Karl Dehmann

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Karl Dehmann (born January 27, 1886 in Hamburg , † December 4, 1974 in New York City , New York ) was a German painter .

Life

Dehmann was born in Hamburg at Wandsbeker Chaussee 91. His father was an independent master carpenter. After graduating from school, Karl Dehmann trained as a painter's assistant in Hamburg from 1900 to 1904. Before beginning his art studies, he was already active as a painter, and his great talent was evident. In 1903 he had a three month spa stay in Bad Zwischenahn . He painted at least three pictures there. In 1904 he began to study art at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg, which he finished in 1907, and was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . Karl Dehmann rented a room with other artists in the "temple" in Dötlingen. Höltzer, Wallfried and Hermann Hundt were also tenants in the Dötlingen artists' colony . The name "Temple" is said to be derived from "Temple of the Muses". A Dötlingerin was allowed to model the painters in the temple.

From April 1910 Karl Dehmann worked as a copyist in the Louvre in Paris . With a postcard dated June 1, 1910 he reported verbatim: “The picture I am copying is a lace maker, seated figure. Sometimes I would like to have a little more money, so you would have a lot more opportunity to paint ”.

In 1914 Karl Dehmann stayed in Italy for further studies. Several etchings and oil paintings have been created in different places. Immediately after his stay in Italy, Karl Dehmann was drafted into the German Army . He was soon wounded and taken prisoner by Russia and was sent to a hospital in Siberia . In total he was in captivity for almost four years. One of the young hospital nurses from the Red Cross from Riga in Latvia was Sophie Friedmann, called Sonja, who later became his wife. She was the daughter of a rabbi . Disguised as a Russian peasant couple, they managed to make their way to Germany.

Around 1920 the couple came to Dötlingen, where Karl Dehmann immediately returned to work as a painter. In 1933 he built his house with a studio in the neighborhood of the painter August Kaufhold on Heideweg. Karl Dehmann and Kaufhold visited Georg Müller vom Siel together at the Wehnen sanatorium. The Dehmanns took in their foster child Leni Wichmann in 1936.

At the end of May 1939, the Dehmanns secretly left Dötlingen and boarded the “New York”, a ship on the Hamburg-America Line , heading for New York in Hamburg . Marriages and relationships between Aryans and Jews were banned from 1935. Presumably, these ordinances were the trigger for her completed emigration .

In 1947 the couple received citizenship of the United States of America. Karl Dehmann's mother, Katharina, moved to live with her son in the USA in 1949. She died in 1955 and was buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. In 1956 Dehmann returned to Dötlingen for the first time after the war. Two years later he visited Dötlingen again with his family and sold his parents' house and carpentry shop in Hamburg. In 1963 his house in Dötlingen was sold and in 1964 he was last visiting the place. In 1968 he suffered a heart attack .

In 1972 the Dehmanns moved to their foster daughter Shirley in Cincinnati , Ohio . A memorial exhibition in his honor was held at the Southeast Museum Brewster , NY. In 1973 he returned to Brewster, NY from Cincinnati. In 1974 Karl Dehmann died in Purdy Station Hospital, NY, where his wife died almost nine years later on August 3, 1983. They share a grave site in Milltown Rural Cemetery in Brewster.

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Karl Dehmann mainly painted Dötlinger village scenes, but also still lifes . His pictures, influenced by Impressionism , always seem a little casual, never pathetic. His oil-painted landscapes are reminiscent of Georg Müller vom Siel's painting style . His etchings of buildings and districts in Venice, Paris and New York are detailed, but at the same time convey the artist's mood to the viewer.

By far the largest part of his life's work is lost or hangs unknown in private property. So far, 173 still lifes, landscapes, portraits and animal pictures that he has painted in oils, watercolors and etchings , including colored ones, have been listed, described and photographed. The last painting by Karl Dehmann to be traded on the art market to date was auctioned on February 10, 2007 at the Sloans & Kenyon auction house in Bethesda (Maryland) . The picture is painted in oil on canvas, has a size of 50.8 × 45.7 cm and is entitled Floral Still Life .

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SURNAME Dehmann, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1974
Place of death New York City , New York