Erich Kips

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Erich Kips (born January 17, 1869 in Berlin ; † September 26, 1945 there ) was a German painter. His brother was Alexander Kips .

Life

The painter Erich Kips, taken around 1900.

In 1889 Erich Kips studied painting at the art academy in Karlsruhe . Among other things, he attended Caspar Ritter's portrait class . Also in 1889, as a young painter, Kips created the allegorical work Siegeszug des Lichts for the 25th anniversary of the Berlin lamp factory Schwintzer & Gräff on behalf of the commercial staff . Around 1890, in addition to the Berlin painters Franz Skarbina and Marie Davids , he was a teacher of the painter Margarethe Raabe , with whom he aroused a special interest in natural landscapes and cityscapes during her Berlin years.

In 1893 Erich Kips traveled to the USA for the first time on board the Augusta Victoria . The voyage went to New York via Southampton . On behalf of Reich Commissioner Adolf Wermuth , Kips created a ceiling painting (Allegory of Germania ) in his reception room for the German House of the 1893 World Exhibition in Chicago . He also worked actively on the design of the main hall of the German section together with Otto Lessing . His work was awarded. Kips spent some time in North America and then went on a three-year trip to Italy. Kips presented the results of this trip, landscape and architecture studies in watercolors, in a collective exhibition in the Berlin Künstlerhaus in Bellevuestrasse in 1898/99 , which was reported very positively in renowned art magazines (including Kunstchronik ). Erich Kips traveled again and again, including working in Volendam in the Netherlands .

In 1895 , the Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur Berlin acquired two allegorical depictions ("The Water", "The Earth") from Erich Kips for the stand at the Berlin trade exhibition in 1896 , in order to use them as designs for porcelain tile pictures. At that time, his brother Alexander Kips was the artistic director of KPM in Berlin.

Binding HAPAG catalog from 1932 with a picture by Erich Kips

In 1896/97, Kips trained in Paris at the Académie Julian under William Bouguereau , Eugène Girardet and Gabriel Ferrier . Kips took part very actively and regularly in exhibitions throughout his life. In 1898 the first participation in the Great Munich Art Exhibition (GMK) took place. Kips first took part in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition (GBK) in 1901. His painting of the mythical characters Melusine and Raimondin was featured in the exhibition catalog. Kips also takes part in the great art exhibition in Düsseldorf . In the "Yearbook of Fine Arts" from 1902, Erich Kips is named under the heading of the performing artist with the address Charlottenburg , Berliner Strasse 7. His brother Alexander is also listed at the same address.

Under the motto “Grossberlin im Bild”, an exhibition in 1911 in the Berliner Künstlerhaus brought together a large number of pictures by Berlin artists. The work Potsdamer Platz by Kips was depicted in the article about the exhibition in Die Kunstwelt . The work of Kips is also internationally recognized and positively discussed. His painting Towerbridge in London , shown in the naval exhibition in the Künstlerhaus ( Association of Berlin Artists ) in 1912 , was reproduced in the newspaper “ Der Tag ”. At the 11th International Art Exhibition in the Royal Glass Palace in Munich, Erich Kips was awarded a 2nd class gold medal for his painting Dampfer im Dock . The director of the Art Department of the Carnegie Institute , John Wesley Beatty , was so impressed by the painting that he asked Erich Kips to participate in the exhibition in Pittsburgh ( Carnegie International ). At the 18th International Exhibition in 1914 in the Carnegie Institute (today the administrative headquarters of the Carnegie Museums ) in Pittsburgh, Kips was represented with the two works Steamer in Dock, Hamburg and To wander, to wander . In the exhibition catalog, Kips is presented as a member of the Association of Berlin Artists (VBK) and the General German Art Cooperative . He was honored for his landscape painting To wander, to wander in April 1914 ("Honorable Mention"). This picture is featured in the exhibition catalog and even in several American art magazines. and acquired by the American Pittsburgh art collector William S. Stimmel . As war broke out in the meantime, the paintings were not sent back to Europe as planned, but instead were left in the care of the Carnegie Institute after a short odyssey. From Pittsburgh the pictures went to San Francisco in 1915 and were then shown again at the 19th International Pittsburgh Art Show in 1916. In this way, Kips' picture Steamer in Dock, Hamburg was shown at the world exhibition Panama-Pacific-Exposition in San Francisco in 1915 and, as the renowned art magazine Cicerone reported, was awarded a bronze medal. The picture remained in the USA for several years after the end of the war because it was confiscated by the American authorities ( Office of Alien Property Custodian ). After the restitution to Erich Kips, the picture was exhibited at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1925 . Kips is exhibited again at the Founders Day Exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1918, as his picture ( To wander, to wander ) is part of the collection of William S. Stimmel.

