Karl Theodor Boehme

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Karl Theodor Boehme (also Böhme ; born June 9, 1866 in Hamburg , † October 13, 1939 in Munich ) was a German naval and landscape painter .

Life

Signature of Karl Böhme

Boehme studied from 1884 to 1892 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Gustav Schönleber .

His first major study trips were to Norway (1888 Stavanger , 1890 Lofoten , 1891 Skomvær , 1899 Lofoten, 1907 Lofoten, 1925 Stavanger).

He had success with the coastal motifs, which were created during his sometimes longer stays in Italy . He was best known for his Capri paintings (1893, 1894, 1898, 1902, 1904, 1912). He also traveled to Vulcano (1904), France ( Biarritz 1910, Gascogne ) and England ( Lizard ), Malta (1914), Bornholm (1915, 1918), Rügen (1919, 1920) and Liguria (1924) to see rocky coastal scenes to paint.

From 1891 he took part in exhibitions in Munich , Vienna , Berlin , Salzburg and Buenos Aires . He has repeatedly received awards. In 1902 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . At the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich's Haus der Kunst in 1937 he was represented with five works, including three from Capri.

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Coast on Vulcano Island (1904)

His landscape paintings mostly show rocky seashore and the powerful natural forces there. They are often free of people, ships and other signs of civilization. Water and clouds appear in violent motion. Boehme had great talent in depicting water. He painted on the spot in the open air . It is less common to find portraits of his hand.

Works can be found (as of 2004) in the Baden-Baden City History Collections, the State Art Gallery Karlsruhe , the City Art Gallery Mannheim , the Neue Pinakothek in Munich and the Museo Civico Revoltello in Trieste, as well as in the Fine Arts Collection of the University of Cincinnati .

“During a long stay on Capri he painted many pictures ... that are characterized by their special color appeal. He knows how to reproduce the true color of the sea, the rocks in the sunshine and their reflection. "

- Friedrich Furchheim : Bibliography of the Isle of Capri , 2nd edition 1916, p. 159

literature

  • Theodor Raspe : Boehme, Karl Theodor . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 197 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Great German art exhibition in 1937. In the House of German Art in Munich. Verlag Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1937, p. 33, plate 12.
  • Velhagen & Klasings monthly books. Volume 52, Issue 2, 1938, ISSN  0176-9014 , pp. 312, 378.
  • Karl Theodor Boehme . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 247 .
  • Detlef Heydorn: Painter in Hamburg. Volume 3: 1966-1974. Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1974, pp. 118, 152, ISBN 3-7672-0290-5 .
  • Leo Mülfarth : Small lexicon of Karlsruhe painters. 1980, p. 134.
  • Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 1: Adam – Gaupp. Bruckmann, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7654-1801-3 .
  • Karl Theodor Boehme . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 12, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22752-3 , p. 152.
  • Hans F. Schweers (arrangement): Paintings in German museums. Volume 1: Artists and their works. Saur, Munich 2004.

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