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August Herzog (born August 12, 1885 in Fruthwilen ; † May 2, 1959 in Münsterlingen ; resident in Fruthwilen) was a Swiss painter .

life and work

August Herzog was the youngest of five children. When his father died early, his mother had to give up the small farm and move to Ermatingen with the children . After finishing school, Herzog completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter from 1901 to 1904 . He then lived in Zurich and later in Basel . In both cities he attends the arts and crafts school for further training in the winter semesters .  

For his further training he went to the art academy there via Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg and Berlin . He then traveled to Copenhagen and Stockholm to settle in Munich in 1909 . After passing the entrance exam, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1911 to 1915 and became a student of Martin von Feuerstein , Adolf Hengeler and Hugo von Habermann .

During his apprenticeship, Herzog received the “School Fee Exemption for Foreigners”. He was able to exhibit regularly at the “Kunstverein München” and thus sell his pictures.

In 1918 Herzog was able to lead Adolf Hengeler's painting class and became a member of the Munich artists' cooperative , which elected him to the jury of the Glaspalast exhibition in 1927 . In 1922 the Bavarian state bought his landscape painting Ermatingen and in 1927 the city of Munich bought a garden painting by Herzog.

As one of the most famous Munich painters of the 1920s, Herzog exhibited in the art salons of most of Germany's major cities and his works were featured in prominent German magazines, among others. a. reproduced in the Munich youth , in Velhagen and Klasing's monthly magazines or in Decorative Art .

From 1927 to 1932 his study trips took him to Spain , Italy , France and Austria . In 1934, Herzog did not return to Switzerland entirely voluntarily and lived with his sister Rosa in the old rectory in Ermatingen until the end of his life.

In Switzerland, Herzog exhibited his works in the Kunsthaus Zürich , the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen and the Kunstmuseum Thurgau . He owns a large number of his academy studies as well as several oil paintings. Two of his large-format pictures, Ermatingen on Lake Constance and Versoix on Lake Geneva , were bought by the Thurgau Government Council for its government building in Frauenfeld in 1939 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Mast: Nekrolog für August Herzog In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch . Volume 31, 1956, pp. 66–73 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on March 13, 2020]).
  2. ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich: August Herzog, 1911, entry in the register book. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Duke, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Fruthwilen
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1959
Place of death Munsterlingen