Adolf Münzer

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Adolf Münzer, around 1910

Adolf Münzer (born December 5, 1870 in Pleß , Upper Silesia , † January 24, 1953 in Landsberg am Lech ; full name: Adolf Franz Theodor Münzer ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Adolf Münzer was the son of a lawyer and notary, after the early death of his father he grew up in Wroclaw from 1876 , where he first attended the Matthias Gymnasium and in 1886 began training with the decorative painter Georg Heintze. He then attended the Breslau Art and Trade School . His teachers there were Heinrich Irmann , Paul Schobelt and Albrecht Bräuer . In 1894 he began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Karl Raupp and Otto Seitz . After military service, he entered the painting class of Paul Hoecker , who was particularly interested in outdoor painting . In 1896 a master workshop was set up for him there.

In 1898 he was one of the two prize winners in Ludwig Stollwerck's first competition for designs for Stollwerck collectibles . The judges were Emil Doepler the Elder . J., Woldemar Friedrich , Bruno Schmitz and Franz Skarbina . The prize money for him and Oskar Zwintscher was 1,000 marks each .

From 1899 Münzer exhibited his works in the Munich Glass Palace as a member of the Scholle artist group . In this context he also worked for the Munich weekly magazine Jugend and the Simplicissimus . After a period of painting in Paris from 1900 to 1902, he initially returned to Munich. In 1903 Münzer met Marie Therese Dreeßen born in Munich . von Vestenhof (1878–1958). When he exhibited nudes of her in 1907, including the picture in front of the mirror , in the Brakl Gallery, an uproar ensued, as a result of which Dreeßen's husband divorced and Münzer married her a year later.

In 1909 Münzer became the head of a painting class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he held a teaching post until 1932. The painter Georg Oeder and the art dealer Eduard Schulte had recruited him on behalf of the academy director Fritz Roeber . A short time later, he designed the wall and ceiling paintings in the plenary meeting room of the Düsseldorf district government . In 1915 he worked as a war painter at the front and in 1917 volunteered for the First World War , but was not deployed.

In 1938 the Münzer family moved from Düsseldorf to Holzhausen am Ammersee .

Before the Second World War, paintings by Münzer were in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, in the Städtisches Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf and in the collection of the Kunstverein Basel. Between 1938 and 1944, Münzer took an active part in the Great German Art Exhibitions initiated by the National Socialists in the House of German Art in Munich , where he exhibited a total of five works, including a female nude, which he sold to Adolf Hitler for 3500 Reichsmarks . In 1950 he exhibited thirty paintings at the Munich Artists' Cooperative.

A narrative style was expressed in his graphics. Among other things, his fairy tale illustrations for the Scholz publishing house in Mainz became famous. Adolf Münzer was a member of the German Association of Artists .

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Christmas in the field! , Donation poster, 1914
  • 1907: Oil painting in front of the mirror , in the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf
  • 1909: four wall paintings in the Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg
  • 1911: Glass mosaic in the gable of the Stadtwaldhaus in Krefeld
  • 1911: twelve wall paintings in the meeting room of the State House in Düsseldorf
  • 1911–1916 (and after 1918): Ceiling and wall paintings in the plenary hall of the regional council in Düsseldorf
  • before 1912: Oil painting in the Birkenwald , Neue Pinakothek in Munich
  • before 1912: Oil painting Ammen , Kunstverein Basel
  • 1912: Wall painting "Singing" and "Music" in the foyer of the Small House of the Court Theater in Stuttgart (destroyed in the war in 1944)
  • 1912: eight wall paintings in the park casino at the Bavarian trade show in Munich in 1912
  • 1914: Christmas in the field! , Donation poster
  • 1928: The ballroom (called "Münzersaal") in the Hotel Haus Oberschlesien in Gleiwitz is painted
  • 1936: The new reception building of the main train station in Düsseldorf is painted
  • 1936: two paintings for the Paris World Exhibition in 1937

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Small messages - competitions . In: Kunstgewerbeblatt . New episode 9. Seemann & Co., Leipzig 1898, p. 92 and 152 ( uni-heidelberg.de , uni-heidelberg.de ).
  2. ↑ gdk-research.de
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Münzer, Adolf ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 19, 2015).
  4. ↑ Artwork of the month March 2016: Adolf Münzer (1870–1953), Vor dem Spiegel, 1907, oil on canvas, Museum Kunstpalast , accessed March 19, 2016.
  5. ^ Pierre Friedrich: Considerations of an apolitical image program. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22471-4 , p. 21 f.
  6. ↑ German construction newspaper . 46th year 1912, No. 80 (from October 5, 1912), p. 693 (illustration).
  7. ↑ German construction newspaper. 46th year 1912, No. 83 (from October 16, 1912), p. 725 (illustration).
personal data
SURNAME Münzer, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münzer, Adolf Franz Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Pleas
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1953
Place of death Landsberg am Lech