Hermann Kupferschmid
Hermann Kupferschmid (born September 19, 1885 in Waldshut ; † July 7, 1975 in Achern ) was a German painter and etcher .
Life
Hermann Kupferschmid was the son of a grand ducal chief building officer. In 1904 he graduated from high school. He then completed an architecture degree in Munich and Karlsruhe, which he completed in 1908 with the diploma in engineering. He then studied painting and graphics at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe with Ernst Schurth , Walter Conz and Caspar Ritter . During his studies in 1904 he became a member of the Tulla Karlsruhe fraternity .
From 1912 Kupferschmid worked as a freelance painter. In the same year he won the Rhineland Graphics Prize. In 1913 coppersmith received the silver Austrian state medal for fine arts. He toured France, Italy and Holland. During the First World War he did voluntary military service, during which he was wounded. In 1933, Kupferschmid was awarded the Baden State Prize. From 1934 to 1945 he held a professorship for free graphics at the Karlsruhe Academy. He took part in the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich several times (1937 to 1939 and 1942/1943). In the Second World War he served again in the army and was then in French captivity. Many of his works were destroyed in the war. Later on, Kupferschmid lived and worked in Sasbachwalden .
As a painter, Kupferschmid mainly created watercolors, but also some large-format oil paintings. He also made many large-scale etchings. His works are mainly based on motifs from heavy industry , especially factory halls (including the casting hall of the Badische Wolframerzgesellschaft , tempera , 80 × 100 cm, 1959). He also discussed, for example, the shipyard operations in the Mannheim harbor , the scaffolding of the Mainz Cathedral and the construction of the Ravenna Bridge . He etched numerous cityscapes of Karlsruhe that sold well. Hermann Kupferschmid was a member of the German Association of Artists .
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 428-429.
- Renate Liessem-Breinlinger: Kupferschmid, Hermann: graphic artist and painter. In: Baden-Württemberg biographies. Volume 4, 2007, ISBN 978-3-17-019951-4 , pp. 198 ff.
- Leo Mülfarth : Small lexicon of Karlsruhe painters. Badenia-Verlag, Karlsruhe 1987, ISBN 3-7617-0250-7 .
- Hermann Kupferschmid. In: Richard W. Eichler : Artists and works: painters, sculptors and graphic artists of our century in the German-speaking area. Lehmann, Munich 1962, pp. 42-43.
- Lilli Fischel : Kupferschmid, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 127 .
- Kupferschmid, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 141 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. p. 279.
- ^ Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Kupferschmid, Hermann. ( kuenstlerbund.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kupferschmid, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Waldshut |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th July 1975 |
| Place of death | Achern |