August Rieper

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lying nude with apple in front of a burning city
August Rieper: The temptation

August Rieper (born October 17, 1865 in Hamburg , † December 22, 1940 in Munich ) was a German landscape, interior, portrait and nude painter.

Life

House servants in the Biedermeier interior
August Rieper: Sunny home
Signature from August Rieper

Rieper received his first drawing lessons in Hamburg at the trade school. In 1884 he went to Munich, attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich for a few months , but decided to study self-taught. The first pictures came to the exhibition in 1887 and met with great interest from established Munich artists such as Lenbach , Kaulbach , Seitz and others. Rieper came into a friendly, school-like relationship with Kaulbach and Seitz in particular. In 1888 he was represented for the first time at the International Exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace .

Rieper was a long-time member of the State Commission for Restoration Matters at the Bavarian State Gallery. As a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative , he received a special exhibition in the old National Museum in 1928 .

August Rieper's studio, which was also his apartment, was at Liebigstrasse 4 in Munich.

plant

Rieper initially limited himself to still life in his artistic work, figurative representations can only be found sporadically in his first creative years. In the 1890s he began to combine still life and figure motifs into larger compositions. At the beginning of the 20th century, he increasingly specialized in the representation of figures in interiors, often in sunny rooms or with views of the room in Biedermeier salons (e.g. sunny home , see illustration). There were also numerous nudes, initially in the interior, then more and more composed in landscapes (e.g. The Temptation , see illustration). From the 1930s on, Rieper successfully devoted himself to portraiture and also managed to create freer compositions with dancing groups, centaurs and fauns.

Paintings (selection)

  • Capricio
  • In holiday dress
  • inferno
  • piano
  • Sunny home
  • Still life with a red hood
  • temptation
  • drinker

literature

  • Ernst Rump : Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Otto Bröcker & Co., Hamburg 1912, p. 109, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  • Horst Ludwig, Sonja von Baranow, Rainer Beck : Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries. Century (=  Lexicon of Munich Art: Munich Painters in the 19th Century . Volume 3 ). 1st edition. Stiebner, 1993, ISBN 978-3-8307-0115-6 , pp. 367-370 .
  • Maike Bruhns : Rieper, August . In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary. Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 371

Web links

Commons : August Rieper  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Horst Ludwig, Sonja von Baranow, Rainer Beck : Münchner Maler im 19./20. Century (=  Lexicon of Munich Art: Munich Painters in the 19th Century . Volume 3 ). 1st edition. Stiebner, 1993, ISBN 978-3-8307-0115-6 , pp. 367-370 .
  2. ↑ Artist database - art auctions. In: artnet. Retrieved December 28, 2017 .
  3. ^ From Johann Karl: From Munich artist studios . Volume 2, p. 9
  4. ↑ Registration book entry. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on December 28, 2017 .
  5. ^ Johann Karl: From Munich artist studios. Main volume 1 and 2 . tape 2 . Self-published by the author, Munich 1930, p. 9 .
  6. ↑ August Rieper works and performance . In: MAGEDA (Ed.): CD-ROM - 2014 . 1st edition. THK, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7353-0983-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Rieper, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape, interior, portrait and nude painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1940
Place of death Munich