Adolf Presber

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Adolf Presber (born November 8, 1896 in Ramschied , † October 26, 1997 in Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Career

Presber attended elementary school from the age of 8 to 14, and from the age of 11 also the school for preparatory training for artistic and technical professions in Biebrich am Rhein . He then went on to do an apprenticeship with a decorative painter. In the following years, Presber developed a serious eye disease. During the First World War he therefore only served as a volunteer at the post office. The lack of money to study art embittered him, suffered a nervous breakdown and spent a few weeks in the hospital. There he found plenty of time to draw and his talent was discovered. He was summoned to the military staff in Brussels to illustrate a book. In the following years, Presber graduated from high school to become a drawing teacher. Presber studied from 1919 to 1922 at the arts and crafts schools in Wiesbaden and Mainz and earned a living with commercial graphics and poster and sign painting. From 1922 he studied with Peter Halm at the Munich Art Academy . He later continued his studies at the Städel in Frankfurt am Main .

plant

He created several wall and altar paintings in Wiesbaden , Weisel and Gemmerich .

Honors

literature

  • Presber, Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 624 .
  • Georg Stuhlfauth : Adolf Presber - A Rhenish master of religious contemporary art. In: Rheinische Heimatblätter. No. 9, 1929, pp. 305-308 ( online version from dilibri).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration information from the Wiesbaden City Archives from December 12, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Presber, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Ramschied
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1997
Place of death Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg