Carl Malchin

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Carl Wilhelm Christian Malchin (born May 14, 1838 in Kröpelin ; † January 23, 1923 in Schwerin ) was a German restorer and landscape painter who mainly painted rural Mecklenburg motifs and cityscapes .

Carl Malchin,
portrait by Josef Schretter
Carl Malchin,
portrait by Paul Brockmüller
Carl Malchin - Winter - Motif from Rostock (1898), oil on canvas
Cows at the drinking trough (1906),
oil on canvas

Life

Carl Malchin was born the son of Senator Friedrich Franz Malchin . He attended secondary school in Rostock before completing an apprenticeship as geodesist in Schwaan . His career aspiration was shipbuilder , but his physical condition did not allow this. After completing his apprenticeship, he worked as an assistant to his teacher for three years. During this time, he met the Schwerin painters Otto Dörr and Eduard Ehrke in Schwaan , who were doing nature studies there. They probably made Malchin want to paint .

From 1860 to 1862 he attended the Polytechnic in Munich to attend lectures in geodesy and engineering. But Malchin preferred to visit the artist's studios and thus got to know the landscape painter Adolf Heinrich Lier . He put the students in touch with Julius Noerr , also a well-known landscape painter of his time, with whom he took lessons. The painting took him more and more, but he dutifully finished his training as a surveyor and after an internship in Rostock he also passed the engineering examination. During his studies, he was in 1862 Conkneipant the Viennese academic fraternity Olympia .

For financial reasons, Malchin worked as a chamber engineer from the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg in the surveying office in Schwerin and painted in his spare time.

In 1866 he married Johanna Busch, the daughter of the tenant of Toitenwinkel near Rostock, and in 1867 his son Friedrich was born.

Already his paintings from 1871 to 1872, mostly with rural motifs, show a good ability to observe, clean lines and an appropriate selection of the image detail, such as the picture "Dorfstraße in Dierkow". In the painting “Bauerndiele”, Malchin captured the rural milieu in excellent painterly quality.

Malchin's pictures attracted attention in Mecklenburg art circles, so that the court painter Theodor Schloepke presented to Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II in order to obtain funding for the young painter. The Grand Duke approved a scholarship, monthly allowance and leave of absence from service to study at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar , founded in 1860 by the naturalist Stanislaus von Kalckreuth , which Malchin began in autumn 1873. He moved to Weimar with his wife and son. With his realism, his teacher and then director of the school Theodor Hagen had a great influence on Malchin . Even Albert Brendel was one of his teachers. Both painters shaped Malchin's style because of their similar views with the ideas. In 1874 he made a trip to the Moselle .

Despite the scholarship, Malchin was constantly troubled by money, his pictures were not yet selling well and so he had to send letters of appeal to Schwerin several times and ask for money transfers in advance. He also regularly offered his paintings to the Grand Duke for sale and the court also bought some paintings, albeit often below their value. Therefore, after completing his studies in 1879, he accepted the offered position as restorer of the ducal painting collection. The contract for this was designed generously and left him plenty of space for his own painting and vacation. Malchin took his task of restoring, viewing and organizing the paintings very seriously.

In 1881 Malchin painted in Boltenhagen , in 1882 he traveled to Wustrow and Ahrenshoop . The area around Ahrenshoop seems to have inspired him artistically, because there are numerous pictures and sketches of it in his work. The landscape around Gothmund has also attracted him very much since 1887, as various works up to 1902 show. In 1890 Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III awarded him . the title of professor. From 1903 Malchin lived in the village of Ostorf , which was then on the outskirts, and is now a district of Schwerin. There are plenty of motifs from Ostorf in later work.

Carl Malchin retired on July 14, 1915. He asked for a previously promised complete exhibition, which could not take place because of the First World War . But even after the war this was not carried out. Only after the artist's death in 1923 was there an exhibition that became a “memorial exhibition”.

