Karl Storch the Elder

Karl Storch the Elder (born January 28, 1864 in Bad Segeberg ; † February 11, 1954 there ) was a German painter and art professor .

Life

Storch comes from a Segeberg merchant family. At the age of 19 he went to Kiel . Here the painter Harro Magnussen noticed Storch's artistic talent, encouraged him and recommended him to the art academy in Berlin . Storch studied in Berlin and earned his living in the capital as an illustrator for magazines and books and as a teacher at the academic school for fine arts founded by Conrad Fehr , the "Akademie Fehr". He worked for the magazines Daheim , Vom Fels zum Meer and Leipziger Illustrirte Zeitung , among others . He also illustrated works by Goethe , Kleist , Adelbert von Chamisso and Eichendorff .

In 1902 Storch was appointed professor at the Königsberg Art Academy . He practiced this profession until 1928 and trained many painters.

In the era of National Socialism Storch remained an esteemed painter. However, he rarely exhibited and was e.g. B. not represented in Munich in contrast to his son of the same name, with whom he is often confused. On behalf of the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck, he designed collecting pictures for Stollwerck scrapbooks , etc. a. the series "The liberation of East Prussia through Hindenburg" for the Stollwerck scrapbook no. 16 from 1916. In January 1944, after much back and forth, Storch received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science : In the ministerial proposal of January 26th, he was attested a remarkable artistic level, but not the amount required "especially during the war" , which must be required for the award of the Goethe Medal, in addition, there are no services to the National Socialist movement: "Storch does not belong to the NSDAP." After the bombing of Königsberg, Storch returned to his place of birth as a refugee in October 1944. In 1954 he received the Federal Cross of Merit . Shortly afterwards he died in Bad Segeberg.

On the occasion of Storch's 140th birthday, the city of Bad Segeberg set up a permanent exhibition for their son in the historic town hall in 2004. Since 2008 29 works of art and some illustrations have been shown here.

Web links

Dieter Schönfeld (responsible); Exhibition Prof. Karl Storch the Elder in the historic town hall of Bad Segeberg , last accessed on January 2, 2015

Individual evidence

↑ Ulrich Gertz, Art of Two Generations. On the pictures of Karl Storch the Elder and Karl Storch the Younger in: The Art of the Third Reich, 2nd year, volume 3, May 1938, pp. 150–157
^ Otto Thomae, Die Propaganda-Maschinerie. Fine arts and public relations in the Third Reich, Berlin 1978, p. 421 A. 280
↑ Lorenz, Detlef: Reklamekunst um 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures, Reimer-Verlag, 2000.
↑ Berlin, Bundesarchiv, R 55. See also the good summary by Otto Thomae, p. 323f. B.189
^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 597.

personal data
SURNAME	Storch, Karl the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Storch, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and art professor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 28, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bad Segeberg
DATE OF DEATH	February 11, 1954
Place of death	Bad Segeberg

[1] Ulrich Gertz, Art of Two Generations. On the pictures of Karl Storch the Elder and Karl Storch the Younger in: The Art of the Third Reich, 2nd year, volume 3, May 1938, pp. 150–157

[2] Otto Thomae, Die Propaganda-Maschinerie. Fine arts and public relations in the Third Reich, Berlin 1978, p. 421 A. 280

[3] Lorenz, Detlef: Reklamekunst um 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures, Reimer-Verlag, 2000.

[4] Berlin, Bundesarchiv, R 55. See also the good summary by Otto Thomae, p. 323f. B.189

[5] Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 597.