Paul Kayser
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Paul Kayser (22 September 1869, in Hamburg – 23 September 1942, in Donaueschingen) was a German painter and graphic artist.
Biography
[edit]He began with an apprenticeship as a decorative painter at the firm of Wirth & Bay then, from 1886 to 1889, attended the Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule München, followed by the Kunstgewerbeschule Dresden . From 1890 to 1894, he worked as a decorative painter in Hamburg.
In 1902, he married Melanie Hertz, daughter of the physicist Heinrich Hertz, and they had two children. At that time, he was a private art teacher.
From 1906 to 1939 (interrupted by service in Schleswig during World War I) he taught at the art school operated by Gerda Koppel . Due to the destruction resulting from World War II, he left Hamburg in 1941 to settle in Donaueschingen, on the Swiss border, where he died one year later.
He was a founding member of the Hamburgischer Künstlerklub and, from 1897, a participant in the Hamburgische Sezession , a group of young artists and writers, modelled on the Munich Secession. He was also a member of the Altonaer Künstlerverein . His style was heavily influenced by Albert Marquet, whom he had met in 1909, and reunited with during a trip to Paris in 1933. His notable works include two large paintings that were created as decorations for the ocean liner SS Imperator.
His works were part of a major exhibition in 2019: Hamburger Schule – Das 19. Jahrhundert neu entdeckt at the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
Selected paintings
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View from Gerda Koppel's Art School
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On the Elbe
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Still-life
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Venice
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Interior with Melanie
Sources
[edit]- Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann (2004), Paul Kayser (1869–1942) – Bilder aus Hamburg Ausstellung in der Hamburger Sparkasse … 18. Februar – 8. April 2004 (in German), Hamburg, OCLC 249453460
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburger Ansichten. Maler sehen die Stadt. Wienand Verlag, Köln 2009, ISBN 978-3-86832-018-3, pg.190.
- Anna Lena Meyer: Paul Kayser, Maler. In: Olaf Matthes and Ortwin Pelc: Menschen in der Revolution. Hamburger Porträts 1918/19. Husum Verlag, Husum 2018, ISBN 978-3-89876-947-1, pgs.92–94.
- Kayser, Paul. In: Ernst Rump (Ed.): Lexikon der bildenden Künstler Hamburgs, Altonas und der näheren Umgebung. Bröcker, Hamburg 1912
- Kayser, Paul. In: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Vol. 20: Kaufmann–Knilling. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1927, pg.46
External links
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- More works by Kayser @ ArtNet
- Works by Kayser @ the Galerie-Herold