Wilhelm Gallhof
Illustration — The Coral Necklace (Die Korallenkette) Wilhelm Gallhof (24 July 1878 in Iserlohn - June 1918) was a German painter and sculptor. At the beginning of the 20th century he was one of the most important German painters of female nudes in the Impressionist and Jugendstil movements.
Wilhelm Gallhof
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- Born
- 1878 · Iserlohn.
- Died
- 1918
- Nationality
- German Empire
- Occupation
- painter · sculptor
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — The Coral Necklace (Die Korallenkette) Wilhelm Gallhof (24 July 1878 in Iserlohn - June 1918) was a German painter and sculptor. At the beginning of the 20th century he was one of the most important German painters of female nudes in the Impressionist and Jugendstil movements.
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Wilhelm Gallhof (1878–1918) was a German painter and sculptor. The painter was born in Iserlohn.
Languages used include German. Works by Wilhelm Gallhof are held at Berlinische Galerie.
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Little biographical information is known about Gallhof. According to some sources, he studied art with the history painter Johann Caspar Herterich at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, then at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Karlsruhe with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutte and finally with the painter Lovis Corinth, who belonged to the Berlin Secession, in Berlin. He worked in Weimar and Paris, among other places. Wilhelm Gallhof had a "fast" style of painting and was controversial because of his numerous erotic paintings, which were considered pornographic at the time, but was accepted and highly valued in art circles. His motifs fit into the zeitgeist of the upheaval before the First World War and anticipated the lifestyle of the golden twenties. Gallhof died as a soldier at the end of World War I, around the age of 40. Wilhelm Gallhof was a member of Deutscher Künstlerbund. Gallhof's most famous and frequently cited and copied work is The Coral Necklace (Die Korallenkette) from 1917. The nude shows a fully undressed woman on a chair, looking into a hand mirror, wearing coral necklaces around her neck and ankle. The painting appeared on the cover of the Munich art and literature magazine Jugend in 1917.
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• Illustration — Half Act (Halbakt), before 1898 • Illustration — Temptation of the Knight (Die Versuchung des Ritters), 1910 • Illustration — In Front of the Mirror (Vor dem Spiegel) (1910) • Illustration — Collier (Kohlenschiff), 1918
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1878
Wilhelm Gallhof born at Iserlohn.
1918
Wilhelm Gallhof died.
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- 1.Dates of birth and death can be found in the Checklist of Painters from 1200-1994 (Ed.: Witt Library of the Coundauld Institute), Fitzroy Dearborn Publications, 1997. p. 177, ISBN 978-1-884964-37- 4. In the Monogrammlexikon/Dictionary of Monograms 2 (Ed.: Paul Pfisterer), Gruyter 1995, p. 917, ISBN 978-3-11-014300-3, there are years of birth and death as well as the note that Gallhof is a victim of the First World War.
- 2.Ordentliche Mitglieder des Deutschen Künstlerbundes seit der Gründung 1903 / Gallhof, Wilhelm. Künstlerbund.de.
- 3.The painting is in the Berlinische Galerie.
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