Alexander Kanoldt
{{short description|German artist}}
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| image = Alexander Kanoldt - Autoportret.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|09|29}}
| birth_place = Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1939|01|24|1881|09|29}}
| death_place = Berlin, Germany
| education = Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
| occupation = painter
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Alexander Kanoldt (29 September 1881 – 24 January 1939) was a German magic realist painter and one of the artists of the New Objectivity.
Early life and education
File:Alexander Kanoldt - Der rote Gürtel.jpg
File:Alexander Kanoldt Still Life II.jpg
Alexander Kanoldt was born on 29 September 1881 in Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. His father was the painter {{Interlanguage link|Edmund Kanoldt|de}}, a late practitioner of the Nazarene style.Michalski 1994, p. 84.
After studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe he went to Munich in 1908,Schmied 1978, p. 128. where he met a number of modernists such as Alexej von Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter. He became a member of the Munich New Secession in 1913,Michalski 1994, p. 213. with Jawlensky and Paul Klee.
Career
Following military service in World War I from 1914 to 1918, the still lifes Kanoldt painted show the influence of Derain and an adaptation of cubist ideas.
By the early 1920s Kanoldt developed the manner for which he is best known, a magic realist rendering of potted plants, angular tins, fruit and mugs on tabletops.Michalski 1994, p. 85. He also painted portraits in the same severe style, as well as geometrical landscapes. In 1925 he was made a professor at Breslau Academy of Arts, a post he held until 1931. During this time he came into conflict with the Bauhaus faction at the academy, and he was increasingly at odds with the avant garde. From 1933 until his resignation in 1936 he was the director of the State School of Art in Berlin.
With the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933 Kanoldt attempted accommodation, painting in a romantic style, but nonetheless many of his works were seized by the authorities as degenerate art in 1937.
He died in Berlin on 24 January 1939.
See also
Notes
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References
- Michalski, Sergiusz (1994). New Objectivity. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen. {{ISBN|3-8228-9650-0}}
- Schmied, Wieland (1978). Neue Sachlichkeit and German Realism of the Twenties. London: Arts Council of Great Britain. {{ISBN|0-7287-0184-7}}
External links
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- [http://www.tendreams.org/kanoldt.htm Ten Dreams Galleries]
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Category:Artists from Karlsruhe
Category:20th-century German painters
Category:20th-century German male artists
Category:Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe alumni
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