Konrad Müller-Kurzwelly
Konrad Alexander Müller-Kurzwelly (born July 29, 1855 in Chemnitz , † July 4, 1914 in Berlin ) was a German painter . He gained his fame as an influential artist of naturalism and German impressionism .
Life
Konrad Müller-Kurzwelly was the son of Carl Alexander Müller (1828–1906) and his Swedish wife Clara Therese, née Kurzwelly (1829–1898). Together with his brothers Georg Alexander and Sven Alexander (1857-1940) he grew up in Sweden, where his father had been the head of the agricultural chemical research station of the Royal Swedish Forestry and Agriculture Academy ("Experimentalfaltet") from 1856.
After studying philosophy, history and art history at the University of Jena , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. As a student of Hans Fredrik Gude , who led the master class for landscape painting in Berlin , he studied at the Berlin Academy between 1881 and 1885 . In addition, there were connections to students of Hermann Eschke and to the artist colonies on Rügen , Hiddensee , Ahrenshoop and Ekensund near Flensburg. In 1883 Müller-Kurzwelly joined the Association of Berlin Artists , to which he belonged until his death.
Artistic influence
Together with Friedrich Stahl and Hugo Schnars-Alquist , Konrad Müller-Kurzwelly was represented in the exhibition commission of the Berlin Artists' Association (Salon 1891) in 1891. Together with Walter Leistikow , Ludwig von Hofmann and other artists, Konrad Alexander Müller-Kurzwelly was one of the founding members of the artist group “ Vereinigung der XI ” in 1892 - the forerunner of the Berlin Secession, which later also included Max Liebermann and Arnold Böcklin . From 1895 to 1896 he was a delegate of the exhibition commission of the international art exhibition in Berlin for Sweden.
Complete artistic work
Konrad Müller-Kurzwelly started with realistic landscape painting as a successor to the Barbizon school and was strongly oriented towards the reproduction of atmospheric moods that characterize his pictures in particular. He used narrative elements, details and accessories sparingly. Impressionist plein-air studies often emerged, which can be viewed as independent works, but from which large-format museum paintings were often subsequently created in the studio. It was important to him to reproduce sensual experiences of nature in the most varied of seasons and to create a pole of calm in the paintings, against the hustle and bustle of the steadily expanding capital of Berlin.
Müller-Kurzwelly had his success as a landscape painter, especially with patches of forest and atmospheric impressions of nature. From 1883 onwards, he exhibited his paintings, most of which came from nature observations from the surrounding areas of Berlin, the Spreewald and the Baltic Sea coast, in the salon and at the major Berlin art exhibitions.
Müller-Kurzwelly's works are very popular with foreigners of German origin. Much of his work was irretrievably destroyed in bombing raids in Berlin during World War II. Paintings by Konrad-Alexander Müller-Kurzwelly can now be found in the museums of Prague, Riga, Kaliningrad and Wroclaw. A small selection of paintings is shown in the Berlinische Galerie.
Works (selection)
- Rügen landscape near Vitt, around 1880
- Wind evacuator
- Forest lake after the rain
- Grazing cattle herd, around 1895
- Stream at sunset
- After sunset
- Stornas (fjord in the light of the evening sun), around 1897
- Sunrise on the sea
- Light of the sea (Rügen landscape)
- Forest lake in the evening
- Forest landscape in winter
- Stream in the forest, around 1907
literature
- Alfried Nehring: Konrad Müller-Kurzwelly - Land in the evening light . Production of Klatschmohnverlag Rostock / Bentwisch 2014, ISBN 978-3-941064-43-0 ; Book accompanying the special exhibition "Between Norwegian Romanticism and Berlin Modernism, Landscape Pictures by Hans F. Gude, Konrad Müller-Kurzwelly, Paul Müller-Kaempff" at Kunstkaten Ahrenshoop from May 11th to July 6th, 2014
- Sabine Meister: The Association of the XI. The group of artists as the nucleus of organized modernism in Berlin . Dissertation, University of Freiburg 2006 ( digitized version ).
- Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Ekensund artists' colony on the north bank of the Flensburger Förde Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co. KG
Web links
- Alfried Nehring: Homepage for the painter
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller-Kurzwelly, Konrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller-Kurzwelly, Konrad Alexander (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 1914 |
| Place of death | Berlin |