Bernhard Halbreiter

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Bernhard Halbreiter (born December 20, 1881 in Munich , † September 2, 1940 in Bayrischzell ) was a German sculptor and graphic artist.

Life

Bernhard Gabriel Halbreiter was the son of the Munich artisan Adolf Halbreiter and his wife Caecilie, née Sedlmayr. He got his middle name after his maternal grandfather, the brewery owner Gabriel Sedlmayr. He grew up with his siblings Helene, Agnes and Konrad in Maxvorstadt in Munich and, after elementary school in the school year 1892/93, attended the 1st class of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Ludwigstrasse for one year . The later painter Wilhelm Hofelich and Klaus Pringsheim , son of Alfred Pringsheim , were among other things his classmates here. Another school education has not been handed down. His entry into the Munich Art Academy is only documented on April 23, 1904 , where he enrolled in the sculpting class of the professor of Christian art, Balthasar Schmitt . After completing the studies, Halbreiter is said to have worked in Grainau in Upper Bavaria; further information about his early artistic activity is missing so far. In 1911 he took over a teaching post at the Cologne School of Applied Arts and from 1921 until he left for health reasons in 1934, he was professor of plastic at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen . Paul Egon Schiffers and Adolf Wamper were among other things his students here.

Artistic activity

As early as 1905, Halbreiter was one of the winners in the competition for advertising drafts for joint advertising by Ludwig Stollwerck and Otto Henkell , with Julius Diez, Eugen Kirchner, Friedrich Stahl, Albert Klingner, Ludwig Hohlwein, Fritz Klee, Elly Hirsch, Ulrich Hübner, Anton Kerschbaumer, Johann Baptist Maier, Georg von Kürthy, Fritz H. Ehmcke, Paul Leuteritz, Otto Kleinschmidt, Anton Hoffmann, Otto Ludwig Naegele, Peter Würth, Ernst Oppler, A. Altschul, Anton J. Pepins and August Geigenberger. He also worked on monument and architectural sculptures, such as a surviving figure of a shepherd with a dog in a tenement house designed in 1909 by the architect Theodor Fischer in Munich, Fürstenriederstraße 26, and the Marian column in Schäftlarn, 1911. In 1913 he was in an exhibition at the Kunsthaus Brakl on Munich's Beethovenplatz with a gazelle animal sculpture and a pair of ceramic pillars. Also in 1913, the figurative representations in the pillars of the main portal of the Munich police headquarters in Ettstrasse were executed according to his designs . Half-rider's friend Bruno Goldschmitt provided wall paintings ; With him and the painter Heinrich Heidner , he visited the prison camp in Ingolstadt years later (April 1918) with the permission of the Bavarian Ministry of War, in order to depict "the racial characteristics of our opponents" in drawings. The drawings are kept in the Bavarian Army Museum in Ingolstadt. In 1914, Halbreiter delivered a relief portrait of the Thai King Chulalongkorn . After a one-month spa stay in Bad Homburg in 1907, he had donated a "Thai Sala" to the spa, which arrived from Thailand in 1910 in parts, but partially damaged, so that the facility could not be inaugurated until May 22, 1914. In 1933 an approximately 50 cm high bronze bust was created of the Hungarian-American engineer, physicist and aerodynamicist Theodore von Kármán, who died in Aachen in 1963 . For an edition of the fairy tales by Clemens Brentano published in Munich around 1920 , he provided pictures and book decorations. He made ex-libris drafts for the children's book author Christine Hane (1904), the writer Raymund Schmidt (* 1890) in Leipzig, the marine biologist Eugen Neresheimer (1878–1952) and for Hermann Wilhelm Breymann (1843–1910), professor, among others for Romance and English at the University of Munich.

Letters

  • Handwritten letter with signature to Hyacinth Holland , Munich, March 4, 1903: Munich, State Library [Hollandiana A1]

literature

  • Richard Braungart: The modern German bookplate for use . Munich 1922, p. #.
  • Der Baumeister 21st year, booklet 8, Munich 1923, illustrations, panels 39, 40, 41, 44.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 4th Edition, 1931, Col. 1004.
  • Half rider, Bernhard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 356 .
  • Ulrich Kalkmann: The Technical University of Aachen in the Third Reich (1933-1945) . Verlag Mainz, Aachen 2003, pp. 65, 120, 130, 132, 144, 229, 312-313, 451, 454, 547 (from Kármán); 375 and note 4 (B. Halbreiter).
  • Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 427-430 (Fig.)
  • Manfred Neureiter (Hrsg.): Lexicon of ex-libris artists . Berlin 2013, p. #.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maximiliansgymnasium Munich, archive, register and annual report 1892/93.
  2. ↑ Entry in the matriculation book .
  3. ↑ s. Ulrich Kalkmann, p. 375.
  4. ↑ Built from 1911 to 1913 according to the plans of the architect Theodor Fischer.
  5. ^ Katja Mitze: The Ingolstadt POW camp during the First World War . Dissertation Univ. Munster 2000.
  6. ↑ [1] .
  7. ^ Clemens Brentano: Five fairy tales . Pictures and book decorations v. BH München, Dietrich: around 1920.
personal data
SURNAME Half rider, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Half rider, Bernhard Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1940
Place of death Bayrischzell