Carl Nonn - Artist Info

About Carl Nonn

Name variants

Karl Nonn, Carl Noon
  • Biography

    Carl Nonn (born April 29, 1876 in Bonn ; † June 25, 1949 there ) was a German painter

    Nonn was born as the third and youngest child of master furrier Anton Nonn and his wife Franziska Crow. After attending the Bonn Minster School, he completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter from 1888 to 1894 and then worked as such. In addition, he received private lessons from the drawing teacher Adams. From 1894 to 1896 he attended the arts and crafts school in Düsseldorf.

    He did his military service from 1897 to 1898 with the Bonn Infantry Regiment . He suffered a broken bone in his right hand, the wrong treatment of which resulted in permanent stiffening of the hand. Until 1900 Nonn stayed in Munich , where he painted churches ...

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