Ernst Bischoff-Culm

Ernst Bischoff-Culm (born March 13, 1870 in Culm ; † July 29, 1917 in France ) was a German painter , illustrator and etcher .

Life

Ernst Bischoff grew up in Elbing, where he graduated from high school in 1888. He then studied at the Königsberg Art Academy with Carl Steffeck and Georg Knorr and at the Royal Academy of Arts with Hugo Vogel and Joseph Scheurenberg . After a stay in Paris , he lived in Berlin again . At the end of the 1880s, he and Eduard Anderson helped build the Nidden artists' colony on the Curonian Spit . Bischoff-Culm, as he called himself since his studies, remained loyal to Nidden and in turn drew the attention of other artists to Nidden through exhibitions of his work in Berlin, including Max Pechstein, who came there in 1909. In the First World War , Bischoff-Culm was at the front, but also devoted himself to painting during his military service and to certain topics of the war. In France he lost both hands in a detonation and soon afterwards committed suicide. He had been a member of the Berlin Secession , which commemorated him in the autumn exhibition of 1917 with a speech by Lovis Corinth and then with a worthy obituary.

Web links

Ernst Bischoff-Culm, Wilhelm Schimmelpfennig (1910)

Ernst Bischoff-Culm, brushwood collector, 1908 East Prussian State Museum Lüneburg

Ernst Bischoff-Culm 1914, old resting man.

Ernst Bischoff-Culm, The fire (cycle "War and Art") 1916 East Prussian State Museum Lüneburg

Commons : Ernst Bischoff-Culm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pictures by Ernst Bischoff-Culm (artnet)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Street scene with a couple" (Lothar Czambor)
2. ↑ Nidden artists' colony (Ketterer)
3. ↑ (Barfod, Nidden, p. 22)
4. ↑ (Cordes, Bischoff-Culm, page 55)
5. ↑ Ernst Bischoff-Culm (Culm on the Vistula)
6. ↑ (Cordes, Bischoff-Culm, page 55 f.)

literature

• Jörn Barfod, Nidden, artist colony on the Curonian Spit, 2005

• Johanna Cordes, Ernst Bischoff-Culm, 2015, Master thesis,