Letterhead from Erich Kips, 1914, Berlin-Lichterfelde

In the course of 1914 Erich Kips, who until then lived in Grunewald at Herthastrasse 20, moved to Lichterfelde , at Teltower Strasse 140 (later Goerzallee 25).

In 1915 the magazine Berliner Architekturwe lt showed a mural by Erich Kips, a picture of the Freiburg Minster .

Together with the history painter Fritz Grotemeyer , Kips created a commissioned work for the 50th birthday of Wilhelmshaven in 1919 , showing the first Prussian tank squadron from 1871. In 1924 he exhibited in the Eduard Schulte Gallery , Unter den Linden , as part of a show by the artist group “ Die Aehre ” (members included Martin Frost , Heinrich Möller , Karl Holleck-Weithmann , Robert Strübner , Willy Brandes , Alfred Scherres and Frieda Kniep ) , Pictures from the port of Hamburg. In the 48th edition of the new universe from 1927, the colored front folding panel is designed with the painting Dockwork by Kips. It shows a large steamer on the dry dock at the port of Hamburg. A year earlier, in 1926, this picture was published as a colored art supplement in the magazine Daheim . Galerie Eduard Schulte, Berlin, is named as the owner. Today the painting is in the collection of the Kiel Maritime Museum.

Erich Kips was represented with several works at the exhibitions of the VBK in the Künstlerhaus, curated by Karl Nierendorf as artistic director in 1929 , “Art and Technology”, “The Face of Berlin” and “100 Years of the Association of Berlin Artists”. In 1930, Kips took part in a five-month trip around the world with the three-screw luxury steamer Resolute . As a result, advertising catalogs, which appeared in several editions, were illustrated by HAPAG for these trips with reproductions of Kips' paintings (16 color prints with landscape and city views, including motifs from Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Hong Kong). A series of advertising posters for HAPAG cruises with the Resolute and the Reliance were designed by the Frankfurt graphic artist Albert Fuss with motifs from Kip's paintings. Also in 1930 Erich Kips was included in Dressler's art manual. In 1932, Kips went on another great Nordland voyage with the Resolute. This journey takes him via Scotland, Iceland and Svalbard to Norway. Several of his paintings show the cruise ship Resolute in Norwegian fjord landscapes.

Numerous views of the city (including fish market in Königsberg , salt store in Lübeck, Rostock ) by Kips were reproduced in the "Deutsche Lande, Deutsche Wort" (German Lands, German Words) calendars of the Bremen coffee roasters, Kaffee-Schilling , located in the Weserburg in the 1930s and 1940s . His landscape painting Königssee was sold in 1937 as a colored art print by the art publisher Trowitzsch & Sohn , Frankfurt / O. Erich Kips took part several times in the Great German Art Exhibition (GDK), which took place from 1937 to 1944 in the Munich House of Art . His picture Danzig , exhibited at the GDK in 1940 , was bought by Adolf Hitler . The company Ferdinand Hirt (publishing house from Breslau) acquires the picture Freighter Hamburg from the GDK in 1941 . After the sale, Kips delivered the painting Runkel an der Lahn to the GDK . A photograph of this image is in the photo collection of Erika Groth-Schmachtenberger at the University of Augsburg . In 1942 Kips took part in the exhibition "Art and Technology", which was curated by Franz Gerwin in the House of Fine Arts in Dortmund . Erich Kips was also active as a wall painter and fresco artist in his last years. In 1942 he created the murals in the foyer of the fourth rank in the Berlin State Opera in collaboration with Professor Ernst Fey , after the building was badly damaged in a bomb attack in 1941.

