Carl Murdfield

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Gruppenführer der Malkasten-Redoute im Jahr 1912, von links nach rechts: Theodor Groll, , , Architekt Thilo Schneider,  [de],  [de], Carl Murdfield, Fritz von Wille

Carl Ludwig Alfred Franz Murdfield, also Karl Murdfield (9 June 1868 – 8 May 1944) was a German portrait and of the Düsseldorf school of painting, director of the , Organiser of art exhibitions, archivist and chairman of the art association Malkasten, author of local and Art history anecdotes as well as in Düsseldorf.

Life[]

Portrait of the Archbishop  [de], 1901
Exhibition of the Simar portrait adorned with crape in the of the , photo by Otto Renard

Born in Rheine, Murdfield, youngest of five children from the marriage of the Catholic merchant Theodor Carl Joseph Murdfield (1823-1904) to Magdalena "Lena", née Becker (1836-1910), grew up in Rheine and attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1885 to 1892/1893. His teachers there were ,  [de], Johann Peter Theodor Janssen, Adolf Schill, Julius Roeting and Eduard Gerhardt. During this time he was a member of the student fraternity . After his studies in Düsseldorf, he went to the Académie Julian in Paris.

Hünenborg-Ehrenmal in Rheine

In 1896, Murdfield settled in Düsseldorf. There he became a member, later archivist and chairman of the artists' association Malkasten, also a member of the Verein zur Veranstaltung von Kunstausstellungen and, as successor to Hermann Carl Hempel Director of the Kunsthalle. In these functions he organised art exhibitions alongside his work as a portrait painter. At the end of 1934 Murdfield retired as managing director of the Kunsthalle and was succeeded by the painter Fred Kocks.[1] In addition, he was active for the Deutsche Zentrumspartei as a city councillor in the council of the city of Düsseldorf from 1919 to 1924. Among the personalities who commissioned Murdfield to paint portraits were Archbishop  [de][2] and the former Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf  [de].[3]

On 19 April 1898, he married Bertha Offenberg (1874-1919), the daughter of the mountain councilor Ludwig Offenberg (1830-1879), who gave birth to their daughter Johanna. The painter Gisela Baur-Nütten (1886-1981), who married the painter around 1906, was a private student of Murdfield's in the 1900s.

In the 1920s, Murdfield designed the "Hünenborg Memorial", which was erected in 1926/1927 as a war memorial for soldiers killed in the First World War, made of rough-hewn blocks of Ibbenbüren and Baumberg sandstone on the  [de] in Rheine. Murdfield died in 1944 at the age of 75 after a short illness in Unterjoch (Allgäu), where he is buried in the mountain cemetery.

Publications[]

  • Malkasten-Anekdoten und Künstler-Erinnerungen. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1927.
  • Aus der Chronika des „Malkasten“. In Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, 42. Jahrgang (1927/1928), vol. 1, pp. 617–632 (PDF).
  • Der Maler als Schmiedemeister. In Eifel-Kalender, Jahrgang 1931, p. 129 (Numerized, Anecdote about the genre painter Hubert Salentin).

References[]

  1. ^ "The long-serving and deserving managing director painter Carl Murdfield, who retired as a result of reaching the age limit, was succeeded by the painter custodian F. Kocks." - Cf. section "Society for the Promotion of Düsseldorf Fine Arts". In Administrative Report of the City of Düsseldorf for the Period from 1 April 1933 to 31 March 1936. Düsseldorf [1937], p. 36 (uni-duesseldorf.de)
  2. ^ C. Murdfield, Archbishop Hubertus Theofilus Simar, website in portal koelner-dom.de, retrieved 14 September 2021
  3. ^ Die Porträts der Oberbürgermeister, Bilderfolge im Portal rp-online.de, retrieved 14 September 2021

Further reading[]

  • Murdfield, Carl. In Hans Vollmer (ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Created by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Vol. 25: Moehring–Olivié. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 283.
  • Johanna Clostermann: Erinnerungen an meinen Vater, den Maler Carl Murfield (1868–1944). In Rheine, gestern, heute, morgen, 16th edition (1986), fascicule 1, pp. 6–13.
  • Christiane Kerrutt: Carl Murdfield (1868–1944). Ein Maler aus Rheine – Leben und Werk. In Rheine, gestern, heute, morgen, 47. Ausgabe (2001), fascicule 1, pp. 7–61.
  • Sabine Schroyen: In Erinnerung an den „lebenden Chronisten“. Carl Murdfield und der Düsseldorfer Künstlerverein Malkasten. In: Rheine, gestern, heute, morgen. 47th edition (2001), fascicule 1, pp. 62–71.

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