Johann Georg Mohr (painter)
Johann Georg Mohr (born May 6, 1864 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 28, 1943 there ) was a German landscape painter of the late Romantic period . Mohr was close to the Kronberg painters' colony .
Life
Mohr was born in Frankfurt am Main as the son of “hies. Citizen and trader Johann Balthaser Mohr. ”According to the official gazette of the Free City of Frankfurt , the family lived in Junghof 24. Mohr studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and at the Berlin Academy . His classmates at the Städel Institute included Fritz Rumpf , Robert Forell , Oscar Goebel, Jacob Happ (1861–1936) and the sculptor Hugo Kauffmann (1868–1919). In the first decade of the 20th century Mohr founded his own painting school in Frankfurt.
He died at the age of 78 in his hometown of Frankfurt.
Artistic creation
Johann Georg Mohr interacted with the late Kronberg painters' colony . Their representatives were under the influence of Wilhelm Leibl , the most important representative of realism in Germany, and were thus obliged to the school of Barbizon and Gustave Courbet . Most of the artists of the painting colony in Kronberg were, like Mohr himself, students of the Städelschule in Frankfurt. In the tradition of this school, Mohr also preferred pleine air painting.
Although he also made numerous trips abroad, he was primarily looking for his motifs in the immediate vicinity of Frankfurt, especially at the foot of the Taunus, such as Falkenstein Castle from the Malerblick, sometimes the Arcadian life of the hermit or the shepherd is shown. Other landscapes show the Vogelsberg, the Spessart and the Hessian Rhine.
In Frankfurt itself he also painted the interiors of churches and occasional urban scenes. Most of the works are signed with Joh. Gg. Mohr and JG Mohr .
Works by Mohr were also reproduced as copperplate engravings and also marketed as postcards. He became a model for other painters who reproduced Mohr's Arcadian scenes. In 1917, as part of a patriotic campaign initiated by the state, he designed a wall plate for Waechtersbacher Keramik , which was intended to exhort the population to eat the simple “ war bread” (also known as “K bread”). Johann Georg Mohr borrowed from rural simplicity.
Classification of
Mohr's artistic contribution consists primarily (like that of the other Kronberg landscape painters) in the further development of the lighting effects. This is the originality of this German school compared to its model, the Barbizon School. The Frankfurt painters did not simply adopt the realistic rendering of the landscape, but rather combined it with a sense of the light metaphysics of a romantic character.
Numerous artistic and biographical parallels can be found with the somewhat older Hans Thoma . Both were artists of the late romantic era, were inspired by mythology and also painted mythical creatures. Thoma lived in Frankfurt from 1876–1899 and spent the summers in Oberursel im Taunus and Kronberg im Taunus .
Works (selection)
- Watercolor cycle with city views from Frankfurt (including Willemer-Häuschen , Mainufer with Eisernem Steg )
- Evening landscape with a view of a church, 1893
- Meadow landscape with a view of a castle, 1893 (watercolor)
- “Palazzo in Venice”, 1897
- Program for the 4th cellar festival at the Binding Brewery, 1893
- The seven dwarfs at Snow White's coffin
- "Rider is plagued by female forest spirits during a night ride through the forest in the moonlight" (Forest Fairy)
- "Forest valley in the Spessart"
- In the garden of the Hesperides, 1899
- Florentine Church
- Mountainous landscape: "Little carpenter with a mountain of pistons"
- The Lahn between Ems and Dausenau
- Arnstein Monastery on the Lahn
- Rhine landscape with the enemy brothers (Burg Katz and Maus)
- View of a summer forest clearing, 1904
- Alpine landscape with a goatherd
- Taunus landscape, 1905
- Wilhelmsbader Bridge
- Taunus winter landscape in Kronberg
- Hiker looks out over a wide plain
- "Shepherd above the valley"
- Schäfer leads his herd over a small stone bridge
- View over Kronberg into the Main Plain
- View of Königstein with the castle from Falkenstein, 1908
- View from Hardtberg to Kronberg
- Bearded oriental
- Turkish student head
- Egyptian Beauty, 1909 Oil / canvas, 120 × 60
- The Rhön (East Hessian mountainous region)
- Lueneburg Heath, 1911
- The Weiltal near Weilburg im Taunus, 1911
- Morning mist on the autumn pond
- Church of St. Bonifatius in Frankfurt
- “Artist subjects”, together with Robert Forell , Emil Gies, Paul Klimsch , Rudolf Gudden and Gustav Adolf Kilb.
Works in public institutions, museums and collections
- Stations of the Cross, Liebfrauenkirche (Frankfurt am Main)
- The interior of the Holzhausen Chapel of St. Leonhard in Frankfurt am Main, oil on canvas, 47 x 67 cm, 1899 Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation
- Decorative plate BETTER “K” BREAD THAN KAA BREAD in the Hamburg recalls exhibition of the Museum of Art and Commerce , 2014
- Decorative plate BETTER “K” BREAD THAN KAA BREAD in the Hinterland Museum Schloss Biedenkopf
literature
- H. Weizsäcker, A. Dessoff: Art and artists in Frankfurt am Main in the 19th century. Volume II, 1909.
- Mohr, Johann Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 20 .
- Dressler's art manual . Volume 2, 9th edition, 1930.
- Hessian folklore sheets. Volume 32-34, 1934, p. 99.
- The world art. Volume 17, 1943, issue 7/8.
- General artist lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples. De Gruyter
- E. Benezit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Paintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays par un groupe d'ecrivains specialistes francais et etrangers. nouvelle ed., Volume 6, Librairie Gründ, Paris 1956, p. 153.
- Mohr, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 408 .
- August Wiederspahn, Helmut Bode: The Kronberg painter colony. 2nd edition, Kramer, 1976, p. 696.
- A. Wiederspahn, H. Bode: The Kronberger painter colony. A contribution to Frankfurt art history in the 19th century. 3rd substantially expanded edition, Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1982, p. 248 (short biography), p. 271 (color table), p. 647 (black and white images).
- Hessian bibliography: City and University Library Frankfurt am Main, KG Saur, 1987, Volume 9, p. 164.
- Paul Pfisterer, Claire Pfisterer: Signature Lexicon. de Gruyter, 1999.
- Marianne Rumpf: Fritz Rumpf - life and work at a glance. In: Nachrichten der Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens / Hamburg Journal for Culture and History of East and Southeast Asia, 139–142 (1986/87), p. 3 [about Mohr's Frankfurt classmates and his move to Berlin].
- Elmar Wolfart: Conrad Binding 1846–1933: a Frankfurt entrepreneur from the early days. Kramer, 2001, p. 81.
- Manfred Grosskinsky, Birgit Sander: Wilhelm Trübner. Haus Giersch-Museum Regionaler Kunst, 2001, p. 92.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register StA Frankfurt am Main I, 115/1943.
- ^ Official Journal of the Free City of Frankfurt No. 58 of May 17, 1864 ( books.google.ro ).
- ↑ kunstmarkt.com .
- ^ Mohr, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 408 .
- ^ Berlin Museum / Förderverein, donation to the museum 1961–63, Lost Art-ID 447753.
- ↑ propaganda1418.de .
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2014 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mohr, Johann Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1943 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |