August Kallert

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August Kallert (born August 30, 1882 in Neustadt an der Aisch ; † June 2, 1958 in Dachau ) was a German painter.

Live and act

August Kallert, the son of a teacher in Neustadt an der Aisch, studied at the Academy in Munich . There were his teachers u. a. Johann Caspar Herterich , Otto Seitz and Angelo Jank . After several years of apprenticeship and traveling (in England, Belgium, Holland, Italy) and a longer study trip to Paris, the artist settled in Dachau in 1910. He was actively involved in founding the Dachau artists 'group, which later became the Dachau Artists' Association.

Since 1919 he exhibited regularly in the Munich Glass Palace and in 1922 joined the Munich New Secession . At the exhibition German artists and the SS in Salzburg in 1944 , he exhibited the picture “Austragbauer in Dachau”. From 1947 until his death he was chairman of the Dachau Artists' Association.

Many of his paintings are owned by the city of Dachau and various authorities. A street in Dachau commemorates the artist. Some of his works are in the Dachau painting gallery .

Artistic work

The painter was versatile in his subjects: figurative pictures, nudes, portraits, landscapes and still lifes came from his hand. Especially in the years 1910 to 1930 he dealt with the advancing movements of his time. In his work there are echoes of the New Objectivity (art) and expressive realism in the style of Max Beckmann . For his hometown Neustadt he painted its old gates and a portrait of the Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria .

Works (selection)

  • Winter in Dachau, Oil / Lwd. 61 × 75
  • The festival carriage in front of the gate, oil / canvas. 63 × 76
  • Shopping pleasure in Dachau, oil / cardboard 49.2 × 64.2
  • The summer in the Lower Market , oil / canvas 66 × 59.6
  • The blue Dachau Castle on a foehn day in October, oil / cardboard 54 × 45
  • A quiet summer afternoon, oil / cardboard 51 × 61
  • Sunset in Dachau on an early winter evening, Öl / Lwd. 133 × 163
  • Sunbeams during a summer thunderstorm over Dachu, Öl / Lwd. 62 × 72
  • Midsummer on the Dachau Alststadtberg, oil / cardboard 49 × 64
  • A gloomy winter day, oil / canvas. 65 × 80
  • Luminous autumn colors on Münchner Strasse, Öl / Lwd. 63 × 48
  • Dachau folk festival, oil / canvas. 73.4 × 64

literature

  • Carl Thiemann : Memories of a Dachau Painter. Contributions to the history of Dachau as an artist's place, Dachau undated, pp. 22–23
  • Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century, Fifth Volume, Munich 1993, p. 446
  • August Kallert 1882–1958. A painter in Dachau. An exhibition of the local association of local history museum Dachau August 3 to September 23, 1990. Dachau o. J.
  • Bärbel Schäfer: Art collection of the Volksbank Raiffeisenbank Dachau eG. Selected works from the Dachau artist colony. Dachau 2010. pp. 128-133.
  • Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedtner: August Kallert, a Dachauer painter, in: Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedtner: Dachauer painter. The artist's place Dachau from 1801-1946. Dachau 1981. pp. 119-122.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch up to 1933. Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1950. (New edition 1978 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Ph. CW Schmidt Neustadt an der Aisch publishing house 1828-1978. ) P. 671.
  2. ↑ Bruckmanns Lexikon 1993, p. 446
  3. ↑ Max Döllner (1950), p. 671.
personal data
SURNAME Kallert, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Aisch
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1958
Place of death Dachau