Leo Putz

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Self-Portrait (1919)
Leo Putz in the Tyrol issue of the magazine "Die Woche" , issue No. 22/1919
The ticklish snail (1904)

Leo Putz (born June 18, 1869 in Meran , South Tyrol , Austria-Hungary ; † July 21, 1940 in Meran, South Tyrol, Italy ) was a Tyrolean artist . The artistic work of Leo Putz includes Art Nouveau , Impressionism and the beginnings of Expressionism . His work focuses on figures, nudes and landscapes.

Life

At the age of 16, after finishing school, Leo Putz went to Munich against his father's will and took his first drawing lessons from his stepbrother Robert Poetzelberger . From 1889 he studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts with Gabriel von Hackl and at the Académie Julian in Paris . Leo Putz moved into his first studio in Munich in 1897. In the same year he joined the Secession in Munich as a full member . In 1899 he co-founded the artists' association Die Scholle , which included Walter Georgi , Fritz , Erich Erler and Adolf Münzer . "Die Scholle" pursued the principle of individualism with the requirement of its members "that everyone should cultivate his own soil, which of course could not be found on any map". Leo Putz also worked intensively on the weekly Jugend , which published many of Leo Putz's works as reproductions of paintings or as a title page. During this time Leo Putz also worked as a commercial artist. His posters are shaped by Munich Art Nouveau . He paints advertising posters for the modern gallery in Munich.

Cara Sophia Köhler (1911), painting in the possession of Galerie Schüller

The Staatsgalerie Dresden and the Neue Königliche Pinakothek Munich acquired several of his works from 1903 onwards. From 1905 onwards, Leo Putz was awarded several medals for his works. In 1909 Putz acquired Bavarian citizenship - a prerequisite for the title of professor, which he was awarded in the same year. Between 1909 and 1914 Leo Putz spent the summer months at Hartmannsberg Castle in the Bavarian Chiemgau in the sense of plein-air painting . Therefore he is also one of the Chiemsee painters . The German artist Hans Roth and the American Edward Cucuel , who were both students of Leo Putz, also worked with Leo Putz. The well-known works of the “Hartmannsberger Zeit” such as the “Kahnbilder” or nude studies of bathing girls (“The Bathers”) were created. The focus of Leo Putz's early work was the image of the beautiful woman, which he treated with great variety. In 1913 he married the landscape painter Frieda Blell , who gave birth to their son Helmut in 1915. His wife had been his model for years and she continued to work, albeit in his shadow. In 1923 Leo Putz moved to Gauting with his family . Likewise was Mara Hoffmann in Munich his student and model.

Leo Putz left for South America with his family in January 1929 . Putz worked in Brazil and Argentina until 1933 . At the request of Lúcio Costa in 1931 he accepted a professorship at the Academia de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro . There he gave lectures on image composition and was the teacher of the later famous landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx . During his stay, Leo Putz documented the various impressions on canvas. The work created during these years is characterized by a lighter and more tropical color scale and represents a second high point of his work. The focus of the South American work is the landscape and the figure. After Leo Putz's return to Germany in 1935, the South American works were shown in a large exhibition in Munich - including the half-Indian woman with fruits from 1932; the works are sharply attacked in the NSDAP's Völkischer Beobachter as "sultry or orgiastic eroticism of these mixed-race women (now Salome, now Negergirl)" .

Leo Putz publicly showed resistance to National Socialism . His work was classified as " degenerate art ". Leo Putz was interrogated several times by the Secret State Police in 1936 and finally had to flee to South Tyrol (Italy). In 1937 he was banned from working in Germany. In the years that followed, up to his death in 1940, his work mainly comprised pictures of castles, palaces and the landscapes of South Tyrol. Leo Putz was a member of the German Association of Artists .

After an operation, Leo Putz died on July 21, 1940 in Merano. His death was officially hushed up in Italy and Germany. His remains were buried in the Gautingen cemetery.

education

Leo Putz began his first studies at the age of 16 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , where he received training in painting techniques from his stepbrother, Robert Poetzelberger . In 1888 he switched to the natural class of the history painter Gabriel von Hackl , where he learned objectivity and correctness in drawing. In the meantime, his father was convinced of his son's talent, which is why he supported an apprenticeship for the now 21-year-old at the Académie Julian in Paris. His teachers were Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and William Adolphe Bouguereau . After serving in the military, Leo Putz returned to Munich and attended the painting class of Paul Hoecker at the Academy of Fine Arts , the first “modern” artist at the academy, who taught studio and open-air painting and placed great emphasis on the individual development of his students. From this painting class the first employees at the “Jugend” and “Scholle” emerged, in which Leo Putz also participated (Stein).

Museums

Works by Leo Putz are exhibited internationally in the following museums, among others:

exhibition

  • 2009: Leo Putz - exhibition on the occasion of his 140th birthday , Galerie Schüller in the Bayerischer Hof, Munich

Auction results

In the autumn garden (1908)

The painting “In the autumnal garden” received the highest bid for a work by Leo Putz at 460,000 euros.

literature

Web links

Commons : Leo Putz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Tzschaschel: Summer dance by Leo Putz ( Memento of the original from July 16, 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. , at landsberg.de, accessed on July 16, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landsberg.de
  2. ↑ Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol, Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 230–231, 242–243 (with ill.) .
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Putz, Leo ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 December 15, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  4. ↑ Source: Handelsblatt No. 101 of May 26, 2006, p. B01
personal data
SURNAME Putz, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Meran , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1940
Place of death Merano , Italy