Peter Koch (painter, 1874)

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Peter Koch (born October 8, 1874 in the Benjental near Deidesheim , † August 10, 1956 in Gimmeldingen ) was a German painter.

Life

Koch was born in 1874 in a heraldic forge in the Benjental, where his father Johann Koch worked as a heraldic blacksmith. The house where he was born was the " Obere Mühle ", which was demolished in 1958. After attending a painting school, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , and towards the end of his studies also under Professors Gabriel von Hackl and Carl von Marr .

After further training with Heinrich von Zügel , he worked in Munich, Berlin and Switzerland; he quickly made a name for himself with his exhibitions in Munich in 1908 and in the Berlin Secession in 1911/12 , as well as in Basel in 1912 and in Mannheim in 1913 . In June 1914 he left Germany and spent eight years traveling through the states of New York and New Jersey in the USA, where he joined the Society of Independent Artists . In 1922 he returned to Germany and settled in Gimmeldingen. He was mayor here and was made an honorary citizen of Gimmeldingen in 1954. At first Koch mainly created figurative works, later he turned more to landscape painting .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities . Arwid Hennig Verlag, Edenkoben 1998, ISBN 3-9804668-2-5 , p. 371 .
  2. ↑ Berthold Schnabel: Deidesheim . Ed .: City of Deidesheim. Geiger-Verlag, Horb 2015, ISBN 978-3-86595-588-3 , pp. 67 .
  3. ↑ a b c Otto Jung: Short biography for the Palatinate . In: The Great Palatinate Book . Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1959, p. 456 f .
personal data
SURNAME Cook, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Benjental near Deidesheim
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1956
Place of death Gimmeldingen