Erwin Küsthardt

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Erwin Küsthardt

Erwin Küsthardt (born January 23, 1867 in Hildesheim , † July 6, 1901 in Rome ) was a German painter and sculptor .

life and work

Küsthardt, son of the sculptor Friedrich Küsthardt , studied from 1885 to 1894/95 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Heinrich Lauenstein , Hugo Crola , Adolf Schill and Peter Janssen . In 1898 Küsthardt received the Grand State Prize of the Prussian Academy of the Arts . In 1899/1900 and 1901 Küsthardt stayed at the Villa Strohl-Fern in Rome because of his Rome scholarship , where he died in July 1901. Erwin Küsthardt was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Rome .

During his short creative phase due to his lifetime, he mainly created pictures with elements of religious influence, such as the altarpiece "Peace be with you" in the Johanneskirche in Herne-Eickel . Some of the wall paintings in the " Marching Hall " of the Hermann Allmers House in Rechtenfleth were also made by him . His last major work is the mural Arrival of Kaiser Wilhelm I at Potsdamer Bahnhof after the declaration of war in 1870 in the auditorium of the Erfurt grammar school. In 1902, an estate exhibition was dedicated to Küsthardt in the Hildesheim Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum .

Works (selection)

  • Study on: Bismarck reads the declaration of war to the king. 1899, oil on canvas

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Country DE: Germany . Accademia di Danimarca. Retrieved March 29, 2010.
  2. ^ Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, status: November 2016): Küsthardt, Erwin 1885-1894 / 95 Studium KA (H. Lauenstein, H. Crola, A. Schill, P. Janssen) , on smkp.de (PDF ), accessed April 6, 2017.
  3. ^ Prussian Academy of the Arts (PrAdK 0730). Great State Prize. March 11, 1898: Prize winners Erwin Küsthardt and Wilhelm Kreis
  4. ^ Prussian Academy of the Arts (PrAdK 0729). Studio rental in Rome for scholarship holders of the Academy (Villa Strohl-Fern) - reports on work, rent payments, etc. following scholarship holders or guests in Rome: Erwin Küsthardt 1899/1900.
  5. ^ Erwin Küsthardt's tomb, Protestant Cemetery, Rome: Stone 141
  6. ↑ Die Kunst für alle 16 (1900/01), p. 531 as of October 15, 2012.
  7. ^ German Foundation for Monument Protection: Plaque for Hermann-Allmers-Heim . District of Cuxhaven. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. 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. Retrieved February 16, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.romoe.net
  8. ↑ On the history of Düsseldorf art; especially in the XIX. Century. Edited by Kunstverein for the Rhineland and Westphalia . Internet Archive. Retrieved March 29, 2010.
  9. ↑ Art and the beautiful home . tape 5 . Friedrich Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1902, p. 92 .
personal data
SURNAME Küsthardt, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1901
Place of death Rome