Arthur KAMPF
1864–1950, Germany
Biography
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Arthur Kampf biography:
Arthur Kampf studied at the art academy in Düsseldorf under Peter Janssen the Elder. Afterwards he took a position as an assistant teacher initially and then as a professor at the academy. In 1898 he moved to Berlin. Here he became a member and later President of the Royal Academy of Arts. From 1915 to 1925 he was director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. As a history painter Kampf created numerous monumental commissions and paintings with allegorical and historical or war themes. The majority of Kampf’s oeuvre is now lost or was destroyed in the war
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