In the collection of Rudolf von Goldschmidt-Rothschild , which was confiscated in 1939, Kips was represented with the picture T he Sanssouci Palace with Park .

Erich Kips married his wife Martha on September 25, 1945. Erich Kips died on September 26, 1945 in Berlin.

Erich Kips was a member of the Association of Berlin Artists (VBK) from 1911 to 1939.

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The HAPAG cruise ship “ Caribia ”, postcard based on a painting by Erich Kips

Erich Kips was active as a figure painter at the beginning of his career. As a genre painter, he also created many allegorical depictions and later devoted himself intensively to landscape painting and cityscapes, especially port and marine subjects. Wall paintings and graphics are also part of his work. He created monumental wall paintings in the Berlin House of Representatives, the then bourgeois chamber of the Prussian state parliament . For HAPAG , his pictures have been reproduced many times in advertising posters, catalogs and postcards. Some of his pictures were shown in calendars and marketed and reproduced in art prints.

Works in museums and public collections

Participation in exhibitions

year place Surname plant Fig. Where
1893 Chicago World exhibition Allegory of Germania, ceiling painting
1898 Munich GMK "Catania",

"Venice"

1899 Berlin Collective exhibition in the Kuenstlerhaus Water color studies of landscape and architecture from Italy
1901 Munich GMK "Autumn morning"
Berlin GBK "Melusine" Yes Catalog
1904 Berlin GBK "In the evening", tempera
1908 Berlin
 GBK "Lahnstädtchen"
1909 Berlin GBK "When collecting litter"
1910 Berlin GBK "In the Oderbruch"
1911 Berlin GBK "Harbor scene", gouache
Berlin Greater Berlin in the picture, artist house "Potsdamer Platz" Yes The art world
Munich GMK "On the way home" oil
1912 Berlin GBK "Inside the Uspensky Cathedral",

"Altmühltal",

"Autumn evening"

Berlin Marine exhibition, artist house "Tower Bridge in London" Yes The day
Munich GMK "Reaper"
1913 Berlin GBK "Tower Bridge, London", gouache

"Port of Hamburg"

Munich GMK "Steamer in the Dock", Hamburg (oil)
1914 Berlin GBK "Lübeck", tempera
Munich GMK "Autumn evening"
Pittsburgh International Art Show, Carnegie Institute "Steamer in the dock", "Hiking, hiking" Yes Art and Progress
1915 Berlin GBK "Mower" tempera
San Francisco Panama Pacific Exhibition "Steamer in the Dock"
1916 Berlin GBK "Villa d'Este (Tivoli)"
Munich GMK "Sanssouci Palace" Yes Catalog
Pittsburgh International Art Show Carnegie Institute "Steamer in the dock", "Hiking, hiking"
1917 Berlin GBK "Cool reason", tempera
1918 Berlin GBK "Malcasina on Lake Garda"
1919 Berlin GBK "From Upper Franconia", tempera
1920 Berlin GBK "Danzig",

"From the Altmühltal", tempera

1921 Berlin GBK "Hamburg" tempera
1922 Berlin GBK "Market day in Potsdam",

"From Styria"

Yes
 Catalog
1924 Berlin Salon Schulte Port pictures
1925 Berlin GBK "Steamer in the Dock", Hamburg "Fischerhafen"
1927 Munich GMK "Am Quai" (Austria)
1928 Berlin GBK "Sandtorhafen, Hamburg", "Schlepper, Hamburg"
Munich GMK "Dawn in the fishing port"
1929 Berlin 100 years of Berlin art, artist house “Hamburger Hafen”, oil, “work break”, oil, “Morning mood at the fishing port”, tempera
Berlin Art and technology, artist house Harbor picture
Berlin The face of Berlin, Künstlerhaus
1934 Berlin GBK "Port of Hamburg"
Berlin Autumn exhibition VBK
1935 Berlin Seafaring and art "Hamburg",

