Adelbert Niemeyer

Adelbert Niemeyer (born April 15, 1867 in Warburg , † July 21, 1932 in Munich ; full name: Adelbert Hans Gustav Niemeyer ) was a German painter , architect and craftsman .

Life

Adelbert Niemeyer was the son of the judiciary Hans Niemeyer . He studied art first from 1884 to 1888 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , then in Munich at a private art school with Friedrich Fehr and finally at the Académie Julian in Paris .

Wine label designed for Wilhelm Gerstung

Adelbert Niemeyer signature on the underside of a table lamp from the Schwarzburger Werkstätten für Porzellankunst

From 1907 he taught as a professor at the Munich School of Applied Arts (later: State School for Applied Arts ). In this function he last held the title of Privy Councilor . Adelbert Niemeyer was a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund , and in 1907 he co-founded the Deutscher Werkbund and the Deutsche Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst GmbH, Dresden and Munich . Numerous designs for the porcelain manufactory Nymphenburg , the porcelain manufactory Meissen and for Villeroy & Boch originate from him ; also for Richard Merkelbach , Höhr-Grenzhausen , the Schwarzburger workshops for porcelain art and for the state majolica manufactory Karlsruhe .

In 1925, Niemeyer designed the equipment for the publication for the opening ceremony of the Deutsches Museum .

Adelbert Niemeyer was a brother of the lawyer and international lawyer Theodor Niemeyer .

Awards

• Large gold medal at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair
• Gold medal and state medal at the 3rd German Applied Arts Exhibition in Dresden, 1906

plant

Buildings and interiors

• 1907: Plan for the Landhaus Kaagangerstraße 47 in Eching am Ammersee
• published 1912: Villa Krawehl in Essen -Rüttenscheid, Haumannplatz 2 (not preserved)
• 1914: Main café at the German Werkbund exhibition in Cologne 1914 (not preserved)

Fonts

• Inside rooms. Bruckmann, Munich 1911.

literature

• Niemeyer, Adelbert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 467 .
• Paul Niemeyer: From the life of Adelbert Niemeyer. In: Heinz Thiersch (Ed.): We just started. Works and essays by friends and students around Richard Riemerschmid. Munich 1953, pp. 76-81.
• Niemeyer, Adelbert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 480 .
• Bayerischer Handwerkstag eV (Ed.), Peter Nickl (Ed.): Adelbert Niemeyer. The work on the vessel. (Catalog for the exhibition of craftsmanship in Bavaria, September 1984.) Munich 1984.
• Rudolf Bertold Trabold: Adelbert Niemeyer (1867–1932). To develop a bourgeois artist from the tradition of industry. Bonn 1990. (also dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , 1989.)
• Rudolf B. Trabold:  Niemeyer, Hans Gustav Adelbert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 236 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Caren Marusch-Krohn: Meissen porcelain 1918–1933. The Pfeiffer time. Leipzig 1993.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Niemeyer, Adelbert ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 26, 2015).
2. ↑ Deutscher Werkbund eV (ed.): Der Deutsche Werkbund 1907, 1947, 1987. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-433-02268-2 , p. 23.
3. ^ Gerhart Hauptmann (text), Hermann Zilcher (music): Ceremonial act for the opening of the Deutsches Museum. (decorative furnishings by Adelbert Niemeyer) Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1925.
4. ^ The house of Krawehl, Essen-Ruhr. In: German art and decoration. Year 1912, pp. 43–82.
5. ^ Ulrich Bücholdt: German Werkbund Exhibition Cologne 1914. online: Archive link ( Memento from August 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), last accessed on September 25, 2011.