Julius Köhnholz
Johann Wilhelm Julius Köhnholz (born March 7, 1839 in Bremen ; † January 15, 1925 there ) was a German self-taught landscape painter.
Julius Köhnholz came as the second of three sons of the businessman Otto August Köhnholz and Anna Catharina, nee. Kreyenberg to the world.
His parents decided that he was a businessman and worked as a businessman in Bari and Naples from 1861 to around 1864. On September 15, 1864, he married Gertrude Caroline Spielter, the older sister of the painter Carl Johann Spielter , and continued to run an iron and commission business with his father in Bremen until 1869.
The acquaintance with Carl Johann Spielter aroused Köhnholz's interest in painting. He often visited Italy and began painting landscapes there as an amateur around 1869.
Determined to devote himself to painting, Köhnholz came to Munich . There he developed himself into a professional painter. Help from Spielter was not excluded. From 1871 to 1884 he took part in exhibitions at the Münchner Kunstverein . In 1875 and 1876 he also exhibited his works in Kassel and Berlin.
In landscapes by Köhnholz, the sky always played the dominant role. Clouds illuminated by sun or moonlight, billowing clouds of mist, often thunderstorm moods, became his trademark.
In 1884 Köhnholz returned to Bremen. He first moved in with his widowed mother, then lived for a time as a neighbor of his brother-in-law, the painter Carl Johann Spielter, and finally lived in his parents' house again.
On behalf of the North German Lloyd , he and Carl Johann Spielter painted the lounges of the new steamer "Saale".
literature
- Alexander Müller: Biographical artist lexicon. Leipzig 1882, p. 305.
- Friedrich von Boetticher: Painters Works of the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1, Dresden 1895, p. 726f.
- Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker: General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Unchangeable Reprint of the orig. Leipzig 1928 and 1929. Volume 21, Seemann, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-363-00729-9 , p. 126.
- The memory of a painter from Bremen. In: Bremer Nachrichten. July 29, 1950.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koehnholz, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1925 |
| Place of death | Bremen |