Karl Bennewitz von Loefen the Younger
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Karl Heinrich Bennewitz von Loefen , known as Karl Bennewitz von Loefen the Younger (born August 14, 1856 in Berlin , † December 16, 1931 in Stettin ), was a German genre and portrait painter.
Life
Karl Bennewitz von Loefen, the son of Karl Bennewitz von Loefen the Elder , first studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin . From 1880 to 1886/1887 he attended the Royal Prussian Art Academy in Düsseldorf , where Eduard von Gebhardt , Julius Roeting , Carl Ernst Forberg and above all Wilhelm Sohn were his teachers. He then spent ten years as a freelance artist in Munich and has been based in Berlin since 1898, where he a. a. taught at the Berlin School of Artists.
He dealt with portrait and genre painting. At the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1904 he received a small gold medal.
Death and tomb
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Karl Bennewitz von Loefen the Younger died in Stettin in 1931 at the age of 75. He was buried in Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Church in Berlin-Kreuzberg .
An artistically remarkable stele made of sandstone serves as the tombstone. It was erected around 1900 for the wife Emy, née. Schlieper (1853-1899), who was also a painter. The grave pillar is crowned by the head of a pensive or mourning young woman, whose long hair is covered by a veil. The angular shape of the grave pillar merges smoothly into the soft forms of the portrait sculpture. A weeping willow can be recognized from the name and dates of life on the front of the stele. The grave monument created in Art Nouveau style is the work of the sculptor Ignatius Taschner , from whom the neighboring grave monument for Karl Bennewitz von Loefen the Elder also comes.
literature
- HV: Bennewitz von Loefen, Karl the Younger . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 334 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Friedrich von Boetticher : Painters works of the nineteenth century. 1891.
- Bénézit 1976, vol. 1, p. 628
- Busse 1977, p. 91
- Saur 1992-, Vol. 9, pp. 116-117
- Sitt 1997-1998, Vol. 1, p. 439
- Bénézit 1999, vol. 2, p. 109
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Findbuch 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 230.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bennewitz von Loefen, Karl the Younger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bennewitz von Loefen, Karl Heinrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German portrait and genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 16, 1931 |
| Place of death | Szczecin |