Wilhelm Gallhof

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Wilhelm Gallhof (born July 24, 1878 in Iserlohn ; † June 1918) was a German painter and sculptor. At the beginning of the 20th century he was one of the most important painters of female nudes in the Impressionist and Art Nouveau .

Life

Wilhelm Gallhof: The Coral Necklace (1917)

Little is known about Gallhof's biography. According to some sources, he studied art with the history painter Johann Caspar Herterich at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , then at the arts and crafts school in Karlsruhe with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutte and finally with the Berlin Secession painter Lovis Corinth in Berlin. He worked in Weimar and Paris, among others. Wilhelm Gallhof had a fast painting style and was controversial because of his numerous erotic paintings , which were then considered pornographic , but accepted and highly valued in art circles. His motifs fit into the zeitgeist of the new beginnings before the First World War and anticipated the lifestyle of the Roaring Twenties . Gallhof fell as a soldier at the end of the First World War at the age of about 40.

Wilhelm Gallhof was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Gallhof's most famous and often quoted and copied work is The Coral Chain . The nude shows a completely undressed woman on an armchair, looking in the hand mirror and wearing coral necklaces on her neck and ankle. The painting appeared on the cover of the Munich art and literary magazine Jugend in 1917 .

Painting by Wilhelm Gallhof (small selection)

  • Half act , before 1898

  • The Temptation of the Knight , 1910

  • Coal ship , 1918

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Gallhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of birth and death can be found in the Checklist of Painters from 1200-1994 (Ed .: Witt Library of the Coundauld Institute), Fitzroy Dearborn Publications, 1997. p. 177, ISBN 978-1-884964-37-4 . In the Monogrammlexikon / Dictionary of Monograms 2 (Ed .: Paul Pfisterer), Gruyter 1995, p. 917, ISBN 978-3-11-014300-3 , the year of birth and death as well as the note that Gallhof was killed in the First World War are given. The art historian Wilhelm Schölermann (born January 6, 1865 in Hamburg , † May 4, 1923 in Weimar ) wrote one of numerous contemporary appreciations of the "painter and etcher" Wilhelm Gallhof in 1912 in the magazine for fine arts published by EA Seemann ( Volume 47).
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Gallhof, Wilhelm ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 31, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ The painting is in the Berlinische Galerie .
personal data
SURNAME Gallhof, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn
DATE OF DEATH June 1918