Grötzinger painter colony

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The Grötzinger painter's colony was a living and working community of artists that had existed in various forms since 1890 in Grötzingen , a village in the vicinity of Karlsruhe that has since been incorporated .

In 1889 Friedrich Kallmorgen built a house together with his wife Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen in the rural and idyllic Grötzingen in order to paint there in the summer months. Other artists soon followed, especially after Otto Fikentscher had bought the former margravial Augustenburg Castle in 1891 , and an artist colony based on the model of Barbizon was created near Paris . Around the same time, a community of artists came into being in Worpswede, northern Germany, under the name of the artists' colony Worpswede and the Dachau artists' colony near Munich , while the origins of the Willingshausen painters' colony date back to the 20s of the 19th century.

The first generation of artists in Grötzingen (around 1890–1900) included the painters Karl Biese , Jenny Fikentscher , Otto Fikentscher , Franz Hein , Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen , Friedrich Kallmorgen and Gustav Kampmann . Without living there, Hans von Volkmann , who temporarily lived in Karlsruhe, had close ties to the people of Grötzingen, especially to Kampmann, with whom he had a close friendship. The founding generation of the Grötzinger painter colony made an important, regional contribution to German landscape and nature painting at the turn of the century and through the participation of its members in the art print shop Künstlerbund Karlsruhe as part of the art education movement at that time to assert artist impression among a broad audience and as a medium of aesthetic education in the schools.

After 1900 there was no longer any real “colony”. However, the Fikentscher family continued to live in a house with a studio built right next to the castle, and the Kallmorgen couple continued to use their summer house. Other artists temporarily lived in the castle itself, such as Herrmann Osthoff from 1905 to 1909 and Oskar Hagemann and Gertrud Stamm-Hagemann in 1912 until the outbreak of war .

literature

  • Karl Storck: The artist lithographs of the Karlsruhe artist association. On our art supplements , in: Jeannot Emil Freiherr von Grotthuss (ed.): Türmer-Jahrbuch 1904 Greiner and Pfeiffer, Stuttgart 1904, pp. 215–240 (with original color lithographs distributed throughout the volume as well as other black-and-white illustrations by Karl Biese , Otto Fikentscher, Franz Hein, Friedrich Kallmorgen, Gustav Kampmann, Hans von Volkmann and others).
  • Joseph August Beringer : Baden painting in the nineteenth century. With 140 illustrations, mostly published for the first time . Publishing house Heimatliche Kunstpflege, Karlsruhe and Leipzig 1913.
  • Joseph August Beringer: Baden painting. 1770 - 1920. Müller, Karlsruhe 1922.
  • Hans Knab: The Grötzinger painter colony and its successors. Short biographies; (1000 years of Grötzingen, 100 years of Badisches Malerdorf; exhibition from May 17 to 26, 1991). Karlsruhe-Grötzingen: local administration, 1991.
  • The Grötzinger painter colony. The first generation 1890–1920; Karl Biese, Jenny Fikentscher, Otto Fikentscher, Franz Hein, Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen, Friedrich Kallmorgen, Gustav Kampmann; Catalog for the exhibition in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe from November 28, 1975 to February 1, 1976. Müller: Karlsruhe, 1975.
  • German artist colonies 1890–1910. Catalog for the exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (September 28, 1998 to January 17, 1999). Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe 1998. ISBN 3-923344-43-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Brigitte Baumstark, "... 12 minutes from Karlsruhe". The Grötzinger Malerkolonie, in: Deutsche Künstlerkolonien 1890–1910. Catalog for the exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (September 28, 1998 to January 17, 1999), pp. 231–282, here pp. 245f.
  2. ↑ http://www.karlsruhe.de/b4/stadtteile/osten/groetzingen/geschichte/malerdorf.de
  3. ↑ http://www.leo-bw.de/web/guest/detail/-/Detail/details/PERSON/kgl_biographien/1012292355/biografie