Paul Dahlen

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Paul Dahlen (born January 12, 1881 in Karlsruhe , † February 2, 1954 in Wiesbaden ) was a German painter and graphic artist . He is one of the Wiesbaden painters and belonged to the Free Art Association of Wiesbaden .

life and work

Dahlen spent his youth in the wine country of the Rheingau in Geisenheim am Rhein. The family later moved to Wiesbaden, where he attended high school. After graduating from school, he first studied in Wiesbaden at the arts and crafts school . He then enrolled at the art academy in Karlsruhe, where his painting style was shaped by Wilhelm Trübner , whose master class he completed. In 1907 he went to Italy, where he perfected his plein air painting . Further trips took him to France and the Balkans . In 1916 his residence is again Wiesbaden.

Between 1914 and 1919 Dahlen stayed repeatedly in Western Pomerania , in Großmöllen on Lake Jamunder , which is separated from the Baltic Sea by a spit . During his visits there, many drawings and paintings were created in that region, many of which were acquired by the lawyer and art collector Max von Schmeling (1874–1949), who lives in Köslin . From this fund , the Museum von Köslin organized an exhibition for Dahlen in 2011/12.

During the First World War Dahlen was employed as a war painter in Romania . When he returned to Wiesbaden in 1919, his landscape paintings of the Rheingau earned him the nickname “Painter of the Rhine”. In addition, he excelled as a graphic artist, e.g. For example, he designed the stationery for the former "Collection of Nassau Antiquities" at the Wiesbaden Museum . In Nassau Kunstverein he was for many years a member of the Board.

In 2013, the Lorch Cultural and Local History Association, in collaboration with the collector Georg Breitwieser, organized a series of exhibitions in the municipal museum on Dahlen's extensive oeuvre with works from his drawings, lithographs, woodcuts, watercolors, pastels and oil paintings.

literature

  • Georg Breitwieser (ed.): Paul Dahlen: born in Karlsruhe in 1881, died in Wiesbaden in 1954, painter in the Middle Rhine World Heritage Site: catalog raisonné of painting and graphics , Lorch am Rhein: Wisperverlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-928603-22-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Paul Dahlen on the website of the Muzeum w Koszalinie
  2. ↑ Internet presence of the Lorch cultural and homeland association
  3. ^ Paul Dahlen exhibition in Lorch, Wiesbadener Tagblatt, September 17, 2013, retrieved on July 24, 2020 ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Thorsten Stötzer: Paul Dahlen's name moves to Lorch. Wiesbaden Courier, September 19, 2013
  5. ^ "Exhibition series by the painter Paul Dahlen", Kultur- und Heimatverein Lorch, accessed on July 24, 2020 ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Dahlen, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1954
Place of death Wiesbaden