Leo of King

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Leo von König: At the Breakfast Table , 1907, oil on canvas, 101.5 × 117.5 cm, State Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage, National Gallery, inventory no. A II 459

Leo Freiherr von König (born February 28, 1871 in Braunschweig , † April 9, 1944 in Tutzing ) was a German painter of the Berlin Secession .

Life

Leo von König: Fritz Nemitz (art historian), oil on canvas (1925)

Leo was the son of the later Prussian general of the cavalry Götz Freiherr von König and his wife Hertha, née Freiin von Cramm .

Leo von König attended the Royal Academy of the Arts in Berlin from 1889 to 1894 , the Académie Julian in Paris from 1894 to 1897 and was based in Berlin from 1900. From 1907 to 1920 he was married to the artist Mathilde Tardif , whose daughter he adopted. From 1909 Leo von König taught his niece Ischi von König in Berlin . His later second wife Anna von König (1897–1992), born von Hansemann, was also a student of his. Over the years she was his model for a total of thirteen individual portraits. From this marriage two daughters were born. In addition, Leo von König's lover, Dolores von Grunelius, born. Caballero gave birth to a son after his death.

After Max Liebermann , Corinth and Max Slevogt, Leo von König was one of the late representatives of the Berlin Secession. He trained in the Impressionists in Berlin and Paris and led a master class at the Berlin School of Applied Arts . His masterpieces include portraits of Gerhart Hauptmann , Ernst Barlach , Emil Nolde , Käthe Kollwitz and Eugen d'Albert .

He portrayed Reich Minister Bernhard Rust (1934), Joseph Goebbels (1935), his daughters Helga and Hilde, and was friends with Arno Breker , whom he modeled for a bronze bust during the 1936 Olympic year in Berlin. However, he was expressly rejected by Adolf Hitler, who had his paintings removed from the Great German Art Exhibition in 1937 in the Haus der Deutschen Kunst . In 1941 Albert Bormann unsuccessfully proposed him for the Goethe Medal , but Baldur von Schirach made him an honorary member of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . After his Berlin studio was destroyed by aerial bombs in 1943, he moved to Tutzing in Bavaria , where he died the following year.

Leo von König was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Works (selection)

  • in the Braunschweig Municipal Museum :
    • Couple in a Bohème Café, 1909
    • Three peacocks, around 1922
    • Self-portrait with model, 1928
    • Portraits of the Parents, 1928 and 1934
    • Lamentation for the dead (Asphodelic mood), issued in 1934 at Wernigerode Castle
    • Portrait of Gudrun Baroness Hoyningen-Huene, 1939
    • Portugal, Obidos, 1939
    • Portrait of Dr. Wilhelm Hesse, 1943
  • in the Berlin National Gallery :
    • Woman in Yellow Fur, 1925
  • privately owned:
    • Thunderstorm on the Beach, 1920, oil on panel, 35.5 cm × 53 cm

literature

Web links

Commons : Leo von König  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Thielen : König, Ischi (aka Ilse) von. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 204 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ Eva-Maria Herbertz: Life in his shadow. Women of famous artists. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86906-052-1 (pp. 64–74: I would do everything exactly the same again. Anna von König ).
  3. ↑ Annette Wagner-Wilke: König, Leo von . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 81, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023186-1 , p. 136.
  4. ↑ History Archive Museum European Art , Nörvenich Castle , November 2013.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 292.
  6. ↑ s. King, Leo von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 80-81 .
  7. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / König, Leo von ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 13, 2015). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
personal data
SURNAME King, Leo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES König, Leo Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the Berlin Secession
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1944
Place of death Tutzing