Gotthardt Kuehl

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Gotthardt Kuehl, self-portrait
In the Lübeck orphanage
" The Visit " (around 1900)
Gotthardt Kuehl: Monument to Colleoni in Venice, around 1905
Gotthardt Kuehl, photographed by Hugo Erfurth

Gotthardt Kuehl (born November 28, 1850 in Lübeck , † January 9, 1915 in Dresden ) was a German painter and representative of early German Impressionism , who enjoyed a high international reputation during his lifetime.

Life

Kuehl was a son of Simon Kühl, the sexton, teacher and organist at the old St. Lorenz Church . He studied at the Dresden Art Academy (1867) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1870), lived in Paris from 1878 to 1889 and studied the Old Masters on study trips to Italy and Holland .

At the turn of the century, together with Carl Bantzer , Kuehl was the driving force behind the founding of the Free Association of Dresden Artists and of the Dresden Association of Visual Artists, which was founded a year later . Both Bantzer and Kuehl had studied in Paris and brought new impulses of impressionism to Dresden. With the Free Association of Dresden Artists and the Association of Visual Artists Dresden , the first Dresden Secession was established in 1893 . In 1895 he became a professor at the Art Academy in Dresden. In 1896 he received a large gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin . In 1902 he founded the artists' association Die Elbier . Gotthard Kuehl was also one of the early board members of the German Association of Artists . In 1909 he was a founding member of the Dresden Artists' Association . In 1913 he was awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art .

tomb

In 1888 Kuehl married Henriette Simonson-Castelli (1860–1921), daughter of the painter David Simonson . From 1906/1907 until his death in 1915 the painter lived in the bel étage of the "Villa Wasa" built in 1903 on Wasaplatz . His widow Henriette still lived there after his death. He taught in Dresden until his death. Kuehl's grave is on the Tolkewitz urn grove .

Senator Cay Diedrich Lienau traveled to his funeral as a representative of Lübeck.

memory

In Dresden- Strehlen the Gotthardt-Kuehl-Straße reminds of the painter. It is located between Lockwitzer and Teplitzer Strasse, near his studio.

In Lübeck, the school on Steinrader Weg, which was built on the site of the old St. Lorenz school house, his parents' house, was named after him in 1934. The Gotthardt-Kühl-Schule moved to a new building in Lortzingstrasse in 1962.

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Above all, Kuehl painted fine interiors, also with a social aspect (Lübeck orphanage) ; later also architectural landscapes, especially after Dresden motifs.

Collections

  • The Behnhaus Museum in Lübeck has a collection of paintings that illustrate almost all of Kuehl's development phases, with many of the pictures having a specific reference to Lübeck.
  • The Munich City Museum has a collection of 15 Kuehl drawings from the Maillinger collection .

Other pieces can be found in:

literature

  • Gerhard Gerkens (Ed.): Gotthardt Kuehl 1850–1915. Seemann, Leipzig 1993.
  • Kurt Pilz:  Kuehl, Gotthardt. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 187 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Art salon Emil Richter : Gotthardt Kuehl: art exhibition. Emil Richter, Dresden 1920.
  • Wulf Schadendorf: Museum Behnhaus . The house and its rooms. Painting, sculpture, handicrafts (= Lübeck museum catalogs 3). 2nd expanded and changed edition. Museum for Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic City, Lübeck 1976, pp. 78–80
  • Bastek, Alexander (Ed.): Hundred masterpieces: Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus , publication for the special exhibition of the same name in the Museum Behnhaus Drägerhaus Lübeck, with contributions by Alexander Bastek, Markus Bertsch, Christoph Brockhaus, Heiko Damm, Sören Fischer, Jenns Eric Howoldt, Maren Müller, Jürgen Müller, Anna Marie Pfäfflin, Peter Prange, Karin Schick, Henry A. Smith, Michael Thiemann and Sinah Witzig, Petersberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-0598-1 , pp. 116-133.
  • Johannes Schmidt: Tram in front of baroque facades. Gotthardt Kuehl and the image of the city of Dresden . In: Wolfgang Hesse / Holger Starke (eds.): Those standing in the light. Photographic portraits of Dresden citizens of the 19th century , [Kromsdorf]: Jonas [2019] ISBN 9783894455637 , pp. 270–276.

Web links

Commons : Gotthardt Kuehl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Kuehl, Gotthardt ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 October 1, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ↑ Gotthardt-Kuehl-Straße , Stadtwiki Dresden, accessed on May 22, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Kuehl, Gotthardt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1915
Place of death Dresden