Leopold Von Kalckreuth; German Artist; 1909 Etching; GUncle of Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Count Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, aged 73, (May 15, 1855 – December 1, 1928) was a German painter, known for … more Count Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, aged 73, (May 15, 1855 – December 1, 1928) was a German painter, known for portraits and landscapes. His motifs and painting style are predominantly realism with an impressionistic component.

Details:
• Created 1909- approximately 113 years old!
• This piece is artist signed in pencil in the lower right: ‘Kalckreuth d.j.’
- d.j. - der jüngere, translates from German as ‘the younger’
• Monogram etched in the plate… ‘K 09’
• Extraordinarily thin paper; paper is in wonderful shape;
• Behind glass and in a in expensive, front access frame; ready to hang;
• Plate impression dimensions – 6 in x 7 in;
• Frame dimensions – 12 in x 16 in.

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Leopold was born in Dusseldorf and received his first training at Weimar from his father, the landscape painter Count Stanislaus von Kalckreuth (1820–1894), and subsequently studied at the academies of Weimar and Munich.

Von Kalckreuth family:
• Sister Countess Maria von Kalckreuth (1857-1897) was also a painter.
• Sister Clara was a pianist who studied with Clara Schumann and with Franz Liszt.
• Great-nephew, Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), the German theologian & anti-Nazi martyr.

Although he painted some portraits remarkable for their power of expression, he devoted himself principally to depicting with relentless realism the monotonous life of the fishing folk on the sea-coast, and of the peasants in the fields. His palette is joyless, and almost melancholy, and in his technique was strongly influenced by the impressionists. He was one of the founders of the secessionist movement.

From 1885 to 1890 Leopold was professor at the Weimar art school. In 1890 he resigned his professorship and retired to his estate of Hockricht, in Silesia, where he occupied himself in painting subjects drawn from the life of the country-folk. In 1895 he became a professor at the art school at Karlsruhe.

His work, Rainbow, hangs in Munich’s Alte Pinakothek and his Old Age hangs in Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. Among his chief works are the Funeral at Dachau, Homewards, Wedding Procession in the Carpathian Mountains, The Gleamers, Before the Fish Auction, Summer and Going to School.

He received the award and membership of the Order Pour le Mérite for Science and Arts in Bonn in 1926. He received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art in 1927 and was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association until his death. Kalckreuth joins the list of artists who contributed to artistic dialogue in the 19th century on the move to modernity through their work in Germany. less