Albert Burkart

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Albert Burkart (born April 15, 1898 in Riedlingen , † March 7, 1982 in Munich ) was a German painter .

Life

He grew up in Riedlingen in Upper Swabia . His artistic work was based on the New Objectivity style around 1925. Burkart studied in 1916 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Peter Halm and because of the interruption caused by being called up for military service on the Western Front, he only continued to study at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Christian Landenberger from 1919 to 1921 . From 1921 to 1926 he continued his training at the Munich School of Applied Arts with Adolf Schinnerer .

Burkart began to work as a freelance painter in Munich in 1925. In the following years he created pictures and graphic sheets for the annual exhibitions in Munich and the Heinemann and Tannhäuser galleries. He also worked for Munich publishers, including the magazine Die Jugend . The Bavarian state and the city of Munich bought several works from him. He painted and drew industrial landscapes, workers, suburbs, old people and children in the big city before he started creating religious pictures, frescoes and stained glass windows and working for churches. One of his first religious works was the monumental painting of the choir of the Church of St. Josef in Memmingen . His painting combines sacred representation with narrative richness and an architectural conception of space.

Albert Burkart was a member of the artists' association 7 Munich painters . In addition to Burkart, this artists' association also included Franz Doll , Günther Graßmann , Wilhelm Maxon , Otto Nückel , Walter Schulz-Matan and Karl Zerbe , who lived in Munich . The association existed between 1930 and 1937.

The church work after 1933 emerged from a Catholic opposition to National Socialism. On the other hand, Burkart accepted an order in 1939 to paint the flag hall of the war school in Fürstenfeldbruck with a Nibelungen cycle and exhibited the picture “Kampf in Etzels Saal” in 1944 at the exhibition German Artists and the SS in Breslau and then in July in Salzburg .

From 1949 to 1963 he was a professor and from 1956 to 1958 director of the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. There he taught the class for figural painting, wall painting and glass painting and took over the painting in space seminar . After his retirement in 1963 he returned to Munich as a freelance painter. In 1970 he gave up the honorary position he had exercised since 1937 as the second chairman of the German Society for Christian Art in Munich, which he had put aside from 1960 to 1964.

He died on March 7, 1982 in Munich. His hometown Riedlingen has honored him with the Albert Burkart Foundation since 2000.

According to Rainer Zimmermann, Albert Burkart is assigned to the Lost Generation and Expressive Realism in terms of art history .

Recognitions

  • 1969: Papal New Year's Eve Order with Commander's Cross
  • 1969: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1981: Gebhard Fugel Art Prize of the German Society for Christian Art, honorary citizenship of the city of Riedlingen
  • On the occasion of his 100th birthday, the Albert Burkart Foundation was set up, which awards an art sponsorship prize for students at Riedling schools every two years.

Works

literature

  • Burkart, Albert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 356 .
  • A. Brock: Burkart, Albert . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 15, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22755-8 , p. 228 f.
  • Winfried Aßfalg: Lauter Riedlinger - Riedlingen: Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, 2005 ISBN 3-933614-23-6
  • Albert Burkart: Faces of the small town - Bad Buchau, Federsee-Verlag, 2002 ISBN 3-925171-52-5
  • Peter Bernhard Steiner: The painter Albert Burkart - Munich-Zurich, Verlag Schnell & Steiner 1981 ISBN 3-7954-0105-4
  • Elke Lauterbach: Seven Munich painters: An exhibition group in the period from 1931-1937 (= writings from the Institute for Art History of the University of Munich, vol. 70), Munich 1999.
  • Iris Lauterbach: Amper, Enten, Nibelungen: Visual arts and architecture in Fürstenfeldbruck under National Socialism , in: Ferdinand Kramer / Ellen Latzien: Fürstenfeldbruck in the Nazi era: a small town near Munich in the years 1933 to 1945 (= Fürstenfeldbruck historical studies, vol. 1), Regensburg 2009, pp. 344–384.
  • Günther Graßmann, painting and graphics. Exhibition for the 85th birthday. Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, exhibition and catalog in collaboration with Professor Günther Graßmann, Dr. Inge Feuchtmayr, Marie Stelzer, Garching 1985.
  • Rainer Zimmermann : Expressive Realism: Painting of the Lost Generation . Hirmer, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-7774-6420-1 , p. 359

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Lill : A Nibelungen Cycle by Albert Burkart . In: Die Kunst , Munich, 1942.1, pp. 15–24
  2. ↑ Iris Lauterbach: Amper, Enten, Nibelungen: Bildkünste und Architektur in Fürstenfeldbruck under National Socialism , in: Ferdinand Kramer / Ellen Latzien: Fürstenfeldbruck in the Nazi era: a small town near Munich from 1933 to 1945 (= Fürstenfeldbrucker Historische Studien, vol . 1), Regensburg 2009, pp. 375-379.
  3. ↑ Photography by: Berthold Hinz : The painting of German fascism: Art and counterrevolution . Book Guild Gutenberg, 1976 (first Hanser 1974), fig. 163 on p. 285
  4. ^ Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive Realism. Painting of the Lost Generation , Hirmer, Munich 1994, p. 359
personal data
SURNAME Burkart, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Riedlingen
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1982
Place of death Munich