Johann Carl Rohmer

Johann Carl Rohmer (born May 4, 1891 (aaS March 4, 1891) in Nuremberg , † February 15, 1943 in Zell ) was a German painter and commercial artist .

Life

From the age of 15 he studied from 1906 to 1909 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg , then at the Art Academy in Karlsruhe and from 1911 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Peter Halm . From 1914 he was a freelance artist in Nuremberg, a member of the Bund Deutscher Nutzgraphiker and the artists' association of arts and crafts school graduates “Künstlerklause Nürnberg eV”, the forerunner of today's Künstlerhaus Nürnberg .

On his mother's side he was the uncle of Leo Birkmann (1911–1983), the only son of the painter Fritz Birkmann and his wife Madlon nee. Schorr.

Works (selection)

• 1924, chrysanthemum still life, atmospheric arrangement of a bouquet of flowers on a side table with open book, pewter candlestick, box and flower pot with blooming tulips in front of a dark background in the interior, min. impasto still life painting in powerful, bright colors, oil / canvas, 72.5 × 51 cm.
• 1928, Schwabacher Kirchweih, oil on cardboard, 50x0 × 60.0 cm, owned by the city of Nuremberg
• 1929, still life with watering can and flowers, oil on canvas, 90x5 X 108.5 cm, owned by the city of Nuremberg
• Sea beach, oil painting
• Autumn forest, oil painting
• Landscape with a castle, oil painting

literature

• Rohmer, Johann Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 95-95 .

Web links

• Johann Carl Rohmer, chrysanthemum still life
• Stadtmuseum Schwabach, portrait of the uncle and senior teacher Robert Rohmer painted by Leo Birkmann at the age of 17.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ In: Angela Lohrey: Art in Nuremberg: Paintings, prints and sculptures from the property of the city of Nuremberg, Part I, Verlag Hans Carl Nuremberg, 1989