Bernard Gaertner

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Bernard Gaertner , also Bernhard Gaertner or Bernard Gärtner (born February 15, 1881 in Trier , † September 3, 1938 in Düsseldorf ), was a German landscape , portrait and still life painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Gaertner was a student at the Trier School of Applied Arts , the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles and the Düsseldorf Art Academy . He settled in Düsseldorf, where he became a member of the Malkasten artists' association . He stayed in Berlin and Munich for a long time . An extended trip took him to Italy . In 1925 and 1926 he stayed in Upper Bavaria and Switzerland . He spent the winter of 1927/1928 in Egypt .

Gaertner's painting is characterized by a wealth of colors and a painting style influenced by Paul Cézanne and other impressionists . Since the end of the First World War , in which he had participated as a soldier and suffered a permanent injury, he exhibited regularly at exhibitions in Berlin, furthermore in the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia as well as in other West German museums, in 1928 in the exhibition Deutsche Kunst im Kunstpalast Düsseldorf , 1930 in Nuremberg at the exhibition of old and new Rhenish art as well as in the Glaspalast Munich in the German art exhibition. In 1932 he was represented in the exhibition Düsseldorf-Munich Art .

literature

  • Gaertner (gardener), Bernard (Bernhard) . In: Günter Meißner (Hrsg.): General artist lexicon . Volume 47: Gabor - Gallardus . Leipzig 2005, p. 153.
  • Gaertner, Bernard . In: Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, Volume 2.
  • Wernher Witthaus: Bernard Gaertner . In: Art for everyone . Volume 47, Issue 11 (August 1932), pp. 340–342 ( digitized ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF ; 2.5 MB)
  2. Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal
  3. ^ Deutsche Kunst, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, May - October 1928 , website in the portal eifel-und-kunst.de , accessed on November 1, 2019