Constantin von Mitschke-Collande
Constantin Maria Valentin Hubertus von Mitschke-Collande (* 19th September 1884 at Gut Kollande , district Militsch , Silesia ; † 12. April 1956 in Nuremberg ) was a German portrait painter , a figure painter, wood engraver and lithographer and belonged to the Silesian noble family Mitschke-Collande to .
Life
Mitschke-Collande first studied architecture in Munich and at the same time attended Heinrich Knirr's private painting school . In 1907 he studied at the Dresden Academy with Robert Sterl , Raphael Wehle , Richard Müller , Osmar Schindler and Oskar Zwintscher . A trip to Rome and Florence left lasting impressions of Italian painting of the Renaissance and Baroque periods . After studying in Dresden , he worked for some time in Paris with Maurice Denis and Fernand Léger and came into contact with Cubism .
After the end of the First World War , he and Otto Dix and Oskar Kokoschka were among the founders of the Dresden Secession Group in 1919 . During the Nazi era , his pictures were defamed as " degenerate " and denounced in the 1937 Nazi exhibition Degenerate Art . 13 of his works were confiscated.
When Dresden was destroyed, he lost large parts of his work. In 1945, after the end of the Second World War , he moved to Rothenburg ob der Tauber , where he joined the Rothenburg Artists' Association. In 1952 the company moved to Nuremberg.
family
He came from a noble Silesian family and was the son of the royal Prussian Rittmeister and state elder Eugen von Mitschke-Collande (1844-1903), landowner on Kollande, Bartnig and Wildbahn , all districts of Militsch, and his wife Maria von Aulock (1857-1933).
Mitschke-Collande married Hilde Wiecke (* February 25, 1892 in Weimar ; † February 27, 1984 in Hamburg ), the daughter of the actor and Dresden theater director Paul Wiecke and Alwine Hengst, on March 23, 1913 in Dresden . This marriage was divorced on April 25, 1940 in Dresden.
His second marriage was on May 17, 1940 in Dresden, Hildegard Huebner (born July 1, 1906 in Berlin-Schöneberg ; † February 17, 1992 in Munich ), the daughter of the insurance salesman Hugo Huebner and Clara Schütze .
The actors Volker von Collande (1913–1990) and Gisela von Collande (1915–1960) come from his first marriage . The actress and author Nora von Collande (* 1958) is his granddaughter.
literature
- Constantin von Mitschke-Collande . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 273 .
- Mitschke-Collande. In: Genealogical manual of the nobility . Noble houses B. Vol. 20. Volume 104 of the complete series. CA Starke, Limburg Lahn 1993, ISSN 0431-1302 , p. 302.
Web links
- Literature by and about Constantin von Mitschke-Collande in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 412.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mitschke-Collande, Constantin von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mitschke-Collande, Constantin Maria Valentin Hubertus von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait painter, figure painter, wood cutter and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gut Kollande , Militsch district , Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1956 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |