Franz Kops
Franz Hermann Kops (born July 14, 1846 in Berlin , † August 24, 1896 in Dresden ) was a German portrait and genre painter.
Kops studied painting at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar and in Ferdinand Pauwels' studio . After long stays in Berlin and Weimar , he settled in Dresden at the end of the 1870s and founded a school for women painters in Blasewitz . He was elected second chairman of the Dresden Art Cooperative .
Kops portrayed the actor Ludwig Barnay , the painters Emil Rieck , Otto Piltz and Guido Hammer , the copper engraver Hugo Bürkner and the sculptors Hermann Hultzsch and Johannes Schilling . In 1893 he created a portrait of the Queen of Saxony, Carola von Wasa-Holstein-Gottorp .
On September 15, 2019, an episode of the NDR's Lieb & Teuer program was broadcast, which was filmed in Reinbek Castle and hosted by Janin Ullmann . In it, the most famous genre painting by Franz Kops, entitled A New Menzel , was discussed with painting experts Beate Rhenisch and Peter Kops . The owner of the painting Peter Kops is a great-grandson of Franz Kops.
literature
- Kops, Franz. In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history , Volume 1, first half, Dresden 1891, pp. 743–744 ( digitized version )
- Kops, Franz. In: Hermann Alexander Müller : General Artist Lexicon , Volume 2, Hans Wolfgang Singer (editor), Rütten & Loening , Frankfurt 1896, p. 381 ( digitized version )
- Hermann Arthur Lier : Kops, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 337 f.
- Kops, Franz. In: Hermann Alexander Müller: General Artist Lexicon , Volume 5, fifth edition, Hans Wolfgang Singer (editor), Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt 1921, p. 171 ( digitized version )
- Kops, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 304 .
- Bénézit 1999, vol. 7, p. 944.
- Saur 1999-2000, Vol. 5, p. 655.
Web links
- Franz Kops in the Stadtwiki Dresden
- Franz Kops on artnet
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kops, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kops, Franz Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 1896 |
| Place of death | Dresden |