Anton Burger (painter)

Self-portrait

Burger in his studio

Anton Burger memorial

Anton Burger's grave

Anton Burger (born November 14, 1824 in Frankfurt am Main , † July 6, 1905 in Kronberg ) was a German painter , draftsman and etcher.

Life

Burger studied at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut from 1842 to 1846 and was a student of Johann Jakob Jung , Jakob Becker and Philipp Veit , at whose suggestion he went to Munich, but only stayed there until 1848. Burger returned to Frankfurt. In 1851, Burger married his childhood friend Katharina Elise Heislitz, who died in 1856. In 1853, Burger went on a study trip to Paris with Angilbert Goebel and Philipp Rumpf , where he met Camille Corot and Gustave Courbet , among others . Around 1855/1856, Burger was a private student of August Weber in Düsseldorf , a well-known representative of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . In 1858 he moved to Kronberg im Taunus. In 1859 he entered into a second marriage, he married the Kronberg doctor's daughter Anna Johanna Auguste Küster (1832–1876), who also died early. With Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann he founded the Kronberg painters' colony there in 1861 , the center of which he remained until his death. He was very respected and was named the "King of Kronberg" with appreciation. He supported secessionist artists in the Frankfurt-Cronberger-Künstler-Bund . Burger concluded his third and last marriage in 1882 with his former painting student Pauline Fresenius .

Honors

In 1894 Burger was appointed royal Prussian professor and received numerous prizes and honors throughout his life.

At the Schiller-Weiher in the Victoria Park in Kronberg, friends and admirers erected a monument to him in 1908, which the Munich sculptor Ludwig Karl Sand had designed and designed.

plant

Anton Burger was probably the most fertile and versatile of the Kronberg painters. He primarily painted landscape pictures with motifs from his immediate surroundings: Frankfurt, the Taunus and the Rhine-Main landscape, he also painted interiors, portraits, genre pictures, vedutas, watercolors and etchings. His pictures sold very well, especially in the area in which his pictures were taken; in Frankfurt it was “good form” to own a “burger”. But Burger also found buyers in other European countries, especially in Paris, Vienna and London.

literature

• Burger, Anton . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume I, Dresden 1895, p. 144 f.
• Anton Burger. Exhibition in the art dealer JP Schneider jr. Frankfurt a. M. 1984.
• Manfred Großkinsky (Ed.): Anton Burger. 1824-1905. For the 180th birthday. Haus Giersch - Museum Regionaler Kunst, March 7 to July 4, 2004. Henrich, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-935283-07-5 .
• Kronberg Museum Society: Anton Burger. 1824-1905. Painter of old Frankfurt and founder of the Kronberg painter colony. (Documentation by the Kronberg Museum Society, Volume 7). Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0359-5 .
• Clemens Weiler:  Burger, Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 44 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Anton Burger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Anton Burger in the catalog of the German National Library
• About Anton Burger