Alfred Mohrbutter

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Exhibition poster by Alfred Mohrbutter (1897)

Alfred Mohrbutter (born December 10, 1867 in Celle ; † May 21, 1916 in Neubabelsberg near Potsdam ) was a German painter , lithographer , etcher teacher and craftsman . In the course of the reform movement he made so-called “reform clothes” as early as the 19th century.

Life

Mohrbutter's father was the conductor Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohrbutter. In Altona , Alfred Mohrbutter attended the Christianeum and from 1885 to 1887 the trade school. There he learned from his teacher Woldemar Friedrich to draw mainly from plaster models - as was customary at the time.

From 1887 to 1890 he studied at the Grand Ducal Art School in Weimar in the class of Leopold von Kalckreuth . Julius von Ehren and Momme Nissen were among his classmates .

In 1891 Mohrbutter moved back to his parents' house in Altona and began to paint and draw pictures of friends and men from the poor house. Under the impression of the cholera epidemic in Hamburg in 1892, he also painted realistic scenes of sick people and coffin dealers.

1893 Mohrbutter went with his friend, the decorative painter Otto Schmarje to Paris to study at the Académie Julian . Above all, his teacher Gabriel Ferrier influenced him to increasingly turn to pastel colors. The observation of Parisian life determined his life path. His interest in fashion, fabrics, color combinations, porcelain, glass and carpets was aroused.

Artist club

Alfred Mohrbutter: Church in Allermöhe ( Dreieinigkeitskirche Allermöhe ), 1895

Back in Hamburg he joined the artists whom Justus Brinckmann , the head of the Hamburg Museum for Art and Crafts , had gathered around him and also promoted. Mohrbutter was one of the founding members of the Hamburg Artist Club from 1897 . He was also a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . On excursions to Himmelpforten and Neugraben , the young people mainly devoted themselves to landscape painting. These works by Mohrbutter are largely lost.

At Brinckmann's suggestion, he learned the art of etching from the Danish painter PA Schou , who lived in Hamburg for some time . He subsequently met with Julius Wohlers , Otto Schmarje and other artist friends for years to draw in the founded by Schou Aktclub .

Brinckmann encouraged him, like Julius Wohlers and Otto Eckmann , to draw designs for the north German tapestry manufactory Scherrebeker Webschule . Brinckmann wanted to preserve the old Scandinavian weaving techniques. Mohrbutter and his wife learned how to weave and the technical conditions for making pictures. Twelve tapestries were created based on Mohrbutter's designs. Two of them are now in the Altona Museum . He designed posters and organized exhibitions for the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld .

Berlin

Book title from 1904

In 1900 Mohrbutter moved to Berlin and worked as a teacher at the Berlin-Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts until 1910 . His artistic palette expanded. He dealt with fashion and promoted reform clothes in lectures . He turned against the fashion that constricts women in a way that is harmful to health and designed clothes himself. In 1901 he designed silk fabrics for a Krefeld company and in 1904 wrote the book The Dress of the Woman . In addition, he dealt with the color design of porcelain and glass. He was on the artistic advisory board of the Small Theater Berlin and was a member of the Association of Berlin Artists and the German Association of Artists .

From 1906 onwards he withdrew more frequently to Wyk auf Föhr because of his poor health , where he painted a series of pastel-colored portraits of women. In March / April 1908 he took a cure in Erhard Hartung von Hartungen's reform sanatorium in Riva del Garda , an international meeting place for numerous artists, scientists, writers, diplomats and aristocrats.

Alfred Mohrbutter was one of the signatories of the founding appeal of ethnically oriented Werdandi Federal . As a member, he was in the exhibitions department in 1908 .

After finishing his teaching activities, he again took part in exhibitions with paintings. His painting The Collector (burned in the war) received the honorary award of the city of Berlin and a gold medal in 1912 .

Alfred Mohrbutter died in 1916 at the age of 48 in a sanatorium in Neubabelsberg.

Fonts (selection)

  • The woman's dress. A contribution to the artistic design of the women's dress / by Alfred Mohrbutter. With further drafts by Peter Behrens ... (= Koch's monographs , volume 2.) Alexander Koch, Darmstadt / Leipzig 1904. /
    • as a reprint with explanations by Silvie Vorteilel-Lange: Edition Libri Rari published by Verlag Schäfer, Hanover 1985, ISBN 3-88746-113-4
  • Surface pattern / work from a course by Alfred Mohrbutter , Berlin: Wasmuth, 1908

Exhibitions (selection)

Literature (selection)

Web links

Commons : Alfred Mohrbutter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ oV : Mohrbutter, Alfred ( Memento of 31 July 2017 Internet Archive ) in the database Niedersächsische people (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxon State Library [no date], last accessed October 17, 2017th
  2. ↑ RWLE Möller , Bernd Polster : Alfred Mohrbutter. In: Celle. The city book. ES, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-00-012605-8 , p. 160.
  3. ↑ Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Mohrbutter, Alfred ( kuenstlerbund.de ).
  4. ^ Georg Jäger (Red.), Rolf Parr : Mohrbutter, Alfred. In this: Interdiscursive As-Sociation: Studies on literary-cultural groupings between Vormärz and Weimar Republic (= studies and texts on the social history of literature. Volume 75), also habilitation paper 1966 at the University of Dortmund, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2000, ISBN 978-3-484-35075-5 and ISBN 3-484-35075-X , p. 336 (preview, books.google.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Mohrbutter, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and craftsman
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1916
Place of death Neubabelsberg