Bernard Schumacher

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Bernard Schumacher

Carl Heinrich Bernard Schumacher (born November 11, 1872 in Kassel ; † March 9, 1932 in Neumünster / Holstein ) was a graphic artist , engraver ( etcher ), painter and draftsman who worked in London, Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin and Neumünster / Holstein .

biography

Schumacher was the son of Berend Conrad, called Bernhard Schumacher (born June 29, 1841) and Eleonore Coelestine Laura Schumacher, née Heisterhagen (born July 8, 1852). The father had worked for the English crown in India and Burma since 1862 and had several patents for rice cleaning. As the son of parents living on British territory, Schumacher automatically had British citizenship.

Schumacher attended school from 1879 to 1897 and completed his training in London and Bremen. From 1900 to 1914 he worked alternately in London, Bremen and Hamburg. From 1914 to 1916 he was interned as a British citizen in Ruhleben (near Berlin). In 1916/17 he became a German citizen and was released from internment, and he worked in Berlin. From 1917 to 1918 he served in World War I and was captured in Bucharest. From 1920 to 1932 he lived and worked in Neumünster. In 1923 he married his wife Amanda, widowed Busch.

Artistic training and studies

In 1892 he began his private studies with James McNeill Whistler and he studied at the National Gallery (London) . In 1894 he was accepted into the Royal Academy of Arts , London and studied with the British painter Frank Short Frank Short (1857-1945). In 1897 he was accepted as a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in London. In 1903 he made study trips to Holland, England and Paris. This was followed by several study trips to Holland from 1906 to 1909, in 1921 study trips to Upper Bavaria, Mittenwald and Dießen am Ammersee (here preferably working in oil) and in 1930 study trips to the Rhineland, the Moselle and Switzerland etc. a. on Lake Thun .

Memberships

  • Royal Society of Painter-Etchers , London
  • Schleswig-Holstein artists' cooperative
  • Free Association of Graphic Artists in Berlin

Awards

  • 1892: The South Kensington Scretching Club awards watercolors of a landscape with 2nd prize.
  • 1892: Silver medal for chalk drawings based on old paintings
  • 1895: Royal Academy Schools of Arts : 1st prize and silver medal for a set of nude drawings (endowed with £ 50)
  • 1897: Silver Medal for Best Drawing (£ 100)

Exhibitions

  • 1893: Exhibition of etchings in an art dealer in Frankfurt am Main
  • 1897 and 1898: The Royal Academy of Arts
  • 1905, 1907–1912 and 1914: Etchings: Great Berlin Art Exhibition
  • 1910 and 1911: Group exhibitions at the Kunstverein Hamburg
  • 1912: Munich Annual Exhibition in the Royal Glass Palace (Munich)
  • 1915/16: in Ruhleben , in the internment camp mainly for British civilians
  • 1924: Exhibition in the parish hall in Neumünster
  • 1925: Art exhibition 800 years Neumünster
  • 1932: Estate exhibition in Neumünster

Main focus of artistic activity

  • Etchings - cities
    • England: Rye (Sussex), Greenwich
    • Germany:
      • Bremen (Theerhof, town hall, cathedral, Böttcherstraße, Schnoor views)
      • Hamburg (port, Outer Alster, Messberg, Schaarmarkt)
      • Hildesheim (Schuhstrasse, Pfeilerhaus, Little Venice)
      • Neumünster (Old Monastery, Altonaer Strasse, Plöner Strasse, pond panorama with Vicelinkirche)
      • also Rotenburg ob der Tauber, Berlin, Dresden, Cologne, Kassel and Moselle villages
    • Benelux countries: Dordrecht, Veere and Bruges
  • Etchings - Landscapes
    • Birch trees, willows near Dachau, landscape near Perdöhler oaks, landscape near Swinemunde
    • Alps: Matterhorn, Zmutt
    • many etchings of unspecified lake and river landscapes
  • Oil, watercolor, pastels
    • Portraits
      • 1925 at the art exhibition on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the city of Neumünster and in 1989 at an exhibition in Neumünster
    • Landscapes
      • Starnberger See, Karwendel, near Mittenwald, Benediktenwand
  • Other
    • 1923 Commissioned cartridge drawing for a jacquard fabric from the coronation cloak of Henry the Holy II based on the original in the Germanic Museum in Nuremberg. (the fabric is in the textile museum Neumünster on the jacquard loom exhibited there )

Works (excerpt)

  • Oil painting of the Anchark Church in the Snow (Neumünster)

Illustrations

    • 1897 illustrations (watercolors) in Pearson's Magazine
    • 1898: Watercolor Skiing in Boy's Own Paper
    • 1899: Illustrations (watercolors) for Fred Whishaw's book Many Ways of Love
    • 1898/99: Etchings in The Pall Mall Magazine
    • 1901: Engraving supplement to the Gazette des beaux arts

