Karl Kahl
Karl Nikolajewitsch Kahl , also Soukowsky (* 1873 in Riga , Livonia Gouvernement , Russian Empire ; † January 20, 1938 in Tomsk , Novosibirsk Oblast , Soviet Union ), was a German Baltic - Russian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School . Kahl fell victim to the Great Terror in the Soviet Union in the 1930s .
Life
From 1891 to 1893, Kahl , who came from Vitebsk (now in Belarus ), studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Heinrich Lauenstein , Hugo Crola and Adolf Schill his teachers. He also worked for Lauenstein, Arthur Kampf and Peter Janssen the Elder . Later Kahl worked in Munich and Karlsruhe . He toured Belgium and Holland, then went to Paris , but then returned to Düsseldorf . From 1898 he lived in Vitebsk again. In 1904, Kahl took part in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis with 18 paintings, including Spring and By the River .
From around 1911 he lived and worked in Vladivostok on the Sea of Japan . He was arrested there on April 28, 1935 and sentenced to five years in a labor camp on October 3 of the same year . In labor camp No. 2 in Tomsk ( Siberia ) he worked again as a painter. There he was arrested again on December 3, 1937 on charges of espionage for Germany and sentenced to death on January 3, 1938. The death sentence was carried out by shooting on January 20, 1938 . On November 26, 1965, the Military College of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union rehabilitated him .
literature
- Kahl (Soukowsky), Karl . In: Julius Döring, Wilhelm Neumann (Hrsg.): Lexicon of Baltic artists . Jonck & Poliewsky, Riga 1908, p. 78 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Bald, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926.
Web links
- Karl Kahl , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Kahl, KN , web links and bibliography in the portal pv-gallery.com
- Karl Nikolaevich Kahl , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ See nos. 6764–6767 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
- ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 433
- ^ Official catalog of exhibitors . Universal Exposition St. Louis / USA 1904, p. 282 (Russia, Department B - Art, Nos. 183–200, digitized version )
- ↑ Каль, Карл Николаевич , website in the portal nkvd.tomsk.ru , accessed on August 30, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bald, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kahl, Karl Nikolajewitsch (full name); Soukowsky, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic-Russian landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1938 |
| Place of death | Tomsk , Novosibirsk Oblast , Soviet Union |