Kurt Weinhold
Kurt Weinhold (born September 28, 1896 in Berlin , † 1965 in Calw ) was a German painter of the New Objectivity .
Life
Kurt Weinhold was born as the son of the painter Carl Weinhold . After stops in Essen and Bonn , the family moved to Munich in 1911 . Weinhold did not receive any academic training, but was taught by his father. In 1922 he married Margarete Schüz and moved to Calw , where he became friends with Rudolf Schlichter . In 1934 he received the Rome Prize of the Prussian Academy of the Arts, and from 1935 to 1936 he stayed at the Villa Massimo in Rome and in Florence . In 1937 he took part in the Great German Art Exhibitionpart. Coming from realism, he approached abstract figuration and the area of the surreal in the late 1940s.
Works (selection)
- Man with the Radio (Homo Sapiens) , 1929, oil on canvas (Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Gm 2290, loan from private collection since 2001)
- Marionette , 1956, oil on cardboard (Stuttgart, Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart)
literature
- Ursula Peters: Kurt Weinhold. Man with radio (Homo sapiens), 1929. In: monats anzeiger, museums and exhibitions in Nuremberg , February 2004 edition, pp. 2-4. ( online as a PDF document)
- Günther Wirth: Art in the German Southwest from 1945 to the present. Hatje, Stuttgart 1982.
- Art in Germany. The Marvin and Janet Fishman Collection. Prestel, Munich 1991, ISBN 0-944110-02-9 .
- Hans Günter Golinski: Kurt Weinhold on his 100th birthday. (Catalog for the exhibition 1996/1997 in the Galerie der Stadt Calw) Calw 1996.
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Weinhold in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weinhold, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter of the New Objectivity |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1965 |
| Place of death | Calw |