Bernhard Schneider (painter)

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Bernhard Schneider (born February 15, 1843 in Lüneburg , Kingdom of Hanover ; † July 17, 1907 in Cedarburg , Wisconsin ) was a German-American landscape painter from the Munich and Düsseldorf schools . From 1887 he also worked as a photographer .

Life

Schneider received an academic painting training, first at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , then at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf , where he attended the landscape class of Oswald Achenbach from 1866 to 1868 . For a while he then worked as a freelance landscape painter in Düsseldorf . In 1878 he went to Dresden and settled in Blasewitz . In 1885 he emigrated to the United States . Together with around twenty painters, including Friedrich Wilhelm Heine , August Löhr (1843–1919), Otto von Ernst , Wilhelm Schröter , Gustav Wendling and Paul Wilhelmi , he let the American Panorama Company (later Lohr and Heine Panorama Company ) in Hire Milwaukee , Wisconsin and make cycloramen . The panoramas in which he was involved as a landscape painter were called Storming of Missionary Ridge / Battle of Chattanooga , Battle of Atlanta , Jerusalem on the Day of the Crucifixion and Christ's Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem . Together with Heine, he began to occupy himself with photography from October 1887 after he had bought a camera for 40 dollars from his artist colleague George Peter. His early photographs from the Cedar Creek area , discovered in the Groth Family Photography Collection , show an interest in pastoral scenic subjects. Others depict life at Hilgen's Spring Park , a recreational facility near the town of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, where Schneider lived since about 1889 and painted serene landscapes, often on the Milwaukee River . Schneider kept his social and business contacts to Milwaukee, so he was a member of the Society of Milwaukee Artists (later known as Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors ). From 1898 until his death in the summer of 1907, Schneider lived as a subtenant in the house of the married couple Carl and Emma Bauer at the corner of Spring Street and Hilbert Avenue in Cedarburg.

Works (selection)

Landscape at the Edge of a Forest , 1876

Schneider seldom exhibited, he hardly ever marketed himself. His pictures show the style of German academic painting of the 19th century, later he turned to American tonalism .

  • Watzmann with an approaching thunderstorm , 1873
  • Landscape at the Edge of a Forest , 1876
  • Painter by the Lake , 1888

Exhibitions

  • 1942: Exhibition of his work in Milwaukee
  • 2014: Bernhard Schneider: From Lens to Brush , Cedarburg Art Museum

literature

  • Schneider, Bernhard . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume 2, Dresden 1898, p. 603
  • Katharina Bott: German artists in America 1813–1913. American artists in Germany 1813–1913 . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-932124-03-0 , p. 217
  • Peter C. Merrill: German Immigrant Artists in America. A Bibliographical Dictionary . Scarecrow Press, Lanham / Maryland 1997, ISBN 978-0810832664 , p. 240

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Theilmann: The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 147
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American landscape painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüneburg , Kingdom of Hanover
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1907
Place of death Cedarburg , Wisconsin