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Eugen Kampf, delegate of the International Art Exhibition in the Kunstpalast - International Art Exhibition and Large Horticultural Exhibition, Düsseldorf 1904

Eugen Kampf (born March 16, 1861 in Aachen , † April 13, 1933 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Kampf was born as the son of the Aachen painter and photographer August Kampf (1836–1914). He shared an interest in painting with his younger brother Arthur Kampf (1864–1950). Eugen Kampf studied this subject from 1878 to 1880, first at the Antwerp Art Academy , then until 1883 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Eugen Dücker , who gave landscape painting there a new, realistic direction from 1872 and developed it into the leading subject. Kampf finished his studies at the Art Academy in Brussels until 1884 .

The painting Summer Village Landscape represents the impressionist painting in Kampf's work.

In 1889, Kampf returned to Düsseldorf. There, as a reaction to the exhibition policy of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen , which is connected to the art academy, Kampf founded the “Lucas Club” with Olof Jernberg , Heinrich Hermanns and Helmuth Liesegang , a progressive association of landscape painters, inspired by the Hague School and Tried to combine the Barbizon School with the achievements of Impressionism . In 1891 the "Lucas Club" was subordinated to the newly founded Free Association of Düsseldorf Artists , from which, however, in 1899 the "St. Lukas Club "(founded by Hermanns, Jernberg, Liesegang, August Deusser , Otto Heichert , Arthur Kampf, Gustav Wendling , among others ) and the" Vereinigung von 1899 "split off. In addition, Kampf was a member of the Düsseldorf Artists 'Association for mutual support and assistance , the Malkasten artists' association and the General German Art Cooperative .

Together with Wilhelm Schneider-Didam , Kampf ran a painting school for women , which was located at Jacobistraße 14a and at the beginning of the 20th century in the so-called Hunger Tower opposite the art academy.

From 1880 he sent exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace , Dresden, Leipzig and Düsseldorf as well as the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , where he received a gold medal in 1906. He won many other awards (Golden Medal, Salzburg 1901; Golden State Medal, Dresden 1904 and Düsseldorf 1902 ; Silver State Medal, Barcelona 1911; Large Golden State Medal , Düsseldorf 1913 ). His works were also represented at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 , at the Exposición de arte alemán in Buenos Aires in 1913 and at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1918 . A memorial exhibition for Eugen Kampf that the Kölnischer Kunstverein planned for 1934 was not implemented. In 1908 Eugen Kampf became a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In 1894 his son Ari Walter Kampf († 1955) was born in Düsseldorf , who was also to become a painter.

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Since the end of the 1880s, Kampf painted, with great public success, mainly Lower Rhine and Flemish landscapes in the style of naturalism and impressionism, occasionally also naval pictures , still lifes and interiors. A clever spatial arrangement of the motifs, heavy, rich color chords and a "Flemish tone" of his palette, applied using the Impasto technique , contributed to his success. His watercolors also show the deep, full tone of his oil paintings . Kampf also made lithographs . He often captured scenes of simple rural life in summer, evening or cloudy rainy moods. In addition to large pictures, he painted studies of nature and landscapes of smaller format, in which the strong decorative, but often somewhat conventional, attitude towards fresh impressions and soft, lyrical coloring appears modified. Some of his pictures belong to the inventory of the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen and the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf.

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  The brushwood collectors , 1892

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  Potato harvest

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  Flemish village street

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  Moon rise in the dunes

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  Cargo boats on the Scheldt

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  On the way to the market

literature

• Fight, Eugene. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 641 ( archive.org ).
• Fight, Eugene . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926, p. 508 .
• Robert Darmstaedter, Ulrike von Hase-Schmundt: Artist Lexicon . Nikol Verlag, Hamburg 2013.

Web links

Commons : Eugen Kampf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Eugen Kampf (1861–1933) - oil on canvas, in front of the old fisherman's house , 1886 , biography, PDF (November 21, 2014) in the portal auktionshaus-aldag.de
• Eugen Kampf , short biography in the portal galerie-paffrath.de
• Eugen Kampf , short biography on the van-ham.com portal
• Eugen Kampf , short biography in the portal gdk-galerie.de
• Eugen Kampf , auction results on the portal artnet.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bettina Baumgärtel: Chronicle of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1815–2011 . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Volume 1, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 369
2. ↑ Nicole Roth: How modern is the Düsseldorf School of Painting? In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Volume 1, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , pp. 254, 261 (footnote 27), 374
3. ↑ Painting schools: Eugen Kampf & Schneider-Didam , in Guide through Düsseldorf am Rhein and its surroundings , Verkehrs-Verein Düsseldorf (ed.), 1898, p. X
4. ^ Walter Cohen : The Düsseldorf painting at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1918 in Düsseldorf. In: The art. Monthly books for free and applied arts. Thirty-ninth volume, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1919, pp. 61–65, here p. 65 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
5. ↑ Ute Haug: The Cologne Art Association in National Socialism. Structure and development of an art institution in the cultural-political landscape of the 'Third Reich'. Dissertation at RWTH Aachen, Aachen 1998, p. 266 ( rwth-aachen.de PDF).
6. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt: On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century. Verlag des Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 349.
7. ↑ For example the picture Twilight . - See Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): The Rhineland. Monthly magazine for German art . Volume 1, first volume, Commissionsverlag A. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1900/1901.
8. ↑ Another picture by Eugen Kampf with the title Potato Harvest dates from 1892 and belongs to the inventory of the Museum Kunstpalast . - See: Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast: Annual Report 2010 , Düsseldorf 2011 ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 (Chapter No. 3: From the collections ), accessed on the smkp.de portal on November 22, 2014 
9. ^ Bettina Baumgärtel: Chronicle of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1815–2011 . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Volume 2, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 455 (catalog no.396)