Carlo Maximilian Cromer

Carlo Maximilian Cromer (born April 12, 1889 in Vienna as Karl Maximilian Kromer ; † February 15, 1964 in Celerina , Switzerland ) was a painter, draftsman and graphic artist.

Carlo was an orphan when he was 10 years old. Cromer was already noticed during the three-year training at the fashionable trade school in Vienna. In 1905 he won the first prize of the Vienna community. After his years of traveling he then attended Gustav Klimt's Art Academy in Vienna. Around 1911 he came to Davos, where he first found work with a master painter. His wish was to become a Swiss citizen, the Graubünden government made this possible for him; in 1935, at the age of 46, he received citizenship of the community of Präz (Äusserer Heinzenberg), whether Carlo Maximilian Cromer ever visited his home community is uncertain. Over time he was able to establish himself as a freelance artist. Married in second marriage to Johanna Branger. During the Second World War he moved from Davos to Celerina. He left behind a rich work of oil paintings and watercolors from the Davos landscape and the Upper Engadin. Many drawings and etchings are also known. A specialty were bookplates and documents for a multitude of governments, heads of state, princes etc. He counted Winston S. Churchill , General Guisan , Pope Pius XII. , King Christian IX. , Leopold III. (Belgium) itself as its customers.

literature

• Karl Rahn: Carlo Maximilian Cromer: For the ten-year memory of the painter and graphic artist , Wolfsberg 1974. Austria.

Web links

• Article on Cromer in the Sikart database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rossau baptismal register, tom. 12, fol. 124. Matricula, accessed July 27, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Excerpt from büwo, Bundnerwoche, No. 48 of November 27, 2019 / Page 31 / BÜRGER AUS PRÄZ.