Karl Rickelt

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Karl Rickelt (born September 25, 1857 in Lippstadt ; † January 24, 1944 in Munich ) was a German painter and illustrator.

Career

After his first artistic training in Lippstadt and Münster, Rickelt went to Munich in 1877 to attend art school there. In April 1878 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts as a student of Ludwig von Löfftz . Karl Rickelt appears in the Academy's register book from 1878 with the entry date April 30, 1878. In 1911 he married Maria Lauff (1866–1949) in Berlin.

Grave in the Melaten cemetery

Rickelt was a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative and the Reich Association of German Artists in Berlin. He painted genre pictures and also illustrated a lot. Rickelt was considered the most hard-working and most popular “Führer painter”. Between 1923 and 1944 Rickelt painted 29 portraits of Adolf Hitler in different poses. As a thank you, Gauleiter Paul Giesler presented him with the Goethe Medal awarded by the Führer in 1942 . Another portrait of Rickelt's leader, “Adolf Hitler, oil on canvas” was presented as a gift from the Solln community , with a sign on the frame with the text »Ehrengabe der Gemeinde Solln for Lord Mayor Pg. Karl Fiehler on the occasion of the incorporation of Solln into the capital of the Movement on December 1st, 1938 «.

His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 42 no. 5).

Working as a painter

  • Still life with irises, peonies and handle pot
  • One of his larger works in 1886 were the paintings for the Gothic hall of the Drachenburg built by Baron Stephan von Sarter am Rhein on the Drachenfels . Rickelt depicted Cologne patricians in life-size figures in a tournament under Maximilian I. In February 1887, the well-known magazine "Kunst für Alle" made this work by Nickels available to a broad public.
  • 1903 Portrait of Hugo Wolf, which was exhibited in Stuttgart in 1906 and received great recognition
  • 1935 Portrait of Hitler , oil on canvas, 148 × 113 cm, from the Hermann Göring collection , destroyed in 1949 at the Central Collecting Point Wiesbaden (probably exhibited at the Great German Art Exhibition , Munich 1934, catalog no. 563a.)

Working as an illustrator

He worked as an illustrator from an early age. He drew for the “Schützenzeitung” and illustrated the magnificent edition of Julius Wolff's Der wilde Jäger . One of his main works is the magnificent edition of the book Dreizehnlinden written by Friedrich Wilhelm Webers in 1896 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boetticher, Friedrich v., Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhundert, Vol. 2, Hofenheim 1979 (3rd unchanged reprint of the work published in Dresden from 1891–1901)
  2. ^ Maria Rickelt: Death certificate no. 3538 of October 11, 1949, registry office Cologne I. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved May 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ 29 pictures of the Führer painted in: Marburger Zeitung No. 274 of October 1, 1942 (Marburg / Drau) p. 4
  4. ↑ Bötticher lists 12 paintings and 10 drawings by Carl Rickelt on page 426
  5. ^ Database of the German Historical Museum
personal data
SURNAME Rickelt, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1944
Place of death Munich