Works

Summer landscape near Althagen
  • 262 paintings and 391 hand drawings and four sketchbooks in the State Museum Schwerin
  • Selection from the works in the Schwerin Museum: Village Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea, Niehagen am Saaler Bodden (around 1883), windmill near Ahrenshoop (1891), Althagen on Fischland in winter (1891), Alter Katen near Ahrenshoop (1891), beach near Boltenhagen (1881), grain loading on the Baltic coast near Boltenhagen, Rethwischer Ufer near Boltenhagen (1895), Schwerin city view with shelf church, view from the Artillery Hill to the castle and city of Schwerin in 1876, winter landscape (village of Neu Brenz near Neustadt) (1876), people returning home Flock of sheep on the edge of the village (drawing - 1877), threshing machine on the Lankower Felde (1880), on the Schelfwerder near Schwerin, Mecklenburg village landscape in winter (1892), view of Ostorf (1897), Dorfstrasse in Dierkow near Rostock (1871), peat bridge ( 1901), view of the Nikolaikirche in Rostock
  • some paintings in the cultural history museum in Rostock and in the art museum Ahrenshoop
  • some paintings in private ownership.
  • 94 paintings have been missing since World War II .

Some of his paintings can now be viewed in the gallery at Schwerin Old Garden and in Schwerin Castle.

Exhibitions

  • From 1876 to 1898 regularly represented at the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin and the Great Berlin Art Exhibitions as well as in the Munich Glass Palace .
  • 1923: Memorial exhibition in the Landesmuseum Schwerin June 10 - July 15, 1923 (see Life).
  • 1952: Carl Malchin: 1838-1923; a painter from home; Exhibition April to May 1952 - State Museum Schwerin.
  • 1988: Carl Malchin: 1838-1923; Painting and hand drawing; Exhibition for the 150th birthday in the gallery building at the Alter Garten, July - October 1988, State Museum Schwerin, art collections, palaces and gardens.
  • 1992: Carl Malchin, Kunstkaten Ahrenshoop (in cooperation with the State Museum Schwerin)
  • 2007: Carl Malchin (1838–1923): a painter from Mecklenburg, paintings and oil sketches from the holdings of the State Museum Schwerin, Castle of the Pomeranian Dukes , Stettin (Szczecinie: Zamek Ksiazat Pomorskich).
  • 2008: Exhibition Carl Malchin. A painter from Mecklenburg at Ludwigslust Palace , July - September 2008.
  • 2009: Carl Malchin - very private. Schwaan Art Museum, September - October 2009; For the first time, pictures of his son Friedrich Malchin (1867–1911) were shown here.
  • 2012: Heavenly light and wide earth: masterpieces on the way to open-air painting in the artist colonies Ahrenshoop and Schwaan. Exhibition in the Rostock Cultural History Museum, June - September 2012.
  • 2019: From Barbizon to the sea - Carl Malchin and the discovery of Mecklenburg. State Museum Schwerin , July 5, 2019 - January 5, 2020.

Honors

  • 1887 honorary diploma at the first international exhibition in Dresden
  • 1892 Gold Medal of Merit for Art and Science in Schwerin
  • 1915 Knight's Cross of the Order of the Griffin
  • 1923 memorial exhibition in the Landesmuseum Schwerin

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Malchin  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 478–479.
  2. ↑ Heiko Jäckstein: artists' colony Gothmund.
  3. ↑ Bildportal of art museums: Carl Malchin. Picture Agency for Art, Culture and History (bpk) - Berlin State Library , accessed on November 19, 2015 (when searching for pictures: enter Carl Malchin , preview pictures will be displayed).
  4. ^ Lost Art Internet Database. German Loss of Cultural Property Foundation
  5. ^ List of works by living artists at the exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin. Common Library Network (GBV), accessed on September 14, 2014 .
  6. ^ Great Berlin art exhibition, catalog. Common Library Network (GBV), accessed on September 14, 2014 .
  7. ^ Great Berlin Art Exhibition (Ed.) Catalog. Heidelberg University, accessed on September 14, 2014 .
  8. ^ Catalogs of the art exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace 1869-1931. bavarikon, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Carl Malchin - very private. Schwaan Art Museum, accessed on December 13, 2014 .
  10. ↑ FROM BARBIZON TO ANS SEER - Carl Malchin and the discovery of Mecklenburg. State Museum Schwerin, accessed on July 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Malchin, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malchin, Carl Wilhelm Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Kröpelin
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1923
Place of death Schwerin