Benno Becker

Lovis Corinth : Portrait of the painter Benno Becker , 1892

Benno Becker: Italian landscape

Benno Becker (born April 3, 1860 in Memel , † September 5, 1938 in Munich ) was a German painter . The painter and art critic Benno Becker dedicated a large part of his work to landscape painting, which he did in East Prussia, southern Germany and Tuscany. His light landscapes are characterized by delicate tones without strong contrasts.

life and career

Becker studied with Otto Frölicher in Munich in 1884/85 . At the same time he studied archeology and art history at the university there. From 1886 he made frequent trips to Italy. He was influenced by Arnold Böcklin's art, but also by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and the Barbizon School . Becker's early works mainly show landscapes of the Baltic Sea, and later Italian landscapes around Florence.

He was a founding member of the Sezession in Munich and Berlin and was also active in feuilleton. He wrote for the Free Stage and the art magazine Pan . His great success around 1900 enabled him to have the architect Paul Ludwig Troost build an imposing residential and studio villa on the Isar high bank in Munich (Maria-Theresia-Straße 26). After Becker's death in 1938, it came into the possession of Hitler's Nazi functionary and secretary, Martin Bormann (until 1945), and was demolished in 1969. Troost built an imposing burial site for the Becker family in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee as early as 1902 .

Benno Becker was a member of the German Association of Artists , in whose first exhibition he took part in 1904.

Becker as an art collector

Becker collected works of art from the Far East and in 1909 lent to the exhibition “Japan and East Asia in Art”.

literature

Dankmar Trier: Benno Becker . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 145 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4

Hans-Peter Bühler: Becker, Benno . In: Horst Ludwig (Hrsg.): Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst . Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century . Volume 1, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1981, p. 72

Benno Becker . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , p. 155.

Web links

Commons : Benno Becker - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Members since 1903 / Becker, Benno , Deutscher Künstlerbund , accessed on June 6, 2019
↑ s. Exhibition catalog X. Exhibition of the Munich Secession: The German Association of Artists (in connection with an exhibition of exquisite products of the arts in the craft) , Verlaganstalt F. Bruckmann, Munich 1904 (p. 19: Becker, Benno, Munich. Fig. 4: The evening )
^ Cäcilie and Oscar Graf, Directory of Collections and Exhibitors, in Exh. Cat .: Japan and East Asia in Art, Official Catalog of the Exhibition, Munich 1909, p. 103

personal data
SURNAME	Becker, Benno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 3, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Memel
DATE OF DEATH	September 5, 1938
Place of death	Munich

[1] Members since 1903 / Becker, Benno , Deutscher Künstlerbund , accessed on June 6, 2019

[2] s. Exhibition catalog X. Exhibition of the Munich Secession: The German Association of Artists (in connection with an exhibition of exquisite products of the arts in the craft) , Verlaganstalt F. Bruckmann, Munich 1904 (p. 19: Becker, Benno, Munich. Fig. 4: The evening )

[3] Cäcilie and Oscar Graf, Directory of Collections and Exhibitors, in Exh. Cat .: Japan and East Asia in Art, Official Catalog of the Exhibition, Munich 1909, p. 103