Anton Kerschbaumer (painter)

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Anton Kerschbaumer (* 20th November 1885 in Rosenheim , † 2. August 1931 in Berlin ) was a German painter of Expressionism .

Life

Anton Kerschbaumer was born on November 20, 1885 in Rosenheim. From 1901 to 1908 he studied at the School of Applied Arts in Munich with Professors Maximilian Dasio and Julius Exter . There he passed the drawing teacher exam. In 1905 he won a prize in the competition for advertising drafts for joint advertising by Ludwig Stollwerck and Otto Henkell . Other award winners were the artists Julius Diez , Eugen Kirchner, Friedrich Stahl, Albert Klingner, Ludwig Hohlwein , Fritz Klee, Bernhard Halbreiter, Elly Hirsch, Johann Baptist Maier , Georg v. Kürthy, Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke , Paul Leuteritz, Otto Kleinschmidt , Ulrich Hübner , Anton Hoffmann, Otto Ludwig Naegele , Peter Würth, Ernst Oppler , A. Altschul, Ant. Jos. Pepins and August Geigenberger. Moved to Berlin in 1908 , he - like Paul Kleinschmidt - was a student of Lovis Corinth for a while . In Berlin he also met Martin Bloch (1883–1954). He was impressed by the post-impressionists Paul Cézanne , Vincent van Gogh and Henri Matisse and he was influenced by them in his work, but eventually turned away from impressionism. In 1914 he was able to exhibit for the first time at the art dealer Israel Ber Neumann .

During the First World War, Kerschbaumer was in Ostend (Flanders) on Erich Heckel's volunteer medical train , where the painter Max Kaus , the writer and lawyer Ernst Morwitz and Otto Herbig also worked as nurses. He learned lasting impressions and suggestions from Heckel's art and lithographic work. Returning to Berlin in 1919, he took part in a first large collective exhibition with the publisher Paul Cassirer . The majority of his works from the 1920s were created in a working and “community of ideas” that took up the traces of the artist group “ Brücke ”, which was dissolved in 1913 ; Max Kaus and Walter Gramatté worked here .

He married in 1921 and spent the summers with his wife Friederike mostly at the Chiemsee and Ammersee lakes . In Würzburg in the 1920s, he came together for joint painting stays on the “ New World ” with the painter Gertraud Rostosky with Erich Heckel, Otto Modersohn , Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann and other artists. In 1926 he founded an art school together with Martin Bloch in Berlin; Among others, Kurt Scheele (1905–1944) was a student here . In the same year he took part in a collective exhibition of contemporary artists in the Berlin gallery Nierendorf . In 1927 and 1928 he stayed in Malcesine on Lake Garda for Mal stays . In 1929 he traveled to Carolles in Normandy and Paris . In 1930 he was a three-month scholarship holder at the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo in Rome. Here he met the expressionists Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and again Otto Herbig, with whom he then spent the summer in Malcesine. Seriously ill in the winter of the same year, he died on August 2, 1931 in Berlin-Tegel .

Anton Kerschbaumer was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Anton Kerschbaumer had a daughter.

Act

Kerschbaumer is assigned to the late Expressionists, the "Second Generation", who wanted to actively shape the "new era" under artistic aspects under the personal, apocalyptic impression of the First World War. Many of Kerschbaumer's works are in private and family ownership as well as in the Frank Brabant Collection , Wiesbaden , in the Buchheim Collection , Bernried am Starnberger See , in the art collection of the Städtische Galerie Rosenheim , in the Brücke-Museum Berlin , in the Angermuseum Erfurt , in the museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach and in the Bavarian State Painting Collection . In 1933, a special exhibition of Kerschbaumer's watercolors was held as a memorial exhibition in the Nierendorf Gallery . In 1981, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007, works by him were or can be seen in exhibitions at the Brücke Museum in Berlin from the collections of this museum. In 2001 a Kerschbaumer exhibition took place in Rosenheim . In 2004, his works were on view in the exhibition “Tradition and Awakening - Würzburg and the Art of the 1920s” in Würzburg . For 2006/2007, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has a loanable exhibition “Im Rausch des Elementaren. Late Expressionists 1915 to 1925. Paintings and sculptures from the collection of the Nationalgalerie ”developed, which also includes oil paintings by Kerschbaumer (eg“ Green Canal ”from 1925).

Exhibitions

  • 1929: Large art exhibition, Kunstverein Kassel
  • 1931: Eight painters exhibit - Walter Gramatté, Erich Heckel, Otto Herbig, Max Kraus, Anton Kerschbaumer, Otto Mueller, Christian Rohlfs, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Jena City Museum

Fonts

  • Paul Westheim (Ed.): DAS KUNSTBLATT. Monthly magazine for artistic development in painting, sculpture, architecture and handicrafts. Contributions by AK in: 3rd year, 1919, issue 9 and 14th year, November 1930.
  • Painter's Notes. Work manuscript. In: Estate of Rudolf Wacker (1893–1939), in: Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek Bregenz

literature

  • Johanna Hofmann-Stirnemann : Eight painters are exhibiting - Walter Gramatté, Erich Heckel, Otto Herbig, Max Kraus, Anton Kerschbaumer, Otto Mueller, Christian Rohlfs, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , 1949 (1950?)
  • Leopold Reidemeister: Anton Kerschbaumer 1885–1931. On the 50th anniversary of death. Exhibition December 5, 1981 to February 7, 1982 Brücke-Museum, Berlin. March 5 to April 18, 1982 , Berlin 1982
  • Brücke-Museum (Hrsg.): Catalog of paintings, glass windows and sculptures , Berlin: Brücke-Museum 1983
  • Anton Kerschbaumer (Rosenheim 1885–1931 Berlin). Catalog 15 - Memorial exhibition for the 100th birthday. Paintings, watercolors and lithographs from 1910–1930 , Munich: Galerie Pabst 1985
  • Konstanze Wetzel-Kerschbaumer (Ed.): Anton Kerschbaumer 1885–1931 (exhibition catalog). With articles by Dr. Evelyn Frick ("Life and Work") and Dr. Markus Ewel ("Interest in the visual image") and an extensive catalog of works, Hirmer-Verlag 1994, NA 2001, ISBN 3-7774-6400-7
  • Expressionists. Buchheim Collection. Feldafing: Buchheim-Verlag 1998, ISBN 3-7659-1046-5 (therein No. 720 and 721)
  • Anton Kerschbaumer. 1885-1931. Städtische Galerie Rosenheim May 5 to June 17, 2001 (illustrated book with text), Rosenheim 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hofacker, Prof. Karl: Kunstgewerbeblatt 16th year, Leipzig, 1905.
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Kerschbaumer, Anton ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 7, 2015)
  3. ↑ Death Constance Wetzel (1928-2020) , Süddeutsche Zeitung on 25 April 2020
personal data
SURNAME Kerschbaumer, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenheim
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1931
Place of death Berlin