Alfred Soder

Alfred Soder (born July 19, 1880 in Basel ; † January 26, 1957 there ) was a late Romantic Swiss painter and etcher who was known for his ex-libris etchings.

Life

After 1900, Soder trained, among others, in Munich with Ludwig Herterich and Heinrich Zügel “in the field of graphics ”. In 1914 he received the Grand Prize for Applied Graphics at the Bugra in Leipzig . Richard Braungart referred to him in 1920 as a “dreamer, poet and fantasist” as well as a “lyricist, idyllic and romantic”. Until 1940 taught he lithography at the general Basel School ; where he was considered very strict. After that he devoted himself more to watercolor painting and created still lifes in oil and pastel .

style

Soder was influenced by Ludwig Richter and "with his angels and putti, animals and people in an idyllic landscape an outspoken late romantic". In 1970, Othmar Birkner praised him as the “ex-libris artist par excellence”, “whose multicolored etchings' are hardly surpassed in their refined technique”. And according to Jules Coulin , Soder's multicolored etchings “not infrequently” surpass the art nouveau artist Heinrich Vogeler's sheets of paper .

Web links

Soder, Alfred. In: Sikart
Literature by and about Alfred Soder in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Alfred Soder in the bibliographic database WorldCat
List of works by Alfred Soder on the website of the German Ex-libris Society .
Alfred Soder in the Leipzig City History Museum
Alfred Soder (1880–1957), bookplate with Beethoven mask, for Heini Schäublin - Etching signed with the monogram AS by Alfred Soder
Alfred Soder: The naked Nietzsche in the high mountains, 1907
Alfred Soder on Artfact

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Hans Krattiger : Alfred Soder - a late romantic . In: Yearbook z'Rieche . Riehen 1992 ( Alfred Soder - a late romantic ( Memento from May 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on April 28, 2013]).
↑ ^a ^b Jules Coulin : Soder, Alfred . In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon . tape 4 . Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1917, p. 622 ( archive.org ).
↑ Richard Braungart : Alfred Soders newer bookplate . In: Walter von Zur Westen (Ed.): Ex-libris, book art and applied graphics . 30th year. Self-published by the German Association for Bookplate Art a. Commercial graphics, Berlin 1920.
^ Friedrich Reinhardt: Congratulations on the 70th birthday of Alfred Soder . In: Basler Nachrichten . July 18, 1950.
↑ ^a ^b Othmar Birkner : Basel bookplate of Art Nouveau . In: Basler Nachrichten . October 25, 1970.

personal data
SURNAME	Soder, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH	July 19, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel
DATE OF DEATH	January 26, 1957
Place of death	Basel

[krattiger-1] Hans Krattiger : Alfred Soder - a late romantic . In: Yearbook z'Rieche . Riehen 1992 ( Alfred Soder - a late romantic ( Memento from May 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on April 28, 2013]).

[coulin-2] Jules Coulin : Soder, Alfred . In: Carl Brun (Ed.): Swiss Artist Lexicon . tape 4 . Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1917, p. 622 ( archive.org ).

[3] Richard Braungart : Alfred Soders newer bookplate . In: Walter von Zur Westen (Ed.): Ex-libris, book art and applied graphics . 30th year. Self-published by the German Association for Bookplate Art a. Commercial graphics, Berlin 1920.

[4] Friedrich Reinhardt: Congratulations on the 70th birthday of Alfred Soder . In: Basler Nachrichten . July 18, 1950.

[birkner-5] Othmar Birkner : Basel bookplate of Art Nouveau . In: Basler Nachrichten . October 25, 1970.