Paul Paeschke

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Paul Paeschke (* 27. February 1875 in Berlin , † 10. June 1943 ) was a German painter and graphic artist of Impressionism . He was a member of the Berlin Secession , the Association of Berlin Artists and the German Association of Artists in Weimar .

Life

Paul Paeschke initially trained as a drawing teacher in Berlin . After passing his teacher exam, he attended the Berlin Art Academy from 1900 to 1906 , where he was taught by Otto Brausewetter and Georg Ludwig Meyn . He perfected his graphic talent as a master student of Professor Karl Köpping , who ran a studio for engraving and etching at the academy .

Going to church in Lida (etching, 1918)

In the First World War Paeschke took part as a simple Landsturmmann and worked at times as a war painter and employee of the war newspaper " Die Wacht im Osten ". Numerous etchings of religious life in Vilnius in Lithuania (today Vilnius ) and in Lida in Belarus bear witness to this period.

During the Second World War Paeschke worked as an art teacher in Brandenburg , but continued to live in his Berlin apartment in Zehlendorf .

Street on the Rio Darro in Granada (oil painting, around 1930)

Paul Paeschke had been with Jenny Paeschke, born on March 27, 1909. Knittel (born June 4, 1868, † January 15, 1961) married, but the marriage remained childless.

The Paeschke couple were friends with the painter Lovis Corinth and his wife Charlotte Berend-Corinth and spent three months studying with them in Greece . The Paeschkes also traveled to Spain with Charlotte Berend-Corinth in 1925 . Paeschke later reported on another trip to Spain in a magazine article. For Lovis Corinth's late painting “ Ecce homo ” from 1913, Paeschke was the model as a soldier .

Paul Paeschke died on June 10, 1943. His grave is in the Zehlendorf cemetery in Berlin (former grave site 009/553, honorary grave until 2009, no longer available today).

Former grave of honor at the Zehlendorf cemetery in Berlin

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Although Paeschke also created numerous oil paintings , his main work consists of etchings and lithographs , which he presented to a broad public for the first time in 1905 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . Numerous other exhibitions of the German Association of Artists , the Munich Secession and the Berlin Secession followed , at which Paeschke was represented with his own works.

With his etchings Paeschke achieved a special mastery; these are very close to the graphic works of the much better known impressionists Max Liebermann , Max Slevogt and Lesser Ury . Also remarkable are his pastel drawings , which often exude a special serenity and weightlessness.

Potsdamer Platz in Berlin (etching, 1918)

Extensive study trips took Paeschke through many areas of Germany and other European countries, especially to Spain , Italy and England , where numerous drawings and paintings were created. Thematically, however, the focus of his work was clearly on motifs from Berlin and the surrounding area. In particular, his depictions of cities with their gatherings of people are characteristic of Paeschke's work.

Paul Paeschke's pictures are represented in many museums , including the Stadtmuseum Berlin , the Jewish Museum Berlin , the Berlinische Galerie and the National Gallery of Art in Washington .

The Berlin Museum dedicated a solo exhibition to Paeschke in 1975 on his 100th birthday. In 2009/2010 he was represented in the large-scale exhibition “German Impressionism” in Bielefeld with the oil painting “Leipziger Straße Berlin”.

In 2017, the exhibition “Streit am Wannsee - From noble villas and bathing beach joys” in the Liebermann Villa in Berlin showed, in addition to works by Heinrich Zille , Max Liebermann , Philipp Franck and Hugo Vogel , a beach watercolor by Paul Paeschke.

Other notable exhibitions with works by Paeschke are “The Conquest of the Road - From Monet to Grosz” ( Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt am Main, 2006), the double exhibition “Käthe Kollwitz / Paul Paeschke” (Steißlingen, 2007) and “The beauty of the great City - Berlin Pictures from Gaertner to Fetting ”( Museum Ephraim-Palais , Berlin, 2018).

In the episode of the NDR's Lieb & Teuer program broadcast on April 9, 2017 , a painting of the Potsdam City Palace, which Paeschke painted in 1941, was discussed.

