Adolf Glattacker

Adolf Glattacker (born June 30, 1878 in Wehr ; † June 28, 1971 in Tüllingen , town of Lörrach ) was a German painter and draftsman. He became known as the home painter of the Markgräflerland .

life and work

Glattacker completed training at the Karlsruhe Art Academy and in Paris . After that he lived in Riedichen (now part of Zell im Wiesental ), Weil am Rhein , Riehen and most recently in today's Lörrach district of Tüllingen.

He mainly made portraits of people from southern Baden and the border region of Switzerland, but also numerous illustrations of Johann Peter Hebel's works, fairy tales, legends, historical events and people, as well as landscapes and other motifs. Glattacker mainly created pencil drawings, but also ink and charcoal drawings, as well as watercolors, gouaches, oil paintings and occasional woodcuts. Because he romantically garnished some of his pictures with putti and devils, he was also known as "angelic and dolphin" in his Alemannic homeland. As a young artist, he illustrated the first story by the Waldshut poet Paul Körber (1876–1941), which helped him achieve a literary breakthrough. The emblem of the "Narrengilde Lörrach" (the so-called "Gildenkopf" or "Zundel", the Lörrach carnival symbol) founded in the middle of the National Socialist founding phase of so-called historical fools' guilds in 1936 is a work by Glattacker from the year it was founded, inspired by the stories of Hebels. Glattacker was friends with the National Socialist painter and writer Hermann Burte and was certainly not untouched by National Socialism himself, as works from this period show. The role of Glattacker in National Socialism has so far hardly been discussed and is largely unclear; his importance as a painter is limited to the region around Lörrach.

Honors

Several streets and paths in the Lörrach district - for example in Lörrach , Weil am Rhein and Rheinfelden (Baden) - as well as a primary school in Lörrach-Tüllingen were named after him. His hometown Wehr made him an honorary citizen . In 1949, the Lörrach Lever Association awarded him the “Lever Thanks”, which was awarded for the first time. In 1965 he was one of the first to receive the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Badge from the community of Hausen im Wiesental (home town of Hebels). On August 23, 1962 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

literature

• Förderkreis Stadtmuseum Wehr (ed.), Hermfried Richter (arrangement): Adolf Glattacker: Reflections on an Alemannic artist's life (exhibition catalog). Verlag Waldemar Lutz, Lörrach 2003, ISBN 3-922107-58-3
• Emil Müller-Ettikon: Two unequal friends. On the 100th birthday of Adolf Glattacker (June 30, 1878) and Hermann Strübe-Burte (February 15, 1879) . In: Badische Heimat , 1979.
• Emil Müller-Ettikon (arrangement), Adolf Glattacker: Master Adolf Glattacker tells (autobiography). Original edition: Friedrich Resin, Weil am Rhein 1974; New edition: Resin, Binzen 1996, ISBN 3-923066-41-4
• Friedrich Resin (ed.): Adolf Glattacker: Sketches and drawings . Resin, Weil am Rhein 1978, ISBN 978-3-923066-03-2
• Hans H. Hofstätter, Berthold Hänel (author), Lörrach district (ed.): Adolf Glattacker (1878-1971) . In: The painters of the Markgräflerland , Schillinger Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000
• Gerhard Moehring: Adolf Glattacker . In: Das Markgräflerland, 1986, no. 2, p. 181 ff.
• The meadow. Alemannic poetry v. Johann Peter Lever. According to this, v. Adolf Glattacker. With e. Treatise about way u. Work d. Painter v. Hanns Uhl . (Festival edition for the 60th birthday of Adolf Glattacker). Self-published by Adolf Glattacker, Lörrach-Tüllingen 1938
• Adolf Glattacker: My CV . In: Badische Heimat, Bd. 35, 1955, H. 2, S. 246f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Glattacker in the catalog of the German National Library
• "The vicar of the Preceptor JP Hebel on the Hünerberg in Lörrach" , the portraitist Glattacker depicted himself on the left (oil painting on wood, around 1927)
• Fabric print based on the well-known lever portrait of Glattacker, including "Engeli" , manufacturer: KBC , Lörrach (Clemens Fabrizio collection, Hausen im Wiesental)
• Illustration for the lever poem "Joy in Honor" , postcard, 1900 (Fabrizio Collection)
• Illustration to the lever poem "The Hexlein" , postcard, 1907 (Fabrizio collection)
• “Germany awake!” A graphic by Glattacker , published in 1934 on the 10th year of Albert Leo Schlageter's death , on the front page of the “Wiesentäler Nachrichten” published in Schönau in the Black Forest .
• Meeting of the Saltpeterer in 1780 ( Memento of June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). The painting, created in 1960, deals with the saltpeter riots in the Hotzenwald, but the facial features show a. the Black Forest painter Hans Thoma , the writer Hans Matt-Willmatt and Glattacker himself. It is now in a house of the Rothmaier clinics in St. Blasien .
• Objects by Adolf Glattacker in the Dreiländermuseum collection database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office