Paul Kaufmann (painter)

Paul Kaufmann (born July 29, 1896 in Nümbrecht , † October 3, 1974 in Hamburg ) was a German self-taught painter and commercial artist .

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Kaufmann was a soldier in World War I; then studied from 1920 to 1924 Architecture at the Technical University of Hanover . He later worked as a commercial artist for the Continental company, including for the company magazine Echo Continental . From 1928 he used the stage name "Caspary" as a commercial artist. He was considered one of the renowned commercial graphic artists of his time.

Painting signature of the painter Paul Kaufmann, b. 1896 in Nümbrecht

Signature of Paul Kaufmann (* 1896 Nümbrecht) with his pseudonym "Caspary" as a commercial artist

From 1934 on, Kaufmann was a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts , the professional association of commercial graphic artists, as well as in the SS . In 1938 Kaufmann moved from Hanover to Berlin and painted, among other things, portraits of high-ranking National Socialists; Before moving, he had painted a portrait of Adolf Hitler for the Kröpcke café . In 1941 he married Ingeborg Fromm. In November 1943, his studio in Berlin was destroyed by fire; Among the lost pictures are parts of a "Diana" tryptichon, a side part of which was previously shown in "Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte".

In 1944 he returned to Nümbrecht, where he also painted portraits, including that of the founder of the Homburg Castle Museum , Hermann Conrad (1962). At the same time he lived in Hamburg from the end of the 1950s.

confusion

A painter of the same name lived in Darmstadt and Webern , but he was signed in block letters. Eight of his landscape paintings are in the Darmstadt Municipal Art Collection.

literature

• Kaufmann, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 26 .

Web links

Commons : Paul Kaufmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Death certificate, Hamburg-Nord registry office No. 2405, 1974
2. ↑ ^{a b} DeGruyter: General artist lexicon online
3. ^ History of Continental AG (section 1913)
4. ^ German Museum of Technology: Company magazine "Echo Continental", 1913–1941
5. ↑ Fred Bergmann: Early Advertising. In: Spiegel Online . September 4, 2009, accessed March 6, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Personal file Paul Kaufmann, Reich Chamber of Fine Arts, Landesarchiv Berlin, A Rep. 243-04 No. 4117 ( digital copy to prove the file number , p. 1243)
7. ↑ Velhagen & Klasingsmonthshefte, Vol. 58 (1943/44), No. 3 (November 1943), plate against p. 97
8. ^ Telephone books from Hamburg, 1955–1978