Josef Kohlschein the Younger

Josef Kohlschein the Younger (born May 8, 1884 in Düsseldorf , † October 17, 1958 in Neuss ) was a German painter, draftsman and etcher . He was the son of Josef Kohlschein the Elder, brother of the painters Edmund Anton Kohlschein and Hans Kohlschein and always added “the younger” to his signature to distinguish it from his father.

Life

He attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy since 1899 , having previously started an apprenticeship in goldsmithing and graduated from the arts and crafts school. First he studied with Peter Janssen and Fritz Roeber before he became a master student in the landscape class with Eugen Dücker .

Kohlschein was close to the " Sonderbund ", but was not a member. Like his teacher Dücker, he advocated plein air painting and, under the influence of French impressionism , looked for a new color landscape representation. JKs pictures show a fine color properties in primary kleinfleckigem paint. The clear, structured image structure fits in with this . Kohlschein retained this style throughout his work.

His first painting, exhibited in Düsseldorf in 1907, “Groote Kerk in Kleve” was purchased by the Kunstverein Düsseldorf . Like his brother Hans Kohlschein , he found early recognition with large wall paintings: Warburg town hall hall in 1909, government building in Düsseldorf in 1911, painting of the officers' mess of the MS "Rheinland" in 1913.

In 1912 he exhibited together with his father Josef Kohlschein and his brother Hans Kohlschein in the new museum in Neuss . In the same year he moved with his wife to Neuss , which was his living space and place of work until his death. The First World War interrupted his career. He was missing, buried and only saved by accident. After gradual recovery, he returned to artistic activity. Outstanding works from the Neuss area, from Zons , from the Eifel and the Lower Rhine , but also Dutch canals and Belgian motifs can be found with him - sometimes in strong colors, then again with a restrained shimmer. There is always a tranquility in his work, yes, quiet, often calm beauty that runs through his entire oeuvre.

In addition to the landscapes, his interiors and his wonderfully lively flower still lifes are impressive: “Madonna under Peonies” 1915, “Large Dahlia Bouquet” 1930. His colorful work is accompanied by a graphic work of equal rank. Pencil, charcoal, red chalk and brown pencil drawings prove his strong talent, which his father encouraged at an early age. This enabled him to reproduce his impressions quickly and with the same image. This also includes his etchings: “Eltz Castle in Winter”, “Windmill on the Lippe”, “View of Emmerich with barge”, “Westphalian watermill”.

The city of Neuss honored him by naming a street after him.

Works

• 1907: "Groote Kerk in Kleve"
• 1909: Wall frieze in the Warburg town hall
• 1911: Meeting room of the government building in Düsseldorf
• 1913: MS Rheinland officers' mess
• 1915: "Madonna under Peonies"
• 1930: "Large Dahlia Bouquet"

Exhibitions

• 1912: City Museum Neuss: "Josef Kohlschein, Hans Kohlschein, Josef Kohlschein the Younger"
• 1949: Exhibition of the Düsseldorf artist group 1949 in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
• 1962: Mönchengladbach Museum
• 1978: Zons District Museum
• 1984: Clemens – Sels – Museum Neuss
• 1985: "The artist family Kohlschein" Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf
• 1989: "Josef Kohlschein the Younger" museum in the "Stern" Warburg
• 2010: "Artists in the Weser Uplands and the Düsseldorf School of Painting", Corvey Castle

Working in public space

• Old National Gallery Berlin
• Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
• City Museum Düsseldorf
• Artists' Association Malkasten Düsseldorf
• Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach
• Clemens Sels Museum Neuss
• Zons District Museum
• Museum in the "Stern" in Warburg.

literature

• Kohlschein, Joseph (the younger) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 210 .
• Kohlschein, Joseph (the younger) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956.
• Bénézit , Paris 1976.
• Catalog Clemens-Sels-Museum 1984.
• Leaflet for the exhibition "The artist family Kohlschein" 1985.
• Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 .
• Oliver Gradel, Silke Köhn: Artists in the Weser Uplands and the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Exhibition cat. Schloss Corvey, Bönen 2010, 126 pp.

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Kohlschein the Younger in the catalog of the German National Library
• The Kohlschein family of artists