Louis Kolitz
Louis Kolitz (born April 5, 1845 in Tilsit (East Prussia) , † July 24, 1914 in Berlin ) was a German painter of histories , battles , portraits , landscapes and cityscapes . From 1879 to 1911 he was the director of the academy in Kassel .
Life
Louis Kolitz studied from 1862 to 1864 at the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin, from 1864 to 1869 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . He was a student of Oswald Achenbach , Carl Ferdinand Sohn and Eduard Bendemann . As a volunteer he took part in the Austro -Prussian War in 1866 and in the Franco-German War in 1870/71 .
From 1872 to 1879 Kolitz lived as a portrait painter in Düsseldorf and was a member of the artists' association Malkasten . He also created several paintings with scenes from the war of 1870/71, which were rejected by the critics of the time because of their dark coloring and critical realism.
In 1872 he married Louise Cohnitz in Düsseldorf. The marriage resulted in five children, of whom Hans Kolitz (1874–1961) also became a painter.
In 1879 he was appointed director of the Kassel Art Academy . Here, too, he remained a sought-after portraitist, but also painted monumental wall paintings (destroyed in 1944) for official buildings. As the director of the academy, he was particularly committed to training drawing teachers. Until old age he made repeatedly travel to Paris , to Norderney for summer vacation to Holland and Italy (inter alia by.. Riva del Garda in the sanatorium of Erhard Hartung of Hartungen ).
After retiring as director of the academy in 1911, he moved to Berlin and died there shortly before the outbreak of the First World War on July 24, 1914.
Create
Kolitz's portraits and history pictures are characterized by their realism and their attention to detail in material values, which made him a popular (and well-paid) portraitist. Today, however, he appears much more important as a painter of numerous landscape sketches and paintings in the style of Impressionism as early as the early 1870s. They could make him a pioneer of German Impressionism if they had not first become known through the commemorative exhibition for the 75th birthday of Galerie Heinemann (Munich 1920). The Neue Galerie Kassel was able to acquire some of them from his daughter Martha Heydemann, but some may still wait unnoticed (as they are rarely signed) to be discovered.
The largest group of works in public ownership is kept by the Neue Galerie Kassel, individual works are owned by the Nationalgalerie Berlin , the art museums in Düsseldorf, Bremen and others
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Exhibitions
- 2017 documenta 14 , Kassel
Works in museums
- Portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm Müller , Neue Galerie Kassel
literature
- Kolitz, Louis . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 783.
- Ulrich Schmidt (Ed.), Andrea Linnebach: Louis Kolitz 1845-1914. Catalog State. Kunstsammlungen Kassel, Kassel 1990, ISBN 3-925272-28-3 .
- Petra-Maria Jocks: Louis Kolitz (1845−1914): a painter between tradition and innovation. Diss. Frankfurt am Main 1993.
Web links
- Literature by and about Louis Kolitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Louis Kolitz at Zeno.org .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kolitz, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tilsit (East Prussia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1914 |
| Place of death | Berlin |