Conrad Kickert
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Johan Conrad Theodor Kickert tot den Egmond (born November 23, 1882 in The Hague , † June 26, 1965 in Paris ) was a Dutch painter, art critic and art collector. From 1912 he lived mainly in Paris.
life and work
As an artist, Kickert was self-taught. Between 1903 and 1910 he worked in artist colonies in Domburg , including with Jan Toorop , and in Bergen . He was one of the first in the Netherlands to work in the Cubism style . In 1910 he founded the Moderne Kunstkring in Amsterdam with Piet Mondrian , Jan Sluijters and Jan Toorop with the aim of shaking up Dutch art. According to Kickert, Dutch art was fifty years behind the rest of Europe at the time. In 1911, 1912 and 1913, the Moderne Kunstkring organized several top-class exhibitions of modernism in the Stedelijk Museum . However, Kickert had already moved to Paris in 1912, where he had visited his friend Lodewijk Schelfhout frequently in earlier years . He moved into a studio in Montparnasse with Schelfhout and Mondrian . He was represented in prominent artistic circles and exhibited with painters such as Georges Braque , Raoul Dufy , Henri Matisse , Maurice Utrillo , Kees van Dongen and Maurice de Vlaminck . During the First World War he returned to The Hague, but from 1919 he settled permanently in France, continuing to visit the Netherlands regularly.
From the 1920s Kickert began to work less modernist and switched to a more naturalistic style. He often chose figures, landscapes and still lifes as subjects. However, since he often continued to work with a spatula instead of a brush, his work remained contemporary. It continued to be successful in France, but was forgotten in the Netherlands. He died in 1965 at the age of 82. Some of his works can be seen in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag .
literature
- Conrad Kickert . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 80, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023185-4 , p. 201.
- Conrad Kickert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 286 .
- Conrad Kickert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 46 .
Web links
- Association Conrad Kickert (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kickert, Conrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kickert tot den Egmond, Johan Conrad Theodor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter, art critic and art collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | The hague |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1965 |
| Place of death | Paris |