Karl Krebs (painter)

Commemorative plaque in the family chapel of the Krebs family at the main cemetery in Freiburg

Karl Krebs (born January 30, 1880 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † August 28, 1914 near Waplitz , East Prussia ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Karl Krebs was the son of the banker Eugen Krebs (1848–1912) from the JA Krebs bank in Freiburg. He studied architecture in Karlsruhe with Carl Schäfer and then worked as a government architect in Freiburg, Heidelberg and Baden-Baden . With Waldemar Rösler in Berlin he devoted himself to painting, became an assistant at the arts and crafts school in Berlin and painted in small clocks in East Prussia on the Baltic Sea in the summer months .

He exhibited at the Munich Secession exhibitions in the winter of 1913/14 and in the spring of 1914, as well as at the first exhibition of the Free Secession in Berlin in 1914. His painting style developed from Impressionism to Expressionism . He created oil paintings, lithographs and etchings .

He fell in the battle of Waplitz during the battle of Tannenberg . After his death, an exhibition with 93 of his works took place at the Kunstverein Freiburg .

literature

• Heribert Reiners : Karl Krebs . In: Hochland 18, 1918/19, pp. 218–221.
• Friedrich Noack : Cancer, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 480 .
• Margret Zimmermann: Paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Augustinermuseum Freiburg. Inventory catalog. Modo Verlag, Freiburg 2004, ISBN 3-937014-01-2 , p. 197, no. 584 (self-portrait); P. 391.

Remarks

1. ↑ Winter exhibition. Drawings, graphics, watercolors, pastels. Kgl. Art exhibition building on Königsplatz, December 2, 1913 - February 1, 1914. P. 48 urn : nbn: de: bvb: 255-dtl-0000000936 ( nbn-resolving.org ); Spring exhibition of the Munich Secession. Kgl. Art exhibition building on Königsplatz, March 3 - April 19, 1914. p. 23, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 255-dtl-0000000906 ( nbn-resolving.org ).
2. ^ Catalog of the first exhibition at the Free Secession . Berlin 1914, 2nd edition p. 32 (illustration p. 30).
3. ^ Exhibition Karl Krebs † August 28, 1914. Paintings, lithographs, etchings. Freiburg 1918 (with numerous illustrations).