Georg Kaulbach

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Georg Ernst Kaulbach (born March 22, 1866 in Szillen , East Prussia , † August 29, 1945 in Graal-Müritz ) was a German portrait , industrial and landscape painter .

Life

Ahrenshoop beach dune
around 1920

Georg Kaulbach was born in Szillen, a place between Tilsit and Insterburg , today Schilino in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad , in 1866 . He began his artistic training between 1884 and 1888 by studying with Carl Steffeck , Max Schmidt and Emil Neide at the Königsberg Art Academy . Another period of study followed in 1889/90 with Gustav Schönleber at the Karlsruhe Art Academy . In the early 1890s he made several study trips to Russia, in 1896 he returned to Königsberg again to develop his skills in portrait painting. From 1897 he lived with his family in Cologne, whereby external reasons forced him to work as a technician in a photo studio. After a long illness he moved to Gehlsdorf , a municipality on the outskirts of Rostock (incorporated in 1934) on medical advice . Here he began again with his artistic work. In 1922 he and Paul Wallat and Käthe Reine were among the co-founders of the Mecklenburgischer Künstlerbund. In the 1920s he spent some time in Munich, where he worked with the Grafrath painter and paint manufacturer Fritz Behrendt, a childhood friend, and with the Heinemann gallery . Georg Kaulbach died in 1945 in a Graal-Müritz old people's home, he was buried in Rostock in the New Cemetery. In 1947 a street in Rostock-Gehlsdorf was named after him, Kaulbachstraße.

After the memory of the Rhineland, numerous industrial images, its "industrial impressions" such as blast furnaces, factories and train stations, were designed in powerful colors. His mostly small-format landscapes, laid out in an impressionist style, showed dune, heather, forest and meadow motifs from the Rostock region.

There was also a connection to the famous Kaulbach family of painters : Georg Kaulbach's father was a distant cousin of Wilhelm von Kaulbach .

Exhibitions / works

Landscape motif
  • 1924: Participation in an exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace
  • 1941: on the occasion of his 75th birthday, exhibition (with 125 pictures) in the Rostock Cultural History Museum
  • 1946: Georg Kaulbach and Korl Meyer memorial exhibition. Paintings, watercolors, drawings, sketchbooks. Rostock City Museum
  • Self-portrait (1896); Factory station scene (1924); Country road near Gehlsdorf (1925); Herbstwald (1928); In the dunes , from the industrial area - view of the Cologne-Ehrenfeld gas station (1930).
  • Karlsplatz in Munich ; Poplars on the slope (oil); Approaching storm (oil); Industry (oil); Rostocker Heide (oil); Rostock port railway .
  • Autumn landscape ; Ahrenshoop beach dune (1920).
  • Station concourse; Memory of industrial area VIII; Memory of industrial area XI; Big City Impression I; Big City Impression II; Blast furnaces; Industry picture X; Industrial piece XII; Work station scene; (Works on paper, all around 1924)
  • Motif from the beach of the Rostock Heath (1931), in the holdings of the Warnemünde Local History Museum

literature

  • Kaulbach, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 27 .
  • Hermann Franke: The painter Georg Kaulbach. In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte . Volume 9 (1933), pp. 21–24 (PDF; 1.2 MB) ( digitized version )
  • Friedrich Schulz : Kaulbach, Georg. In: Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001. ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 94.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 4915 .

Web links

Commons : Georg Kaulbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the twentieth exhibition of the Berlin Secession , Berlin 1910, advertisement: Behrendt-Farbe - Grafrath near Munich. Open Library , accessed March 9, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Dr. Theodor Struck: Mecklenburg gave leisure to the championship - Georg Kaulbach, the painter [...] 75 years old , In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte . Volume 17 (1941), pp. 90-92 (PDF; 0.9MB) ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Exhibition directory, KHM Rostock, status: January 2018, page 71.
  4. ↑ Images in the Mecklenburg monthly magazine, see LBMV web link
  5. ↑ Pictures by Georg Kaulbach. on artnet, accessed March 9, 2015 .
  6. ^ Galerie Heinemann Munich: Georg Kaulbach, Grafrath near Munich, owner. April 23, 1924, accessed April 25, 2015 . Search: "Kaulbach, Georg"
personal data
SURNAME Kaulbach, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaulbach, Georg Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait, industrial and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Szillen , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1945
Place of death Graal-Müritz