Friedrich Missfeldt

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Friedrich Missfeldt (1964)

Friedrich Missfeldt (born October 2, 1874 in Kiel , † June 19, 1969 in Schleswig ) was a German landscape and portrait painter .

Life

Missfeldt was born the son of an innkeeper. From 1890 to 1893 he trained as a decoration and church painter in Hamburg and attended evening courses at the Hamburg trade school . He then worked in this profession in Hesse and Baden and enrolled at the Karlsruhe Art Academy in 1894 . He became friends with his fellow students Wilhelm Laage and Emil Rudolf Weiß . Until 1898 he studied at the Academy in Karlsruhe with Robert Poetzelberger , Carlos Grethe and Leopold von Kalckreuth, among others . In 1899 von Karlckreuth and his students moved to the Royal Art School in Stuttgart . Missfeldt was his master student there until 1903 , before he moved to Paris in the same year. He studied at the Académie Julian with Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury until 1904 .

From 1905 to 1906 Missfeldt lived with his brother, the sculptor Heinrich Missfeldt (1872-1945) in Berlin, before he accepted an offer in 1907 to become a teacher at the Städtische Handwerker- und Kunstgewerbeschule (the later Muthesius Art College ) in Kiel. 1914 to In 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War . In 1920 he married the painter Frauke Missfeldt-Bünz (1882–1976). As chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Cooperative, he polemicized against Arthur Haseloff , the managing director of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Association , because he did not see the interests of regional artists sufficiently taken into account in the exhibitions at the Kiel Kunsthalle . Friedrich Missfeldt was a member of the German Association of Artists , the Altona Artists 'Association and the Kiel Artists' Association . He lived and worked as a freelance painter in Kiel, and only accepted teaching assignments on a part-time basis. In 1965 he moved to Schleswig with his daughters, where he died in 1969 and was buried in the cemetery of the Haddeby parish .

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Missfeldt was best known as a landscape and portrait painter, but he also made large-format wall paintings for churches and drew book illustrations. The 24 original drawings for the equipment by Gustav Fr. Meyer Schleswig-Holsteinische Volkslieder (Hans Ruhe Verlag, Altona, 1927) are in the Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf Schleswig. He also knows numerous textile designs for weaving mills. In 1936 he was commissioned to create two murals in the Kiel House of the Olympic Village for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Works by the artist are included in the collections in the Flensburg City Museum, in the North Frisian Museum. Nissenhaus Husum , in the Schleswig-Holstein State Library , Kiel, in the Kiel City and Maritime Museum and the Kunsthalle zu Kiel . In 2012 the Kiel City and Maritime Museum honored him with an extensive solo exhibition. Occasionally, works by the artist can be found in auction shops.

On October 6, 2019, an episode of NDR's Lieb & Teuer program was broadcast, which was filmed in Reinbek Castle and hosted by Janin Ullmann . In it, an oil painting by Missfeldt entitled Mother Happiness was discussed with the painting expert Ariane Skora and the grandson of Friedrich Missfeldt's Knut Giesche . It shows Missfeld's wife Frauke with their first daughter in her arms, who later became the mother of grandson Knut Giesche.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Kiel artist, Vol. 3: In the Weimar Republic and in National Socialism, Heide 2019, pp. 37–44.
  2. ↑ Members since 1903 on kuenstlerbund.de (accessed on October 6, 2019)
  3. ↑ Telse Wolf-Timm and Doris Tillmann, Friedrich Missfeldt (1874–1969) - A Kiel artist between modernity and tradition, Heide 2012.
  4. ^ Friedrich Missfeldt at artnet
  5. ↑ Video painting "Mutterglück" by Friedrich Missfeldt on ndr.de
personal data
SURNAME Missfeldt, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1969
Place of death Schleswig