Carl Theodor Meyer-Basel

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Carl Theodor Meyer-Basel (1860–1932) artist, etcher, painter, graphic artist, co-founder of the Swiss graphic association Die Walze, family grave at the Hörnli cemetery, Riehen, Basel-Stadt
Family grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt

Carl Theodor Meyer , called Meyer-Basel , (born May 15, 1860 in Basel , † August 28, 1932 in Hauptwil , Canton Thurgau ) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist. He was a co-founder of the Swiss graphic association “Die Walze” and the Association for Original Etching in Munich and a member of the German Association of Artists .

Life

Carl Theodor Meyer-Basel was born on May 15, 1860 in Basel to a culturally open-minded family. His father was the hospital director Theodor Meyer-Merian . The mayor of Basel, Adelberg Meyer zum Pfeil, is one of his ancestors . Meyer-Basel's talent for drawing was recognized and encouraged early on in his family.

He received his first training from the engraver Friedrich Weber , a friend of the family, where he made copies of landscapes after Alexandre Calame . Meyer-Basel then studied at the Basel drawing and modeling school with Fritz Schider and Fritz Trübner. In 1877 he began studying at the Munich Art Academy . He trained in anatomical studies with Professor Johann Leonhard Raab . Lessons in the private painting school of Alexander von Wagner were of far greater importance to him . Josef Wenglein's poetic, simple landscape painting had a lasting influence there. Two stays in Paris , during which he studied the works of Camille Corot , Charles-François Daubigny and Jean-François Millet , also left a lasting impression. In Munich he cultivated numerous friendships with Swiss and German artist colleagues. These included Ludwig Dill , Otto Frölicher , Peter Halm , Adolf Stäbli - after his death in 1901, Meyer-Basel took care of the artistic estate - Fritz Voellmy and Wilhelm Volz .

In 1891 Meyer-Basel was one of the founding members of the Association for Original Etching in Munich. Since 1892 he was a committed member of the Munich Secession . In Munich, together with fellow Swiss artists, including Martha Cunz, Carl August Liner , Albert Welti , Hans Beat Wieland and Adolf Thomann, he founded the “Association of Swiss Graphic Artists ”. The roller ». The purpose of this association was to publicize and disseminate the original graphic works of its members both in Switzerland and abroad.

Meyer-Basel had been spending the summer on Lake Constance with artist friends such as Peter Halm and Fritz Voellmy since the late 1880s . Their preferred places of residence and work were the island of Reichenau and the Swiss shore of the Untersee . Numerous drawings and etchings of the landscape there were made, which make up a large part of Meyer-Basel's oeuvre.

After staying in Hesse, a portfolio with printed graphics was published in 1893, which was published together with Otto Ubbelohde , showing motifs from Marburg and the surrounding area.

In 1919 Carl Theodor Meyer-Basel finally returned to Switzerland and settled in Hauptwil in the canton of Thurgau. He died there on August 28, 1932.

The architect and art historian Peter Meyer was his son. His daughter Gertrud Meyer (1896–1959) was the director of the Thurgau housekeeping school “Schloss Hauptwil” and during the Second World War she was involved in looking after refugees.

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Carl Theodor Meyer-Basel concentrated in his work on the representation of landscapes. He favored calm motifs, whose specific atmosphere he subtly captured. There are hardly any people or animals in his work. He preferred to work in the area around Munich, on Lake Constance - especially on the island of Reichenau and on the Swiss shores of the Untersee - as well as in Hesse, in the Marburg area.

Meyer-Basel mostly worked in nature; Even his etchings were often created in front of the motif without a template. In addition to etchings and lithographs , he created pastels and oil paintings .

In his works he preferred restrained colors and avoided striking, bright color combinations. His etchings are characterized by strong plasticity, a lively play of light and shadow as well as a nuanced gradation of the tonal values. Meyer-Basel also designed a large number of postcards that were produced as chromolithographs . His work was very popular. He was one of the most famous Swiss artists of his time.

