Erich von Perfall

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Erich Freiherr von Perfall (born January 28, 1882 in Düsseldorf ; † December 20, 1961 there ) was a German landscape painter and draftsman .

Life

He came from an old Bavarian noble family and was the son of the writer Karl Freiherr von Perfall (1851-1924) and Marianne Spindler (1856-1944). In 1901 Perfall studied with Peter Jannsen , Wilhelm Schmurr and Willy Spatz at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and with Hans Thoma at the Grand Duke of Baden Art School in Karlsruhe . Years of study in Venice , Florence and Lucca followed . He toured the Dolomites , Upper Bavaria and Greetsiel in East Frisia . From around 1908 he was under the influence of the "Niederrhein artist group", which made him turn to Neo-Impressionism .

Perfall was a member of the Malkasten artists' association from 1919 until his death . At first he hardly stood out in the club, it was not until the Nazi era that he made himself the spokesman for the NSDAP members represented in the club . On January 18, 1934, until its dissolution in 1935, he was appointed chairman of the “Bund Deutscher Künstlervereine” and appointed to the administrative advisory board of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts . Previously, he had held at the Düsseldorf "Association for the organization of art exhibitions," the Presidency and the exhibition in this function 1932 Dusseldorf-Munich art in Kunst Palast Dusseldorf stimulated and co-organized.

He regularly took part in the Great German Art Exhibition . The focus of his work was the Lower Rhine , which he repeatedly portrayed in all its facets and moods. Preferred subjects were quiet views of the Rhine, fishing scenes and the break landscapes on the Erft . He worked almost exclusively outdoors with a broad brush and spatula . His light-filled, atmospheric paintings are in the footsteps of French Impressionism and in the tradition of Düsseldorf open-air painting (→ Düsseldorfer Malerschule ).

In 1906 Perfall married Josefa Luise Siebourg (1881–1940) for the first time and Margarete Seebade (1897–1978) for the second time in 1943.

literature

  • Robert Thoms: Great German Art Exhibition Munich 1937–1944 . Directory of artists in two volumes, Volume I: painter and graphic artist. Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-937294-01-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronik Kunstverein Plauen , page 13 ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 540 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstgalerie-lucas.de
  2. ↑ Julia Lohmann: One hundred and fifty years of the artists' association Malkasten , Verlag Richter, 1998, page 74 ( excerpt ) and page 118 ( excerpt )
  3. ^ Düsseldorf-Munich Art Exhibition, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, May 14th - August 31st 1932 , website in the portal eifel-und-kunst.de , accessed on August 29, 2014
  4. ^ Walter Cohen : Art in Düsseldorf 1932 . In: Art for All. Painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture . Issue 11, 1932, pp. 322–331 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ On the history of the association for the organization of art exhibitions , website in the portal diegrosse.de , accessed on August 29, 2014
  6. ↑ Family tribe list
personal data
SURNAME Perfall, Erich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perfall, Erich Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1961
Place of death Dusseldorf