Carl Strauss (artist)

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Carl Strauss (born October 4, 1873 in Boston , † September 28, 1957 in Laax ) was a painter , etcher and illustrator .

Life

Carl Strauss graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts from 1890 to 1894. In 1896 he studied at the royal arts and crafts school in Munich and in a private painting school run by Heinrich Knirr . After a stay at the Académie Julian in Paris , he traveled to Florence in 1897 , where he stayed until 1900 and met Arnold Böcklin , Giovanni Papini , Augusto Giacometti and Theodor Däubler .

When the First World War broke out , Strauss moved to Switzerland in 1915 , where he lived in Stans , Lugano and Zurich and worked as a translator for a newspaper agency. From 1922 until his death in 1957 he lived in Salums near Laax, from 1926 together with his wife Helene Strauss-Keller (* 1899). His homes were the "old home", a wooden house in the upper part of a forest clearing, and the "ostrich nest" built in 1927. His wife Helene continued to run the café-restaurant of the same name after his death.

Works

Carl Strauss financed his stay in Florence with copies of Renaissance works that he made for museums in Boston, London , Munich , Moscow , Saint Petersburg and Weimar . The painterly work he created next to it - large-format tempera pictures - was lost when he moved to Switzerland. On a study trip (1909) to Siena , Orvieto and Cortona , he created etchings of the Tuscan landscape and cityscapes. During the first period of his stay in Switzerland, he created works such as the Stans “Forest”, the “Ticino Farming Village”, “Olivetto-Ticino”, “Early Spring in Ticino” and “Florhof in Zurich”. Since the 1930s, Strauss has mainly presented the Graubünden mountain landscape (“Tomasee”, “Chasté-Sils Maria”, “View into the Rhine Valley from Salums”, “Zervreilahorn”, “Lukmanier”), the castles in the area (“Ruin Jörgenberg "," Hohenrätien ") as well as the landscapes, forests and trees in Salums, Laax and Flims (" Romanesque village on the edge of a ravine "," Flimserstein with a view of the Segnes area "," The Cauma Island "," Forest II, Val Gronda ”,“ The old home ”,“ Laax in winter ”). In the last years of his life he dedicated his work - silver thistle , Turk's union , anemone , buddleja , columbine - to the plants in his garden. In 1931 he worked as an illustrator for a commission from the Bibliophile Society in New York to illustrate the novel The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne with twenty colored etchings. The edition of Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables , also illustrated by him , first appeared in 1851. The artistic estate of Carl Strauss - 110 prints of the etchings and 114 registered plates - was inventoried in 1957 . From 1933 to 1974 it passed into the possession of the Bündner art collection in Chur . Further prints can be found in the Kunsthaus Zürich , the National Museum Berlin , the Städtisches Institut Frankfurt am Main , the Chicago Institute of Art, the Graphic Collection of the ETH Zurich, the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome and in private collections . The estate also contains handwritten notes about his own life, about acquaintances with other artists and the creation of his artistic work.

Exhibitions

  • 1907: International Exhibition in Venice
  • 1910: Glass Palace Munich
  • 1912: International exhibition in Dresden
  • 1914: 1st International Black and White Exhibition in Florence, first prize for the sheet "Pax"
  • 1914: Secession exhibition in Munich
  • 1914: International Exhibition in Venice
  • 1915: Ralsston Gallery, New York
  • 1916: Kunsthaus Zurich
  • 1922: Solo exhibition at Sinz in Dresden
  • 1927: International exhibition in Florence
  • 1927: International Exhibition in Venice
  • 1930: Solo exhibition in Batavia
  • 1932: I. Mostra dell'Incisisione Italiana Moderna, Florence
  • 1932: National Academy of Design New York
  • 1932: Society of American Etchers New York
  • 1967: Bündner Kunsthaus Chur
  • 1974: Kunsthaus Chur

Book illustrations

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Home of Seven Gables. Illustrated by Carl Strauss. Bentam Books, Boston 1851.
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Marble Faun or the Romance of Monte Beni. 2 volumes. Illustrated by Carl Strauss. Zurich 1931.

literature

  • Toni Nigg, Trudi Caflisch (arrangement): Carl Strauss estate. 1873-1957. Exhibition catalog Bündner Kunsthaus. Bündner Kunsthaus, Chur 1974. ( Entry in the Open Library )
  • Mara Corradini, Christian Conradin, Samuele Giovanoli, Carl Strauss. Catalog for the exhibition at the Kunsthaus 13 May - 11 June 1967. Chur 1967.

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personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Swiss painter, etcher, and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1957
Place of death Laax