Master  of  the  South  German  Landscape

Kampmann, Gustav (Boppard 1859 – Godesberg 1917). Greifenberg. In front field with trees, in the middle distance the village. Black chalk, heigthened with white, on beige cardboard. Inscribed: GK. (ligated) / Greifenberg / 2. Mai (19)10. 296 x 398 mm.

Thieme-Becker XIX, 510. – Fine, executed work and even by its theme corresponding to Thieme-Becker’s estimate of the paintings:

“ … by their quiet simple, decorative conception and a characteristic melancholy basic mood that is achieved not least by the dispense with figurative decoration. The view over the width and flatness of the landscape and a pronounced preference for the depiction of fog or twilight moods and moonlit nights make for Kampmann’s mastership in the depiction of the South German landscape … ”

Kampmann, landscapist and lithographer, master pupil of Gustav Schoenleber, co-worker for PAN and important exponent of the Karlsruhe School, who also met “with great approval for his partly masterly landscape lithographs”. So he took part i. a. in the world exposition Paris 1900 with – according to Bénézit – special success.

See  also the review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of Dec. 30, 1975, on the exhibition “The Painter’s Colony Grötzingen – A Worpswede in Baden” in Karlsruhe, stating i. a.:

“ Kampmann  is  the  artistic  event  of  the  exhibition . ”

And again – as the only one of the pupils – in the Schoenleber exhibition there in 1991.
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