Johann Paul Mohr

Johann Paul Mohr (born June 16, 1808 in Bordesholm ; † September 7, 1843 in Munich ) was a German-Danish landscape painter.

Life

After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Hamburg, Mohr went to Dresden in 1830 with his friend, the landscape painter Johann Hermann Carmiencke , where Johan Christian Clausen Dahl took care of them . Around 1831 Mohr and Carmiencke stayed in Munich and made study trips to the Königssee and Tyrol from here . In 1833 Mohr was back in Hamburg, where he and the landscape painter Adolf Carl were accepted into the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . In the same year Mohr and Carl went to the Art Academy in Copenhagen , followed a little later by Carmiencke. During the summer holidays of 1834 Mohr went on a study trip to Ostholstein and the island of Møn . In 1835 he traveled to Norway with the landscape painters Louis Gurlitt , Wilhelm Marstrand and Johann Heinrich Martens . A painting by Mohr that was made after this trip was acquired in 1836 for the Royal Picture Gallery in Copenhagen.

The beavers in Brannenburg (1838)

In the summer of 1836 Mohr and Martens went to Munich, study trips took them to the Chiemsee and Königssee. Mohr's paintings from these years show the influence of Louis Gurlitt, Christian Morgenstern and Karl Rottmann . As a subject of the Danish king, Mohr applied for a grant from the Danish state. His applications were rejected, but sales of his pictures in Copenhagen and Munich enabled him to go on a study trip with his compatriot Charles Roß in the summer of 1837 to the Inn Valley near Oberaudorf and in 1838 with Adolf Carl on a study trip via Merano and Bozen to Lake Garda .

In the summer of 1838, the Danish Crown Prince Christian Friedrich , who was the most important collector of contemporary art in Denmark, stayed in Munich and ordered a painting from Mohr, which was followed by another commission in 1839, although Mohr's ideal landscape conception influenced by Rottmann had a rather sober look contradicted Danish landscape painting.

In 1839 Mohr married in Bordesholm. He went on several excursions with the Hamburg landscape painter Hermann Kauffmann in the vicinity of his hometown to draw together. After a short stay in Copenhagen, Mohr and his wife settled in Munich for the rest of their short life, where he met Hans Christian Andersen in 1840 . His early death caused great consternation in Munich's artistic circles.

Works

• Holstein Church, around 1834. Flensburg Museum Mountain
• The Inntal near Kufstein in Tyrol, around 1838. Altonaer Museum , Hamburg
• Valley in Welsch-Tirol, around 1838. Hamburger Kunsthalle
• View of the Holstein coast near Kiel, 1840. Statens Museum Copenhagen
• Winter landscape near Bordesholm, 1840. Thorvaldsen Museum , Copenhagen
• A chain of forests on the Zeeland coast, 1841. Flensburg Museum Mountain, loan from the Kiel City Museum, Warleberger Hof
• The Jewish cemetery in Prague by moonlight, 1842. Thurn und Taxis Picture Gallery, Regensburg.

literature

• Hyacinth Holland :  Mohr, Johann Georg Paul . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 71.
• Lilli Martius : The Schleswig-Holstein painting in the 19th century . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1956, p. 232ff. ISBN 3-529-02506-2 (unchanged reprint of the Neumünster 1956 edition).
• Ulrike Staudinger: The "picture gallery" Maximilian Karls von Thurn und Taxis . Princely patronage in the bourgeois age; History of the collection and critical catalog . Kallmünz, Lassleben 1990, p. 233f. ISBN 3-7847-1519-2 .
• Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Johann Paul Mohr. A forgotten landscape painter from Bordesholm. In: Reports from the Schleswig-Holstein Open Air Museum , Issue 43 (2006), pp. 35–63, ISSN  0722-2610 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Paul Mohr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• List of existing works in the Statens Museum for Kunst Copenhagen