Michael Mathias Kiefer
Michael Mathias Kiefer (born July 8, 1902 in Munich ; † March 1980 in Feldwies am Chiemsee ) was a German painter.
He was a representative of landscape , hunting , portrait and nude painting ( Munich School ) and a sculptor . His oeuvre includes works in oils, watercolors and drawings.
Life
Michael Mathias Kiefer was born on June 8, 1902 in Munich as the son of the master baker Michael Kiefer and his wife Karolina. After graduating from high school, he found himself working as a taxidermist in the service of the Munich State Zoological Collection for painting and sculpture.
1925–1927: 1st Gran Chaco expedition with Prof. Krieg to Argentina , Paraguay and the south of Brazil .
1931–1933: 2nd Gran Chaco expedition with Prof. Krieg. Pictures created during this time were successfully exhibited in Asunción and Buenos Aires .
From 1933 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, became a student of Prof. Angelo Jank and made further study trips to East Prussia, Hungary and Turkey.
In 1934 Michael Kiefer married Berta Leitner in Munich and moved his residence to Feldwies on the Chiemsee, where he found sufficient space and motifs for painting and sculpture.
In later years he went on further study trips within the framework of the State Collections in Munich and Stuttgart . For example 1951–1952 to Tanganyika, Kenya and Uganda or 1963 to Sweden , Norway , the east coast of the USA and Canada .
Michael Kiefer died in March 1980 in his house on Lake Chiemsee. After completion of the exhibition space near Kiefer's studio, his widow Berta Kiefer invited to a memorial exhibition in 1982.
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His work consists mainly of portraits of people and animals as well as landscape painting . By no means only native motifs were immortalized. His legacy also includes paintings and drawings that were created during numerous study trips to North and South America, Scandinavia and the Orient .
Parts of his work were presented to the public at major art exhibitions in Munich, Berlin and Düsseldorf , as well as annually at the royal private artists' cooperative of 1860 in Munich.
Adolf Hitler bought his Helgoland picture Die Wacht , which he presented in 1940 at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich; it is still popular in right-wing extremist circles today.
His 40 years of activity as an illustrator for all hunting magazines earned him a lot of admiration and reputation.
On the occasion of the 1982 memorial exhibition, a limited edition 215-page illustrated book about the artist's life and work was published.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See http://www.gdk-research.de/de/obj19404448.html
- ↑ See, for example: https://netzladen.lesenundschenken.de/schoenes-zuhause/wandschmuck/kunstdrucke/5067/wandbild-die-wacht-seeadler-vor-helgoland
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kiefer, Michael Mathias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1980 |
| Place of death | Feldwies on the Chiemsee |