Vue sur le lac depuis le vignoble, 1905

Paul Kutscha  

Paul Kutscha, also Kutscha-Arend on June 29, 1872 in Pruchna, then Austrian Silesia, now a municipality of Strumień, Poland, he died in 1935 in Munich. He was an Austrian painter of nature and the navy.

Kutscha, son of a civil engineer and building contractor, grew up in Vienna and, after attending the building trades school, studied from the spring of 1891 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in the nature class with Gabriel von Hackl and from January 1893 with Johann Caspar Herterich, although it was in this register, was later deleted with reference to the existing register entry 821. Alexander von Liezen-Mayer was also one of his teachers. In 1894, he was represented with his painting Tiberinsel at the International Secession Art Exhibition in Munich.

He completed his studies in Paris; Then he went on a world tour for four years, visiting every continent as far as Australia, where he worked for a time in Sydney. During the voyage, he devoted himself mainly to representations of the navy and the ports. Around 1900 he lived in Berlin, 1901 in Sankt Alban (Dießen am Ammersee), later he also worked in Hamburg and Vienna from around 1905 to 1910 (1907). Back in Berlin in 1912 and in Dachau in 1913. It was during this time that he met the painter Clara Porges, who was for a time his pupil.

His paintings show nature, the old town and marine motifs in a style between impressionism and naturalism. Ludwig Hevesi thus characterized him in 1907 on the occasion of an exhibition of his paintings at the Vienna Hirschler art fair.

"Overall, he's a moderate impressionist, with no optical adventures."

Kutscha also worked as an illustrator or made his sketches available to illustrators.

The Städel owned an Arab cafe from him. The Ernst Rump collection in Hamburg had 10 charcoal drawings and one gouache.