Korl Meyer

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Korl Meyer , with real name Karl Meyer and full name Karl Heinrich Hermann Ernst Ludwig Meyer (born January 4, 1902 in Ribnitz ; † May 23, 1945 there ) was a German painter, draftsman and stage dancer .

Korl Meyer: Self-Portrait

Life

Karl Meyer, only known as Korl in his environment , was the son of the Ribnitz town servant Hugo Meyer. He grew up with eleven siblings in modest circumstances. After attending the Ribnitz city school from 1907 to 1915, he completed an apprenticeship as a waiter in Schwerin. Out of an interest in art, he began painting alongside his work after the First World War. He used the money earned in the summer season for his training as a painter.

In the winter semesters from 1921 to 1924 he was with Hans Hofmann in Munich at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, which he founded in 1915 . In the winter semester of 1924/25 he applied to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and became a student of Otto Hettner . After a leave of absence for the 1925 semester, he was an individual student of Hettner and after his illness he switched to Ludwig von Hofmann and became his individual student from the 1928/29 semester. Financial difficulties led to several interruptions in his studies and to expulsion from the academy in the summer semester of 1930. Meyer took up residence in Moritzburg , where he had a small garden house in the castle park, left by the Wettin family , as a studio. At the beginning of 1931 he returned to Ribnitz. In 1934 he asked to return to the academy. Although actually too old, he came back to Dresden on the recommendation of Rector Richard Müller , now as an individual student of Friedrich Krampf (1887–1943). As a master student at Krampf, he left Dresden again in 1936. His work received several awards during his studies, around 1926 and 1927 with an honorary certificate and in 1935 with a prize from the Torniamenti Foundation.

During his Dresden years, Meyer was besides studying art as a ballet tve and extra for the Saxon State Theater at the Semperoper (1925/26 to 1929). The corresponding dance training probably took place in the modern dance school run by Mary Wigman , to which personal relationships existed.

After his time in Dresden, Korl Meyer resided in Ribnitz again and was part of the environment of the painters of the Ahrenshoop artists' colony . His works were predominantly landscapes and cityscapes, portraits and still lifes. He found the preferred motifs in his closer home, in Ribnitz and Stralsund , on the Baltic Sea and Bodden coast , on the Fischland and Darß . He also recorded the destruction of Rostock in 1942. His permanent economic hardship forced him to use unusual picture carriers , such as sackcloth, the back of calendar sheets, wrapping paper or painting on both sides of the canvases. Meyer's oeuvre is known only in fragments. Works by him are in the Rostock Cultural History Museum , in the German Amber Museum Ribnitz-Damgarten and in many cases in private ownership in Ribnitz households, if only because of the usual "image for service."

Korl Meyer died malnourished as a result of severe pneumonia on May 23, 1945.

"His line reveals vital force and his color is so full, his artistic world so close to earth that one could think of a late-born and yet modern 'Dutchman' in view of his delicious work from the town of Ribnitz and the surrounding area."

- Oscar Gehrig , 1933

Works (selection)

  • In the snowy Ribnitz. (1932)
  • Windmill in Mecklenburg. (around 1930)
  • Cliff. (1933)
  • The Wossidlo linden tree in Körkwitz. (1933)
  • Winter morning at the Ribnitz city moat. (1933)
  • Darßer Ort lighthouse. (1934)
  • Ribnitz. Rostock Gate from the west. (1934)
  • Bodden landscape. (1934)
  • Winter landscape with a ditch. (1936)
  • View over the bay to Damgarten. (1941)
  • Self portrait.

Exhibitions

  • 1931: Exhibition in the Ribnitz town hall
  • 1946: Georg Kaulbach and Korl Meyer memorial exhibition. Paintings, watercolors, drawings, sketchbooks. Rostock City Museum, July 14th - August 3rd, 1946
  • 1969: Exhibition in the Ribnitz Museum
  • 1996: German Amber Museum, Ribnitz-Damgarten
  • 2008: Korl Meyer: City, Country, People. German Amber Museum, Ribnitz-Damgarten

literature

Web links

Commons : Korl Meyer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Katrin Arietta, Axel Attula: Korl Meyer. City, country, people. Pp. 5-10
  2. ↑ Ingrid Ehlers, Ortwin Pelc, Karsten Schröder: Rostock - Pictures of a City: City Views from Five Centuries. Reich, Rostock 1995, ISBN 3-86167-065-8 , pp. 148f, 202.
  3. ↑ Quoted from: Friedrich Schulz: Korl Meyer. In: Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. P. 126.
  4. ↑ a b c d The works were reproduced in the Mecklenburg Monthly Issues in the 1930s , see web link: Works by Korl Meyer in the state bibliography MV
  5. ^ Exhibition directory, KHM Rostock, status: January 2018, page 71.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Korl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Karl; Meyer, Karl Heinrich Hermann Ernst Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and stage dancer
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Ribnitz
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1945
Place of death Ribnitz