Karl Buchholz (painter)

Karl Buchholz

Spring in Oberweimar (1868), Alte Nationalgalerie , (Berlin)

Landscape with horse-drawn vehicle and brook (museum in the Weimar City Palace )

Karl Buchholz (born February 23, 1849 in Schlossvippach , Sömmerda district ; † May 29, 1889 in Oberweimar ) was a German landscape painter , trained in the " Weimar Painting School ". His landscapes, which he created in about 20 years, in the form of paintings, oil studies, watercolors, drawings and etchings, were not very extensive. They are widely scattered today.

Live and act

Karl Buchholz joined the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar, which was founded on October 1, 1860 . There he was a student of the landscape painter Max Schmidt . From 1871 he studied as a master student with the painter and art teacher Theodor Hagen, who was appointed to Weimar by the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf . During the time of his apprenticeship, an advanced type of outdoor and clay painting was taught at this art school . It was based on the teachings of the Barbizon Painting School . Buchholz set up his own studio in the first year. He created delicate pictures, dispensing with spectacular motifs. Rather seemingly unimportant and often barren landscape sections were brought into focus by him. He captured the atmospheric changes in the times of day in his pictures. Most of his works were created in the Weimar area. Lovis Corinth called him " the genius of the Weimar painting school ". Karl Buchholz committed suicide at the age of 40.

Works (selection)

• The wild ditch in the evening mood , oil on panel, 43.5 cm × 33.0 cm oil on panel (1879)
• Autumnal park / forest landscape , oil on cardboard, 27 × 18.5 cm.
• Forest interior , oil on panel, 33 × 53.7 cm (around 1880)

literature

• Eckart Kissling, Hendrik Ziegler: Karl Buchholz 1849–1889. EA Seemann, 2000, ISBN 978-3-363-00733-6 .
• Egbert Delpy : Buchholz, Karl . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 178–179 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Buchholz, Karl. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 141 ( archive.org ).
• Hans Rosenhagen : Carl Buchholz. In: Kunst und Künstler: illustrated monthly for fine arts and applied arts. Issue 7, 5.1907, pp. 285-291 ( digitized UB Heidelberg).

Web links

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