Karl Bock (painter)

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View of Stralsund
Summer day on the Vilm

Karl Bock (born November 12, 1873 in Braunschweig , † March 7, 1940 in Stralsund ) was a German painter and graphic artist from the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

Life

Karl Bock began his training around 1890, initially studying mechanical engineering. From 1898 to 1903 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , a. a. as a master student of the landscape painter Eugen Dücker . From this he learned to paint in the tradition of the Barbizon School. Probably at Dücker's suggestion, he had numerous study visits to the Baltic Sea . From 1918/19 he worked in Lauterbach on the island of Rügen , in 1926 he settled in Stralsund, where he worked until his death.

Karl Bock was a painter of the landscape of Western Pomerania . His main motifs came from the local nature, for example from the islands of Rügen or Vilm and the lagoon landscapes . But also views of cities and individual buildings, especially Stralsund, were part of his work. He also made a few portraits. The Kulturhistorisches Museum in Stralsund owns a large number of works from his work.

"His style is gripping, the paint is impasto, but there are also finely tuned compositions."

- Klaus Haese

literature

  • Bock, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 242 .
  • Bock, Karl . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 12, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 , p. 45.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 1093 .
  • Klaus Haese : Positions of West Pomeranian artists between 1880 and 1950. In: Bernfried Lichtnau (Hrsg.): Fine arts in Mecklenburg and Pomerania from 1880 to 1950: Art processes between center and periphery. Lukas Verlag, 2011, ISBN 9783867320610 , p. 59 ( limited preview in the Google book search)

Web links

Commons : Karl Bock  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Haese: Positions of West Pomeranian Artists between 1880 and 1950. … p. 59, see literature.
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1940
Place of death Stralsund