Karl Eulenstein (painter)
Karl Eulenstein (born August 25, 1892 in Memel , † June 23, 1981 in Berlin ) was an East Prussian painter.
Life
Eulenstein was born as the sixth child of a tug captain in Memel. After finishing school he earned his living in a merchant's office . After the First World War he attended the Königsberg Art Academy . Arthur Degner and Richard Pfeiffer were his teachers.
From 1925 Eulenstein worked as a freelance artist. In 1926 he went to Berlin , where he lived until his death in 1981.
His pictorial work consists of motifs from the Memelland . Until 1944 he visited Nidden annually and belonged to the local artist colony .
Since 1930 Eulenstein exhibited his pictures in many parts of Germany, which he designed with intense dark colors. In 1937 some of his works were confiscated by those in power in Germany at the time. Shortly before the end of the war, he lost almost all of his work in Berlin.
In terms of art history, Karl Eulenstein belongs to the Lost Generation and Expressive Realism .
Exhibitions
- Karl Eulenstein, oil paintings, Fritz Cremer , sculpture: Galerie Karl Buchholz : 42nd exhibition from Nov. 18 to Dec. 9, 1939
Honors
literature
- Ernst Mollenhauer: Karl Eulenstein. An expressionist in East Prussia , Bad Rappenau 2009
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive Realism. Painting of the Lost Generation , Hirmer, Munich 1994, p. 365
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Eulenstein in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eulenstein, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Memel |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1981 |
| Place of death | Berlin |