Paul Kleinschmidt
Paul Kleinschmidt (born July 31, 1883 in Bublitz / Pomerania , † August 2, 1949 in Bensheim ) was a German painter.
Life
Kleinschmidt came from a family of artists. The father was director of a traveling theater, the mother an actress. At the age of 19, his son Paul chose the fine arts. From 1902 to 1905 he studied at the artist academy in Berlin with the history painter Anton von Werner , then at the artist academy in Munich with Peter Halm and Heinrich von Zügel . Back in Berlin, he cultivated friendship with the painter Lovis Corinth . In 1908 and 1911 he took part in the exhibitions of the Berlin Secession .
Kleinschmidt was drafted into the army in 1914, but released in 1915 because of gas poisoning. In the following years he earned his living primarily as a drawing teacher and machine draftsman. He did not limit his own artistic work, so that between 1915 and 1926 most of the prints and series of illustrations were created. In 1923 there was a first Kleinschmidt exhibition at Euphorion-Verlag and in 1925 at the art dealer Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin.
In 1927/28 he went on study trips to Amsterdam and southern France . From 1927 he was in contact with the American art collector Erich Cohn . Probably under his influence, Kleinschmidt increasingly occupied himself with painting and exhibited in the USA in 1933/34; he also stayed in New York City for some time .
From 1932, Kleinschmidt lived in Klingenstein near Blaubeuren , then in Ulm and finally in Ay near Senden . During the Nazi era, his works were assigned to the so-called Degenerate Art and therefore confiscated. Some of the works were shown in the exhibition "Degenerate Art" . Because of such persecution, Kleinschmidt emigrated to the Netherlands in 1936 , but stayed in southern France again from 1937 to 1939. When he was forced to return to Germany from there in 1943, he lived in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse, but was not allowed to paint . In 1945 all his property was burned in a bombing raid. Four years later he died impoverished in Bensheim of a heart condition. Kleinschmidt left behind over 300 drawings and around 430 oil paintings.
Appreciation
“The focus of Kleinschmidt's work is the portrait of a woman; his art is socially critical, but always maintains a respectful distance from people. ”(Buchheim, Expressionists). In addition to figures, still lifes and landscapes, he preferred motifs from city life in Berlin, especially the world of theater and variety . Here he took up the art movements from Expressionism to Realism to the so-called New Objectivity .
In 1968 and 1997 Kleinschmidt exhibitions took place in Tübingen , 1978 and 2003 in Ulm , 1983 in Stuttgart , 2004 in Würzburg and 2009 in Regensburg , 2011 in Senden . For 2019, the Museum Bensheim is planning an exhibition with previously never shown ink drawings on the 70th anniversary of Kleinschmidt's death.
literature
- Barbara Lipps-Kant: Paul Kleinschmidt 1883 - 1949 . Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 1974 and 1977
- Paul Kleinschmidt 1883-1949 . Exhibition catalog, Ulm 1978
- The ladies of Paul Kleinschmidt. 1883 - 1949 , Munich 1983 (gallery font)
- Paul Kleinschmidt 1883 - 1949. Paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints , Stuttgart 1983 (gallery font)
- Günther Wirth: Paul Kleinschmidt / ed. from the Paul Kleinschmidt Society eV Ulm, Stuttgart 1988
- Bert Schlichtenmaier: Paul Kleinschmidt. Watercolors, drawings, prints , 1989
- Wolfgang Schürle (Ed.): Paul Kleinschmidt - the time in Ulm 1927 - 1936 , exhibition catalog, Ulm 1994
- K. Gallwitz, A. Hüneke, B. Lipps-Kant (texts): Paul Kleinschmidt. Painting from the Deyhle Collection . Catalog. Tübingen: Hatje-Verlag 1997, new edition 2001
- Paul Kleinschmidt between bar and boudoir. Painting. Exhibition catalog, Ulm 2003, ISBN 3-928738-36-4
- Catalog raisonné Paul Kleinschmidt VAN HAM Art Publications, Cologne, in progress
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Kleinschmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Paul Kleinschmidt at Van Ham Art Publications
- Paul Kleinschmidt at Ketterer Kunst
- Paul Kleinschmidt at Art Directory
- Paul Kleinschmidt at Who's Who
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kleinschmidt, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bublitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 2, 1949 |
| Place of death | Bensheim |