Ernst Kühlbrandt (painter)

Kühlbrandt's grave in the Verden forest cemetery

Ernst Kühlbrandt (born January 9, 1891 in Kronstadt , Austria-Hungary , † March 21, 1975 in Verden ) was a Transylvanian horse painter.

Life

Kühlbrandt was born the son of a drawing teacher. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and taught there from 1918. From 1919 he worked as a professor . Kühlbrandt lived in Berlin from 1936 before he stayed at the Trakehnen main stud for a longer period in 1940 . The horse population there served as a motif for his paintings.

Kühlbrandt later moved to Verden in Lower Saxony , where he lived until his death. He was married.

plant

As a child, Kühlbrandt showed an interest in horses and drew them in his uncle's stables. He liked to paint in watercolors and oils . All works created by Kühlbrandt up to 1913 were confiscated by the Russian Empire in the course of the First World War . As part of diplomatic negotiations, the paintings were returned to the State of Prussia in 1930.

After the end of World War II, the Kühlbrandt paintings were administered by the Soviet Union. According to the Trakehner Association, nine of its plants are now in Kirow, Russia . All other paintings are considered lost. Even after the Second World War, Kühlbrandt mostly made commissioned paintings of Trakehner horses.

Illustrations (selection)

• Hippolyt Graf Von Norman Senior : Our horse . Volume 1. Limpert Verlag, Berlin 1938, OCLC 313167990 .
• Hippolyt Graf von Norman Senior:  Our horse . Volume 2. Limpert Verlag, Berlin 1938, OCLC 313168003 .
• Hippolyt Graf von Norman Senior:  Hunting Riding . Verlag J. Neumann, Neudamm 1940, OCLC 72311401 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kühlbrandt, Ernst. In: LOT-TISSIMO. Retrieved August 22, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Trakehner Association (Ed.): Here is Trakehnen! ( Memento of February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) July 2007, accessed on August 22, 2017.