Carl Salomonn

Carl Salomonn (born August 12, 1864 in Elberfeld , † 1942 in Wuppertal ) was a German decorative , portrait , landscape and genre painter and lecturer at the Elberfeld School of Applied Arts .

Life

Salomonn was the offspring of a family of Elberfeld decorative painters and artisans. His father, Carl Salomonn senior, was a co-owner of a ring kiln brickworks in Elberfeld. The father had the architects Georg Haude (1864–1916) and Heinrich Metzendorf build four villas in Elberfelder Roonstrasse, including the city villas Roonstrasse 41/43 .

Carl Salomonn junior first attended the teaching institute of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin under Max Koch . In 1887 he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He then went to the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar , where Leopold von Kalckreuth taught him. Then he traveled to Paris to study with Vojtěch Hynais . From 1889 to 1891 he was a private student of Peter Janssen the Elder in Düsseldorf .

Ceiling of the great hall of the town hall on Johannisberg

In 1899 he returned to his hometown and became a lecturer at the Elberfeld School of Applied Arts. In 1905 he was one of the founders of the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft as a freelance painter . In 1915 Salomonn stayed in the Willingshausen painters' colony . From 1896 to 1915 and from 1924 to 1932 he was a member of the Düsseldorf artist association Malkasten . He was also a member of the Reich Association of German Artists .

In Elberfeld, Carl Salomonn painted the city theater at Brausenwerth, which was built until 1888 . He and his father are also credited with painting the town hall on Johannisberg, which opened in 1900 .

literature

Salomonn, Carl . In: General Artist Lexicon . Volume 4 (1921), p. 156.
Salomonn, Carl . In: Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf , Galerie Paffrath (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule . Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker . Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 .

Individual evidence

↑ Karl Salomonn , Matriculation Book of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF ; 2.5 MB)

↑ Jutta Höfel: 100 years of the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft - a chronicle . In: Michael Alles et. al .: 100 years of the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft 1905–2005 . Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 3-00-016342-5 , pp. 63, 65 ( PDF ; 11.7 MB)

↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal

↑ Imposing villas with lavish decor . In: top magazine special . 37th volume, issue 1 (spring 2017), p. 48 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Salomonn, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Salomonn, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 12, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH	1942
Place of death	Wuppertal

[1] Karl Salomonn , Matriculation Book of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

[2] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF ; 2.5 MB)

[3] Jutta Höfel: 100 years of the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft - a chronicle . In: Michael Alles et. al .: 100 years of the Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft 1905–2005 . Wuppertal 2005, ISBN 3-00-016342-5 , pp. 63, 65 ( PDF ; 11.7 MB)