Karl Friedrich Lippmann

Karl Friedrich Lippmann (also "Carl Fr. Lippmann" and "FK Lippmann" * October 27, 1883 in Offenbach am Main ; † May 30, 1957 ibid) was a German painter of the New Objectivity and known for landscape motifs and portraits . His work is characterized by a closeness to nature and extensive travel.

Life

The Teutonic Order House at the time Lippmann had his studio there

Karl Friedrich Lippmann was born from the three children of the painter, lithographer and printing company owner Johannes Lippmann (* 1858, † 1935) and his wife Frieda, born. Schoembs the oldest child. He attended the Oberrealschule (today's Albert Schweitzer School ) in Offenbach. He studied at the technical institutes (today Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach ) and then from 1900–1902 at the teaching institute of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts . After completing his military service, he continued his studies for two years at Anton Ažbe's private academy in Munich (1903–1905) and attended the Städelschule in Frankfurt (1906–1907) for a year and Professor Julius Exter's private school for a year in Munich (1907–1908). In Munich he fell in love with fellow student Martina Ruch , whom he later married. They had four children together, of whom his daughter Mila Lippmann-Pawlowski also studied art.

In Offenbach he lived at Buchrainweg , No. 161. His large studio was in the Deutschherrenhaus on Sachsenhausen Ufer in Frankfurt. After its destruction in 1944, he moved into an emergency apartment in Frankfurt-Ginnheim, where he had also stored his pictures, but this was also bombed out. Out of consideration for the life of his family, he moved in with his second wife Berta geb. Bahrer went to Eichstätt in Bavaria, where she had relatives. His studio was in the crown tower near the cathedral square.

The art patron Jean Rill persuaded him to move back to Offenbach in 1955 and gave him an apartment in his house on Tulpenhofstrasse in Westend . Two years after his return, Lippmann died unexpectedly. He was buried next to his father in the old cemetery in Offenbach. His second wife lived until 1980 and is also buried there. The Lippmann street in Darmstadt recalls since 1959 to his father and him.

Artistic creation

Lippmann was a respected artist synonymous with the avant-garde, but refrained from painting the abstract pictures that his target group demanded of him. Therefore he was assigned as an artist to the traditional Offenbach School , to which the typographer Rudolf Koch and the bookbinder Ignatz Wiemeler also belonged.

The MAK Vienna magazine wrote about the Darmstadt exhibition in 1914: “The exhibition also provided an overview of the work of the painters who could be specifically described as Offenbachers. In the present day it is the two Lippmanns, of whom the younger Karl Lippmann is particularly impressive. ”The German Art and Decoration wrote:“ Paintings of the living Johannes and Karl Lippmann claim a special local and more than local significance. ”His work became Shown in 1923 next to Kandinsky, Kokoschka, Klee, Liebermann and Käthe Kollwitz at the Darmstadt Secession exhibition.

Inspired by numerous journeys, for example to France and Italy, but also to the North Sea and the Alps, he turned more and more to the landscape and flower pictures. A landscape with a mountain motif is in the possession of the Städel Museum . During the Weimar Republic he became a sought-after painter, so the art dealer Ludwig Schames brokered a work for the art collectors Ludwig and Rosy Fischer. Between 1925 and 1935, many personalities from art and politics were portrayed by him; these pictures earned him the nickname "master of portrait art". The Frankfurt Historical Museum now owns 44 of these paintings . At the Darmstadt exhibition in 1931, the German Art and Decoration wrote: "All due respect to a spring landscape by Karl Friedrich Lippmann, which is remarkably fine and independently listened to for picturesque charms."

In addition to private commissions, he also received commissions to paint public buildings; due to his overburdened order situation, he hired fellow artists and students to do the work. Only the drafts of his monumental paintings have survived the Second World War. He lived and worked in Frankfurt until 1955; Around 400 works in oil and chalk, as watercolors, as drawings with pen, charcoal and pencil and as lithographs were created during these years. He painted landscapes, still lifes (especially sunflower pictures) and portrayed again; his architectural drawings were popular newspaper and book illustrations.

In Eichstädt he organized exhibitions, participated in exhibitions of the artist ring and also went on painting trips again. Numerous architectural drawings in India ink, often washed , (he turned to this genre especially in Eichstätt) were published in the historical sheets published from 1952 , the supplement to the Eichstätter Kurier , and in the Eichstätt book by Georg Schörner.

He spent the last two years in Frankfurt. His works were shown again at exhibitions, he went on painting trips to Spain.

Although many works have been lost due to the destruction of the war, there are still around 1200 works by Lippmann, many of them in private ownership. However, they rarely make it onto the market and are passed on as heirlooms. Lippmann usually signed his works with “FK Lippmann” or “KF Lippmann”, but rarely dated them.

