Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen

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Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen (born August 22, 1857 in Heidelberg ; † July 7, 1916 there , née Hormuth) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen, Mallow Still Life

Life

Tomb of Hormuth-Kallmorgen in the Grötzingen cemetery

After staying with her family in Keokuk ( Iowa ) and Waldshut on the Upper Rhine as well as in a girls' boarding school in Freiburg , she came to Karlsruhe in 1878 . There she began to study with Ferdinand Keller at the art academy and, as was usual for painters at the time, specialized in flower painting. After a five-year engagement period, she married fellow student Friedrich Kallmorgen in 1882 . From 1894 she taught private students. In 1898 she was appointed to the board of the female painters' association in Karlsruhe. In the same year the couple built a summer house in nearby Grötzingen , which was popular with local artists because of its idyllic motifs. They were among the founders of the Grötzinger painter colony . From 1900 to 1902 she taught flower and still life painting at the Karlsruhe School of Artists . In 1902 Friedrich Kallmorgen received a call to the Berlin Academy and the couple moved to Berlin . With that, her artistic productivity also ended.

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Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen was known for her still lifes and flower paintings. She found her motifs in her garden and the immediate vicinity, but did not paint them on site, but arranged them in vases and jugs in her studio. In contrast to her colleagues in Grötzingen, she did not make any lithographs , but mostly painted with oil paints on canvas without preliminary drawings .

Honor

  • Margarethe-Hormuth-Straße in the Karlsruhe district of Grötzingen was named after her in 1975.

literature

  • Gisela Nehring-Knab: Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen: Life picture of a flower painter , Harsch Verlag, Karlsruhe 1994. ISBN 3-920321-03-0
  • Baumstark, Brigitte: Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen, Jenny Fikentscher. In: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (Ed.), Baden Württembergische Portraits: Female figures from five centuries. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1999. ISBN 3-421-05271-9 .
  • Knab, Hans: The Grötzinger painter colony and its successors : short biographies; (1000 years of Grötzingen, 100 years of Badisches Malerdorf; exhibition from May 17-26, 1991). Karlsruhe-Grötzingen: local administration, 1991.
  • The Grötzinger painter colony : the first generation 1890–1920; Karl Biese, Jenny Fikentscher, Otto Fikentscher, Franz Hein, Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen, Friedrich Kallmorgen, Gustav Kampmann; Catalog for the exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe from November 28, 1975 to February 1, 1976. Karlsruhe, 1975.

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personal data
SURNAME Hormuth-Kallmorgen, Margarethe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hormuth, Margarethe (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1916
Place of death Heidelberg