Exhibitions

  • 1883 National Exhibition in Zurich
  • Participation in the annual rotating exhibitions in Switzerland
  • 1891 International exhibition in Berlin
  • 1893–1896 Munich Secession
  • 1898 Munich Secession in Basel
  • 1898–1900 Munich Secession
  • 1902–1903 Munich Secession
  • 1905–1916 Munich Secession
  • 1908–1909 “Walze” exhibitions in Switzerland
  • 1909 “Walze” exhibitions in Germany
  • 1912 “Walze” exhibited in Switzerland
  • 1979 Wessenberg Municipal Gallery in Konstanz
  • 2009 Wessenberg Municipal Gallery in Konstanz
  • 2015 Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz

bibliography

Own writings

  • About Albert Welti and his graphics . In: The harvest . 1931, p. 49 ff .
  • Otto Gampert . Painter and etcher 1841-1924 . In: New Year's Journal of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft . 1925.

literature

  • Hans Trog : The roller. Association of Swiss artists-graphic artists. Warehouse catalog . Zurich.
  • Hans Wolfgang Singer : The Modern graphic . 3. Edition. EA Seemann , Leipzig 1922.
  • Carl Theodor Meyer-Basel (text): C. Th. Meyer-Basel. Jakob Probst . Ed .: Kunsthalle Basel. Basel 1930.
  • Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz (Ed.): Views from Lake Constance. Peter Halm 1854-1923. Carl Theodor Meyer-Basel 1860-1932 . Constance 1979 (exhibition catalog).
  • Dorothea Christ (texts): Painter and sculptor of the Basler Künstler-Gesellschaft 1850-1950. Kunsthalle Basel, 1980 . Schwabe, Basel 1980.
  • Hebert Berner [et al.]: Art around Lake Constance 1850-1900. Painting and sculpture. Singing, Alte Sparkasse; [...]; Friedrichshafen, Municipal Museum of Lake Constance, 1984-85 . Sing 1984.
  • Barbara Stark, Anne Langenkamp: Lake View. German artists on Lake Constance in the 20th century . Ed .: Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz. Stadler, Konstanz 1998, ISBN 978-3-7977-0411-5 (exhibition catalog).
  • Markus Schöb, Roland Stark, Barbara Stark: Ernst Kreidolf and his painter friends . Ed .: Kunstmuseum Bern and Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz. Ernst-Kreidolf-Verlag, Ittingen near Bern 2006, ISBN 978-3-9523166-3-4 (exhibition catalog).
  • Barbara Stark: Temporary idyll: painter holidays at Untersee from 1880 to 1914 . Ed .: Municipal Wessenberg Gallery. Konstanz 2009, ISBN 978-3-929768-22-0 (exhibition catalog).
  • William Ritter: Carl Theodor Meyer-Basel. In: Die Graphischen Künste, Vol. 24. Society for Reproductive Art, 1901, pp. 37–40 , accessed on January 15, 2016 (digitized version: University of Heidelberg). with six illustrations

Web links

Commons : Carl Theodor Meyer-Basel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Barbara Stark, Anne Langenkamp: See-Blick. German artists on Lake Constance in the 20th century . Ed .: Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz. Stadler, Konstanz 1998, ISBN 978-3-7977-0411-5 , p. 153 (exhibition catalog).
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Meyer-Basel, Carl Theodor ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 17, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Swiss Institute for Art Research Zurich and Lausanne (ed.): Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Art. Including the Principality of Liechtenstein . Zurich 1998, p. 718 f .
  4. ↑ a b Markus Schöb, Roland Stark, Barbara Stark: Ernst Kreidolf and his painter friends . Ed .: Kunstmuseum Bern and Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz. Ernst-Kreidolf-Verlag, Ittingen near Bern 2006, ISBN 978-3-9523166-3-4 , p. 28 f . (Exhibition catalog). Exhibition catalog: Ernst Kreidolf and his painter friends. Bern (Kunstmuseum Bern) a. Konstanz (Städt. Wessenberg-Galerie), 2006, p. 28 f.
  5. ↑ Carl Thordor Meyer-Basel, Otto Ubbelohde: Map: Marburg an der Lahn and the surrounding area. 10 etchings . 1893.
  6. ↑ a b Barbara Stark: Temporary Idyll: Painter holidays on the Untersee from 1880 to 1914 . Ed .: Municipal Wessenberg Gallery. Konstanz 2009, ISBN 978-3-929768-22-0 (exhibition catalog).
  7. ^ Central Institute for Art History: Digital copies Munich Secession accessed on 24th 2015
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Basel, Carl Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Carl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1932
Place of death Hauptwil