Albert Baur (painter, 1867)
Albert Baur , also Albert Baur the Younger (born July 1, 1867 in Düsseldorf , † June 18, 1959 in Herrsching am Ammersee ), was a German history , landscape , animal and war painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Baur grew up as the son of the history painter Albert Baur and his wife Anna Maria, née Beuth, in Düsseldorf and Weimar . From 1886 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , first with Heinrich Lauenstein , from 1887 with Hugo Crola and from 1888 to 1890 with Peter Janssen . This was followed by study stays in Italy and a visit to the Munich Academy under Wilhelm Diez and the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe under Hermann Baisch . He was also a student at the private academy of arts Académie Julian in Paris under Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury . In the mid-1890s he entered the master studio of the painter Claus Meyer, who had just been appointed to the Düsseldorf Art Academy .
From 1898 Baur worked as a freelance painter in Düsseldorf. Like his father, he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . Around 1906 he married the officer's daughter and painter Gisela Nütten . The daughter Ruth was born in Düsseldorf in 1909; she later worked as a ballet master in Kleve.
Baur created great historical pictures, for example the painting The corpse of the slain Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne is refused entry in front of the gates of Schloss Burg for the Barmer Hall of Fame . On trips to Holland ( Katwijk , 1898) and the Lower Rhine, a large number of nature images were created. On behalf of the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck, he designed collecting pictures for Stollwerck scrapbooks , etc. a. the series "Centauren" for Stollwerck's collector's album No. 2 from 1898.
During the First World War Baur was a war painter in Russia and France , after the end of the war he returned to Düsseldorf, where he specialized in landscapes and animals. At the end of the Second World War, a large part of his life's work was destroyed . The move to Upper Franconia took place with a new creative period shaped by rural motifs. In 1951 he moved to his son in Herrsching, where he died in 1959 at the age of 92. Baur's grave is on the grave of his parents in the north cemetery in Düsseldorf .
literature
- Hermann Board : Baur, Albert jr. In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 88 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Baur, Albert . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 7, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22747-7 , pp. 623 f.
Web links
- Albert Baur (II) , data sheet in the rkd.nl portal( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Albert Baur , genealogical entry in the portal Familienbuch-euregio.eu
- Albert Baur the Younger , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 347
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal
- ↑ Detlef Lorenz : Advertising art around 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures . Reimer-Verlag, 2000
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baur, Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baur, Albert the Younger (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history painter, landscape painter, animal painter and war painter of the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1959 |
| Place of death | Herrsching am Ammersee |