Amandus Faure

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Amandus Faure (born January 30, 1874 in Hamburg , † August 5, 1931 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter and graphic artist . His pictures from the circus , theater and showman milieu are of particular importance in the history of art .

Life

Traveling circus , 1905

Faure was part of a wandering band of artists when he was very young. After school and an apprenticeship as a decorative painter , he joined a group of actors as a backdrop painter . In 1892 he came to Stuttgart. It was not until 1899, at the age of 25, that he began a higher education in painting at the Stuttgart Art School . In 1901, under the directorate of Leopold von Kalckreuth , this school was promoted to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and thus to the rank of a university. There was Ludwig Herterich his teacher for academic drawing, Carlos Grethe taught him in the painting class, director of Kalckreuth in composing.

At first, hesitating whether he wanted to become a landscape or figure painter, he decided on a broad spectrum. Therefore he painted landscapes and vedute as well as genre scenes , portraits and still lifes , especially still lifes with flowers. In 1911 he emerged as a graphic artist through a series of etchings . In his painting style, idiosyncratic colorism and light-dark contrasts play a major role. With this he succeeded in creating scenes "full of strange, dark fantasy ". His artist portraits (Waldemar Francke, Reinhardt Tenhaeff) and the subjects of his genre painting, in which Faure described the milieu of the circus and theater from his own perspective, also found recognition early on. As one of their most talented students, the Stuttgart Academy awarded him the gold medal in 1905.

Behind the Manege (in the apartment car) , 1918

In 1907 Faure left the academy and began his first trip to Italy as a fellow at the Villa Romana , which took him not only to Florence but also to Naples . From Stuttgart, where he kept his permanent residence, he made further trips in 1908, to Morocco , Spain and the Netherlands . He visited Paris in 1909 and 1911, and again in Italy in 1910, 1912 and 1913. The impressions of life in the Mediterranean and the Orient gained while traveling formed a focus of his painting.

At the beginning of the First World War , Faure tried to get approval as a war painter from the German military and its allies . First he was approved by the competent authority of the Ottoman Empire . As a war painter he first toured Constantinople and the Dardanelles in 1914/1915 , then the Balkans and Ypres on the Western Front , and in 1916 also the Russian Front . In addition to the contributions by Theodor Rocholl , Wilhelm Schreuer , Ernst Liebermann and Ernst Vollbehr , his studies and pictures flowed into the book War Journeys of German Painters published in Leipzig in 1915 .

Faure was a member of the Stuttgart Artists Association , the German Association of Artists , the Munich Secession and the Association of West German Artists. In 1910 Faure organized a large collective exhibition in the house of the Württemberg Art Association in Stuttgart . He regularly sent exhibitions of the Deutscher Künstlerbund and the Munich Secession, repeatedly the Great Berlin Art Exhibition (1908, 1913), the Berlin Secession (1910, 1911), the Munich Glass Palace (1913) and art exhibitions in Stuttgart (1913, 1914), Dresden (1904, 1908, 1912), Wiesbaden (1909), Darmstadt (1911), Düsseldorf ( 1902 , 1913) and Cologne (1907). The "Exhibition from the Art Holdings of the City of Stuttgart", which took place in 1934 in the Wilhelmspalast in Stuttgart, comprised a total of eleven of his works .

  • Military parade in Naples

  • Alley in Naples

  • Nocturnal festival with a tarantella dancer , 1923

literature

Web links

Commons : Amandus Faure  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronicle of the City of Stuttgart . Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, Volume 50, p. 355
  2. ↑ Charlotte Heymel: Tourists at the front. The war experience 1914–1918 as travel experience in contemporary travelogues . Dissertation University of Osnabrück 2006, LIT Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-9973-8 , p. 68 f. ( Google Books )
  3. ^ War journeys by German painters. Personal experiences in World War 1914–1915 . Velhagen & Klasing publishing house, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1915
  4. ^ Exhibition from the art collection of the City of Stuttgart: March to October 1934 . Wilhelmspalast, Neckarstrasse 2, publisher: Exhibition and Tourism Office of the City of Stuttgart. Stuttgart: Ludwig Bohland [print], 1934, pp. 6-7, 9
personal data
SURNAME Faure, Amandus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1931
Place of death Stuttgart