Friedrich Kallmorgen

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Friedrich Kallmorgen, 1902

Friedrich Kallmorgen (born November 15, 1856 in Altona , † June 2, 1924 in Grötzingen ) was a German painter .

life and work

River landscape , 1893
Port of Hamburg , 1910

Friedrich Kallmorgen came from a Hamburg architect family. From 1862 to 1863 he received his first drawing lessons from his uncle, the portrait and landscape painter Theodor Kuchel . Kallmorgen entered the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1875 , where he studied with Andreas Müller , Ernst Deger and Eugen Dücker . After a study trip to Franconian Switzerland with Carl Friedrich Lessing , he moved to Karlsruhe in 1877 to the Grand Ducal Badische Kunstakademie . There Kallmorgen became a student of Ernst Hildebrand and later of Hans Fredrik Gude . In the summer of 1878 he had study stays in Blankenburg am Harz and in the Lüneburg Heath. In 1880 he followed his teacher Gude to Berlin, but returned to Karlsruhe in 1881. Here he joined the circle around Gustav Schönleber , with whom he also finished his studies.

With Schönleber and Hermann Baisch , he made numerous trips abroad, including to France, Belgium and Holland. In 1882 Friedrich Kallmorgen married the flower painter Margarethe Hormuth . In 1886 he became an assistant teacher in Schönleber's still life class . In 1888/1889 he moved to Grötzingen, where he was one of the founders of the Grötzingen painters' colony . In 1891 Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden appointed Kallmorgen professor. From 1896 to 1898 he was President of the Karlsruhe Artists Association. Between 1890 and 1900 he made numerous trips, including to Paris, Brussels, Rotterdam, Italy and the Netherlands, and in 1898 a long trip to the north. On behalf of the Cologne chocolate manufacturer Ludwig Stollwerck, he designed collecting pictures for Stollwerck scrapbooks , including the series "Italian folk songs" for the Stollwerck scrapbook no. 3 from 1899. In 1901 he became a teacher in the landscape class at the Berlin Art Academy and received the chair from Eugen Bracht . In 1908 he received a great gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . Between 1903 and 1916, Kallmorgen traveled to Russia, Norway and Flanders, among others. From 1911 to 1918 he was chairman of the cooperative of visual artists. In 1918 he moved to Heidelberg and worked there as a freelancer until his death. He was buried in Grötzingen.

Kallmorgen has received numerous awards at home and abroad for his works since 1885. Kallmorgen is known for his city and landscape pictures in the Impressionist style.

Fritz Wildhagen and Richard Duschk were among his students . The painter Max Kuchel was his cousin.

Works

  • On the Blackfriars Bridge in London (1886) - Oil on canvas (National Gallery, Berlin State Museums)
  • Harvest Time (1891) - Oil on canvas (National Gallery, State Museums in Berlin)
  • To Work (Hamburger Hafenbild) (1901) - Oil on canvas (Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister)
  • Jacob's Terrace in Nienstedten (1903) - Oil on canvas (Hamburger Kunsthalle, private collection)
  • Sunset in the port of Hamburg
  • The lights are lit (1904) - oil on canvas, view over the Alster at dusk (Kunsthalle Hamburg, inv.no.2706)
  • Port of Hamburg (1910)

literature

  • Richard Bellm:  Kallmorgen, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 68 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Kallmorgen, Friedrich . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1891, p. 637.
  • Friedrich Kallmorgen: In the land of the midnight sun. A painter's diary. Künstlerbund Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 1899.
  • Herold Gallery (ed.): Friedrich Kallmorgen 1856–1924. Life and work. Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-7672-0754-0 .
  • Irene Eder: Friedrich Kallmorgen 1856-1924. Monograph and catalog raisonné of paintings and prints. Harsch Verlag, Karlsruhe 1991, ISBN 3-920321-01-4 .
  • Helga Walter-Dressler (Ed.): On the road with Kallmorgen. Drawings and paintings from 1880 to 1920. Catalog of the exhibition of the Städtische Galerie in the Prinz-Max-Palais Karlsruhe from December 21, 1991 to February 16, 1992, Karlsruhe 1991.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Kallmorgen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlef Lorenz: Advertising art around 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures. Reimer, Berlin 2000.
  2. ↑ Book Show. In: Kunstchronik, Jg. NF 10 (1899) No. 23, column 361  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de  
personal data
SURNAME Kallmorgen, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1924
Place of death Grötzingen