- Alexander Kanoldt
Alexander Kanoldt (
September 29 ,1881 –January 24 ,1939 ) was a German magic realist painter and one of the artists of theNew Objectivity .Kanoldt was born in
Karlsruhe . His father was the painter Edmond Kanoldt, a late practitioner of the Nazarene style. After studies in Karlsruhe he went toMunich in 1908, where he met a number of modernists such asAlexei Jawlensky ,Wassily Kandinsky andGabrielle Münter . He became a member of the Munich New Secession in 1913, with Jawlensky andPaul Klee . After military service inWorld War I from 1914 to 1918, thestill life s 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. He also painted portraits in the same severe style, as well as geometrical landscapes. In 1925 he was made a professor at
Breslau Academy, a post he held until 1931. During this time he came into conflict with theBauhaus faction at the Academy, and he was increasingly at odds with theavant 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 asdegenerate art in 1937. He died in Berlin in 1939.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 0-7287-0184-7External links
* [http://www.tendreams.org/kanoldt.htm Ten Dreams Galleries]
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