  • Etching: Stavendamm in Bremen - Schnoor :

  • Etching Hamburg harbor

  • Pastel Woman Portrait 1925

  • Etching Sir Galahad after GF Watts

  • Etching Berlin Krögelhof

  • Color etching homestead

Works in museums and art collections (excerpt)

  • Schleswig-Holstein State Library
    • Landscape near Perdöler oaks
  • British Museum
    • Portrait of a man wearing a hat seated next to a window according to Dirk Bouts
    • Portrait of a man after Jan van Eyck (self-portrait)
  • Graphic collection - Foundation Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
    • from the portfolios of the Association for Original Etching Berlin Canal near Rye, Rye from the city walls, interior in Volendam, night quarters in the moor
  • Kupferstichkabinett - Hamburger Kunsthalle (excerpt)
    • Bakery and Schaarmarkt in Hamburg, country idyll and harbor in Rye / Sussex, town hall in Bremen and others
  • Kupferstichkabinett - Kunsthalle Bremen
    • Bremen (Stintbrücke, Rathaus 1904), Hildesheim (Pfeilerhaus, Am Brühl, Schuhstrasse), England (Mortlake on the Thames, 3 views of Rye), Mouth of the Glaslyn - South Wales and blacksmiths
  • Focke Museum Bremen
    • Bremen, different views (including Stint Bridge with cotton exchange tower, cathedral, town hall 1927, Schnoor, Stavendamm, Wichelnburg)
    • Bremen (ship, 1929) , steamship of the NDL leaving Bremernhaven on July 16, 1929

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Since his parents had their main residence in Akyap in Burma (now Myanmar ) at that time, some sources give Akyap as the place of birth
  2. ↑ Death registered by the Neumünster-Stadt registry office on March 10, 1932 under the current certificate number 110/1932.
  3. ^ The Journal, London, Sep 24, 1887
  4. ↑ THE RUHLEBEN STORY
  5. ↑ noted on the death certificate of the registry office Neumünster-Stadt (certificate number 110/1932).
  6. ↑ Short biography of Bernard Schumacher in: Neumünster Kunst.
  7. ↑ Alfred Heggen u. a .: Neumünster Art. Painting - Architecture - Sculptures - Objects , p. 6f. Leuschner Verlag, Neumünster 2000.
  8. ↑ Marianne Dwars, Klaus Fahrner, Bärbel Nagar (eds.): Neumünster Lexikon . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2003, ISBN 3-529-01711-6 , p. 109.
  9. ↑ London Standard - Saturday 09 January 1897
  10. ^ London Daily News Jul 25, 1892 THE NATIONAL ART COMPETITION
  11. ↑ London Standard - Wednesday 11 December 1895
  12. ^ The Graphic London - Saturday 14 December 1895
  13. ^ The Royal Academy of Arts; A complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, by Algernon Graves
  14. ↑ Great Berlin Art Exhibition ; Catalog of the respective year
  15. ↑ List of all exhibitions of the Kunstverein in Hamburg 1858-2010 ( Memento from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Exhibition catalog Munich annual exhibition 1912 in the Kgl. Glass palace
  17. ↑ More information about the internment camp in the English Wikipedia: Ruhleben internment camp and Inside Ruhleben - The untold story of the First World War prison camp in the heart of Germany. In: Centenary News.
  18. ↑ Catalog of the art exhibition 800 Years of Münster 1925
  19. ^ Cloth + Technology Textile Museum Neumünster
  20. ^ Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait; Carola Hicks; Random House, September 29, 2011
  21. ↑ Original was still attributed to Francesco Bianchi (painter) in 1901 in the journal Gazette des beaux arts
  22. ↑ Pearson's Magazine [v4 # 19, July 1897] Illustrations: Odd use of Electricity , p. 50ff
  23. ^ Pearson's Magazine [v4 # 21, September 1897] Illustrations: The Regent's Valet , pp. 275ff
  24. ↑ Pearson's Magazine [v4 # 24, December 1897] Illustrations: Millionaires of a day , p. 663ff
  25. ↑ Pearson's Magazine [v4 # 24, December 1897] Illustrations: Tobogganing and Ski-Running , pp. 696ff
  26. ↑ Boy's own Paper Annual 1897
  27. ↑ Many Ways of Love by Fred Whishaw; London: JM Dent & Co., 1899.
  28. ↑ volumes of PALL MALL Magazine May-August 1898, September-December 1898, Jan-April 1899
  29. ↑ Gazette des beaux arts; Edition May 1901
  30. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein State Library
  31. ^ British Museum Online Collection
  32. ^ Graphic collection in the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
  33. ↑ Kupferstichkabinett - Hamburger Kunsthalle
  34. ↑ Kupferstichkabinett - Kunsthalle Bremen
  35. ^ Focke Museum

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personal data
SURNAME Schumacher, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schumacher, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1932
Place of death Neumunster