Works (selection)

• Mountain landscape, Städel Frankfurt
• Southern group of houses, oil on canvas
• Sorrowful Mother, 1921 (destroyed in 1943)
• Frankfurt Goethe House, brush drawing, 1922
• The renewal of the old Main Bridge in Frankfurt, lithograph, 1924
• Daughter Mila Lippmann, pastel, 1924
• Summer day at Goddelau, 1925
• Self-portrait (destroyed in 1943)
• Reminder sheet for the consecration of the bridge, lithograph, approx. 1926
• The amphitheater near Taormina, oil on canvas, 1927
• San Angelo on Ischia
• Yellow, purple and rose colored mallow in a ceramic jug, oil on canvas, 1928
• The fencer Olga Oelkers, 1928
• Still life with flowers and books, oil on canvas, 1929
• Balearic Islands, watercolor, 1929
• Rudolf Koch, woodcut, 1929
• Still life with autumn flowers in a vase and an apple, oil on canvas, around 1930
• Spring landscape, 1931
• Spring bouquet, watercolor, 1931
• Flower piece oil on canvas 1932
• Flower still life with asters, dahlias and jewelry box, oil on canvas, 1933
• Sunflowers, oil on canvas, 1934
• Flower still life with red-blooming Clivien, oil on paper, 1935
• Old Bridge and Frankfurt City Panorama, lithograph, 1938
• Frankfurt am Main in 1938 (view from Sachsenhausen over the old bridge to the Eiserner Steg), pencil drawing, 1938
• Large view of Frankfurt am Main, lithograph, 1939
• Evening landscape near Lofen, Gau Salzburg, oil, 1941
• Mother with Child, 1943
• Ferleitner Tal am Großglockner, 1943
• Burning Frankfurt old town, 1943
• Bouquet of tulips in a vase, oil on cardboard, 1944
• Chestnut blossoms, oil on canvas, 1945
• Portrait of the Abbess Benedikta von Spiegel, oil, 1947
• Altmühltal landscape, oil on canvas, 1947
• City view of Eichstätt, 1947 City Museum Eichstätt
• Table in a summer garden, oil on canvas
• View along the Main over the Gerbermühle to Offenbach
• Autumn leaves, oil on canvas, 1949
• Bouquet of flowers, oil on canvas, 1950
• Evening at the Kaiser, watercolor, 1953
• Mountainous landscape, oil on canvas, 1953
• Cliffs with a fishing boat, oil on canvas, 1954
• Wilhelm Breidenstein, oil on canvas, 1956
• Spruce forest, oil on canvas
• Willows in the river, oil on cardboard
• Sleeping Forest Worker (Resting Forest Worker), oil on canvas
• Flooded river landscape with willows in the foreground, oil on cardboard
• San Angelo on Ischia, oil on canvas
• Bouquet of lilies in a vase, oil on canvas
• Dachshund, oil on canvas
• Lake Constance landscape in autumn, oil on canvas
• Battle landscape, Worms Municipal Museum (lost)
• Portrait of the chemist Ludwig Opificius, 1931 Historisches Museum Frankfurt (lost)
• Portrait of the artistic director Emil Claar, Historical Museum Frankfurt (lost)
• Portrait of the Mecklenburg City Councilor, Frankfurt Historical Museum (lost)
• Mother and child, linocut
• Mother with child, pastel 1956
• Vue de quai

literature

• Dessolf: Karl Friedrich Lippmann. 1927.
• Colony and clod. 8 (1930), p. 293; 13 (1935), p. 119.
• Robert Plum. On Jan. 26, 1943 by Konrad F. Bauer. With drawings by Karl Friedrich Lippmann, Frankfurt 1943.
• Georg Schörner: Eichstätt, a treasure trove of high art in the Altmühltal. With drawings by Karl-Friedrich Lippmann. An overall presentation of the beauties of the old episcopal city. Verlag Donau-Kurier, Ingolstadt approx. 1949.
• Georg Schörner (Ed.): Eichstätt. Drawings by Karl Friedrich Lippmann. 2nd expanded edition, Brönner & Daentler, Eichstätt 1984.
• Lippmann - three generations of painters family. Preface by Peter Weiermair. Essay by Herbert Heckmann, Pinguin-Verlag, Innsbruck 1991, ISBN 3-7016-2373-2 .
• Georg Babl: Encounters with neighbors. Signora Bierbaum - Joseph Gmelch - KF Lippmann. In: Georg Babl: The old Eichstätt. Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1994, pp. 252-254.
• Karl Heinz Bausch: Sullen and yet welcome. The painter Karl Friedrich Lippmann, who lived in Eichstätt from 1943 to 1955, died 50 years ago. In: Eichstätter Kurier. May 30, 2007, p. 23.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernd Fäthke, In the Vorfeld des Expressionismus, Anton Ažbe and painting in Munich and Paris, Wiesbaden 1988
2. ↑ Adolf Hoffmann: Entomologen Address Book: Annuaire des entomologistes. 1921, p. 66. (via Google Books)
3. ↑ Arthur von Scala, Franz Ritter: Kunst und Kunsthandwerk: Monthly published by the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry, Issue 17, 1914.
4. ↑ https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/dkd1914/0245/scroll?sid=5bb89b7417997c89222f7fdf39c7a32b digitized
5. ↑ ^{a b} 1957: A master of portrait painting dies. In: offenbach.de. December 10, 2008, archived from the original on April 6, 2016 ; Retrieved July 29, 2016 . 
6. ↑ landscape Inventory number SG 488. In: bildindex.de , accessed on 16 August 2016th
7. ↑ Georg Heuberger, Ljuba Beránková: Expressionism and exile: the collection Ludwig and Rosy Fischer, S. 178. It called Carl Fr. Lippmann .
8. ↑ German art and decoration: illustr. Monthly booklets for modern painting, sculpture, architecture, home art etc. artistic women work. In: digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved August 16, 2016 . 

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Friedrich Lippmann in the catalog of the German National Library