Keller-Kühne Josef Woldemar

Antichità Missaglia - www.antichitamissaglia.it Ducks – Keller-Kühne Josef  Woldemar (1902 – 1991) COD: QA47 Artwork measurements: 49 x 79 cm Measurements with frame: 59 x 89 cm Technique: oil on canvas Period: 1950s Beautiful painting depicting a group of four resting ducks. Josef Woldemar Keller-Kühne (April 23, 1902 Munich – March 9, 1991  Miesbach) Life and Work Josef Woldemar Keller-Kühne studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1921 to 1930. His teachers at the time included Heinrich von Zügel and Angelo Jank. During semester breaks, he traveled to Austria, Hungary, France, Latvia, and Finland. From 1922 onwards, Keller-Kühne was represented with paintings at exhibitions in Munich. Even then, his favorite subject was animals. In 1925, he was offered a professorship in Budapest, but he refused it. In the summer of 1926, Keller-Kühne traveled to Paris with Daisy Campi and Hermann Euler. In 1930, Keller-Kühne completed his academic education. The academy certificate drawn up by his teacher Heinrich von Hügel states, among other things: “The undersigned hands over to his former student Keller-Kühne the certificate that he has managed to bring his exceptional talent to the highest level. In 1931, Keller-Kühne joined the NSDAP (membership number 530,791). On July 6, 1931, eight works by Keller-Kühne were destroyed in the fire of the Glass Palace. On April 23, 1936, Keller-Kühne married Maria Stemplinger in Munich. Three children, Tilman, Imma, and Florentine, were born from the marriage. From 1942 onwards, Keller-Kühne worked as a facade painter in Greece, Poland, and France. In 1944, the apartment (Adalbertstr. 78) and the studio (Adalbertstr. 57) in Munich were destroyed by an attack. Subsequently, Keller-Kühne moved with his family to Großschwaig (district of Miesbach) and at the end of 1944 rented the historic blacksmith's workshop in Bach. In 1951, Keller-Kühne moved with his family to Harzberg (Miesbach), where he lived and worked ever since. He devoted himself more to hunting and continued to work as a painter. In addition to animal motifs, landscapes, city views, and portraits were created. Josef Woldemar Keller-Kühne was a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative. Exhibitions 1922: First represented at the “Munich Art Exhibition” in the Glass Palace (with the oil study “Cows” (catalog number 890)). Except for 1926 and 1929, Keller-Kühne was represented at every “Munich Art Exhibition” until 1931, usually with several works. In 1927 and 1928, he exhibited at the “Munich Secession” and in the remaining years at the “Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft (MKG)”. 1929; Munich Art Association, Munich 1931-1933: participation in the Munich art exhibitions, which took place in the German Museum of Munich due to the fire in the Glass Palace 1932: Participation in the “Munich Art Exhibition” (Kunstpalast Düsseldorf) 1933: Participation in the exhibition “Special Exhibition of the Munich Artists' Cooperative to promote donations to national work and winter aid” (Munich Artists' Cooperative, Munich) 1934–1935: Participation in the “Great Munich Art Exhibition” (Neue Pinakothek, Munich) 1935: Participation in the exhibition “Munich Artists” (Prussian Academy of Arts, Berlin) 1935: Special exhibition on Keller-Kühne at the Civic Gallery of Nuremberg (with a total of 56 works) 1936: Participation in the exhibition “50 years of landscape painting and portrait sculpture in Munich” (Neue Pinakothek, Munich) 1936: Participation in the exhibition “50 years of landscape painting and portrait sculpture in Munich” (Neue Pinakothek, Munich) 1937: Participation in the “Munich Annual Exhibition” (Neue Pinakothek, Munich) 1937: Participation in the exhibition “Figure and composition in images and on the wall” (Neue Pinakothek, Munich) 1937: Participation in the exhibition “Work in Art” (Munich Exhibition Park) 1937: Participation in the exhibition “German Art” (organized by the National Socialist cultural community, exhibition building Lichtentaler Allee, Baden-Baden) 1937: Participation in the “Animal Art Exhibition” (organized by the National Socialist cultural community, exhibition building Tiergartenstrasse, Berlin) 1938: Participation in the “art exhibition” (organized by the Nazi community Kraft durch Freude, Hamburger Kunsthalle) 1938–1944: Participation (with a total of 18 paintings) in the main German art exhibitions at the House of German Art (Munich). Three paintings were purchased by Adolf Hitler (“Nuss Jay” (1938), “Calves in the Stable” (1939), “In Fire Position” (1940) and one by Martin Bormann (“Zenzerl”). 1938–1942: Participation in the “Munich Art Exhibition” (Maximilianeum, Munich) 1941: Participation in the exhibition “Munich artists experience war” (Munich Cultural Office) 1943: Participation in the exhibition “Artists of Western Germany – Munich Designers” (Municipal Gallery of Munich) Early 1944: participation in the exhibition “German Artists” Keller-Kühne was represented here with the painting “Manrico” (horse head of the famous jumper “Manrico”). June–July 1944: Participation in the Salzburg exhibition (extended to the previous exhibition in Breslau). Keller-Kühne was represented with six works, including the painting “My Wife” for which he received the Leibl-Sperl Prize from the city of Rosenheim in 1943. 1982: Anniversary exhibition in Miesbach, on the occasion of the 80th birthday Awards 1926: Art prize of the city of Munich for the painting Bull in the Stable July 4, 1943: Leibl-Sperl Prize of the Rosenheim Art Association for the painting My Wife 1990: Culture Prize of the city of Miesbach Purchases 1926: the Civic Gallery of Munich purchases the painting “Bull in the Stable”, which receives the city's art prize in the same year. Subsequently, the house purchased eleven more paintings by Keller-Kühne: “Pußta”, “Goats”, “Henhouse”, “Turkeys”, “Near Brannenburg”, “Peasant plowing”, “Roe deer”, “Near Würzburg”, “Auf the pasture”, “Grummeternte” and “Goat with cat”. 1930: the Bavarian State Painting Collections purchase the painting "The Piglets". 1953: first of numerous purchases by the Ministry of Agriculture.