Albin Enders

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Vogtland March Landscape (1935)

Albin Enders (born July 11, 1869 in Meßbach , † November 8, 1946 in Weischlitz ) was a German painter and draftsman.

life and work

Albin Enders was born as the seventh child of a Vogtland farming family. His artistic talent was encouraged early on by his teacher Louis Riedel (1847–1919). From 1884 to 1889 Enders graduated from the arts and crafts school in Plauen . After two years of military service in Dresden, in 1893 he initially took a job at the Berlin printing and publishing house W. Hagelberg AG as a draftsman of chromolithographic maps, before deciding to work as a freelancer two years later. Together with Albin Schlehahn (1870–1939) he made regular flying visits and hikes through German landscapes such as the Black Forest or Franconian Switzerland . He received support from Richard Hofmann (1852–1904), the director of his former training facility, which had meanwhile been upgraded to the Royal Industrial School in Plauen / Vogtland. The art patron Robert Wirth (1846–1922) finally put him in charge of Gustav Schönleber , the then professor at the Art Academy in Karlsruhe . Like some professors, Albin Enders moved to the Stuttgart Academy in 1899 and became a student of Carlos Grethe . After completing his studies, Enders returned to his hometown Weischlitz and worked there as a freelance landscape painter until his death. In 1922 he married the poet Anna Dix, who was born in Zittau in 1874 .

The art critic Joseph August Beringer from Mannheim once characterized the artist's work to his wife as follows: “I would like to call the art of Albin Enders, your husband, a very strong, coloristic, original Impressionism , whereby the form-dissolving tendency of Impressionism in favor of a spacious and certainly strict painterly forms of expression are avoided. Enders is firmly on the ancient art law ground that painting is design (in space, form and color). "

A representative part of Albin Enders' work can be found in the collections of the Vogtland Museum Plauen .

literature

  • Enders, Albin . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 36 .
  • Frank Weiß, Ulrich Lange: The Vogtland painter Albin Enders. Catalog for the 50th year of death of the artist combined with an exhibition in the Vogtlandmuseum Plauen, Vogtland-Verlag, Plauen 1996

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Literature Lexicon , Volume 6, Saur / de Gruyter 2004
  2. ↑ Handwritten excerpt from the estate, quoted from Weiß / Lange 1996, p. 14
personal data
SURNAME Enders, Albin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Messbach
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1946
Place of death Weischlitz