Julius von Kreyfelt

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Ernst Julius von Kreyfelt (born July 19, 1863 in Düsseldorf , † April 23, 1947 in Kleinsassen , East Hesse ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf school and innkeeper .

Life

Kreyfelt House (now the Pfundsmuseum ), photo between 1901 and 1920

Von Kreyfelt was born in Düsseldorf as the fifth child of the royal Prussian captain and imperial major Emil von Kreyfelt (1810–1882). From 1878 to 1884 he was a student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Hugo Crola , Heinrich Lauenstein and Peter Janssen the Elder were his teachers there. As a 20-year-old art student, he visited the painting village of Kleinsassen in the Rhön in 1883 . In 1887 he came back to the village and settled there. In the same year he married Sophia Schmitt (1847–1930) called "Das Rhönröschen", the widow of the Leipzig painter Edmund Voiges and heir of the Kleinsassen inn "Oberwirt", which in 1888 gave birth to their daughter Anna. The inn, which was expanded to a painter's hotel with 18 guest rooms and three studios and henceforth called "Haus Kreyfelt", developed into the center of an artists' colony that existed until the beginning of the First World War. From 1919 to 1924 he also managed the Milseburghütte of the Rhön Club . After his wife Sophia died in 1930, he remarried. In the early 1930s he lived in an apartment in Fulda for a few years . Since his second wife was of “ non-Aryan descent ”, participation in larger art exhibitions was difficult or denied for him during the Nazi era .

literature

  • Friedrich Piesk: Painted Hessen. Hessian painting of the 19th century in the Hessenpark open-air museum . Neu-Anspach 2011, p. 35.
  • Paul Birkenbach: artist life - life artist. Paul Klüber, Julius von Kreyfelt and the painter's village of Kleinsassen . Fulda 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Kreyfeldt, von, Julius . In: Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kreyfelt, Julius of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreyfelt, Ernst Julius von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter from the Düsseldorf School and innkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1947
Place of death Kleinsassen , East Hesse