Erich Kux

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Erich Kux (around 1910)

Erich Kux (born February 7, 1882 in Quedlinburg ; † August 3, 1977 in Lentföhrden near Kiel ) was a German architecture , landscape and portrait painter , as well as illustrator and caricaturist .

Life

After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he began studying with Schick at the Kassel Art School in 1904 , completing it in 1906 with the exam to become a drawing teacher, and then with Anton von Werner at the Berlin Academy of Arts and with the battle and history painter Georg Koch until 1910 to continue studying, and in 1907 at the same time in the teaching facility of the Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin with Emil Orlik . In addition to his studies, he worked as a drawing teacher at the Lettehaus ( Lette Association ) on Victoria-Louisen-Platz and gave drawing lessons at the municipal photographic college. Activities with which he initially earned his living even after completing his studies.

From 1910 Erich Kux was a freelance painter , graphic artist , but also an illustrator for various Berlin book publishers and newspapers, such as for the Westermann monthly books , Kladderadatsch and Die Jugend . He went on numerous study trips to central and southern Germany, where he explored the architecture and landscape by painting. In the 1920s he devoted himself primarily to outdoor painting . The influence of Édouard Manet and Claude Monet was clearly noticeable in his painting. As a portrait painter he received a number of commissions.

Since 1919 he was a member of the Association of Berlin Artists . Here Kux was able to show his work in exhibitions. Due to the effects of the war, a large part of his work on the premises of the Berlin Artists' Association was destroyed in 1943.

In 1943 he returned to Quedlinburg and continued his work there. At the end of the 1950s he moved to Hamburg , where he found a new home and, above all, a large number of architectural and landscape motifs, which he captured in numerous pictures. Southern Germany was also repeatedly the target for his work.

In 1971 he was presented with the Silber-Möve artist prize, which was awarded for the first time by the Cultural Office of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , and was awarded by the Hamburger Abendblatt .

Kux painted into old age and died very old at the age of 95 in Lentföhrden near Kiel.

Works (selection)

Kux exhibited his pictures in the Academy of Arts and in the major Berlin art exhibition . For example, his painting Düsiger Tag was shown in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition of 1923. As an illustrator he made pictures for several books.

  • Bernhard Jolles: The new book of legends: Collection of the most beautiful u. strangest German sagas Legends . With illustrations by N. Brodsky, Erich Kux, Oscar Theuer and others R. Mosse, Berlin 1922, OCLC 838467983 .
  • Annemarie von Bila: Mrs. Schnabelbeck steams into the green! A hilarious rural. Tell about all kinds of love, different animals and the like. some Philistines . Moninger, Karlsruhe 1940, OCLC 72054044 (8 text images by Erich Kux).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1923 . Berlin 1923, p. 17 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Kux, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architecture, landscape and portrait painter, illustrator and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 1977
Place of death Lentföhrden