Eduard Kado

Signature of Eduard Kado, 1899

Eduard Kado (born August 15, 1875 in Memel ; † January 2, 1946 in Lübeck ) was a German painter , draftsman , sculptor and craftsman .

Life

Eduard Kado studied from 1892 to 1899 at the Art Academy in Königsberg , then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the Académie Julian in Paris . He later took on trips through Holland, England, Scandinavia and Italy further before drawing teacher and later teacher was on Löbenichtschen High School in Königsberg. In 1907 a special exhibition of his works took place in Teichert's art salon in Königsberg. After retiring around 1941, he moved to Lübeck, where he died in 1946.

Kado mainly painted landscapes, figure pictures and portraits, but also religious motifs, war scenes, frescoes and sculptures can be found in his oeuvre. He was a member of the General German Art Cooperative and belonged to the Reich Association of German Artists .

Works

Elisabeth Lemke 1899, oil on canvas, 60 × 50 cm

• Painting East Prussian peasant woman sitting on dune in front of the village background . Oil on canvas, 99.9 × 80.6 cm
• Painting by Elisabeth Lemke , 1899, oil on canvas, 60 × 50 cm
• together with Fidus and Emma Marie Elias picture decorations for: Carmen Sylva : fairy tale of a queen . Strauss, Bonn 1901
• Wall painting Heilquell . 1902, Tragheim Pharmacy, Königsberg
• Book decoration for: Adolf Petrenz: Ostpreußisches Dichterbuch . Reissner, Dresden 1905
• Cover for the city's golden book with the Königsberg coat of arms in silver, 1910, shown in: Otto Walter Kuckuck (Hrsg.): Neue Kunst in Alt-Prußen . Volume I, Königsberg 1911, issue 2, p. 81
• Painting I am the light of the world . 1912, Ottokar (later Herzog-Albrecht) Church in Königsberg
• Bronze girl's head , 1913, shown in: Königsberger Woche. Volume 6, 12, p. 307 and Mühlpfordt: Königsberg Sculptures. P. 95
• Bronze portrait bust of a Mr. G. , 1913

criticism

"On average, his painting is the least satisfactory, perhaps because he lacks purposeful striving and perseverance."

- Hugo Witt : The art. Volume 22, 1907, p. 366.

literature

• Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt: Königsberg sculptures and their masters 1255–1945. Holzner, Würzburg 1970, p. 95.
• Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt: Kado, Eduard. In: Kurt Forstreuter, Fritz Gause (Ed.): Old Prussian Biography. Volume 3, Elwert Marburg / Lahn, 1975, p. 971, ISBN 3-7708-0504-6 .
• Kado, Eduard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926, p. 411 .
• Hans Ries: Illustration and illustrators of books for children and young people in German-speaking countries 1871–1914. Wenner, Osnabrück 1992, p. 625, ISBN 3-87898-329-8 .
• Willy Oskar Dreßler (ed.): Dressler's art manual . Volume 2: Fine Arts. 9th edition, Curtius, Berlin 1930, p. 483 f.
• Hermann Alexander Müller and Hans Wolfgang Singer (Hrsg.): General artist lexicon. Volume 6. Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1922, p. 152 f.
• Joachim Busse: International handbook of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century. Busse, Wiesbaden 1977, p. 651, No. 41848, ISBN 3-9800062-0-4 .
• Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Volume 5 [of the eight-volume edition], Gründ, [Paris] 1956, p. 204.
• Hugo Witt: Of exhibitions and collections - Königsberg i. Pr. In: Die Kunst: Monthly magazine for free and applied arts . F. Bruckmann, Munich April 18, 1907, p. 365-366 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• B / W photo of the paintings by Marie, Georg-Friedrich and Elisabeth Lemke
• Registration book entry , Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Volume 3, Munich, 1884–1920

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hugo Witt: From exhibitions and collections - Königsberg i. Pr. In: Die Kunst: Monthly magazine for free and applied arts . F. Bruckmann, Munich April 18, 1907, p. 366 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).