August Deusser
August Deusser (born February 15, 1870 in Cologne , † October 28, 1942 in Konstanz ) was a German painter and professor of painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .
Live and act
Deusser studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1892 to 1897, most recently as a master student of Peter Janssen the Elder . Initially, Deusser worked as a genre and history painter , where, in addition to farmers in the field, he particularly focused on William Shakespeare . As the winner of a competition, at the turn of the century he performed the history painting On the Evening of the Battle of Cleverham for the boardroom of the district building in Kleve .
Under the influence of Max Liebermann and Wilhelm Trübner , he then turned to Impressionism as one of the first artists of the Düsseldorf School . On the training ground of the cuirassier regiment "Graf Gessler" (Rheinisches) No. 8 in Deutz , he studied the movement of horses and created a series of pictures of mounted troops, which he captured in a new way of painting . This change of direction was initially reviled by Düsseldorf art critics. Deusser therefore withdrew to Monheim am Rhein , but remained in contact with a small circle of Düsseldorf painters, including Max Clarenbach , Julius Bretz and Walter Ophey . In 1908 Deusser exhibited his horse paintings in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf with success. The art critic Wilhelm Schäfer first drew attention to him in the magazine Die Rheinlande . Since then, Deusser has been considered the leader of the "Düsseldorf Modernism " ( Walter Cohen ).
Together with Max Clarenbach, with whom he had made friends as a student, Deusser founded the Sonderbund in 1909 , which was particularly influenced by French Impressionism. With international exhibitions in Düsseldorf (1909–1911) and Cologne (1912), this artist association helped modernism to break through in the Rhineland. In 1912 Deusser moved to Wiesbaden . In 1917 he was appointed professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In 1932 he gave up his artistic activity. August Deusser died in Constance on October 26, 1942.
Deussers estate is located since 1972 in the Swiss Zurzach in Castle Zurzach , managed by Antonie-Deusser Foundation. In Monheim am Rhein, the Deusser House of the Heimatbund Monheim e. V. to the years of his life there.
literature
- Walter Cohen : Deusser, August . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 170 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Klara Drenker-Nagels (ed.): August Deusser, life and work . Wienand, Cologne 1995.
Web links
- Literature by and about August Deusser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of the Deusser Foundation with all pictures
- biography
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
- ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, pp. 367–369
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Deusser, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1942 |
| Place of death | Constancy |