Benno Eggert

Benno Eggert

Benno Eggert (born October 14, 1885 in Stuttgart ; † January 28, 1983 in Rosenheim ) was a German still life and landscape painter , illustrator and art historian.

Influences of naturalism and impressionism can be seen in his work .

Life

Benno Eggert, son of a prison director, nephew of the Munich Secession founder Paul Wilhelm Keller-Reutlingen , cousin of the painter Maria Caspar-Filser and uncle of the painter and illustrator Jan Balet , said he felt a hunger for light and color, for freedom at an early age and purity of nature . He spent his high school on Lake Constance before he studied art history at the universities of Würzburg , Munich (with Wilhelm Pinder Heinrich Wölfflin ), Berlin , Vienna and Tübingen and in 1909 in Tübingen with the dissertation published in 1910 “Studies on the development of the human figure in Dutch Quattrocento "for Dr. phil. PhD.

He financed his studies, which he continued from 1910 to 1912 at the Munich School of Applied Arts, in the master class there, Robert Engels, and as a student in the evening act class with Hermann Groeber , as an employee and artistic adviser of the Munich art magazine for black and white Art and Poetry Light and Shadow . He made his debut as an artist in the Munich Secession.

After the end of the First World War , Eggert set up his studio in Oberwalchenhof in Kutterling, and in 1923 he moved to Rosenheim. He traveled to Switzerland , Italy , France , Hungary and Norway .

Benno Eggert died in Rosenheim in 1983.

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In Benno Eggert's productive post-war period, which he spent in Kutterling, the landscape around Aibling , in particular the Aiblinger Moor, was one of his favorite subjects. In 1920/21 he created woodcuts for a Decameron edition, a portfolio that was very successful. As an autodidact graphic artist, he worked for the weekly magazine Licht und Schatten .

In the years before and during the Second World War , Eggert created several frescos in Rosenheim (post houses in Luitpoldstrasse, district court, tax office) that corresponded to the National Socialist ideals of art and propaganda, but made himself above all through his still lifes with flower and fruit motifs, through paintings Upper Bavarian landscapes and scenes from the theater environment a name. He remained true to his style, which is characterized by naturalism and impressionism, for decades.

Several of his paintings fell victim to the fire in the Munich Glass Palace on June 6, 1931 . The frescoes created in Rosenheim were destroyed by the effects of the war.

Benno Eggert was involved in building up the Max Bram Collection (in the Städtische Galerie Rosenheim) and various art organizations. He supported the artist communities “Die Welle” (1922–1934) in Prien am Chiemsee and “Die Frauenwörther” on Frauenchiemsee as well as the art associations Rosenheim and Aibling.

Works (selection)

• Illustrations for Walter Flechs , The Christmas Tale of the 50th Regiment, Munich 1918
• Woodcuts for Eduard Reinacher : Täwas . Published by Oskar Wöhrle , Konstanz 1922 (only 325 signed copies).
• The javelin throwers , Raubling community center, 1934/1935

Memberships and honorary memberships

• Member, later honorary member, of the Munich artists' association with royal privileges in 1868 .
• Honorary member of the Rosenheim Art Association.

literature

• Hans Vollmer: General Lexicon of the Visual Artists of the Twentieth Century , Vol. 2, Reprint, Leipzig 1999.
• General Artist Lexicon , Vol. 32, 2002, p. 345.
• Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.): Building in National Socialism. Bavaria 1933-1945. Exhibition in the Münchner Stadtmuseum, September 24, 1993 to January 9, 1994. Munich 1993.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Benno Eggert at artroots.com