Carl Murdfield

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Group leaders of the Malkasten-Redoute in 1912, from left to right: Theodor Groll , Hermann Pohle , Arthur Wansleben , architect Thilo Schneider, Friedrich Coubillier , Henrik Nordenberg , Carl Murdfield, Fritz von Wille

Carl Ludwig Alfred Franz Murdfield , also Karl Murdfield (born June 9, 1868 in Rheine , Westphalia province ; † May 8, 1944 in Unterjoch , Bad Hindelang , Bavaria ), was a German portrait and interior painter of the Düsseldorf School , director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Organizer of art exhibitions, archivist and chairman of the artists' association Malkasten , author of local and art historical anecdotes and city ​​councilor in Düsseldorf .

Life

Portrait of Archbishop Hubert Theophil Simar , 1901
Exhibition of the Simar portrait adorned with black ribbon in the Kunstpalast of the industrial and commercial exhibition in Düsseldorf 1902 , photo by Otto Renard

Murdfield, the youngest of five children from the marriage of the Catholic merchant Theodor Carl Joseph Murdfield (1823-1904) with Magdalena "Lena", née Becker (1836-1910), grew up in Rheine and attended the from 1885 to 1892/1893 Art Academy Düsseldorf . There were Heinrich Lauenstein , Hugo Crola , Peter Janssen the Elder , Adolf Schill , Julius Roeting and Eduard Gebhardt his teachers. During this time he was a member of the Tartarus fraternity . After studying in Düsseldorf, he went to the Académie Julian in Paris .

Hünenborg Memorial in Rheine

In 1896 he settled in Düsseldorf. There he became a member, later archivist and chairman of the artists' association Malkasten , also a member of the association for the organization of art exhibitions and, as the successor to Hermann Carl Hempel, head of the Kunsthalle. In these functions he organized art exhibitions in addition to his work as a portrait painter. In addition, from 1919 to 1924 he worked for the German Center Party as a city councilor in the city council of Düsseldorf. Among the personalities who commissioned Murdfield with portraits were the Archbishop Hubert Theophil Simar and the former mayor of Düsseldorf. D. Ludwig Hammers .

On April 19, 1898, he married Bertha Offenberg (1874–1919), the daughter of Bergrat Ludwig Offenberg (1830–1879), who gave birth to their daughter, Johanna. The painter Gisela Baur-Nütten (1886–1981), who married the painter Albert Baur the Younger around 1906 , was a private student of Murdfield in the 1900s.

In the 1920s, Murdfield designed the Hünenborg Memorial , which was erected in 1926/1927 as a war memorial for soldiers who fell in World War I from roughly hewn blocks of Ibbenbürener and Baumberger sandstone on the Thieberg in Rheine. Murdfield died in 1944 after a short illness in Unterjoch ( Allgäu ), where he is buried in the mountain cemetery.

Fonts

  • Paintbox anecdotes and artist memories . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1927.
  • From the chronicle of the "Malkasten" . In: Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte , 42nd year (1927/1928), Volume 1, pp. 617–632 ( PDF ).
  • The painter as a master blacksmith . In: Eifel-Kalender , year 1931, p. 129 ( digitized version , anecdote about the genre painter Hubert Salentin ).

literature

  • Johanna Clostermann: Memories of my father, the painter Carl Murfield (1868–1944) . In: Rheine, yesterday, today, tomorrow , 16th edition (1986), issue 1, pp. 6-13.
  • Christiane Kerrutt: Carl Murdfield (1868-1944). A painter from Rheine - life and work . In: Rheine, yesterday, today, tomorrow , 47th edition (2001), issue 1, pp. 7–61.
  • Sabine Schroyen: In memory of the "living chronicler". Carl Murdfield and the Düsseldorf artist association Malkasten . In: Rheine, yesterday, today, tomorrow . 47th Edition (2001), Issue 1, pp. 62-71.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. nos. 10092-10103 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. ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on September 16, 2017
  3. ↑ C. Murdfield, Archbishop Hubertus Theofilus Simar , website in the portal koelner-dom.de , accessed on September 17, 2017
  4. ↑ The portraits of the Lord Mayors , series of images in the rp-online.de portal , accessed on September 17, 2017
  5. ↑ Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, status: November 2016) , website in the smkp.de portal ( Museum Kunstpalast ), accessed on September 16, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Murdfield, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murdfield, Carl Ludwig Alfred Franz (full name); Murdfield, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter and interior painter of the Düsseldorf School, director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, organizer of art exhibitions
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheine , Province of Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1944
Place of death Unterjoch (Bad Hindelang) , Bad Hindelang , Bavaria