Berthold Genzmer

The jury of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1917 at work. Berthold Genzmer, seated second from the left

Berthold Genzmer (born March 9, 1858 in Boggusch , Marienwerder district , † 1927 in Berlin ) was a German genre and landscape painter .

Life

Two girls with fishing boat

Berthold Genzmer was the son of the manor owner Julius Genzmer (1821–1900) and Auguste Genzmer nee. Reschke (1829-1866). His brother was the town planner Ewald Genzmer (1856–1932). He began his painter training in 1876 in Wilhelm August Stryowski's studio in Danzig and continued it at the Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts in Berlin with Karl Gussow .

From 1887 to 1920 he was a member of the Berlin Artists Association and a member of the jury of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . From 1883 he published his works in the " Gartenlaube ". From 1893 he took part in the Berlin art exhibition and from 1899 exhibited his works in the Munich Glass Palace . He was resident in the rural community of Groß-Lichterfelde .

His genre pictures were mostly dedicated to children, the landscape pictures represented views from northern Germany.

Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. 1891,.
Hans Wolfgang Singer (Hrsg.): General Artists Lexicon . Third edition. Supplements and corrections . Frankfurt 1906, p. 105 ( digitized version ).
Friedrich Jansa: German visual artists in words and pictures. Leipzig 1912.
Genzmer, Berthold . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 13 : Gaab-Gibus . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1920, p. 419 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Berthold Genzmer . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961.
Saur 1999-2000, Vol. 4, p. 117.
Emmanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs . Volume 6: Genck – Herwarth . Gründ, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7000-3016-8 , pp. 21-22.

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personal data
SURNAME	Genzmer, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German genre and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 9, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boggush
DATE OF DEATH	1927
Place of death	Berlin