Adolf Christmann

Adolf Christmann (born June 6, 1927 in Eupen ) is a Belgian portrait and landscape painter . He signed some of his paintings with the pseudonyms "Chris" or "Bardeau". The painter is known for pictures in a spatula technique that is typical for him.

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Adolf Christmann comes from a German-speaking family of bakers from Eupen. A flour allergy prevented him from also learning the bakery trade. As a teenager, Christmann received lessons during the war years from the painters Robert Pudlich and Helmut Weitz (1918–1966), who lived in exile in Belgium .

In 1946 Christmann graduated from the College Patronné in Eupen. After graduating from high school, he studied at the Saint-Luc School of Art in Liège . In 1949 he graduated with distinction and received a scholarship for the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerp . After a year in Antwerp, Christmann continued his studies from 1951 to 1953 in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts with Maurice Brianchon (1899–1979). Christmann financed his living while studying as a painter in bars and on Montmartre , where he regularly showed his pictures in the Salon des Artistes Français and the Salon des Indépendants . In his hometown of Eupen, too, he has been exhibiting regularly since 1950 in the foyer of the publishing house of the Grenz-Echo daily newspaper .

In 1961 he met his future wife Heidi on Montmartre, who also painted. To enable his wife to study in Munich, the couple moved to Germany for several years. Christmann painted numerous pictures here on behalf of a Munich gallery owner.

Today he lives in Eupen again.

literature

Rudolf Kremer: A. Christmann. East Belgian artists Volume 1. Grenz-Echo Verlag, Eupen 1997. ISBN 978-9054331025

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personal data
SURNAME	Christmann, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chris, Bardeau
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian portrait and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eupen