Ferdinand Carl Cürten
Ferdinand Carl Cürten , also Carl Cürten (* 1892 in Düsseldorf ; † May 30, 1945 at Amelunxen Castle ), was a German painter .
Life
| Carnival 1928: Johanna Ey , (from left to right) Robert Pudlich , Carl Cürten, wife of Ikier |
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| 1928 |
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| City Museum of the State Capital, Düsseldorf
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The painter Ferdinand Carl Cürten, who was born in Düsseldorf, began his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule and, when it was dissolved, moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In these first years his work was influenced by the Düsseldorf School of Painting and Rhenish Impressionism .
Extended study trips took him all over Europe and took him to North Africa. On these trips through southern France, Italy and Spain, luminous depictions of Mediterranean coastal landscapes and southern cities were created. But the artist also captured motifs of his homeland in the Lower Rhine region and still life in his pictures.
In 1919 Cürten became a member of the artists' association Das Junge Rheinland , whose centerpiece was the Johanna Ey's old town gallery . In 1923 he left the group and joined the newly founded “Rheingruppe”, which in 1928 developed into the “Rheinische Sezession”. Between 1919 and 1933 he was involved in the exhibitions of the Young Rhineland, the Rhine Group and the Rhenish Secession.
In 1926 Cürten was commissioned to contribute with a painting for the rotunda of the planetarium for the GeSoLei .
In 1928 Cürten was commissioned by the League of Nations to design an exhibition and was called to Geneva .
In the years before the Second World War , Cürten turned away from oil painting and increasingly to watercolor . At first he created very colorful pictures, but over time he gave them a more moderate coloring.
As a result of the confiscations as part of the “ Degenerate Art ” propaganda campaign in the summer of 1937, two pictures by Ferdinand Carl Cürten from the art collections of the city of Düsseldorf were stolen and destroyed by the National Socialists : Watercolor III (EK inventory no.:2266) and Zigeuner ( EK inventory number: 1995).
When the war broke out, the artist was called up for military service and sent to North Africa as a lieutenant. Shortly after the end of the war, on May 30, 1945, Cürten died in the hospital at Amelunxen Castle .
literature
- Sandra Labs: Johanna Ey and the avant-garde of the Düsseldorf art scene . Diplomier Verlag Hamburg 2012, ISBN 9783842881211
- Galerie Alex Vömel , Kunstkabinett Hans Trojanski: Memorial exhibition Ferdinand-Carl Cürten: 1897–1945 , 4 pages, 1948
- The cross section: marginalia from the Flechtheim Gallery. May 1921. Figure FC Kürten (Oleg.), Page 107
Web links
- Carl Cürten biography on Ketterer Kunst , accessed May 5, 2015
- Carl Cürten on Artnet , accessed May 5, 2015
- Painting, oil on canvas, sunlit house entrance with a seated woman and chickens, C. Cürten
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- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016), PDF
- ↑ Figure FC Kürten (Oleg.), Issued in Junge Rheinland 1921 , accessed May 5, 2015
- ↑ in tribute to Anna Klapheck on her birthday on May 12 , Rheinische Post, May 9, 1959
- ^ Database on the confiscation inventory of the "Degenerate Art" campaign, Research Center "Degenerate Art", FU Berlin
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| SURNAME | Cürten, Ferdinand Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cürten, Carl; Kürten, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1945 |
| Place of death | Amelux Castle |