Village on the Water (1893)

Carl Arp (3 January 1867 – 6 January 1913) was a German landscape painter.[1] He is best known as a founding member of the Schleswig-Holsteinische Kunstgenossenschaft and representative of the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School (Grossherzoglich-Sächsische Kunstschule Weimar).[2] Subsequent to his studies there under Theodor Hagen and Leopold von Kalckreuth, he spent several years in Italy.[3] Carl Arp is viewed as one of the main representatives of the "en plein air" style of landscape painting.[4]

Arp was born in Kiel, where in 1894 he became a member of the artist cooperative 'Schleswig-Holsteinische Kunstgenossenschaft'; he also taught in Weimar,[5] and had exhibitions in Munich, Berlin and Düsseldorf. His works are exhibited in museums in Kiel, Danzig und Weimar but many are held in private collections. Returning to the Weimar Art School in November 1904, he met his relative and co-founder of the avant-garde art movement Dadaism, Jean Arp, there.[6] During the second world war, the SS Cap Tafelneh, sunk by German planes at Dunkirk and salvaged by the German navy, was named after him.

Arp's works are mostly oil or water colour paintings with motives from Schleswig-Holstein and the Kieler Förde, as well as his time in southern Germany and Italy. Examples include:

  • An den Schleusen / At the Sluice Gates, oil on board, 75 cm x 54 cm
  • Giardino Pubblico, Venedig / Public Gardens, Venice, oil on board, 31 cm x 24 cm
  • Matterhorn / Monte Cervino, oil on board, 16.5 cm x 21.5 cm

See also

References

  1. ↑ Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Kieler Stadtgeschichte: Bd. 59 S. 159
  2. ↑ Wolff-Thomsen et al.: Vertreter der Schleswig-Holsteinischen Kunstgenossenschaft Carl Arp – Jacob Alberts – Ludwig Dettmann – Georg Burmester – Helene Gries-Danican. In: Ich muss ja – sammeln! Die Kunstsammlung des Malerfreundes, Wagnerianers und Arztes Dr. Paul Wassily (1868–1951) in Kiel, Gesellschaft für Kieler Stadtgeschichte, Ludwig, Kiel, 2006 ISBN 978-3-93771941-2, S. 85 ff
  3. ↑ Walther Scheidig: Die Weimarer Malerschule. Seemann, Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-363-00538-5
  4. ↑ Hendrik Ziegler: Die Kunst der Weimarer Malerschule. Von der Pleinairmalerei zum Impressionismus. Böhlau, Köln, Weimar, Wien 2001, ISBN 3-412-15400-8.
  5. ↑ "Arp, Carl". Galerie Paffrath. Archived from the original on 21 October 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  6. ↑ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer & Telse Wolf-Timm; Der Kieler Maler Carl Arp (1867–1913); Doris Tillmann (Publisher) for the Kiel Municipal and Maritime Museum (Kieler Stadt- und Schiffahrtsmuseum); Kiel 2016; ISBN 978-3-86935-282-4
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