Benno Berneis

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Benno Berneis self-portrait 1909
Benno Berneis: Portrait of Gertrud Eysoldt 1910
Benno Berneis: Rider by the Sea 1913
Benno Berneis: Falling Angel 1914
Benno Berneis: Self-Portrait 1914

Benno Berneis (born May 9, 1883 in Fürth ; † August 8, 1916 via Saint-Souplet ) was a German painter of the emerging Expressionism .

Life

Benno Berneis was born in 1883 as the only son of the Jewish factory owner Albert Berneis and his wife Betty, b. Neubauer, born in Fürth. His father was the director of the B. Berneis shoe factory founded by him and his brother in 1875 , which later renamed the United Fränkische Schuhfabriken AG .

After his school days, Benno Berneis was a student in the Munich painting school of Moritz Heymann from 1902 , who trained him as an impressionist painter.

From 1906 he lived in Berlin, where the artist, with the help of Max Slevogt , was allowed to take part in the winter exhibition of the Berlin Secession in December . Benno Berneis was now regularly represented with several works in the summer exhibitions of the coming years.

In 1909, together with Henri Matisse , he exhibited his work for the first time in Paul Cassirer's art salon . Another comprehensive exhibition followed in March 1914, this time with his friend, sculptor August Gaul . In the same year Benno Berneis was also involved in founding the Free Secession around Max Liebermann . He was elected to the board of the artist group by lottery.

During the First World War he initially served in a Bavarian train department , where he was a good rider and was responsible for coordinating the supply of provisions to the front. With the promotion to lieutenant , he volunteered for the air force in mid-1915 . After his training as a pilot he was used on the western front, especially in the reconnaissance of enemy artillery positions.

Benno Berneis died on August 8, 1916 as a member of a combat single -seater command led by Kurt Student in an aerial battle over the French community of Saint-Souplet . His grave is in the nearby German military cemetery Mont-Saint-Remy in the Ardennes .

Benno Berneis was married to the actress Gertrud Eysoldt , with whom he had the son Peter Berneis , who later worked successfully as an actor and screenwriter in the film industry .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1906: 12th exhibition of the Berlin Secession - Drawing Arts , Cassirer Art Salon
  • 1907: 13th exhibition of the Berlin Secession , Berlin
  • 1907: 14th exhibition of the Berlin Secession - drawing arts , Cassirer art salon
  • 1908: 15th exhibition of the Berlin Secession , Berlin
  • 1909: Henri Matisse - Benno Berneis Collections , Cassirer Art Salon
  • 1909: 18th exhibition of the Berlin Secession , Berlin
  • 1910: 20th exhibition of the Berlin Secession , Berlin
  • 1911: 22nd exhibition of the Berlin Secession , Berlin
  • 1912. Large exhibition of the German Association of Artists , Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1912: Painter and sculptor for the Berlin Secession , Galerie Miethke
  • 1912: 24th exhibition of the Berlin Secession , Berlin
  • 1913: Exhibition by the German Association of Artists , Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 1913: Large art exhibition in Stuttgart , Stuttgart art building
  • 1913: 26th exhibition of the Berlin Secession , Berlin
  • 1914: Collections Benno Berneis - August Gaul - Camille Pissarro , Kunstsalon Cassirer
  • 1914: International art exhibition , Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1914: 1st exhibition at the Free Secession , Berlin
  • 1914: 1st exhibition of the New Munich Secession , Munich
  • 1916: 2nd exhibition at the Free Secession , Berlin
  • 1917: Benno Berneis Memorial Exhibition , Cassirer Art Salon
  • 1976: Painting by the German Impressionists , National Gallery Berlin
  • 2006: Berlin Impressionism , Landesmuseum Mainz
  • 2014: Lost dreams: works by young artists - victims of the First World War , Edwin Scharff Museum Neu-Ulm
  • 2014: Stars are falling - From Boccioni to Schiele. The First World War as the end of European artist routes , Kunsthalle Kiel
  • 2015: Art in Berlin 1880 to 1980 , Berlinische Galerie
  • 2016: God and the world. From sacred to autonomous picture 1871-1918 , Kunsthalle Kiel
  • 2018: Benno Berneis - Dark longings, romantic talent , Art Gallery Fürth

literature

  • Friederike Weimar: Folded Dreams: Works by Young Artists - Victims of the First World War. Benno Berneis, Hans Fuglsang, Franz Henseler, Wilhelm Morgner, Franz Nölken, Otto Soltau, Hermann Stenner and Albert Weisgerber. Edited by Helga Gutbrod. Gebr. Mann Verlag / Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 2014 ISBN 978-3-7861-2712-3
  • Simon Rötsch: Benno Berneis - Dark longings, romantic talent. Edited by Hans-Peter Miksch . Brochure for the exhibition of the same name in the Kunst Galerie Fürth . Bartlmüller Verlag, Nuremberg 2018 ISBN 978-3-942953-53-5

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Rötsch: "... death took the brush out of his hand at the crucial hour" - biography of the Fürth artist Benno Berneis. Retrieved on July 6, 2017 (German).
  2. ↑ The "Free Secession" . In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts . NF 25. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 339 .
  3. ↑ Bavarian Main State Archives; Munich; Department IV War Archives. Officer Personnel Files 5570
  4. ↑ http://www.frontflieger.de/3berbe0t.html
personal data
SURNAME Berneis, Benno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1916
Place of death via Saint-Souplet