Viktor Paul Poppy

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Viktor Paul Mohn (born November 17, 1842 in Meißen ; † February 17, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German landscape painter, draftsman and illustrator of the late Romantic period .

Life

Paul Mohn was born in Meißen in 1842 as the son of the council builder Johann August Mohn († 1866). He had his first drawing lessons with the porcelain painters Eduard Naumann and Friedrich Wilhelm Schlechte. Between 1858 and 1861 he studied at the Art Academy in Dresden. From 1861 to 1866 he was the last student of Adrian Ludwig Richter in his studio. Richter undertook a study trip to northern Bohemia in 1861 with his students Paul Mohn, Albert Venus and Karl Wilhelm Müller (1839–1904). In 1866/67 he went to Italy with Albert Venus. In 1868/69 he was again in Italy thanks to the Grand Saxon State Scholarship that he had received for his painting Campagna di Roma . The companion was again Venus, who had also received this scholarship. Here he met u in the German painters' colony. a. to Friedrich Geselschap , Anton von Werner , Ascan Lutteroth and Edmund Kanoldt .

Back in Dresden, Mohn became a lecturer and deputy judge in the academy's landscape class in 1869. In 1873 he married Margarethe Gaber (1853–1928), a granddaughter of Richter. In 1875 he took over Richter’s master’s workshop as deputy director. In 1880 he was appointed professor at the Dresden Art Academy . In 1883 he moved to Berlin, where he became professor at the Royal Art School from 1895 and was appointed director of the same in 1905. This appointment was also associated with joining the Senate of the Berlin Academy of the Arts . In addition, he was acting director of the teaching establishment of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin in 1905/06 . In 1910 he was appointed a member of the Prussian State Art Commission.

His oeuvre included numerous landscape motifs from his Saxon homeland, Switzerland and Italy. From the end of the 1870s he also worked as an illustrator of children's and youth literature.

Viktor Paul Mohn died in Berlin in 1911 at the age of 68 and was buried in the Dahlem cemetery. The grave has not been preserved.

Works

In Friedrich von Boetticher "Painter 19th Century" takes a detailed list of his oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, murals, graffiti and illustrations (by the year 1895).

painter

  • Participation in the decoration of the stairwells of the Dresden Semperoper with landscape scenes from "Macbeth" and "Faust", 1876
  • Forest interior with old beech on the slope , oil study on paper, after 1869
  • Campagna landscape , oil on canvas, 1870, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
  • In the summer on the Elbe near Dresden , oil on canvas, 1896
  • Italian Country People , watercolor and pen over pencil on cardboard, 1878
  • The blue light of the Campagna , watercolor over pen on paper, 1879
  • Schneeweiss and Rosenroth , watercolor, 1893
  • Little brother and sister , watercolor, 1893
  • Procession , 1903
  • Angel of Peace with Palms, Angel of Peace floating and Crucifixion , 1899. Three cardboard boxes as templates for glass paintings, exhibited by the German Glass Mosaic Society Puhl & Wagner from Rixdorf near Berlin at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .

Author / illustrator

  • Viktor Paul Mohn: Ludwig Richter, (= artist monographs No. XIV). Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1896 ( online edition )
  • The trip to the Christ Child. A Christmas fairy tale book by Julius Lohmeyer with pictures by VP Mohn and melodies by Theodor Krause , Flemming, Glogau 1889 ( online edition )
  • Children's songs and rhymes. Selection u. Drawings by VP Mohn, Stilke, Berlin 1890
  • Children's and household tales by the Brothers Grimm. Hertz, Berlin 1893
  • Ludwig Bechstein's book of fairy tales for children. Loewe, Stuttgart 1905
  • Fairy tale bouquet for children and homes. Pictures by VP Mohn, Stilke, Berlin 1882. New editions / reprints: 1910, 1960, 1982, 1987

literature

Web links

Commons : Paul Mohn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal and studio news. In: Art for everyone . Volume 21, 1905/1906, Issue 5 (December 1, 1905), p. 119. (Digitalisat Uni. Heidelberg)
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 571.
  3. ^ Illustration at Albertina Collections Online
  4. ↑ Figure ( Memento from August 20, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD-online)
  5. ↑ Figure ( memento from January 24, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) at FAZ .net
  6. ↑ Illustration ( memento from January 24, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) at HW Fichter Kunsthandel, Frankfurt am Main
  7. ↑ Illustration ( memento from January 24, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) at HW Fichter Kunsthandel, Frankfurt am Main
  8. ^ Illustration catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1893, plate 141 (digital copy of the Berlin Art Library / GBV )
  9. ^ Illustration catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1893, plate 142 (digitized version of the Berlin Art Library / GBV)
  10. ↑ Illustration in: The art for all. Volume 18, 1902/1903, issue 21 (August 1, 1903), p. 503. (Digitized at Uni. Heidelberg)
  11. ^ Catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1899, p. 107. (Digitized at Uni. Heidelberg)
  12. ↑ Review of the work: From the Christmas market: Paul Mohn - fairy tale bouquet for child and home (Berlin, Georg Stilke). In: Kunstchronik : Weekly for art and applied arts. Volume 18, 1882/1883, issue 9 (December 14, 1882), column 163. (Digitized at Uni. Heidelberg)
personal data
SURNAME Poppy, Viktor Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mohn, Paul (nickname); Poppy, Victor Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1911
Place of death Berlin