Adolf Schinnerer

Memory of Adolf Schinnerer, 1876–1949, painter, graphic artist and draftsman, Haimhausen, Ottershausen Church, Bavaria

Adolf Schinnerer (born September 25, 1876 in Schwarzenbach an der Saale , † January 30, 1949 in Ottershausen, part of Haimhausen in Upper Bavaria ) was a German painter , graphic artist and draftsman .

Live and act

Adolf Schinnerer grew up in Erlangen from 1887 to 1900 and lived in Tennenlohe near Erlangen from 1903 to 1912 . He studied at the art academy in Karlsruhe and was a student of Walter Conz , Ludwig Schmid-Reutte (1862–1909) and Wilhelm Trübner , among others . He then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and also studied art history. In 1909/1910 he was awarded the Villa Romana Prize , combined with a one-year stay in Italy.

During the First World War he served as an infantryman and in staffs for a few years . In 1918 he bought a property in Ottershausen in the Haimhausen artists' colony near Munich , called "Schlössl", which would serve as the center of his life in the future. At the same time, he always rented apartments in Munich until the end of the 1930s. In 1920 he was appointed to the State School of Applied Arts in Munich .

Originally he started out from French Impressionism , mainly creating figure paintings and landscapes, but later limited his range to a few strong colors. In Munich, where he co-founded the New Secession in 1913 , he taught as a professor from 1924 in the etching and drawing class at the Academy of Fine Arts.

In addition to teaching, Schinnerer was an extremely productive artist. He is considered a master of drypoint and has illustrated a lot, such as B. 1921 The Tempest by William Shakespeare . In 1922 he wrote in a letter that he had already etched around 700 plates, printed and sold around 20,000 etchings and painted around 100 paintings. In the following years he was also often busy organizing exhibitions and for this purpose conferred with numerous well-known artists.

In 1945 Adolf Schinnerer took over the provisional management and from 1946 he became President of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich until he retired in 1947. In 1946 he took over the reorganization of the Artists' Association Dachau (KVD), whose first chairmanship he held until 1947, and was involved in the re-establishment of the Association for Original Etching and the "Association of Friends of the State Graphic Collection in Munich ".

Adolf Schinnerer was a member of the German Association of Artists . In 1963 the Munich New Group honored him in the (collective) memorial exhibition for the deceased members in the Haus der Kunst , five drawings and one etching by him were shown.

family

In 1904 he married a woman from Karlsruhe, his first wife Emma. Four children were born between 1907 and 1913. Since the 1930s, Schinnerer often lived apart from his family. In 1934 he met 20-year-old Anna, born Winziger (1915–2010), at an academy festival, whom he married soon after the death of his first wife Emma in 1937; in 1941 and 1942 she gave birth to two children; the cameraman Albrecht Schinnerer (1941–2011) and Regine Schinnerer.

Publications

• Anger as an eraser. In: German art. Volume 51, 1925.
• Nude drawings from five centuries. Munich 1925.
• Rembrandt drawings. Munich 1944.
• (Ed.): Michelangelo's Last Judgment in 45 Pictures. Introduction by Adolf Schinnerer. Set designer: Emil Preetorius. Munich 1949.

Works and illustrations

• Playing with the cutting needle. 9 etchings. 1905.
• The journey of young Tobias. 16 original etchings, 20 prints from the unsteeled plates. 1906.
• The father. A tragedy with 12 original lithographs by Adolf Schinnerer, translated from the Swedish by E. Schering, 1918.
• The 18th psalm. Tome with 12 sheets (2 of which are empty), with 16 lithographs (by Adolf Schinnerer) and lithographed text. Schröder, Munich 1921.
• Fr. Petrarca: Sonnets. Selected by Ms. Spunda after the best transmissions. With 12 stone drawings by A. Schinnerer. Müller, Munich 1920.
• William Shakespeare: The Tempest. With 26 (including 5 sheet-sized) etchings by A. Schinnerer. Schröder, Munich 1921.
• Stone drawing with a contemporary poem by Ricarda Huch. 1923.
• One day the day will come ... Stone drawing. 1923.
• Stained glass in the Friedenskirche in Nuremberg. 1929.
• Washing woman , drawing, 20 × 25 cm.
• Bathers , etching, 13 × 20 cm.
• The healed , drawing, 19 × 24 cm.
• Figural composition , drawing, 29 × 36 cm.
• Ceiling and wall paintings in the Christ Church Mannheim approx. 1910.

student

• Otto Johannes Bähr (1919–2008), painter, pupil between 1948 and 1950
• Otto Ditscher (1903–1987), painter, pupil from 1922 to 1925
• Karl Gatermann the Younger (1909–1992), painter, graphic artist, set designer
• JoKarl Huber (1902–1996), visual artist (painting, graphics, glass painting)
• Walter Junge (1905–1990), painter and art teacher
• Heidy Stangenberg-Merck (1922–2014), painter and graphic artist
• Adolf Thiermann (1899–1993), painter and graphic artist
• Cäcilie Thiermann-Heise (1907–1986), painter and graphic artist
• Christian Modersohn (1916–2009), painter
• Remigius Netzer (1916–1985), painter, translator and graphic artist
• Hans Prähofer (1920–2005), painter, sculptor, graphic artist and writer
• Karoline Wittmann (1913–1978), painter
• August Friedrich Zintl (1900–1956), painter and graphic artist

literature

• Schinnerer, Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 84 .
• Schinnerer, Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 188 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Schinnerer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Adolf Schinnerer on artnet
• Some etchings by Schinnerer ( memento from February 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Adolf Schinnerer: Biography and recording from a bundle of private photographs from the years 1905 to 1948 , in the German Art Archive in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum
• Adolf Schinnerer, painter and etcher (1876–1949), letters, photos, art and documents 1904–1948 , on Cassiodor Antiquariat

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerhard Hanke: On the history of the Schinnerer house in Ottershausen. In: Amperland . zeitschrift-amperland.de (PDF).
2. ^ Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Schinnerer, Adolf. kuenstlerbund.de , accessed on January 19, 2016.
3. ↑ neuegruppe-hausderkunst.de: Deceased members / "S" , accessed on 16 April 2016th
4. ↑ Large art exhibition Munich 1963. Süddeutscher Verlag Munich, official exhibition catalog 1963. In the appendix memorial exhibition 1963 : (p. 189: catalog no. 1172–1177, ill. Draft for a fairy tale. Drawing, 29 × 22 cm. P. 246)