"Shift change at the shipyard"

Yes Catalog
1936 Berlin German cityscapes
1938 Berlin Autumn exhibition VBK
1940 Munich GDK "Danzig" oil
1941 Munich GDK "Freighter Hamburg (Austria)" sold,

"Runkel an der Lahn" delivered later

1942 Munich GDK "Hamburg (Oil)"
Dortmund Art and technology
1943 Berlin Kaufmann am Werk, Retail Business Group "Bremen"

Web links

Commons : Erich Kips  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mayen Beckmann, Inga Seehusen: Travel pictures by Joseph Oppenheimer and Erich Kips . Ed .: Galerie Pels-Leusden. , Berlin and Kampen 1996.
  2. ↑ Adolf von Oechelhäuser: History of the grossh. Baden Academy of Fine Arts . In: Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the foundation on behalf of the Academy and with the support of the Grand Ducal Ministry of Justice, Culture and Education . G. Braunsche Hofbuchdruckerei, Karlsruhe 1904, p. 163 .
  3. ↑ 1864 (Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Four) - 1914 (Nineteen Hundred Fourteen) . In: Schwintzer and Gräff <Lichtträgerfabrik, Berlin> (Ed.): Memorial folder . Berlin 1914.
  4. ^ Gerd Biegel: Margarethe Raabe as an artist . In: City of Braunschweig (ed.): Margarethe Raabe (1863–1947) . Braunschweig 1999, p. 48 .
  5. ↑ Gabriele Henkel: Raabe and Braunschweig, 1870-1910: Testimonials and works of the writer and draftsman from the holdings of the city of Braunschweig . In: Städtisches Museum Braunschweig (Hrsg.): Braunschweiger Werkstücke: Publications from the city archive and the city library . tape 46 . Braunschweig 1998, ISBN 3-9806341-0-8 , pp. 35 .
  6. ↑ Small messages . In: Kunstgewerbeblatt . tape 5 , 1894, pp. 47-50 .
  7. ^ Adolf Wermuth: Official report on the world exhibition in Chicago in 1893 submitted by the Reich Commissioner . tape 1 + 2 . Reichsdruckerei, Berlin 1894.
  8. ↑ a b c d From the "Marine" exhibition in the Künstlerhaus . In: The day . Appendix A, No. 278 . Berlin November 27, 1912.
  9. ↑ Collections and exhibitions . In: Ulrich Thieme, Richard Graul (Hrsg.): Kunstchronik. Weekly for arts and crafts . tape 10 , no. 18 , 1898, p. 284 .
  10. ^ Mortimer, Richard: Berliner Brief . In: Art for everyone Painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture . No. April 14 , 1899.
  11. ↑ Erich Kips. Retrieved January 11, 2020 .
  12. ^ Illustration in the exhibition catalog, Berlin 1901.
  13. ^ Catalog of the Great Art Exhibition . Publishing house of the association for the organization of art exhibitions, Duesseldorf 1920.
  14. ↑ Max Martersteig (ed.): Yearbook of the fine arts . Verlag der Deutschen Jahrbuchgesellschaft, Berlin 1902.
  15. ↑ Greater Berlin in the picture . In: The art world. Monthly magazine for the fine arts . tape ^ 1 , 1911, p. 228 .
  16. ↑ Studio talk . In: The international Studio . 1912, p. 233 .
  17. ↑ Mixed messages . In: Society for Christian Art GmbH (Ed.): The Christian Art . tape 9 . Munich 1912, p. 30-31 .
  18. ^ List 344 Paintings at Pittsburghshow . In: The New York Times . April 20, 1914.
  19. ^ A b Catalog ot the 18th annual exhibition at the Carnegie Institute . Pittsburgh 1914.
  20. ↑ Studio talk . In: The International Studio . 1914, p. 318 .
  21. ^ The Carnegie Institute's International Exhibition . In: Art and Progress . tape 5 , July 1, 1914.
  22. ^ The only annual international show in America . In: Arts and Decoration . June 1914, p. 321 .
