Leo Küppers

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Leo Küppers (born May 8, 1880 in Wassenberg , Heinsberg district , † July 12, 1946 in Düsseldorf ) was a German genre , interior and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Küppers grew up as the son of a shoemaker in Wassenberg, a small town on the border with the Netherlands that is characterized by home weaving, agriculture and handicrafts . At the age of 17 he became a student at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts to train as a drawing teacher. During the holidays he worked as a church and theater painter in Düsseldorf, Dresden and Thuringia . At the age of 21 he became a student at the Grand Ducal Baden Art School in Karlsruhe . He then moved to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich to study Christian art with Martin Feuerstein , then to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he became a student of Peter Janssen the Elder and Eduard von Gebhardt . He finished his studies in Düsseldorf in 1921. During the semester break he created pictures of the stations of the cross and other religious art.

Study trips took him to Belgium and the Netherlands, in particular to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Mauritshuis in The Hague . In 1910 he stayed in Paris for a long time . In a competition in 1912 he won a great state prize. When he stayed in Paris again in 1914, he was surprised by the outbreak of the First World War , in which he participated as a volunteer. After the war, he married Klara, née Ollig, on September 24, 1919 and settled back in Düsseldorf. He again undertook a series of study trips to other European countries, the Netherlands, Austria ( Vienna ) and Italy ( Rome , Naples , Venice ). He established his studio on Sternstrasse in the Pempelfort district of Düsseldorf .

Member of the artists' association Malkasten since 1915 , he took part in 1924 with Carl Plückebaum in the production of the tableau vivant The Wine Tasting based on the motif of the same name by Johann Peter Hasenclever .

With his genre paintings, Küppers created a traditional, cozy picture of his homeland on the Lower Rhine with simple people in rural and small-town environments. He described the people in their leisurely life with everyday activities. Illustrations of it found their way into Westermann's monthly magazines , the Leipziger Illustrirte Zeitung and Velhagen & Klasings magazines. He built up his pictures in smooth, uniform areas of color. In their composition, brown-toned coloring and effective lighting, they are reminiscent of Dutch genre painting of the 17th century . In the 1930s and 1940s Küppers was one of the most sought-after genre painters at the Düsseldorf School. He was represented in the Great German Art Exhibition in 1942 with the picture Niederrheinische Küche bei Emmerich .

literature

  • Leo Küppers . In: WJ Speth: Artists from the Heinsberger Land . In: Heimatkalender Heinsberger Lande , 1930, p. 71 f. ( PDF ).
  • Küppers, Leo . In: Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, Volume 3, p. 134.
  • Küppers, Leo . In: Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf , Galerie Paffrath (ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918 . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , Volume 2, p. 297.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. ↑ Andreas Schroyen: 15 attempts to realize similarities, visions and oneself . In: Klaus Rinke, Julia Lohmann and others: One hundred and fifty years of the artists' association Malkasten . Richter, 1998, ISBN 978-3-9287-6289-2 , p. 113
  3. ^ Anne Meckel: Animation - Agitation. Representations of women at the “Great German Art Exhibition” in Munich 1937–1944 . Deutscher Studien Verlag, Weinheim 1993, ISBN 978-3-8927-1420-0 , p. 201
personal data
SURNAME Küppers, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre, interior and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Wassenberg , Heinsberg district
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1946
Place of death Dusseldorf