Alfred Dupré

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Alfred Dupré (born December 15, 1904 in Cologne , † September 14, 1956 in Munich , buried in Cologne-Ostheim ) was a German painter of post-expressionism , the " New Objectivity " and Surrealist .

Life

Alfred Dupré was born in Cologne . His father, an artist himself, director of a chemical factory, gave his son to the Cologne School of Applied Arts as early as 1920 . There he studied technology and composition with Fritz Weinzheimer and later with Werner Heuser  at the Düsseldorf Academy . At the age of 20 he went to Anticoli , at that time a famous painters colony in the Sabine mountains . This was followed by study visits to Rome , Munich , southern France and Paris . There he learned a. a. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque know. He was strongly encouraged by Maurice Utrillo and André Dérain . In Rome he made friends with Giorgio De Chirico , Massimo Campigli , Luigi Pirandello , Filippo De Pisis and Johannes Martini . He later worked in Rome, Paris, Sanary , Portofino and Bellinzona .

In between he lived again and again in Germany, had his first collective exhibition in the Düsseldorf Kunsthalle and the Cologne Art Association in the winter of 1925/26 , a second in Cologne in late autumn 1928 and a third in the Cologne Cathedral Gallery. Further exhibitions at home and abroad followed. In 1930 Dupré returned to Cologne, painting a lot on the Basement , the Lahn , the North Sea and in Cologne-Porz .

Alfred Dupré died on September 14, 1956 in a Munich clinic at the age of 52.

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His early work is shaped by surrealism . But then his works showed a friendly face. The painter Fritz Weinzheimer (Cologne) opened his eyes to the splendor of color, Werner Heuser   (Düsseldorf) to the laws of convincing picture composition. After 1922, Dupré's pictures are of a generous, youthful carelessness. At the age of 20 he joined an international group of painters in Anticoli , where he surprisingly quickly acquired a virtuoso technique and a personal style.

His pictures, landscapes, portraits and nudes from the years 1924 to 1931, created in Anticoli, Rome, Paris, Sanary, Portofino and Bellinzona, are slightly expressive, painted with a powerful temperament, later with a smooth surface in the style of the emerging “ New Objectivity ". The role models of André Dérain , Maurice Utrillo and Gustave Courbet, whom he studied with enthusiasm in Paris, encouraged his development, as did the friendly relationship with the Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico .

The general tendency of “ post-expressionism ” towards a solid, handcrafted style has been evident since the mid-twenties. When Dupré finally returned to Germany in 1931, his work was dominated by romantic, dreamed-of landscapes on the North Sea, in the Lahn Valley, especially his home in the Rhineland.

It turned out that Dupré had adapted well to the National Socialist conception of art , especially since his anti-modern choice of motifs complied with the prevailing blood-and-soil ideology : in 1939 ( Niederrheinische Landschaft , Saal 37 and Landschaft bei Köln , Saal 38) and in 1940 ( Old Trees in Early Spring , Room 32) take part in the National Socialist propaganda and sales shows of the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. At the 1939 exhibition, Adolf Hitler bought Dupré's oil painting Niederrheinische Landschaft ; at the 1940 exhibition, Hitler bought old trees in early spring .

In Germany's seclusion after the war , pictures of longing for Paris were created. In the Cologne district of Porz, he felt

“… The atmosphere of Paris. This colourfulness, this perfection of colors and shapes, this constant change in the air over river and plain with fields and factories can only be found anywhere else in Paris! "(Quote from a letter)

At the end of his short life he returned to surrealism , which he was able to increase to the point of non-representationalism. A heart condition as a result of the war only resulted in a few extraordinary works and graphic cycles in this last period.

Exhibitions (excerpt)

  • 1925: First collective exhibition in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, then in the Kunstverein Cologne
  • 1930: Collective exhibition in the Dom-Galerie Cologne, in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt a. M.
  • 1931–1951: Participation in exhibitions in Berlin, Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Vienna, Nuremberg, Brussels, Wiesbaden, Hamburg, at the same time collective exhibitions in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Frankfurt
  • 1942: Collective exhibition in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne
  • 1953: Exhibition Christian Rohlfs, Otto Ehrich, Alfred Dupré, Galerie Hielscher, Munich
  • 1955: Collective exhibition at the Kunstverein Munich
  • 1957: Memorial exhibition Galerie Gurlitt, Munich
  • 1966: Special exhibition at Galerie Paffrath, Düsseldorf
  • 1969: Memorial exhibition at Porz am Rhein town hall

literature

  • Alfred Dupré . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 31, Saur, Munich a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-598-22771-X , p. 73.
  • Alfred Dupré . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 612 .
  • Alfred Dupré . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 443 .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ website GDK Research - Image-based research platform to the Great German Art Exhibitions 1937-1944 in Munich
personal data
SURNAME Dupré, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dupre, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1956
Place of death Munich