Carl Schmitz-Pleis

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Carl Schmitz-Pleis , actually Karl Schmitz (born September 21, 1877 in Süchterscheid , Mayor of Uckerath , Siegkreis , † 1943 in Düsseldorf ), was a German painter .

Life and artistic career

Painting by Carl Schmitz-Pleis depicting a genre scene typical for him

Schmitz-Pleis was born in Süchterscheid in 1877, today a district of Hennef (Sieg) . He studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Peter Jansen the Elder , Eduard von Gebhardt and Claus Meyer .

After he had signed his early works with his real name Karl Schmitz , he adopted the artist name Carl Schmitz-Pleis . The supplement Pleis was borrowed from the town of Oberpleis near Königswinter , where his eight years older brother Heinrich Schmitz lived with his family. Carl stayed with him more often.

In 1907/08 he founded the progressive artists' association Niederrhein with the artists Josef Kohlschein the Younger , Julius Kruchen , Hubert Ritzenhofen , Walter Ophey , Carl Plückebaum and other painters . In the spring of 1910 Schmitz-Pleis traveled to Italy with Ophey and Plückebaum for three months "to be able to capture nature in the sunlight". From 1913 to 1928 Schmitz-Pleis belonged to the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten .

Schmitz-Pleis took part in numerous large art exhibitions , for example in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf or the Kunstpalast there , as well as in the annual exhibitions of the Niederrhein Artists Association . His studio and the center of his life were in Düsseldorf. He died unmarried and childless in 1943. The painter was buried in Oberplais.

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The oeuvre of Schmitz-Pleis, which the Düsseldorf School is attributed mainly includes landscapes , still lifes , portraits and figure paintings. It is clearly influenced by tendencies in French painting, in particular by the Fauves , the Neo-Impressionists and especially by Paul Cézanne . Typical is a loose, spontaneous brushwork, the use of strong coloring and a two-dimensional emphasis on colors and shapes. A detailed realism was mostly alien to him in favor of a more expressive painting style. A contemporary art critic noticed his pictures as the "best coloristic works", which reminded him of the later works of Peter Paul Rubens .

Today works by Schmitz-Pleis are represented in the Düsseldorf Art Palace and the Volmer Collection Foundation in Wuppertal . Works by him have already been auctioned at Christie's , Sotheby's or Lempertz .

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Schmitz-Pleis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the 20th Century . Volume 4: Quaghebeur - Uzelac , Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-423-05907-9 , p. 204.
  2. ↑ Heimatmuseum Oberplais: Schmitz-Pleis exhibition 2009 , accessed on February 16, 2020.
  3. ^ Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf , Galerie Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918 . Volume 3: Nabert - Zwecker . Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 224.
  4. ^ Volmer Collection Foundation: Schmitz-Pleis, Carl , accessed on February 16, 2020.
  5. ^ Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Galerie Paffrath (ed.), P. 224.
  6. ^ Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Galerie Paffrath (ed.), P. 224.
  7. ^ Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Galerie Paffrath (ed.), P. 224.
  8. ^ Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Galerie Paffrath (ed.), P. 224.
  9. ^ Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Galerie Paffrath (ed.), P. 224.
  10. ^ Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Galerie Paffrath (ed.), P. 224.
  11. ^ Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Galerie Paffrath (ed.), P. 224.
  12. ↑ Christie's: Carl Schmitz-Pleis, Boats on a river, Lot 79 , accessed on February 17, 2020.
  13. ^ Sotheby's: Carl Schmitz-Pleis, Landschaft in Italien, Lot 156 , accessed on February 16, 2020.
  14. ↑ Lempertz: Carl Schmitz-Pleis , accessed on February 17, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Schmitz-Pleis, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitz, Karl (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Suchterscheid , Siegkreis
DATE OF DEATH 1943
Place of death Dusseldorf