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Karl Knaths
Karl Knaths was an American artist whose personal approach to the Cubist aesthetic led him to create paintings which, while abstract, contained readily identifiable subjects. In addition to the Cubist painters,〔http://www.ranker.com/list/famous-cubism-artists/reference〕 his work shows influence by Paul Cézanne, Wassily Kandinsky, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Paul Klee, Stuart Davis, and Agnes Weinrich. It is nonetheless, in use of heavy line, rendering of depth, disciplined treatment of color, and architecture of planes, distinctly his own.〔〔〔〔
==Early life and work==
Karl Knaths was born October 21, 1891, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. His parents were Otto Julius Knaths and Maria Theresa Knaths.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Person Details for Otto Julius Knaths in entry for Olga Annie Knaths, 09 Dec 1893, 'Wisconsin, Births and Christenings, 1826-1926' — FamilySearch.org )〕 Shortly after Knaths's birth the family moved to Portage, Wisconsin where he spent his childhood years.〔〔〔 When he was in his late teens his father died and he became apprenticed to his mother's brother, George Dietrich, in the baking trade.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Otto Knaths in household of George F Dietrich, Portage Ward 3, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 28, sheet 1B, family 25, NARA microfilm publication T624, FHL microfilm 1375718. )〕 Although he had begun making sketches, he had no art instruction and little time for self-instruction. While attending Portage High School he met the local author, Zona Gale. She encouraged his interest and, upon his graduation in 1910, both convinced his uncle to release him from apprenticeship and introduced him to (Dudley Crafts Watson ) of the Milwaukee Art Institute. During the next year he studied art at the Institute. He obtained the job by which he supported himself when Gale introduced him to Laura Sherry, the director of the Wisconsin Players. Despite his youth and inexperience, Sherry took him on as caretaker of the playhouse and one of its set designers. In 1911, on advice from Gale and Craft, Knaths began studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.〔〔 There, he mainly supported himself as janitor's assistant but when the 1913 Armory Show came to town he landed a job at the show as one of the guards. The show was his first substantial exposure to European modernism and he later reported that the experience both confused and awed him. Uncomfortable with most of the work on display, he found much to like in the works of Cézanne, particularly the blocks of muted color out of which he built his compositions.〔
In 1917 Knaths rejoined the Wisconsin Players as the group's scenery painter during a tour of East Coast theaters.〔 When the Players arrived in Provincetown, Massachusetts for a performance of Gale's ''Mr. Pitt'' Knaths recognized it as a place where he could successfully practice his vocation. After two years' military service Knaths spent a short time studying art in New York City and then, in 1919, moved to Provincetown, which became his principal residence for the rest of his life.〔〔〔〔 In the early twentieth century Provincetown was a prosperous fishing town which attracted artists and theater people from New York's Greenwich Village as summer residents. On or soon after his arrival he met two sisters, Helen and Agnes Weinrich. The sisters had grown up on a prosperous Iowa farm, daughters of German immigrant parents. When in their 20s they had accompanied their father on a trip to Germany where Helen studied music and Agnes painting. Their father dying, they received an inheritance which permitted them to live and travel on their own and they returned to Germany and France to study further. In 1914 the sisters began spending the warm months of the year in Provincetown and, through contact with European expatriates who settled there during World War I, Agnes learned to employ Modernist and particularly Cubist techniques in her work. After their first meeting Agnes helped Knaths to develop his personal style of painting and over time they developed a close and mutually beneficial working relationship.〔〔 In 1922 Knaths married Helen and moved into the house which the sisters had rented. He was then 30, Helen 45, and Agnes 46. Agnes remained a member of the Knaths's household the rest of her life.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Summary of the Helen Weinrich Knaths photograph album, 1879-1976 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Agnes Weinrich )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2014-05-23 )〕
Knaths's earliest work has the strong lines, blocks of muted colors, and juxtaposition of rectangular and curvilinear forms which characterize his mature style. One of his early paintings, ''Horse Barns'', Provincetown (1919, gouache, 7x8") contains three barn structures within a small grove of trees and bushes. It shows influence of Cézanne and is not notably Cubist. The coloration is low-key in green, purple, and ochre hues. The composition has sweeping rounded shapes beside heavily outlined rhombuses and other quadrilateral shapes. It has a painterly, nearly impressionist feel and, despite the subject matter, might as well be a still life as a landscape.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2014-05-23 )〕
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