Albert Gartmann

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Albert Carl Otto Gartmann , also Garthmann (born May 1, 1876 in Gransee , Ruppin district ; † April 11, 1946 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was a German landscape , portrait , still life , genre and war painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Gartmann, son of the butcher Carl Hermann Gartmann (1852-1931) and his wife Emilie Caroline Albertine, née Voss (1855-1906), spent many years teaching and traveling as a decorative painter before studying painting at the art academy in 1900 Düsseldorf began. There was Peter Janssen the Elder his teacher. In 1902 he moved to the Berlin Academy and became a student of Georg Ludwig Meyn and Arthur Kampf . On March 2, 1908, he married Elise Helene Onemüller (1886–1968) in Triebes , who gave birth to sons Heinz and Götz Klaus (1915–1942). The couple later divorced.

Portrait of Prince Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth , 1906/1907, illustration in the magazine Berliner Leben , 1907

From 1906 Gartmann exhibited in Berlin , mainly oil portraits, including the portraits of Adolf von Arnim , Friedrich zu Solms-Baruth and Anton Dohrn . In addition to portraits, he created genre pictures, landscapes and still lifes. In 1908 Gartmann was awarded the Grand State Prize at the Berlin Academy for a trip to Italy and a studio stay in the Roman Villa Strohl-Fern . He stayed in Rome from December 1908 to the end of June 1909. During the First World War he was employed as a war painter on the Eastern Front and brought back pictures of war experiences in Russia and Macedonia .

After the war he was based in Wimpfen am Neckar . During this time he was sponsored by the Berlin patron Eduard Arnhold , who in 1918 acquired two pictures from him through Karl Haberstock for 3,000 marks each. In 1923 he stayed in Chicago for a portrait commission from the Heilbronn-born businessman Hermann Wollenberger (1867–1945) . He exhibited at the 36th annual exhibition of American paintings and sculptures of the Art Institute of Chicago and intended to open a studio there. With his son Heinz he embarked in Bremerhaven in 1924 on the Columbus to New York City . They arrived there on November 9, 1924. In 1925 they emigrated from the United States to South America. On a boat trip with the Sierra Morena , he stopped in Lima , Santiago de Chile , Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro . He was given the opportunity to portray prominent personalities, such as the Argentine President Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear , and to paint landscapes. Gartmann finally settled in La Cumbre in the central Argentine province of Córdoba as a painter. In Argentina he traveled to various areas, such as the province of Tucumán , whose landscapes he exhibited in 1935 in the Galería Nordiska in Buenos Aires. When an exhibition of his paintings was held at the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin in 1938 , he had one of them delivered to Adolf Hitler as a gift.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. ^ Artisti a Villa Strohl-Fern. Luogo d'arte e di incontri a Roma tra il 1880 e il 1956 . Gangemi Editore, Rome 2012, ISBN 978-88-492-7337-3 , p. 188 ( Google Books )
  3. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 197
  4. ↑ Michael Dorrmann: Eduard Arnhold (1849-1925). A biographical study of entrepreneurship and patronage in the German Empire . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-05-003748-2 , Appendix B, p. 351 ( Google Books )
  5. ^ Art Institute of Chicago : Catalog of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture . Volume 36 (1923)
  6. ^ The Advocate. America's Jewish Journal , Chicago, Volume 65 (1923), p. 238
  7. ^ Wilhelm Lütge, Werner Hoffmann, Karl Wilhelm Körner: History of the Germans in Argentina . German Club, Buenos Aires 1955, p. 353
  8. ^ Brazilian American , 1925, p. 87
  9. ↑ Exposición del artista alemán Albert Gartmann: paisajes de Tucumán , exhibition catalog (1935) in the portal catalogo.espigas.org.ar , accessed on November 2, 2019
  10. ↑ German work . Border and Abroad Publishing House, Volume 38, 1938, P. 68
personal data
SURNAME Gartmann, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gartmann, Albert Carl Otto; Garthmann, Albert Carl Otto; Garthmann, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape, portrait, still life, genre and war painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Gransee , Ruppin district
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1946
Place of death Buenos Aires , Argentina