Georg Altheim

Georg Altheim (born March 10, 1865 in Groß-Gerau , † July 19, 1928 in Darmstadt ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Georg Altheim was the older brother of the painter Wilhelm Altheim (1871–1914). First, a civil servant by profession, he has casually autodidact trained and began in 1895 to expand under the direction of his younger brother Wilhelm and various other Darmstadt artists, his work. Towards the end of the 19th century he came out with his own works. In 1900 he became a member of the "Free Association of Darmstadt Artists", with which he exhibited annually, and from 1904 he also belonged to the "Association of Art Friends in the States on the Rhine". He was also a member of the German Association of Artists .

His approx. 200 oil paintings, painted with a sharp brush in a thin application of paint, are natural, spacious, mostly bright landscapes, especially from the Rhine plain in the vicinity of Darmstadt, which he depicted in all seasons and also in night pictures. In addition, Altheim also created pictures from Upper Hesse, the Odenwald, the Black Forest, the Rhine and the sea. The light and airy pictures also made him known nationwide.

The same motifs are also used in the woodcuts (over 60, 2 of them in color, only 2 with staffage) and the fine-toned color drawings. The charcoal and red chalk drawings also include figurative representations and portraits.

Exhibitions (selection)

• At the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1906 his paintings "Arheilgen" and "Herbst" were exhibited.
• Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum: Autumn night in the Rhine lowlands , 1908 (lost); Arable fields in spring , 1909.
• Gießen, Oberhessisches Museum and Gail'sche Collection: Oberhessische Landschaft , 1905/12.
• Koblenz, Middle Rhine Museum: Summer meadow .
• Mainz, Middle Rhine State Museum: Summer Landscape , 1908.
• German art exhibition / Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe, 1908.
• Jagdschloss Wolfsgarten, private property: Wolfsgarten (3 paintings), 1912.
• Mathildenhöhe Institute: May , 1916.
• Southwest German Art Exhibition, Baden, Hesse, Württemberg, 1924.
• New Art Berlin, Darmstadt, Munich, 1927.
• 200 years of Darmstadt art, 1930.
• Art owned by the City of Darmstadt, 1981.

estate

A complete series of woodcuts, preliminary drawings, several paintings and six printing blocks are in the estate.

literature

• Altheim, Georg . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 351 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Altheim, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 239 .
• Altheim, Georg . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 2, Seemann, Leipzig 1986, ISBN 3-363-00115-0 , p. 693 f.
• Roland Dotzert et al .: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , p. 29.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Altheim, Georg ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 21, 2017)