Gustav Marx
Gustav Marx (born June 3, 1855 in Hamburg , † September 4, 1928 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape and horse painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Marx, who could not afford to study painting at first, began his artistic career as a lithographer . He was only able to train as a painter with a scholarship. In 1874 he came to Düsseldorf for this purpose , where he continued his education through self-study and also took lessons from the hunting and landscape painter Christian Kröner . He received further training from the history painter Wilhelm Camphausen . Marx was particularly interested in the representation of horses, riding, equestrian sport and the upper-class milieu in "elegant Düsseldorf". But also work horses with farmers and forest workers found a representation in his work. As an open-air painter, Marx preferred river, lake and forest landscapes. With a series of portraits of the emperors, he touched the field of history painting . His painting began in the late Romantic period, developed naturally and led to an impressionistic conception. In 1889 Marx lived at Jägerhofstrasse 9, at a noble address at the Düsseldorf Hofgarten , which is also where Camphausen's former residence is recorded. Marx was a member of the Malkasten artists' association .
Works (selection)
- Vegetable cart , 1878
- The painter at the swan pond , 1881
- In the Düsseldorf Hofgarten (pond in the Malkasten Park) , 1883
- The ride , 1885
- Kaiser Wilhelm II on horseback during a maneuver , 1889
- Gaff schooner on the Flensburg Fjord , 1890
- Game on the banks of the Elbe near Hamburg , 1890
- Lady in White , 1891
- Garden Concert , 1898
- Pink girls with donkeys , 1900
- Gentlemen's Rider , 1905
- The ride , 1907
- A ride in the Schleswig-Holstein landscape , 1900
- At the edge of the forest , 1911
- View of the Elbe from Teufelsbrück , 1912
- Fox hunt in autumn forest , 1913
- Ulan an der Tränke , 1917
- Hunting rider in a forest landscape , 1918
- Meadow landscape at the edge of the forest , 1918
- Sailboats on a north German lake , 1918
- On the hunt , 1922
- Fox hunt in the Golzheimer Heide , 1922
- Forest worker with his workhorses , 1923
- Wood transport in autumnal beech forest , 1924
- The meeting at the lake
- Painter with his easel on the banks of the Rhine
- Forest clearing with birches on the wayside
- Plowing Eifel farmer
literature
- Thieme-Becker , Volume 34, 1930
- Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , p. 380.
- Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century , published by the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , August Bagel, Düsseldorf 1902, pp. 337, 341 ( online )
- Marx, Gustav . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1891, p. 945
Web links
- Gustav Marx , auction results on the portal artnet.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Schaarschmidt, p. 341
- ↑ Entries from the address book of the Lord Mayor's Office Düsseldorf 1889 , website in the portal adressbuecher.genealogy.net , accessed on September 8, 2015
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on September 8, 2015
- ↑ The park of the artists' association Malkasten. The green backdrop of the artist festivals . In: Bettina Baumgärtel, Hanna Eggerath (Ed.): Moving landscapes. The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Edition Braus im Wachter-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-89904-072-2 , illustration on p. 148
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marx, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 4, 1928 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |