STADTLEXIKON KARLSRUHE:
Friedrich Kallmorgen
Painter, graphic artist, born November 15, 1856 in Hamburg-Altona, † June 2, 1924 Grötzingen, ev., ∞ 1882 Margarethe Hormuth-Eber, 1 son, 1 daughter.
Parallel to the secondary school, the son of a building contractor received his first lessons in the arts and crafts school in Altona from around 1870. After graduating from high school, Kallmorgen studied genre, portrait and history painting with Ernst Hildebrand and landscape painting with Hans Frederik Gude from 1875-1877 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, from 1877-1879 at the Karlsruhe Art School. In the 1880s, he processed the knowledge he had acquired in the figure and landscape subject in a series of narrative compositions that have brought him international awards since 1885. Since 1880 he made many study trips within Europe; He very often visited Holland (ships in the Amsterdam harbor, 1889, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe) as well as Altona and Hamburg.
Since 1881 he maintained close contact with Gustav Schönleber, since 1882 with Hermann Baisch and since 1888 with Wilhelm Ritter, some of whom accompanied him to Holland and Paris. From 1886-1887 he was an assistant teacher in Schönleber's still life class. In 1887 he was commissioned by the Gemäldegalerie Karlsruhe to paint the “Rhine flood near Karlsruhe in 1887” (1888, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe). Ferdinand Keller was able to prevent an appointment as full professor at the Karlsruhe Art School. In 1891 he was only awarded the title of professor.