Solo exhibitions

  • August 30 - October 26, 1975: Paul Paeschke, a Berlin painter on his 100th birthday, Berlin Museum, Berlin.

literature

  • Fritz Hellwag: Paul Paeschke's pastel landscapes . In: Kunst für Alle , 57th year, issue 4, Munich, January 1942, pp. 73 ff.
  • Paul Paeschke: The Gröditzberg according to its scientific, cultural and art historical significance . 6th edition. Verlag Oscar Heinze, Liegnitz 1928, 96 pp.
  • Paul Paeschke: Castle Tzschocha: A contribution to the local and local history of Lower Silesia . Iser-Verlag, Leipzig 1922, 33 pp.
  • Paul Paeschke: The Spanish Journey . In: Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte , 45th year, Bielefeld 1930/31, 2nd volume, p. 477 ff.
  • Paeschke, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 538 .
  • Paul Weiglin: Paul Paeschke . In: Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte , 43rd year, Bielefeld 1927, 3rd volume, p. 262 ff.
  • Otto Weigmann: Paul Paeschke as a graphic artist . In: Art for All: Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Architecture , 31st year, Munich 1915/16, pp. 20 ff.
  • Irmgard Wirth: Paul Paeschke, a Berlin painter on his 100th birthday . Catalog of the exhibition in the Berlin Museum, Berlin 1975.

Web links

Commons : Paul Paeschke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Irmgard Wirth: Paul Paeschke - a Berlin painter for his 100th birthday . Ed .: Berlin Museum. Berlin 1975, p. 5 f .
  2. ↑ Paul Weiglin: Paul Paeschke . In: Velhagen & Klasings monthly books . tape 3 , 42nd year Bielefeld 1927, p. 262 .
  3. ↑ a b c cemetery: Zehlendorf cemetery. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Marget Greiner: Charlotte Berend-Corinth & Lovis Corinth - I will include myself . Herder Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2016, ISBN 978-3-451-06841-6 , p. 201 f .
  5. ^ Paul Paeschke: The Spanish journey . In: Velhagen & Klasings monthly books . tape 2 , 45th year Bielefeld 1931, p. 477 ff .
  6. ^ Horst clock: Lovis Corinth . In: California Studies in the History of Art . tape 27 . University of California Press, Berkeley 1990, ISBN 978-0-520-06776-9 , pp. 296 .
  7. ^ Database of Modern Exhibitions (DoME), European Paintings and Drawings 1905-1915. University of Vienna, accessed on July 31, 2019 (English).
  8. ↑ Kunstkontor Dr. Doris Möllers: About Paul Paeschke. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  9. ^ Fritz Hellwag: Paul Paeschke's pastel landscapes . In: Art for All . tape 57 , no. 4 . Bruckmann, Munich 1942, p. 73 ff .
  10. ^ Stadtmuseum Berlin - Online Collection. Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation, accessed on July 31, 2019 .
  11. ↑ From the collections of the Jewish Museum Berlin. Jewish Museum Berlin, accessed on August 4, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Collection online. Berlinische Galerie State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, accessed on August 4, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Paul Paeschke - Works of Art. National Gallery of Art, accessed on August 4, 2019 (English).
  14. ↑ Jutta Hülsewig-Johnen, Thomas Kellein (ed.): The German Impressionism . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8321-9274-7 , p. 74 .
  15. ^ Dispute at Wannsee. Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee, July 9, 2017, accessed on July 31, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Conquering the Road. Schirn Kunsthalle, accessed on August 4, 2019 .
  17. ^ Käthe Kollwitz and contemporary Paul Paeschke . In: Singener Wochenblatt . Singing September 12, 2007, p. 4 .
  18. ↑ The Beauty of the Big City. Stadtmuseum Berln, accessed on August 4, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Dear & dear. NDR, April 9, 2017, accessed on July 31, 2019 (the broadcast was repeated on July 7, 2019 and the video can be accessed in the NDR media library).
  20. ↑ Heidelberg historical holdings - digital. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Paeschke, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1943
Place of death Berlin