Peter Sandkamm-Möller

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Peter Sandkamm-Møller, farmhouse on Allen
Peter Sandkamm-Möller, Peter Sandkamm-Møller

Peter Sandkamm-Möller (born May 17, 1893 in Schauby / Skovby on the island of Alsen , † March 4, 1981 in Augustenburg ) was a painter and was one of the most influential representatives of late expressionism in Denmark.

Life

After finishing school, Sandkamm-Möller attended the teachers' seminar in Tondern , but did not finish his training, but went to Berlin to study painting and drawing at the Art School of the West and with Lovis Corinth, and portrait and nudes with Fritz Genutat . He returned from the First World War in 1916 wounded. Until 1918 he worked as a payroll clerk.

In 1921 he went to Weimar , where he studied with the landscape painter Professor Hugo Gugg . Dismissed by Gugg as "trained", Sandkamm returned to Schauby, where he soon met and married the young teacher Anna Sandkamm, who earned him the double name Sandkamm-Möller.

In 1932 the company moved to its own new house on Kleinhaff, where from then on happy work developed. Sandkamm-Möller painted what he saw: Alsingen farmhouses, Alsingen flowers, Alsingen landscapes. His beloved island with its nature was his main motive.

It hit him twice as hard in the early 1970s. His wife died and he went blind. His unbroken positive will to live and his new partner, Helene Charlotte Wolf, ensured that even after going blind, a wealth of pictures were created, many of which can be seen in an illustrated book she published in 2002.

Peter Sandkamm-Möller did not see his last major exhibition in the Deutsche Zentralbücherei Aabenraa and the opening on April 3, 1981. Most of the work of SM, as he liked to be addressed, he bequeathed to the municipality of Augustenburg to decorate the Caroline-Amalie-Heim. Another collection is in the Deutsches Museum Nordschleswig in Sonderburg .

Works by and about Peter Sandkamm-Möller

  • Helene-Charlotte Wolf: Peter Sandkamm-Möller - The Alsen painter . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2002, ISBN 3-89861-046-2

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