Ernst Kreidolf

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Ernst Kreidolf (born February 9, 1863 in Bern ; † August 12, 1956 there ; actually Konrad Ernst Theophil Kreidolf ) was a Swiss painter, graphic artist and innovator of picture books.

Live and act

Ernst Kreidolf was born in Bern in 1863 as the son of a businessman. He first attended primary school in Tägerwilen and then secondary school in Emmishofen (today Kreuzlingen). From 1879 to 1883 he completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer in Konstanz . From 1883 he attended the arts and crafts school in Munich and from 1889 the local Academy of Fine Arts . There he studied with Gabriel von Hackl . At that time he made his living by drawing portraits of criminals for the Munich Fahndungsblatt.

In 1897 Kreidolf exhibited his watercolors on the Flower Tales and Sleeping Trees in the Arnoldschen Kunstsalon in Dresden , which attracted the interest of some children's book publishers, but none of them could decide to publish them. It was only through a loan from the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe that Kreidolf was able to publish the picture book Blumenmärchen in the commission publishing house Piloty & Löhle in Munich. Kreidolf made the lithographs for the print himself.

Since 1898 he has mainly illustrated children's books, some of which he also wrote himself. Flowers and animals play an important role in these books. For example, there are personified butterflies and insects that Kreidolf interwoven in dreamlike metamorphoses. Before the First World War, his books were mainly published by Hermann & Friedrich Schaffstein (until 1905 Schafstein).

The First World War forced Kreidolf and his friend Albert Welti to return to Switzerland. After having worked in Switzerland for a long time since 1916, he finally moved to Bern in 1918. Kreidolf, like other artists during this time, including Wilhelm Trübner , Carl Theodor Meyer , Caspar Ritter or Fritz Voellmy , often stayed in Ermatingen to paint . There they stayed at the famous Hotel Adler. Kreidolf was a much welcomed and welcome guest at Eduard Zimmermann's , with whom he became friends at the Academy in Munich.

In 1920 Emil Roniger became his new publisher. Roniger became Kreidolf's patron and in 1947 founded the Ernst Kreidolf Association to promote the artist. After his death, Roniger's private Kreidolf collection went to the Ernst Kreidolf Foundation, which later transferred it to the Ernst Kreidolf Association. It is now in its deposit in the Kunstmuseum Bern .

Kreidolf died in 1956 in his native Bern. He is buried in Bern's Schosshaldenfriedhof . Adolf Tièche wrote an obituary for Kreidolf. Kreidolf's estate is in the Burger Library in Bern .

Works

picture books

  • Flower fairy tale. 1898
  • Fitzebütze . 1900
  • The sleeping trees. A fairy tale in pictures. 1901
  • The meadow gnomes. 1902
  • Chat for children. 1903
  • The colored check. 1904
  • Old nursery rhymes. 1905
  • Summer birds. 1908
  • Garden dream. 1911
  • Alpine flower fairy tale. 1922 ( Alpine flower fairy tale  - Internet Archive )
  • Biblical images.
  • Winter fairy tale. 1924 (set to music by Max Kaempfert )
  • Lenzgesind. 1926
  • The dog festival. 1928
  • With the gnomes and elves. 1929
  • Childhood. 1930
  • Grasshopper. 1931

Illustrated books

  • Hedwig Bleuler-Waser : Zwerghütlein , 1919
  • Hedwig Bleuler-Waser: Lenzbub is coming. Fairy tales that happen , A. Franke Verlag, Bern 1920.
  • Adolf Frey : Flowers ritornelle. Rotapfelverlag, Erlenbach ZH / Leipzig 1921.
  • Leopold Weber : Dream figures. Rotapfelverlag, Erlenbach ZH / Leipzig 1922.
  • Roti Rösli in the garden. State publisher of teaching materials for the canton of Bern, 1925 (reader for children in the 3rd school year).
  • Karl Eugen Schmidt: From the diary of an infant. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1905.

Autobiography

  • Ernst Kreidolf: Memoirs. Edited by Jakob Otto Kehrli. Zurich 1957.

Oil paintings

In the Kunstmuseum Bern you can find:

  • Male study head. 1888 (Inv. 1024)
  • Sheep pasture. 1920 (inv. 1574)
  • The fall of man . 1928 (Inv. 1096)
  • Portrait of Government Councilor Leo Merz. 1932 (Inv. 1203)
  • Portrait of the writer Leopold Weber . 1932 (Inv. 1204)
  • Autumn in the Bavarian mountains. 1956 (Inv. 1877)

literature

  • Markus Schöb, Barbara Stark, Roland Stark: Ernst Kreidolf and his painter friends. Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Kunstmuseum Bern (2006/2007) and in the Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz (2007). Published by the Ernst Kreidolf Association and Foundation. Ernst-Kreidolf-Verlag, Ittigen near Bern 2006, ISBN 978-3-9523166-3-4 .
  • Roland Stark: Ernst Kreidolf, the painter-poet and his publishers. Huber, Frauenfeld 2005, ISBN 3-7193-1387-5 .
  • Barbara Stark (Ed.): Ernst Kreidolf and the history of art. Children's book and art around 1900. Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie, Konstanz 2002.
  • Fritz Wartenweiler : Ernst Kreidolf. Moving years, transfigured reality, reflection. Rotapfel, Zurich 1982.
  • Hans Ries:  Kreidolf, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 736 ( digitized version ).
  • Kunsthalle Bern (ed.): Ernst Kreidolf / Adolf Tièche . Exhibition catalog. Bern 1958.
  • Jakob Otto Kehrli : Ernst Kreidolf. Paul Haupt, Bern 1949 (Swiss homeland books series).
  • Jakob Otto Kehrli: From the Ernst Kreidolf workshop. Rotapfel, Zurich 1943.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich: Ernst Kreidolf, Matriculation Book, November 1886. Retrieved on August 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ History of the Hotel Adler in Ermatingen: Kreidolf in Ermatingen. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Adolf Tièche: obituary audf Kreidolf. Retrieved October 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Description of the exhibition ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2011 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. at the Kunstmuseum Bern , accessed on August 18, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstmuseumbern.ch
personal data
SURNAME Kreidolf, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Picture book illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1956
Place of death Bern