Peter Calmés

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Peter Hans Calmés (born March 31, 1900 in Duisburg ; † March 11, 1968 ibid) was a German landscape painter , portrait painter , draftsman and poster painter .

Life

Calmés was born in 1900 as the son of a mining engineer with French ancestors. From 1914 he completed an apprenticeship as a shop window designer and then worked from 1920 to 1926 as a shop window designer and poster painter in Duisburg. At the same time he studied painting from 1924 to 1926 with Dutch landscape painters. In 1926/27 he worked again as a poster painter in Berlin. In 1934 he moved back to his hometown Duisburg, where he studied with Heinrich Seepolt , a former master student of Julius Paul Junghanns , until 1939 . In 1936 he became a member of the Künstlerbund.

In 1937 his pictures were rejected by the Reich Chamber of Culture and he was banned from exhibiting. Calmés then emigrated to the Netherlands in 1938. He spent the war years with the police in Wolfsburg. The Second World War hit Calmés hard: his studio with 500 pictures was lost in an air raid in Duisburg. Almost his entire work was thus destroyed.

In 1945 he was a co-founder of the Duisburg artist group “Der Strom”. In 1955 he worked for Maurice de Vlaminck , and in 1963 for Hans Purrmann in Montagnola . Calmés was close friends with both of them.

From 1959 he received the honorary salary of the Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia .

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At first Calmés mainly painted watercolors, later also gouaches and oil paintings. His favorite subjects included seascapes, flowers and cloud landscapes of the Lower Rhine in late Expressionist style in the colors blue, red, yellow and purple. Borrowings from Emil Nolde , August Macke and his friend de Vlaminck can be clearly seen.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1947: Städt. Art Museum ( Lehmbruck Museum ), Duisburg
  • 1949: Städt. Art Museum (Lehmbruck Museum), Duisburg
  • 1949: Galerie d'Art du Nationale, Lucerne
  • 1951: House of French Culture, Düsseldorf
  • 1952: City Museum, Portsmouth
  • 1953: Art Museum, Remscheid
  • 1953: Kunstzaal / Plaats, The Hague
  • 1971: Niederrheinisches Museum, Duisburg

Group exhibitions

literature

  • Helmut Gernsheim : Calmés . 1961
  • Peter Calmés: The painter Peter Calmes. Becoming and working - thoughts and memories . Piscator-Verlag, Mülheim (Ruhr) 1964
  • H. Rauschenbusch: International Directory of Arts . 1963/64, p. 542
  • Susanne Höper-Kuhn / Galerie Kocken: Peter Calmés

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Calmés . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 251 .
  2. ↑ An artist from Duisburg with international recognition ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Rheinische Post @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  3. ↑ Tilo Grabach: Peter Calmes . In: General Artist Lexicon . KG Saur Verlag, Munich 1997, Volume XV, p. 613
personal data
SURNAME Calmés, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calmés, Peter Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter, portrait painter, draftsman and poster painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1968
Place of death Duisburg