Bartle glue

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Bartle Kleber , also Bartholomäus Kleber (born July 8, 1884 in Andelsbuch , † September 11, 1953 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist.

Memorial plaque on the Klebers house

Life

Bartle Kleber was the son of Maria Christina Halbeisen, who came from Andelsbuch. He completed an apprenticeship in decorative painting in Dornbirn and attended the arts and crafts school in Munich from 1900. He then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and learned under Karl Raupp and Martin Feuerstein . Like many other young German painters, he was drawn to the Mediterranean region and from 1903 to 1904 he undertook a two-year adventurous study trip through Italy, Greece, Egypt and the Middle East, mainly on foot, during which he drew and painted a lot. After his return he continued his studies for four years in Munich and two years in Vienna (among others with Alois Delug ). He made another trip to Persia .

He first worked as a church and decoration painter at home and abroad and created z. B. 1914 the fairy tale pictures at the secondary school in Bregenz-Belruptstrasse. From the First World War he worked as a freelance artist, he also taught as a drawing teacher at various schools. a. 1910 to 1914 at the building trade school in Dornbirn and in Bregenz . In 1921 he designed the state emergency money (50 Heller notes) produced using the stone printing process.

A series of red chalk drawings by Kleber was dedicated to the portraits of prominent personalities: In 1924, Kleber portrayed the Federal Chancellor Ignaz Seipel when he was taking a rest after a gunshot in the sanatorium Mehrerau near Bregenz. This opportunity was provided by Governor Otto Ender , whom Kleber portrayed in 1925 (incidentally, also Governor Maria Ender). Also by the Vice Chancellor a. D. and Member of the National Council Jodok Fink made a red chalk drawing in 1925.

From 1926 until the end of his life he worked in Bregenz and was highly regarded there. In 1927 he portrayed the then Federal Chancellor Ignaz Seipel . The fresco he created in 1935 on the west side of the Schwarzenberg parish church is no longer preserved.

From 1930 he lived in the listed building at Bahnhofstrasse 31 , on which there is also a memorial plaque.

During the Nazi regime, Bartle Kleber advanced to become an outstanding "Nazi art functionary in Vorarlberg": he was not only represented with three pictures at the large exhibition "Mountains and People of the Ostmark", which was shown from March to April 1939 in the Vienna Künstlerhaus, but also spoke at Rudolf Wacker's funeral. He painted a portrait of the Vorarlberg National Socialist Governor Anton Plankensteiner and was counted among all the artists by Gauleiter Franz Hofer as one of the “loyalists”.

In the last days of the war in 1945 he lost 430 pictures (mostly watercolors) and his library to a fire in his studio. He was friends with Alfons Fritz .

In 2018 and 2019 an exhibition on Bartle Kleber curated by Rudolf Sagmeister was shown in Jerusalem and in Schwarzenberg in the Bregenzerwald, Vorarlberg, which was about his trip to the Orient, but his Nazi career was hidden. The exhibition, which was highly praised by ORF, Peter Niedermair (Kultur. Zeitschrift für Kultur und Gesellschaft) and Christa Dietrich ( Vorarlberger Nachrichten ), can still be seen in the Angelika Kauffmann Museum; the exhibition in the Austrian Hospice in Jerusalem ran from September 23 to December 20, 2018; in Schwarzenberg the exhibition will run from February 14th until June 2nd, 2019.

Artistic style

Kleber mastered very different techniques in his painting and graphics, but had the greatest success with his portrait and landscape painting in tempera and watercolor in the realistic-naturalistic style. Most of his widely scattered works are in private hands.

Awards

Works

  • Cycle of fairy tale and legend pictures in the fields of fall as a facade painting at what is today the Bregenz-Stadt secondary school, built in 1914, Belruptstraße 37, Bregenz.

  • Cinderella

  • The brave little tailor (and the unicorn)

  • Little Tom Thumb (with seven-mile boots over the ogre)

  • The rat catcher from Hameln

  • Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf

  • Rübezahl

  • The Seven Swabians

  • Motifs from a fairy tale / legend

  • Motif from a fairy tale / legend

  • Motif from a fairy tale / legend

Publications

literature

  • Eduard Hammerl: Bartle Kleber, 1884–1953. Neufeld Verlag, Lustenau 1985.
  • Karl Heinz Burmeister u. a .: Andelsbuch - From the past and present of a Bregenzerwald community. Andelsbuch community, Andelsbuch 1980.

Web links

Commons : Bartle Kleber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the Vorarlberg school media center, Kleber comes from the neighboring town of Schwarzenberg and is buried there too. According to Karl Heinz Burmeister u. a .: Andelsbuch - From the past and present of a Bregenzerwald community , p. 145, Kleber died in Innsbruck and was then brought to Schwarzenberg.
  2. ↑ a b see web link Bartle Kleber in the Vorarlberg school media center, Figure 17.
  3. ↑ a b c see web link Bartle Kleber in the Vorarlberg school media center, picture 17 (further information)
  4. ↑ Karl Heinz Burmeister u. a .: Andelsbuch - From the past and present of a Bregenzerwald community , p. 145.
  5. ↑ Pictures of the portraits by Peter Melichar , Otto Ender 1875 - 1960. Governor, Federal Chancellor, Minister. Investigations into the inner life of a politician (= vorarlberg Museum Schriften 39), Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2018, pp. 135, 294 and 295.
  6. ↑ Ulrich Nachbaur , Jodok Fink (1853 to 1929). Memories of an Austrian Democrat and Statesman - Exhibition on the occasion of his 150th birthday / Vorarlberger Landesarchiv, Bregenz 2003, p. 18.
  7. ↑ Nikolaus Hagen, Culture and Identity Policy in the Gau Tirol-Vorarlberg 1938–1945, Diss. University of Innsbruck 2017, p. 188.
  8. ↑ Hagen, Culture and Identity Policy, p. 180.
  9. ^ Hagen, Culture and Identity Policy, p. 188.
  10. ↑ Hagen, Culture and Identity Policy, p. 187.
  11. ^ Hagen, Culture and Identity Policy, p. 504.
  12. ↑ https://vorarlberg.orf.at/news/stories/2964953/ , https://www.kulturzeitschrift.at/kritiken/ausstellung/zwei-reisen-nach-jerusalem-bartholomaeus-kleber-1903-1904-sowie- johannes-fink-und-luka-jana-berchtold-2018 and https://www.vn.at/kultur/2018/09/21/eine-hochinteressante-fundgrube.vn
  13. ↑ https://www.kulturzeitschrift.at/kritiken/ausstellung/zwei-reisen-nach-jerusalem-bartholomaeus-kleber-1903-1904-sowie-johannes-fink-und-luka-jana-berchtold-2018
  14. ↑ https://www.vn.at/kultur/2018/09/21/eine-hochinteressante-fundgrube.vn
  15. ↑ https://www.kath-kirche-vorarlberg.at/pfarren/schwarzenberg/termine/bartle-kle-kle-sonderausstellung
personal data
SURNAME Kleber, Bartle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleber, Bartholomew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Andelsbuch
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1953
Place of death Bregenz