Franz Kiederich

Franz Ludwig Kiederich , also Franz Max Kiederich (born July 25, 1873 in Düsseldorf ; † August 10, 1950 there ), was a painter at the Düsseldorf School and a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

Life

Kiederich was the son of the painter Paul Wilhelm Kiederich (1842–1921) and grandson of the painter Paul Joseph Kiederich . From 1890 to 1900 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Hugo Crola , Peter Janssen d. Ä. , Arthur Kampf and Adolf Schill are his teachers. In 1893/1894 he attended Julius Roeting's painting class at the Düsseldorf Academy . Until 1902 he was a master student of Claus Meyer , whose anecdotal painting he took over and later gave up in favor of realistic tendencies. Kiederich traveled through Holland, Belgium, England, France, Italy and Switzerland. Kiederich's landscape and figure painting was particularly devoted to depicting agricultural work, which he captured in light colors and a painting style influenced by Impressionism . From 1911 to 1938 he was a professor and teacher at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, and since 1912 its honorary member. In addition to his brother Ludwig Kiederich (1885–1929), his students also included Lorenz Bösken , Herbert Böttger , Paul Bücher , Emil Flecken (1890–1981), Wilhelm Gdanietz , Helmut Georg , Marianne F. Gürich (1915–2007), and Julius Jungheim , Martin Mendgen , Oswald Petersen , Hans Pfannmüller , Willy Reetz , Hans Schröers and Hans Seyppel .

By antiquated style of painting and backward-looking scene select Kiederich was one of the artists that the Nazi conception of art and its blood and soil came to meet. In 1938, 1939 and 1940 Kiedrich took part in the National Socialist propaganda shows of the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. At the 1938 exhibition, Adolf Hitler von Kiederich bought the oil painting Rast auf dem Felde for the New Reich Chancellery . As early as 1937, Kiederich made the painting Hitler in party uniform . In the "Düsseldorfer Kunstmappe" published by Gauleiter Friedrich Karl Florian , Kiederich is represented with the graphic Der Führer . After 1945 Kiederich no longer played a role in the German art scene. In February 1953 the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen , headed by Hildebrand Gurlitt , honored him with a memorial exhibition in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , which was also dedicated to the painters Ernst te Peerdt , Walter Petersen and Max Stern . Occasionally works by him can be found on the auction market.

Works (selection)

• Meeting of a hunter and his setter with a cavalryman in a wide landscape , 1895
• Spring in the Rhineland , 1912
• Summer landscape , 1913
• Hitler in party uniform , 1937
• The model ship builder
• Winter hunting
• Women in the field harvesting potatoes
• Potato harvest on the Lower Rhine with a farmer by the fire in the background
• Autumn day in Worpswede
• Rest in the field

literature

• Kiederich, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 257 .

Web links

• Franz Kiederich , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
• Kiederich, Franz , short biography in the portal stiftung-volmer.de
• Franz Kiederich (German, 1873–1950). artnet.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Bruckmann, Volume 2, Munich 1998, pp. 228-230.
2. ^ Art Academy Düsseldorf, archive, professors' portfolio. No. 70.
3. ↑ website GDK Research - Image-based research platform to the Great German Art Exhibitions 1937-1944 in Munich.
4. ↑ Shown in 1998 at the exhibition “Role Images in National Socialism - Dealing with Heritage”, Women's Museum, Bonn; Marienkirche Mühlhausen.
5. ^ Friedrich Karl Florian (editor): Düsseldorfer Kunstmappe first series, Völkischer Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1940
6. ↑ Thomas Lienkamp, ​​Kerstin Früh: Findbuch: Depositum 4‐159, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen 1829–1979 (2011), and 5‐4‐6, Poster Collection of the Kunstverein Düsseldorf 2010/2011/2013 , p. XIV and p. 131 ( PDF )
7. ↑ Historia-Auktionshaus Berlin, 2014 ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
8. ↑ Stefanie Poley (Ed.): Role models in National Socialism - dealing with the legacy. Verlag KH Bock, Bad Honnef 1991, ISBN 3-87066-268-9 , p. 183 and Figure 13.