Lodewijk Schelfhout

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Zelfportret , 1909
Les Angles , 1912

Lodewijk Schelfhout (born August 23, 1881 in The Hague , † November 5, 1943 in Amstelveen ) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist.

Life

Lodewijk Schelfhout was a grandson of the Dutch landscape painter Andreas Schelfhout , his father Henri Schelfhout had succeeded as an opera singer, his mother had tailored the christening gown for the Dutch royal family . The Schelfhout family were friends with the brothers of the Maris family of painters .

After attending the art school in Haarlem , Lodewijk Schelfhout had to make a living himself and moved to Lüdenscheid in 1900 as a painter and piano teacher . Between 1903 and 1913 he stayed among the artists of the Café du Dôme on Montparnasse . He first created its picturesque examples in Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh and adapted under the influence of Henri Le Fauconnier the Cubism . In Paris he was able to exhibit at the Salon des Indépendants in 1907 and the following year, and in 1911 he was represented in the Salles Cubistes . He painted with Hermann Lismann in the summer of 1911 in Les Angles in southern France. He was living with the painter Conrad Kickert at 26 Rue de Départ when Piet Mondrian moved in with them in December 1911 . 1912 led him Jacobus Gerardus Veldheer in the drypoint one.

Schelfhout returned to the Netherlands in 1913, lived in Hilversum and was now the first Dutch cubist. Herwarth Walden exhibited two of his etchings and the cubist painting Fantasie sur la Provence (1912) at the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin in 1913 . He had his first solo exhibition in 1915 in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam . In 1919 he stayed in Corsica for five months . In 1920 he was together with u. a. Jan Toorop , Bernard Essers , Henri van der Stok and Matthieu Wiegman shown in Domburg . In 1925 his pictures were shown at the world exhibition, the Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern , in Paris. Schelfhout now also experimented with ceramics in the Art Déco style and created over two hundred graphic works. Since the First World War, Schelfhout had more and more ecclesiastical clients and officially converted to Catholicism in 1927.

Most of his oil paintings, which were still in his possession in 1920, were destroyed that year. The Kröller-Müller Museum owns the cubist picture Het meer (1913). The painting The Dream (1918 or 1919) was purchased by the Berlin National Gallery. It was confiscated as Degenerate Art in 1937 and lost in the holdings of the Reich Propaganda Ministry in Güstrow in 1945 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ First German Autumn Salon: Berlin 1913. Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin 1913, p. 28 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive ), reprint, ISBN 3-88375-082-4 (catalog numbers 317).
    The picture is under the title La Provence in private ownership in Katwijk Lodewijk Schelfhout ( Memento from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at kubisme (Dutch).
  2. ^ Friedrich Markus Heubner: Lodewijk Schelfhont . tape 28 . Klinkhardt and Biermann, Leipzig 1921 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Farbtaftel Der Traum 1918).
  3. ↑ The dream at Lost Art.
personal data
SURNAME Schelfhout, Lodewijk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schelfhout, Louis; Schelfhout, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1943
Place of death Amstelveen