Konrad von Kardorff

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Konrad von Kardorff (born January 13, 1877 on the Nieder-Wabnitz estate ( Oels district ); † January 11, 1945 in Rostock ) was an impressionist painter , etcher and teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Breslau . His creative period was from 1892 to 1945 in Germany as well as in Hungary, France and the Netherlands.

Life

Konrad von Kardorff (2nd from right, No. 7) as a member of the jury of the Berlin Secession Exhibition in 1911

Konrad von Kardorff comes from the noble family Kardorff and was the son of the Prussian politician and member of the Reichstag Wilhelm von Kardorff (1828-1907), landlord of Wabnitz ( district of Oels , Lower Silesia ), and Sophie von Borck (1836-1914).

From 1894 to 1897 Konrad von Kardorff studied at the Munich Art Academy with Friedrich Fehr and Johann Caspar Herterich , and later with Ludwig von Löfftz . During this time he also belonged to the Hungarian artists' colony in Nagybánya . He later studied in Paris at the Académie Julian as well as in Venice, Holland and Berlin . He lived there from 1901. He belonged to the Berlin Secession , which became aware of him through a self-portrait from 1900, and later to the Free Secession . From October 1, 1920 he taught at the Breslau Academy of Arts and Crafts, where he led a painting class. In 1927 he was appointed professor at the State Art School for Art Education in Berlin . At the funeral of Max Liebermann he was one of only three "Aryan" artists, he also acted (after Bernd Schmalhausen ) to assist his widow Martha.

He was married to Ina, geb. Bruhn (* 1880 in Lübeck ; † 1972).

Konrad von Kardorff was a member of the German Association of Artists . Walter Ebeling and Walter Heisig were among his students .

Works

Von Kardorff mainly created portraits, but also pieces of flowers and landscapes, especially Berlin street views. Among other things, he portrayed Tilla Durieux , Alfred Walter Heymel and his wife. Landscape paintings by Kardoffs have titles such as Schöneberger Ufer im Schnee , Queen Auguste-Ufer [sic!] And Solnhofener Steinbruch . A flower still life (Städtisches Museum Halle), a French landscape and a portrait of Mayor Paul (Kunsthalle Bremen) and the portrait of his father, which the National Gallery in Berlin bought, came into public possession. Museums in Rostock and Danzig also bought works by the painter.

Exhibitions

From 1900 von Kardorff regularly sent exhibitions at the Berlin Secession and from 1916 those of the Free Secession. He was also involved several times in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , the exhibitions of the Munich Secession and those of the German Association of Artists . In 1913 works by Kardorffs were shown in a collective exhibition at Paul Cassirer's in Berlin. In 1914 he exhibited at the Baltic Exhibition in Malmö , and in 1917 at the Zurich Kunsthaus.

His daughter Ursula von Kardorff was a well-known journalist and editor who worked as a feature editor for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung during the Second World War .

literature

Web links

Commons : Konrad von Kardorff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the statement by the daughter Ursula von Kardorff , Berliner Aufzüge 1942–1945. dtv, Munich 1994, p. 280.
    Vollmer Ka – Kl. P. 527 gives January 11 or 12, 1945 as the date of death and Berlin as the place of death.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Volume 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 268.
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Kardorff, Konrad von ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 5, 2015)
  4. ↑ Kardorff, Konrad von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926, p. 554 .
personal data
SURNAME Kardorff, Konrad von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Nieder-Wabnitz ( Oels district )
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1945
Place of death Rostock