Leo poets
Leo Poeten (born June 18, 1889 in Königswald , Kingdom of Bohemia , Austria-Hungary , † 1949 ) was a Sudeten German portrait , landscape and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Poeten studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There was Adolf Munzer his teacher. As a participant in the First World War , he received the Cross of Honor for Frontline Fighters . Poets mainly created portraits and landscapes. In 1932 he was represented at the exhibition in Düsseldorf-Munich Art . In 1937 he portrayed the industrialist Fritz Thyssen . In 1942 he toured the coast of the English Channel . In particular, portraits of German fighter pilots were created , such as Colonel Josef Priller . Three of his portraits were shown at the Great German Art Exhibition in 1943: Colonel Adolf Galland as commodore of Jagdgeschwader 26 , Luftwaffe captain Adolf Dickfeld (today City Museum of the State Capital Düsseldorf ) and commodore Major Müncheberg , which the Düsseldorf Gauleiter Friedrich Karl Florian acquired for 4,000 Reichsmarks .
literature
- Poets, Leo . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 185 .
- Poets, Leo . In: General Artist Lexicon. Bio-bibliographical Index A-Z . Volume 8: Pikalov – Schintzel . KG Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-23918-1 , p. 58.
Web links
- Leo Poeten , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
- Leo Poeten, female nude with amber bracelet , website in short biography in portal germanartgallery.eu
- Self-portrait , website in the portal alymy.com
- Leo Poeten , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ↑ Johannes Gramlich: The Thyssens as an art collector. Investment and symbolic capital (1900–1970) . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-506-77981-6 , p. 124 ( Google Books )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Poets, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sudeten German portrait, landscape and still life painter of the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Königswald , Kingdom of Bohemia , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1949 |