Curt Stoeving

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Curt Stoeving (born March 6, 1863 in Leipzig ; † December 6, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German painter , draftsman, architect , sculptor , medalist and craftsman .

Life

After studying at the building trade school and the academy for graphic arts and book trade in Leipzig and the Stuttgart Polytechnic , Stoeving worked in Berlin for the architects Kayser and von Großheim and for Franz Schwechten ; with the latter he made a. a. 1893 drawings for the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church .

From 1892 to 1910 he was a private lecturer in architectural painting at the Technical University of Charlottenburg , from 1895 to 1896 also a lecturer at the “ Ladies Academy ” of the Association for Artists and Art Lovers in Berlin . In 1895 he stayed at the Villa Strohl-Fern in Rome on a scholarship .

Stoeving was friends with the painter Melchior Lechter , through whom he met the poet Stefan George and some members of the George circle . Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche commissioned Stoeving with portraits of her sick brother, which also meant that Stoeving, together with Harry Graf Kessler, removed Nietzsche's death mask instead of Max Klinger and was allowed to read verses from Zarathustra at the funeral, as well as Stoeving's acquaintance and later client Kurt Breysig .

In 1902, after the expansion of the Wertheim department store on Leipziger Platz , the architect Alfred Messel appointed him head of the exhibitions of modern living spaces near Wertheim (until 1911).

In the years after the First World War, Stoeving worked exclusively as a painter until he died in Berlin in December 1939. He was the brother of the musicologist Paul Stoeving, who worked in Berlin and London, and the brother-in-law of the painter Carl Max Rebel.

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Painting and graphics

Stoeving made a name for himself through portraits of his former employers from Großheim and Schwechten, the Leipzig painters Carl Werner (1892) and Max Klinger (1895), the Magdeburg city councilor Heinrich Strauss, but above all Friedrich Nietzsche (1894) and Stefan Georges (1897– 1899), each in several versions, as a drawing, picture, bust and relief. One of George's drawings was praised by Rainer Maria Rilke and was used in Ludwig Klage's George book. There are also other graphic works such as steel engravings for the magazine Gartenlaube or front pages and moldings for the Berlin architecture world , but also posters and book designs for publications by his brother Paul.

Exhibitions

  • 1902, 1905, 1908 and 1911: Organization of larger exhibitions of modern living spaces in the Berlin department store Wertheim
  • 1902: Co-founder of the Berlin artists' association Werkring (until around 1907)
  • 1904: Hall of an art lover at the 1904 World Exhibition in St. Louis , including his monumental painting Tanzlied

From 1892 to 1906 he received six awards for paintings and interiors of exhibitions.

Arts and crafts and plastic

  • 1900–1910: various glass and bronze works such as glasses, bowls, vases, mirrors
  • 1904, 1906: Grand pianos and pianos for the Ibach company
  • 1912: Fountain on Göhrener Platz in Berlin
  • 1912: Tomb for Johannes Otzen (architect and president of the Academy of Arts) in Berlin-Wannsee

Houses and interior designs

  • Landhaus am Nussbaum for Dr. Richard Wirth in Kronberg im Taunus
  • Country house for Karl Rieser in Berlin-Wannsee, Am Kleinen Wannsee
  • 1910: Design for Stoeving's own house in Berlin-Dahlem (probably not realized)
  • 1910–1912: Parts of the interior of Wendgräben Castle near Möckern
  • 1913–1914: country house for Prof. Kurt Breysig, called "Ucht" or "Gray House", in Rehbrücke near Potsdam (Breysig was married to a daughter of Johannes Otzen, see above, Werkring member August Endell was a cousin of Breysig) .

  • Johannes Otzen's tomb, Berlin-Wannsee cemetery, 1912

  • Villa Breysig, Rehbrücke, 1913-14

  • Villa Breysig, Rehbrücke, 1913-14

literature

  • Erich Haenel, Heinrich Tscharmann: The single house of the modern age. Volume 2. Leipzig 1910, pages 122-124.
  • Professor Curt Stöving. For the 50th birthday. In: Bauwelt , 4th year 1913, No. 10, page 23f.
  • Walther Greischel, Michael Stettler (Ed.): Stefan George in a portrait. Düsseldorf, Munich 1976, pages 62-69.
  • Berlinische Galerie (Ed.): Berlin around 1900. Berlin 1984.
  • Günter Heintz (Ed.): Letters. Melchior Lechter and Stefan George. Stuttgart 1991, page 20f.
  • Jaromír Novotný: Dílo Curta Stoevinga ve sbírce zámku Hrubý Rohozec. In: Zprávy památkové péče , 66th year 2006, pages 51–54.
  • Wolfgang Braungart / Achim Aurnhammer / Stefan Breuer / Ute Oelmann (eds.): Stefan George and his circle. A manual. Volume 3, 1695–1698 (author Manfred Riedel), Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-11-026834-8 .

Web links

Biographical text of the Ibach company

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artist. Curt Stöving. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on October 12, 2014 .
  2. ^ Prussian Academy of the Arts (PrAdK 0729). Studio rental in Rome for scholarship holders of the Academy (Villa Strohl-Fern) - reports on work, rent payments, etc. following scholarship holders or guests in Rome: Curt Stoeving 1895.
personal data
SURNAME Stoeving, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, architect, sculptor and craftsman
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1939
Place of death Berlin