Reinhold Kündig
Reinhold Kündig (born January 15, 1888 in Uster ; died June 16, 1984 in Thalwil ) was a Swiss painter .
Life
Reinhold Kündig was the son of a locksmith. He attended school in Uster and from 1902 in Wiedikon , where he met the later painter Hermann Huber , whose sister Hedwig he married in 1916. From 1903 to 1906 he did an apprenticeship as a theater painter with Albert Isler in Zurich. Paul Bodmer , Hermann Huber and he worked for a time as theater painters in Düsseldorf and Berlin. In Munich he also gave drawing lessons at Moritz Heymann's private painting school, where he met Otto Meyer-Amden , Willi Baumeister and Oskar Schlemmer .
He was in Rome in 1908/1909 with Hermann Huber, Eduard Bick , Paul Osswald and Victor Schulte , then was in Switzerland, then in Paris, again in Rome and Terracina and in 1913/1914 in Tunis . Kündig received a federal art grant in 1911 and 1914. In 1913 Herwarth Walden showed three of his oil paintings in the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin. He lived as a freelance painter in Hirzel from 1920 and from 1937 in a studio house above Horgen that was created by his architect friend Heinrich Bräm .
Kündig drew and painted in particular landscapes in oil and watercolor, he was involved in wall paintings in the Zwinglihaus and in the University of Zurich . He illustrated several children's books by Elisabeth Lenhardt . Pictures of him were shown at the Biennale di Venezia in 1932. He dealt with different painting styles of his time. The pictures influenced by Expressionism were considered by critics to be his most important work, but not by himself.
Fonts
- Reinhold Kündig: painter of the Zurich landscape. Texts by Peter Marxer, Peter Kienast. Wolfsberg, Zurich 1982, ISBN 978-3-85997-005-2 .
- Elisabeth Lenhardt: The balloon and its message. Drawings by Reinhold Kündig. Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk, Zurich 1970.
literature
- R. Treydel: Kündig, Reinhold . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 82, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023187-8 , p. 197 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Reinhold Kündig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Reinhold Kündig in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Susanne Schrödter: Kündig, Reinhold. In: Sikart (as of 1998)
- Tapan Bhattacharya: Kündig, Reinhold. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Reinhold Kündig website
- Reinhold Kündig in the online collection of the Kunstmuseum Luzern
Individual evidence
- ↑ [ http://www.sikart.ch/Kuenstlerinnen.aspx?id=4025506 Isler, Albert. ] In: Sikart (status: 2011), accessed on January 17, 2017.
- ^ First German Autumn Salon. Berlin 1913. Verl. Der Sturm, Berlin 1913, p. 23. The picture fruit trees is shown in the catalog annex .
- ↑ 15 West Foyer - Decorated apse dome. On the website of the University of Zurich, accessed on January 17, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Resign, Reinhold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uster |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1984 |
| Place of death | Thalwil |