Arthur Julius Barth
Arthur Julius Barth (born November 22, 1878 in Meißen ; † July 17, 1926 in Rehbrücke ) was a German painter and graphic artist . Emerging from the circle of manufactory workers at the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Meißen , his tireless work was brought to an abrupt end by an early death.
Life
Barth was in Meißen on November 22, 1878 as the child of the merchant Julius Arno Barth and Henriette Agnes, nee. Schneider was born. His career there began in 1896 when he was accepted into the manufactory's drawing school with training in traditional landscape and flower painting at the manufactory. In the years 1897 to 1901 he trained as a figure painter and studied at the Royal Art Academy in Dresden through admission to the painting room of the portrait and genre painter Prof. Leon Pohle .
A renewed study from September 1903 in the class of the painter Carl Bantzer led him in the summer of 1904 to study in the painters' colony in Willingshausen (Hesse). At the beginning of the winter semester 1904/05, Barth enrolled in Professor Otto Gussmann's ornament school , which he attended until the end of the summer semester 1906. He worked in the meantime or in parallel at the manufactory. In 1910 he married Marie Barth, b. Cutter. In 1914 he resigned and moved to Rehbrücke as a freelance artist . Through his friendship with Franz Huth , Barth was introduced to interior painting. It was also Huth who supported Marie Barth and the children after Arthur Julius Barth's untimely death. Barth died on July 17, 1926 at the age of 48 from food poisoning.
Services
After a few years of stagnation, the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory entered a phase of structural and artistic renewal from 1900 onwards, supported by a group of young artists such as Arthur Julius Barth, most of whom had emerged from the Manufactory. After 1914, a series of etchings by Barth under the title “ Dresden ” and from 1919 further collections - “ Potsdam ”, “Alt- Meißen ”, “Meißen and Elbeland”, “ Weimar ”, “Märkische Views”, “Elfen” portfolio were made , " Ludwig Richter " folder - published. In the twenties, Barth produced a vast number of views of the sights of Potsdam and Sanssouci, but also of the nearby Bergholz and Rehbrücke . This makes him the tireless keeper of these historical views.
Works
China and designs
- Museum of the State Porcelain Manufactory Meißen
- Decorative Arts Museum Berlin
- Württemberg State Museum Stuttgart
Graphics and paintings
- City archive and museum Meißen
- Kupferstichkabinett Dresden
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- 1927 Berlin, H.SAGEN & Co., commemorative exhibition
- 1989 Stralsund, Theater (PuH Schneider)
- 2001 Nuthetal , memorial exhibition of the Bergholz-Rehbrücke local association
Group exhibition
- 1908 Munich, Glaspalast
- 1908 Berlin, Great German Art Exhibition
- 1909 Vienna, Great German Art Exhibition
literature
- Barth, Julius Arthur . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 7, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22747-7 , p. 223.
- Barth, Arthur . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 120 .
- Johannes Just: Meissen Art Nouveau porcelain. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1983
- Jürgen A. Wollmann: The Willingshausen painters 'colony and the Kleinsassen painters' colony. Willingshäuser Painting Cabinet , Schwalmstadt-Treysa 1992, ISBN 3-925665-16-1
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barth, Arthur Julius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barth, Julius Arthur; Barth, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meissen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 1926 |
| Place of death | Deer Bridge |