Curt Mücke
Curt Mücke (actually Richard Georg Kurt Mücke , born September 20, 1885 in Sondershausen ; † January 5, 1940 there ) was a German painter and graphic artist who was particularly active in the heyday of the 1920s .
Life
childhood and education
Kurt Mücke was born on September 20, 1885, the fourth son of eight boys from the merchants Georg and Hermine Mücke in Sondershausen.
He spent his school days in Sondershausen from 1891 to 1900, where he attended the princely secondary school . Even here, a tendency towards the visual arts became apparent early on. First artistic works were created.
From 1901 until 1912 Mücke attended the art school in Nuremberg ; later he was a student of Heinrich Heidner in Munich . Thereupon Mücke began his studies at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig under Alois Kolb and then became a master student of Max Klinger . Then began his "years of travel", which ended around 1912.
He then spent about two years in Friedenau and Dresden as a freelance painter and graphic artist, selling his first sculptures (mainly colored woodcuts and etchings) to the Grassi Museum and the Leipzig City Museum .
Special houses time
Due to his military service in the First World War , Mücke was only able to return to his home town of Sondershausen in 1918 after the end of the war. He then resumed his work as a freelance painter and graphic artist in the family villa on Jechaburger Weg, which was also called "Mückenburg". Now he dealt particularly intensively with the techniques of etching , pen drawing and oil painting .
In 1920 he married Walli Brand. From this marriage three sons were born.
A year later, in 1921, Mücke began working closely with the Mansfelder Verlag in Eisleben and, as the publisher's illustrator, designed home calendars, yearbooks, postcards and similar products.
Since 1923 he worked actively in the special houses association for history and antiquity and was raised to the advisory board in the same year. Mücke made drawings of prehistoric finds and advised the association on monument preservation tasks and art history. He also took on illustration orders for the home publishing house for school and home in Halle as well as the Heilbronn publishing house Otto Weber.
Around this time he must have changed the spelling of his first name Kurt to Curt , presumably for "artistic reasons".
In 1929 Mücke founded a private art school . However, since the hoped-for encouragement failed to materialize, he gave it up again shortly afterwards.
In the 1930s, the orders and the art distribution of his work declined and finally decreased so much that he could no longer live on it. Therefore, he was forced to look for another income opportunity and in 1938 took over the function of a surveyor's assistant in the special houses potash works.
Curt Mücke died on January 5, 1940 as a result of blood poisoning that was recognized too late in Sondershausen.
Mücke was a member of the Reich Association of German Artists .
Works
Motifs
Mücke often shows old buildings and building ensembles in Sondershausen , Stockhausen and their surroundings. They are captured with meticulous care and in a homely atmosphere, in the sunlight or in the moonlight. However, his choice of motifs is not limited to his native regions. Especially in his youth and wandering years, numerous works were created by Weimar , Jena , Rothenburg ob der Tauber , Hildesheim , the Alps , Dresden (the place of the first probation as a freelance artist) and from the Mansfelder Land , with whose residents he had long-standing friendships .
style
His pictures always have a touch of romance and the effect of local art . What is striking, however, is the clarity of the form, the subtle lines, the purity of the drawings, the bright colors and the closeness to reality that characterizes his art.
literature
- W. May: Curt Mücke - once seen with different eyes , in: Sonderhäuser Heimatecho, January 12, 2000
- Nicol Pfefferlein: Curt Mücke a special artist . Educational association “Freiräume e. V. ", Sonderhausen 2009
- Mosquito, Curt . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 435-435 .
- Th. Zunkel: Curt Mücke - landscapes and architectural images . Published by the Staatl. Home u. Castle Museum, 1985
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Sonderhäuser Heimatecho 01/10, p. 12ff "We remember Curt Mücke": [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , published on Friday January 29th, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mosquito, Curt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mücke, Richard Georg Kurt (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sondershausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1940 |
| Place of death | Sondershausen |