Wilhelm Kohlhoff

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Wilhelm Kohlhoff (born May 6, 1893 in Berlin ; † July 9, 1971 in Schweinfurt ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

After attending secondary school in 1909, Wilhelm Kohlhoff began an apprenticeship at the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin . In addition, he taught himself to draw and paint as an autodidact .

In 1914 one of his paintings was shown for the first time at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . In 1916 he was involved in the 2nd exhibition of the Free Secession and the Jury-Free Art Show , but returned to the Berlin Secession in 1917 . There he produced expressive pictures under Corinth's impression .

In 1918 he founded an art school together with Franz Heckendorf , Krauskopf and Deierling. In the same year he married the painter Katharina Fischeder, with whom he had two sons; the marriage was divorced in 1928.

The Great Prussian State Prize was presented to him in 1919 for a self-portrait that was bought by the National Gallery.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , eight works by Kohlhoff were removed from museums as Degenerate Art . Nevertheless, he received orders for murals in public buildings. In 1939 he was drafted and used as a war painter. At the exhibition German Artists and the SS in 1944 in Breslau , the picture The Flag was exhibited. He got into Soviet captivity from which he was able to escape. After the war, he settled in Zell in the Fichtelgebirge and in Hof (Saale) , where he lived from 1949 to 1953 in his studio in the east tower of what was then the Schiller School in Hof . Many of his later still lifes, landscape paintings and portraits were created there, the majority of which are privately owned by Hofer Bürger. However, he made many trips, such as his annual trips to Italy . Shortly before his death in 1970, he married Moy Fehn.

Street sign with his name

In terms of art history, Wilhelm Kohlhoff belongs to the Lost Generation and Expressive Realism .

A street in the Hof district of Krötenbruck was named after him.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive Realism. Painting of the Lost Generation , Hirmer, Munich 1994, p. 402
personal data
SURNAME Kohlhoff, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1971
Place of death Schweinfurt