  23. ^ Christian Brinton: International Art at the Carnegie Institute . In: American Federation of Arts (Ed.): Magazine of Art . tape 7 , 1916, pp. 401-408 .
  24. ↑ Published for the Division of Exhibits by the Wahlgreen Company (Ed.): Official Catalog of Exhibitors . V1 - Department of Fine Arts. San Francisco 1915, p. 22 .
  25. ↑ San Francisco . In: The Cicerone. Half-monthly publication for artists, art lovers and collectors . tape 7 , 1915, pp. 339 .
  26. ↑ Pittsburgh . In: American Art News . tape XVI , no. 32 . New York May 18, 1918, p. 3 .
  27. ↑ This and That . In: Hans Schliepmann (Ed.): Berliner Architekturwelt . tape 17 . Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1915, p. 359 .
  28. ↑ a b Insight into the early history of the port . In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung . June 3, 2010, p. 6 .
  29. ^ Museums and collections . In: Antiques Rundschau . tape 22 , 1924, pp. 154-155 .
  30. ↑ Dock work . In: The New Universe . tape 48 . Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart / Berlin / Leipzig 1927.
  31. ↑ Colored art supplement . In: Daheim: a German family paper with illustrations . tape 82 , no. 29 . Velhagen & Klasing, Leipzig, Bielefeld April 17, 1926.
  32. ↑ a b Lars U.Scholl: German Marine Painting from 1830 to 2000 . In: Jügen Jensen (Hrsg.): Special publications by the Society for Kiel City History . tape 39 . Verlag for Helgoland literature Maren Knauß, Helgoland 2002.
  33. ^ Art exhibitions - Berlin . In: Adolph Donath (Ed.): Der Kunstwanderer . tape 10/11 , 1928, pp. 324 .
  34. ^ Literary section of the Hamburg America Line (ed.): World tour 1932 with the three-screw luxury steamer 'Resolute' January - May . Hamburg 1932.
  35. ^ Museum for Hamburg History (ed.): Hamburg and HAPAG . 2000.
  36. ↑ Willy Oskar Dressler: The book of the living German artists, antiquarians, art scholars and art writers . In: Dressler's art manual . Karl Curtius, Berlin 1930, p. 508 .
  37. ^ A b Lars U. Scholl: marine painter from Germany . Schiffsverlag Hansa, Hamburg 1990, p. 59 .
  38. ↑ Kunstverlag Trowitzsch & Sohn (ed.): Colored art sheets - catalog . Frankfurt / Oder 1937, p. 84 .
  39. ↑ GDK Research - Image-based research platform to the Great German Art Exhibitions 1937-1944 in Munich. Central Institute for Art History, accessed on January 2, 2018 .
  40. ^ University library Augsburg - digital collections. Retrieved June 6, 2020 .
  41. ↑ Erich Meffert: The house of the State Opera and its builders . Max Beck Verlag, Leipzig 1942.
  42. ↑ The Sanssouci Palace with its park. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .
  43. ↑ Archive Academy of the Arts, Berlin, https://archiv.adk.de/objekt/2266682
  44. ^ Eva A. Mayring: Images of technology, industry and science . Ed .: Deutsches Museum. Munich 2008.
  45. ↑ The zeppelin was always there . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Hamburg January 11, 1986, p. 1 .
  46. ^ Gertrud Weber: Berlin Art from 1770 - 1930 . In: Study collection Waldemar Grzimek . Hartmann, Berlin 1984.
  47. ↑ Lange Anna in the Husum collection. shz.de, February 20, 2009, accessed November 1, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Kips, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1945
Place of death Berlin