Karl Oskar Arends

View of the mountain landscape

Karl Oskar Arends - Pre-Alpine landscape with a chapel with a red bell tower

Karl Oskar Arends - Churchgoers in the Alpine Landscape

Karl Oskar Arends - berry collector in the Dachauer Moos

Carl Oskar Arends (born April 8, 1863 in Plauen , † October 1, 1932 in Munich ) was a German landscape painter. He usually signed with CO Arends or CO Arends M.

life and work

Carl Oskar Arends began his artistic training with Karl Moßdorf at the Altenburg Lindenau Museum School . He then studied from 1881 to 1883 at the Dresden Art Academy and was from 1883 to 1886 a student of Friedrich Preller the Younger .

In 1886 Arends settled in Munich and worked as a freelance landscape painter. Here he developed a naturalistic landscape painting, which he combined with the achievements of the Munich School . His pictures often showed the landscape of the Dachau Moos . In the 1890s, his work was heavily influenced by Josef Wenglein and the tonal coloring became stronger.

He became a member of the Munich “ Luitpold Group ” and the General German Art Cooperative . His works can be found in the collections of the Lindenau Museum Altenburg and the Vogtland Museum Plauen .

literature

Frank Weiss u. Hilmar Raddatz: Painting in Vogtland : Seemann, 2002, ISBN 9783363007756
Karl Oskar Arends . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 5, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22745-0 , p. 20.
Michael Heyder: Arends, Karl Oskar . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 82 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Karl Oskar Arends . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 251 .

Web links

Commons : Karl Oskar Arends - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Arends, Carl Oskar . In: Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 1, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1981, p. 34 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Arends, Karl Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Arends, Carl Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 8, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Plauen
DATE OF DEATH	October 1, 1932
Place of death	Munich

[1] Arends, Carl Oskar . In: Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 1, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1981, p. 34 f.