Egon Josef Kossuth
Egon Josef Kossuth (born August 15, 1874 in Opava , † January 9, 1949 in Hartford) was a Silesian portrait painter.
Kossuth graduated from the applied arts school in Prague and spent a year at the local art academy. He spent another four years at the Munich Art Academy with Gabriel von Hackl and Franz von Stuck .
After extensive study trips to Italy, France, England and Spain, he settled in Wiesbaden (Wilhelmstrasse 8) and Prague . In addition to portraits of important personalities from Germany, Austria, England and France, the following were created up to 1912: “My Boy” (Museum Wiesbaden), The Spiritual Marriage of Saint Catherine (main altarpiece of the Katharinenkirche in Königsberg, Austria-Silesia), The animal sermon of Saint Francis of Assisi (Cardinal Kopp, Breslau), overheard (Kurhaus Wiesbaden).
From 1914 he worked in Berlin and made portraits of Wilhelm II and Friedrich Ebert, among others.
There are contradicting statements about the end of his life: According to the bookplate society, he should have died before 1927. On the other hand, with regard to the auction of his private household, it was stated that Kossuth had emigrated to the USA after the invasion of his homeland in March 1939, and that large parts of his private household and his studio (Berlin-Charlottenburg, Sybelstrasse 46) were bought by the auction house Dr. Walther Achenbach had it auctioned. A portrait of Pope Pius XII. (still as Cardinal Eugenius Pacelli) was the only work he took with him when he emigrated. In the USA, he is said to have died in Hartford on January 9, 1949 - or as early as 1948.
literature
- Friedrich Jansa: German visual artists in words and pictures. 1912, p. 343.
- Kossuth, Egon Josef . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 340-341 .
Web links
- Egon Josef Kossuth , artnet.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Neureiter: Lexicon of ex-libris artists. 3rd edition, Pro Business, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86386-449-1 , p. 323 ( books.google.de ).
- ^ Contemporary Art at Saint Louis University. A Descriptive Guide to the Collection. P. 25.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kossuth, Egon Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Silesian portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Troppau |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1949 |
| Place of death | Hartford |