Karl Volkers

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Karl Volkers , also Carl Volkers (born May 28, 1868 in Düsseldorf ; † May 12, 1949 in Neuhaus , Lüneburg district ), was a German horse painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Karl Volkerts, son of the Düsseldorf horse painter Emil Volkers , like his brothers Fritz and Max, took lessons from his father and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , which he attended from 1879 to 1885. There Adolf Schill , Hugo Crola , Heinrich Lauenstein , Eduard von Gebhardt and Peter Janssen the Elder were his teachers. Like his father and twin brother Fritz, Karl Volkerts was a proven horse painter. Among other things, he portrayed famous horses in the main Trakehnen stud in East Prussia. Volkers married Elisabeth Möller, a daughter of the veterinarian Heinrich Möller from his marriage to Rosa Settegast, a daughter of the agricultural scientist Hermann Settegast .

literature

  • Volkers, Karl . 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. 49 . (Incorrectly, the date of his brother Fritz Volkers' death )
  • Volkers, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 464 . (correct date of death)
  • Volkers, Karl . In: Joachim Busse: International manual of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century . Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-9800062-0-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
  3. ↑ Karl Volkers . In: Der Trakehner , issue 7/2007, p. 30 ( PDF )
  4. ↑ Gerd von Ende: Berliner Hufgeklapper. Horses as a mirror of the past . Tredition, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-347-02096-2 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Volkers, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volkers, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horse painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1949
Place of death Neuhaus , Lüneburg district