Jon Popp

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Jon Popp , actually Johann Popp (born December 22, 1862 in Hamburg ; † around 1953 ibid) was a German painter who was best known for his oriental portraits and equestrian scenes.

family

Popps father came from Franconia and was a Schumacher. The artistic talent came from his mother's family, whose brother Heinrich Wichmann was also a well-known Hamburg painter. He carried out expeditions into the jungle of the Amazon and later moved first to Brazil, then to Florida.

Popp married his wife from the Sudetenland in Munich in 1888 . Their marriage had three children: Barbara Popp-Schmidt (born August 5, 1890 in Munich; † January 13, 1978 in Hamburg), Virgil Popp (born October 5, 1897 in Bucharest , he studied from 1913 to 1914 at the University of Fine Arts Künste Hamburg and from October 1919 to March 1923 with Arthur Illies and died in captivity during the Second World War), both also active as painters, and Emilia Popp , visual artist.

Career

Popp entered the nature class of Johann Caspar Herterich at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich on October 17, 1887, at the age of 24 . Further teachers were Friedrich August von Kaulbach and Karl Raupp .

He traveled to Italy, North Africa, Turkey and the Balkans and lived in Romania for a total of eighteen years. In between he traveled to Berlin and Paris for assignments. In Romania he quickly became successful. In addition to his typical pictures, he made many aristocratic portraits, especially at the court of King Carol I , Queen Elisabeth zu Wied (pseudonym: Carmen Sylva), Crown Princess Maria, who died at the age of three, and Carol's nephew, who succeeded him as Ferdinand I in 1914 whose death was his successor.

During the First World War, Popp was interned on the Prut . In 1919 he returned with the family to his hometown Hamburg.

This honored him in 1942 with a large exhibition on the occasion of his 80th birthday in the Commeter Gallery .

literature

  • Popp, Jon . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 264 .
  • Hamburg Foreign Journal. 4th December 1923.
  • Steglitzer indicator. No. 153, Berlin, July 3, 1926.
  • Information from the Hummelsbütteler Art Club. Hamburg, September 20, 1950.
  • Bulletin for civil servants and government employees. Hamburg 10/1950.
  • Karl Fähler : Manuscript about Jon Popp 29 pages, Hamburg 1950.
  • Announcements from the Malve Wilckens-Meierthur Plastic and Ceramic School, No. 7, Hamburg, June 9, 1951, that appear non-periodically.
  • Alster indicator. No. 166, Hamburg, November 30, 1951.
  • The world. Hamburg, December 22, 1951.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 00415 Johann Popp . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . Book 3: 1884–1920 , 1920 ( matrikel.adbk.de , Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Popp, Jon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Popp, Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH around 1953
Place of death Hamburg