Wilhelm Gallhof
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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.
Life
Wilhelm Gallhof was a member of Deutscher Künstlerbund.[1] 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.
Gallery
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Half Act (Halbakt), before 1898
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Temptation of the Knight (Die Versuchung des Ritters), 1910[2]
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In Front of the Mirror (Vor dem Spiegel) (1910)
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Collier (Kohlenschiff), 1918
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References
- ↑ "Ordentliche Mitglieder des Deutschen Künstlerbundes seit der Gründung 1903 / Gallhof, Wilhelm". Künstlerbund.de. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
- ↑ The painting is in the Berlinische Galerie.