Friedrich Kallmorgen (15 November 1856 in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

– 2 June 1924 in

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) was a German

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painter who specialized in landscapes and

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Biography

His father was an architect. From 1862 to 1863, he received his first drawing lessons from his uncle, the portrait and landscape painter . In 1875, he enrolled at the

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová ...

, where he studied with Andreas Müller,

Ernst Deger Ernst Deger (15 April 1809, Bockenem - 27 January 1885, Düsseldorf) was a German religious artist, in the style of the Nazarene movement. He is considered to be the main representative of Christian art in the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Life ...

and

Eugen Dücker Eugen Gustav Dücker (also ''Eugène Gustav Dücker''; , in Arensburg (now Kuressaare, Estonia) – 6 December 1916, in Düsseldorf) was a Baltic German painter, in the Romantic atyle, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Biograph ...

. After a study trip to Franconian Switzerland, with

Carl Friedrich Lessing Karl Friedrich Lessing (15 February 1808, Breslau – 4 January 1880, Karlsruhe) was a German historical and landscape painter, grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and one of the main exponents of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Biogra ...

, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, where he was originally taught by Ernst Hildebrand, followed by Hans Fredrik Gude. In the summer of 1878, he undertook painting expeditions to

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and the

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. In 1881, after a brief stay in Berlin, he returned to Karlsruhe and completed his studies with Gustav Schönleber. Together with Schönleber and Hermann Baisch, he took trips to France, Belgium and Holland. Upon their return, he married the flower painter, Margarethe Hormuth. In 1889, he became one of the founders of the

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artists' colony. Two years later,

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named him a Professor. During the 1890s, he designed

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s for the

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chocolate company of Cologne. His 1899 series on Italian folksongs was especially popular.Detlef Lorenz: ''Reklamekunst um 1900. Künstlerlexikon für Sammelbilder.'' Reimer, Berlin 2000. In 1901, he was appointed a teacher of landscape painting at the

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, succeeding Eugen Bracht. In 1908, he was awarded a gold medal at the "

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". He continued to travel widely, visiting Norway and Russia. After a brief residency in

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German: ') is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914, of which roughly a quarter consisted of students ...

, he returned to the artists' colony near Karlsruhe and died there.

Selected paintings

File:Friedrich Kallmorgen Mecklenburgischer Bauer 1911.jpg,

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Farmer File:Friedrich Kallmorgen Im Treibeis der Elbe.jpg, Cruising on the

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File:Friedrich Kallmorgen Burgtor 1906.jpg, Castle Gate File:Friedrich Kallmorgen Holzsammlerin im Herbstwald 1893.jpg, Wood Collector in an Autumn Forest

References

External links

ArtNet: More works by Kallmorgen.
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Biography

Selected paintings

References

Further reading

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