Adolf Schlabitz

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The jury of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1917 at work. Third from the left sitting Adolf Schlabitz

Adolf Gustav Schlabitz (born June 7, 1854 in Groß-Wartenberg (Silesia), † September 4, 1943 in Brixlegg (Tyrol)) was a German portrait and genre painter and professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin .

Life

Girl with bouquet of flowers

Adolf Schlabitz was born as the second child of a soap maker in 1854 in Groß-Wartenberg (Silesia). At the age of 21 he became a pupil in 1875 (among others with Paul Thumann , Otto Knille , Karl Gussow and Ernst Hildebrand ) at the art academy in Berlin, which he attended until 1882. With the help of a scholarship (Rohr'scher Prize) that he received for the picture "Trial in the jury room of the Breslau regional court", he was able to continue his studies at the Académie Julian in Paris under Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger from 1883 . Further study trips took him through Europe and the USA. After returning from France, he lived in Munich for three years before moving to Berlin in 1887 and opening a private drawing and painting school. Parallel to this activity, Schlabitz was Ernst Henseler's assistant at the Technical University for about twenty years . In 1908 he took over the assistant in the drawing class of Ernst Hancke at the royal academy for fine arts. In 1911, at the request of Anton von Werner, he was awarded the title of professor for his "outstanding artistic teaching" and his artistic work. During his teaching activity, which he held until 1918, his students included:

In 1907 he made the monumental painting " Martin Rinckart's supplication service" for the secondary school in Eilenburg (today: Martin-Rinckart-Gymnasium ) .

As early as 1901 he bought a house ("Brantnerhäusl") with land in Brixlegg , which he initially used as a holiday home in the summer and from 1921 as a permanent residence.

In addition to painting, his passion was collecting folk art (ethnographic collection). Adolf Schlabitz was a member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts, the Berlin Art Association and the Association of Berlin Artists . From 1935 to April 1941 he belonged (as the oldest member) to the Ateliergemeinschaft Klosterstrasse (Atelier No. 105).

Schlabitz died in Brixlegg in 1943 a few months after his 89th birthday and was buried in Groß-Wartenberg.

Works (selection)

  • Trial in the jury room of the Wroclaw Regional Court , 1882
    Trial in the courtroom of the Wroclaw District Court in 1882
  • The Green Lady , 1882
  • Participation in the Sedan Panorama by Anton von Werner, round picture in the Sedan Panorama at Alexanderplatz station in Berlin, 1883
  • A solo , 1886
  • The breach of Leuthen , 1887
  • Tyrolean landscape in the Lower Inn Valley , 1887
  • Old huntsman , 1889
  • Half portrait of a young Tyrolean woman in profile , 1903
  • Molveno Lake , 1906
  • Martin Rinckart's supplication service , assembly hall of the Martin-Rinckart-Gymnasium , Eilenburg 1907
  • Tyrolean hunter , 1915
    Adolf Schlabitz - Freemason Still Life 1925
  • Young soldier with cigarette , 1915
  • An orange tree , 1918
  • The red window , 1919
  • The name day , 1923
  • Masonic still life , 1925
  • Evening mood in wintry Rattenberg am Inn , 1933
  • Kathel's homecoming
  • Girl with bouquet of flowers

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Thirty-second large painting exhibition of the Kunstverein in Bremen, 1900
  • Exhibition of the Free Secession Berlin, 1916
  • Art exhibition Berlin, 1919
  • 100 Years of Berlin Art, Association of Berlin Artists, 1929
  • Great Berlin art exhibition , 1896–1915
  • Exhibition of paintings by the Silesian artists Erich Kubierschky, Adolf Schlabitz in honor of their 80th birthday, 1934
  • Exhibition "German painting - friendship gift from the Polish people to the German people", Berlin, 1953/54

literature

  • Schlabitz, Adolf. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, pp. 573-574 ( archive.org ).
  • Schlabitz, 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. 92 .
  • Schlabitz, Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 189 .
  • Uwe Claassen: Rural interiors around 1900. in: Series of publications Museum of European Cultures - Volume 1: Fascination of image. Culture contacts Europe. Exhibition catalog for the pilot project. Berlin 1999
  • Hans-Joachim Danzmann: Adolf Schlabitz - an artist portrait , in: Nordsächsische Rundschau, September 4, 1993
  • Atelier community at Klosterstrasse Berlin 1933–1945. Artist in the time of National Socialism , exhib.cat. Academy of Arts; Berlin 1994
  • Detlef Lorenz : Traces of Artists in Berlin from the Baroque to Today , Dietrich Reimer Verlag; Berlin 2002
  • Dominik Bartmann (Ed.): Anton von Werner. Story in pictures. , Hirmer Verlag; Munich 1993, (exhibition catalog), p. 270

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Schlabitz, 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. 92 .
  2. ↑ s. Atelier community Klosterstrasse - Berlin 1933-1945. Artists in the time of National Socialism , Academy of the Arts (Edition Hentrich), Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-894-68134-9 (p. 228)

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personal data
SURNAME Schlabitz, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlabitz, Adolf Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Gross-Wartenberg
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1943
Place of death Brixlegg