Albert Reibmayr (painter)

Albert Reibmayr (born April 20, 1881 in Linz , Upper Austria ; † March 30, 1941 in Kleve , Rhine Province ) was an Austrian genre and animal painter and graphic artist .

Life

Albert Reibmayr, son of the doctor and racial theorist Albert Reibmayr (1848-1918) and his wife, born Dierzer von Traunstein (1850-1921), studied from 1897 to 1901 at the arts and crafts school of the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry in Vienna . There were Franz Matsch , Andreas Groll and Alfred Roller its teachers. He then moved to Munich , where the animal painter Heinrich von Zügel taught him. From 1907 on, Reibmayr attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he was a student of Julius Paul Junghanns' master class for animal and open air painting . From 1909 to 1913 Reibmayr was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . In 1910 and 1912 he was awarded the "Silver State Medal" of Austria. After study trips through Belgium and the Netherlands, he settled in Kleve in 1913, where he was one of the founders of the artist guild Profil in 1936 - with Achilles Moortgat among others . The landscape painter Josef Mooren , with whom Reibmayr temporarily ran an art dealership on Haagschen Strasse in Kleve, was a co-founder of this artist community . Reibmayr took part in exhibitions in Austria and Düsseldorf.

He was best known for depicting horses. This earned him the ascription of being a "poet of horses with a brush".

literature

Dressler's art manual , 9, Berlin 1930, volume 2, p. 60.
G. Wacha: Reibmayer, Albert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 23 f. (Direct links on p. 23 , p. 24 ).
Helmut Langfeld: Albert Reibmayr, an almost forgotten painter . In: Calendar for the Klever Land , Volume 58 (2008 [2007]), pp. 118–122.

Individual evidence

↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 438.
↑ Wiltrud Schnütgen: Some pictures remained unpainted . Article from March 19, 2016 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on March 10, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Reibmayr, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian genre and animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 20, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linz , Upper Austria
DATE OF DEATH	March 30, 1941
Place of death	Kleve , Rhine Province

[1] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 438.

[2] Wiltrud Schnütgen: Some pictures remained unpainted . Article from March 19, 2016 in the derwesten.de portal , accessed on March 10, 2017.