavarian Army Museum , Ingolstadt : Lieutenant Heinrich von Mußbach , 1914.
• Robert Thoms: Great German Art Exhibition Munich 1937–1944 . Directory of artists in two volumes, Volume I: painter and graphic artist. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937294-01-8 .
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .

Web links

Commons : Carl Horn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bremen State Archives, 3 - 4.a. No. 1075 [12].
2. ↑ Bruno Kroll: German painters of the present. The development of German painting since 1900. 3rd edition. Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1944, DNB 580467465 , ill. P. 126.