Albert Spethmann

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Albert Spethmann (born July 27, 1894 in Altona near Hamburg , † December 24, 1986 in West Berlin ) was a German landscape , genre and portrait painter .

Life

Spethmann was the son of a woodcarver from Altona. His brothers were the sculptor Heinrich Spethmann (* 1885) and the painter and sculptor Karl Spethmann (1888–1944). After attending the Altona School of Applied Arts, Spethmann went to the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There was Willy Spatz his teacher. On October 31, 1913, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in painting. He visited Hugo von Habermann's master studio and then worked as a freelance painter. In 1921 he and his wife Marie Hobmeier, whom he had met in Dietramszell in 1920, moved into a house on Austraße in Bad Tölz , where he lived for 65 years. In 1950 he became a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative , and in 1971 an honorary member.

Spethmann was committed to realistic , naturalistic and late impressionistic painting. He was best known for motifs of the Isarwinkel and the Loisach valley . He painted views of Bad Tölz, rampant cottage gardens around Hechenberg , old workshops and courtyards, as well as portraits of locals. In 1917 he made his debut in an exhibition at the Glaspalast in Munich . With the landscape painting Jurafelsen he was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition in 1942 .

literature

  • Spethmann, Albert . In: Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, Volume 4.
  • Spethmann, Albert . In: Horst Ludwig : Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 6: Landschreiber – Zintl . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1994, ISBN 978-3-7654-1633-0 , p. 369.
  • Stefan Boes: Great art exhibition. The painter Albert Spethmann . In: Stefan Boes (Ed.): KulturLand. Edition Landkultur um München . Issue 3/2015 (October – February), p. 58 ( Google Books ).
  • Walter Frei: Albert Spethmann, 1894–1986. Catalog raisonné . Brochure, Bad Tölz 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. ↑ 05329 Albert Spethmann , register of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
  3. ↑ Klaus Schieder: The Nestor the painter in the Isarwinkel . Article from June 15, 2015 in the portal sueddeutsche.de , accessed on November 9, 2019
  4. ↑ Jurafelsen , property data sheet in the portal gdk-research.de , accessed on November 9, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Spethmann, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape, genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona near Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1986
Place of death West Berlin