Carl Söhn
Carl (Karl) Wilhelm Söhn (born May 14, 1853 in Barmen , Rhine Province , † November 27, 1925 in Munich ) was a German portrait and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Söhn grew up in Barmen and studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1870 to 1876 . There were Wilhelm Rossmann , Andreas and Karl Mueller , Heinrich Lauenstein , Wilhelm Lotz and Eduard von Gebhardt his teachers. He was also a student of Wilhelm Sohn . He first settled in Düsseldorf , where he belonged to the artists' association Malkasten . He later moved to Munich , where his son Richard was born in 1887 . He was a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative and distinguished himself as a poet and stage designer at Munich artist festivals between 1900 and 1920.
His great-granddaughter is the ballet teacher and author Korinna Söhn .
literature
- Son, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937.
- Söhn, Karl (Carl) Wilhelm. In: Horst Ludwig : Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 4: Saffer – Zwengauer . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7654-1633-9 , p. 172.
- Son, Carl Wilhelm. In: Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf , Galerie Paffrath (ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918 . Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 .
Web links
- Karl Wilhelm Söhn , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
- Karl Wilhelm Söhn , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, (PDF) )
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on November 9, 2019.
- ^ Hans Heyn: South German painting from the Bavarian highlands . Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 1980, ISBN 3-475-52290-X , p. 251.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Son, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Söhn, Carl Karl Wilhelm (full name); Son, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barmen , Rhine Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1925 |
| Place of death | Munich |