Arthur Grunenberg
Arthur Grunenberg (born April 25, 1880 in Königsberg , † July 25, 1952 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German painter, graphic artist and illustrator.
Life
Arthur Grunenberg was born in 1880 as the son of the brewery owner Oscar Grunenberg and his wife Lydia, b. Passarge, born in Königsberg. After completing his legal studies with a doctorate, he devoted himself to art at the suggestion and with a testimony from Franz von Lenbach . He was trained under Christian Landenberger in Munich and Arthur Kampf in Berlin. After study trips, he settled in Berlin. He first painted and drew portraits, then created figural compositions. Preferred motifs were dance as well as rhythmically moving figures and groups, riders and horses ( Pas de trois ; Bacchantenzug , 1917; Reigen , 1911 and 1918; Die Rosse taming Dioskuren , 1921). The dancers he portrayed in movement include Vaslav Nijinsky , Anna Pawlowa , Tamara Karsawina and Adolphe Bolm from the early days of the Ballets Russes , and later also young dancers such as Gina Baluschek, the older daughter of the painter Hans Baluschek .
In addition to painting in oil and pastel and drawing, Grunenberg developed an extensive graphic activity, including lithographic portfolios ( Russian ballet , Anna Pawlowa , figures ). He illustrated, mostly with red chalk drawings, Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski , Horace , Boccaccio , Ninon de Lenclos , Scheffels Ekkehard . He was issued a. a. 1914 in Berlin at the J. Casper Art Salon and in Dresden in the Arnold Gallery in March 1927.
His estate is in the German Dance Archive in Cologne .
literature
- J. Kirchner: Arthur Grunenberg. In: Art and Artists. 17th year 1919, pp. 154-156 ( digitized version ).
- Grunenberg, Arthur . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 146 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - here incorrectly April 25, 1886 as the date of birth).
- Dr. Arthur Grunenberg in memory. In: Südost-Kurier. Vol. 7, No. 118 of August 5, 1952, p. 5.
- Arthur Grunenberg. (Obituary). In: The New Newspaper. No. 240 BC 11./12. October 1952, p. A3.
- Frank-Manuel Peter : The painter / The Painter Ernst Oppler. Berliner Secession & Russian Ballet / The Berlin Secession & The Russian Ballet. Wienand, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-86832-391-7 , p. 95.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ According to birth certificate No. 904 of April 27, 1880 as an extract from the main birth register of the registry office in Königsberg i. Pr. II.
- ↑ According to death certificate No. 138/1952 of the Bad Reichenhall registry office from August 2, 1952.
- ↑ Photo: A. Grunenberg draws A. Bolm in a pose from the Polowetz dances , in: Frank-Manuel Peter: Der Maler / The Painter Ernst Oppler. Berliner Secession & Russian Ballet / The Berlin Secession & The Russian Ballet. Wienand, Cologne 2017, p. 95.
- ↑ Grunenberg drawing by Gina Baluschek on the website of the German Dance Archive Cologne, accessed March 12, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grunenberg, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1952 |
| Place of death | Bad Reichenhall |