Anton Schoner

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Anton Schöner, photo with autograph probably around 1895 (right: self-portrait, 1903 or before [1]) Anton Schöner, photo with autograph probably around 1895 (right: self-portrait, 1903 or before [1])
Anton Schöner, photo with autograph, probably around 1895 (right: self-portrait, 1903 or before)

Anton Schöner (born March 14, 1866 in Nuremberg ; † April 15, 1930 in Berchtesgaden ) was a German painter , illustrator , lithographer and art writer .

Live and act

Anton Schöner was born the son of a tailor. At the age of 14 he began training as a lithographer and worked as such for ten years, after which he became a student at the Munich Art Academy . During his studies with Franz von Lenbach (1836–1904) he was inspired to paint portraits . From 1891 he lived in Berlin , where he "achieved great success and portrayed numerous well-known personalities, as well as created many works that have given his name fame and importance". In 1913 he returned to Munich, where, at the age of 52, he became the father of Hellmut Schöner (1918–2003) who, among other things, edited the historical documentation and edited the new edition of Das Berchtesgadener Land through the ages (1929, 1973) as a reprint as well as a supplementary volume to it (1982), each of which deals with a section by Anton Schöner. From 1920, Schöner lived in Berchtesgaden until his death in 1930.

At the age of 20, Schöner was already painting a picture of Kaiser Wilhelm I , which came into the possession of the Hohenzollern family . Other portraits of him include Franz von Lenbach, Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905) - first exhibited in a "Menzel exhibition" (1905) of the Munich Art Association , then hanging in the honorary citizens' hall of the Wroclaw town hall, Count Moltke ( source does not name the full name - presumably: Helmuth von Moltke (Generalfeldmarschall) (1800-1891), the natural scientist Ernst Häckel (1834-1919), the Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria (1821-1912) and his eldest son, King Ludwig III. (1845-1921). In addition, he also achieved “excellent results as a woman painter” and also created landscapes of Berchtesgaden and the surrounding area. Adolph Kohut also mentions Schöner's portraits of Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld in Köfering and Schönberg (1871–1944), Reich Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow (1849–1929), the Prussian War Minister Bronsart von Schellendorff , the sculptor Reinhold Begas (1831–1911) ), the history and architecture painter Paul Ritter (1829–1907) and the music writer and composer Wilhelm Tappert (1830–1907). Kohut also attests to Schöner:

"Just as Anton Schöner demonstrated his profession as a generous portraitist of important and well-known men through these portraits, he also achieved excellent results in the portraiture of women and children, where only one rewarding task was offered to him."

- Adolph Kohut : German Art and Decoration, Volume 14, 1904, pp. 425–426

In 1920, Schöner moved into the "Villa Malerhügel" (later names: "Haus Malerhügel", "Kunsthaus Malerhügel") at Salzburger Straße 18 not far from the Berchtesgaden salt mine and in the same year founded the Anton Schöner Gallery , in which "Works by important masters" were issued. The gallery was continued after Schöner's death until the beginning of the Second World War in 1939.

Exhibitions / museum holdings

The Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon lists (individual) exhibitions by Anton Schöner without further details in the years 1896/1, 1909/1, 1913/1 and posthumously 1958/2 and 1961/23. In addition, works by him were shown in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1894 . Schöner's paintings belong to the inventory of the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich and the museums of the city of Nuremberg , where 24 of his paintings and drawings are kept.

Image examples

Portraits

The following portraits are not taken from the original paintings, but rather from prints made from them (according to the sources, the dates given correspond to the creation of the paintings):

Book illustrations

The following lithographs are a selection of one hundred plates in Emil Schachtzabel : Illustrated splendid work of all pigeon breeds (1906), for which Anton Schöner created the original watercolor templates:

  • Table 1

  • Plate 10

  • Plate 11

  • Plate 42

Bibliography (illustrations, if known)

  • Emil Schachtzabel : Illustrated splendid work of all pigeon breeds , royal. University printing house H. Stürtz A. G, Würzburg 1906

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appreciation with self-portrait by Anton Schöner see: In relatively young years ...,. In:  Sport & Salon , October 31, 1903, p. 19 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / sus
  2. ↑ a b c d Schöner, Anton . In: Manfred H. Grieb (Ed.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon . Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . Volume 3 of 4 volumes. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-11763-3 , p. 1371 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Hellmut Schöner (ed.), A. Helm : The Berchtesgadener Land in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973, p. 319.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Adolph Kohut : painter Anton Schoner - Berlin . In: German art and decoration . Volume 14, 1904, pp. 425–426 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library , online since 2011 at deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de )
  5. ↑ a b Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time. Supplementary volume I. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-87490-528-4 , p. 538.
  6. ↑ Munich. (Kunstverein) Menzel exhibition ... In: The workshop of art: Organ for d. Interests d. visual artist , volume 42, 4.1904 / 1905; left column, last paragraph p. 567 ( online at digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  7. ↑ a b See also: Speech in memory of Adolph von Menzel on December 8, 1905, given by Professor Dr. Max Semrau . In: Annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture. 83 (1905), pp. 17-32 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
    Quote: “... - and thanks to the friendly courtesy of the painter Anton Schöner also greets us at this place with his life-like portrait of the master, the youngest and probably one of the most loyal in the long series of portraits with which artists of every rank tried to capture Adolph Menzel's unique physical appearance. "
  8. ^ Haeckel, Ernst - zoologist, drawing by A. Schoener , at Getty Images , online at gettyimages.de
  9. ↑ The term "Painters Hill" referring lt. Entries via books.google.de like this well before construction of the building for the building or environment, but for the time after the beginning of the 20th century (currently) no longer detectable.
  10. ^ Report by Mr Hellmut Schöner from Berchtesgaden, House Malerhügel dated September 5, 1938 , from the detailed display of an entry in the university library of the distance university in Hagen , online at dfsd.fernuni-hagen.de
  11. ↑ Address book for the Berchtesgadener Land. A. Lang Verlag, 1938 ( limited preview in the Google book search; entry: Berchtesgadener Kunsthaus Malerwinkel, Galerie Anton Schöner, Salzburger Str. 18 ).
  12. ↑ Artist Anton Schöner , ArtFacts.Net on participation in exhibitions, online at artfacts.net
  13. ^ Foreword from Emil Schachtzabel : Illustrated magnificent work of all pigeon races , Königl. Universitätsdruckerei H. Stürtz A. G, Würzburg 1906. p. 8 below, in Wikimedia Commons , online at commons.wikimedia.org
    The link to Wikimedia Commons can be used to     call up 95 more of these plates.
personal data
SURNAME Nicer, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, illustrator, lithographer and art writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1930
Place of death Berchtesgaden