Karl Orth

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Karl Christian Adam Orth (born January 2, 1869 in Kaiserslautern , † January 14, 1942 in Pasing ) was a German painter .

Life

Orth comes from a family of manufacturers in Kaiserslautern. He studied law in Heidelberg . During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich student association . He was married to Helene Mieg and lived in the Pasing villa colony built by August Exter .

Orth has made a name for himself primarily as a landscape painter , his main work are oil paintings of Bavarian landscapes, his adopted home. Preferred motifs were the Blutenburg , the Würmtal , landscapes in the Dachauer Moos and also the Chiemsee.

He was well known and friends with a number of Pasing painters. He took lessons from Fritz Baer . With his friend, painter colleague and neighbor Otto Piltz , he went on joint painting excursions to the Dachau Moos at the beginning of the 20th century , occasionally also with the young Franz Marc .

He belonged to the "Association of Pasinger and Menzinger Artists" and was involved in the "Pasinger Kolonieverein", which was dedicated to the beautification of the Extersian colonies.

In later years Orth did genealogical research, the results of which he wrote down in the work Die Orth und die Krämer - history of two families from the Palatinate .

Karl Orth died shortly after completing his 73rd year on January 14, 1942 in Pasing.

Honors

Orthstrasse in Munich-Pasing has been named after him since 1948 (previously Arnulfstrasse, where he himself lived from 1897)

publication

  • Karl Orth: The Orth and the Krämer - story of two families from the Electoral Palatinate . Munich 1934 ( online ).

literature

  • Pasing. City in the city, the district book . Bavarica-Verlag Bauer, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-923395-02-7 , p. 107 ( online ).
  • Painter Karl Orth . In: Pasinger Archive . 1994, ISBN 3-9802861-9-3 , pp. 33-44 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book. Membership directory of all old men. As of October 1, 1937. Hanover 1937, p. 170.
personal data
SURNAME Orth, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orth, Karl Christian Adam (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1942
Place of death Pasing