Carl Bantzer

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Carl Bantzer (far right, seated) as chairman of the jury, May 1912
Willingshausen painter's colony , photo from 1913; v. l. To the right: Heinrich Giebel , Marlies Dörr, Hermann Kätelhön , Hermann Metz , Wilhelm Thielmann , Adolf Lins , Heinrich Otto , Carl Bantzer
"Gasthaus Löwe" (before 1938 inn "Zum golden Stern") in Weichaus , the birthplace of Carl Bantzer

Carl Ludwig Noah Bantzer , also in literature: Karl (born August 6, 1857 in Ziegenhain ; † December 19, 1941 in Marburg ) was a painter , university professor and art writer strongly influenced by impressionism . He was a member of the Willingshausen painters' colony in Willingshausen ( Schwalm ).

Life

Carl Bantzer was born in the Hessian Ziegenhain suburb of Weichaus and grew up there as the son of the district veterinarian of the Ziegenhain district, Heinrich Bantzer (1809–1863) and his wife. As a child he already had his first impressions of the Schwalm farmers, which inspired him throughout his life. In 1863 his mother moved to Marburg with her four sons after the death of his father. Carl Bantzer attended the Philippinum grammar school in Marburg .

He lived in Marburg and studied at the Academy in Berlin . In 1884 and 1885 he returned to the Schwalm in Niederwalgern for several weeks and worked together with the Dresden painter Wilhelm Claudius . Then he moved to Treysa and went to Ascherode to paint every day. He drew studies of the Schwalm costumes in the Impressionist style and portrayed the mayor Kehl and the farmer Schneider in work clothes .

His first wife Claire died in 1887 giving birth to their son Arnold. Carl Bantzer became a member of the Goppeln artists' colony . There he worked on the picture of the pilgrims at the grave of St. Elisabeth . In 1887 he returned to the Schwalm in Willingshausen . He met the artists Hermann Kätelhön , Adolf Lins and Emil Zimmermann at the Haase restaurant . In the following years he returned to the Schwalm for several summer stays. In the winter of 1889/1890 he attended a sacrament celebration in Willingshausen, which made a lasting impression on him and inspired him artistically.

Study for the Last Supper in a Hessian village church

From January to March 1890 he stayed for studies in Paris , with a strong effect on his further work . He studied the painting style of the impressionists. During this time, Bantzer made a study of the Lord's Supper in the Merzhausen Church .

In 1891 he lived again in Dresden, only to return to Willingshausen in 1892. In 1892 the picture Hessian Last Supper was exhibited in Munich , Berlin , Vienna , Dresden, Leipzig , Hamburg , Breslau and Frankfurt am Main , which was created a year earlier based on the model of the altar of the church in Wenkbach . In 1893 Carl Bantzer went on a study trip with the painter Wilhelm Georg Ritter to Heiligenstadt , via the Hanstein to Allendorf an der Werra, Friedewald , Bad Hersfeld and Schlitz , combined with a longer stay in Aufenau an der Kinzig and the pottery village Wittgenborn am Vogelsberg . He then returned to Willingshausen because he could not find any suitable models for his work.

In 1896 he had the wooden church at the Forsthof in Willingshausen demolished and rebuilt next to the Haase inn, in order to use it as a studio from Marburg next to his workshop. In 1896 he was appointed professor at the Royal Art Academy in Dresden . Also in 1896 he received a small gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Berlin . From 1896 to 1897 he painted the picture Schwalm youth dancing , which he exhibited for the first time in Munich in 1898.

In 1899 he and Helene Francis Darbishire (1874-1953) married. From this marriage came five children, including the daughter Marigard Bantzer , a children's book illustrator and wife von eoplauen, and the painter Carl Francis Bantzer, father of the actor Christoph and the musician Claus Bantzer . In 1903 he received a large gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . From 1903 to 1904 he worked on the wedding feast . Bantzer belonged to the German Association of Artists founded in 1903 . At its first joint annual exhibition with the Munich Secession in 1904 in the Kgl. He took part in the art exhibition building on Königsplatz with the oil painting The Evening . He created portraits of Schwalm farmers and in 1907 the picture The Harvest Worker , some spring landscapes on the Neustädter Wiese and in 1908 The Farmer's Bride .

In 1909 his student Kurt Schwitters and his teacher came to Willingshausen for Impressionist studies . From 1910 to 1916 he created several pictures of the evening calm. The Vesper meal was painted in 1916, after which he dealt again with landscape paintings in Willingshausen.

In 1918 Bantzer was appointed to the art academy in Kassel , of which he remained director until 1923. From 1932 to 1936 he painted several landscapes from the Marburg Frauenberg . In 1934 the picture of Old Beeches at the Edge of the Forest followed , in 1937 Three mighty beeches in Willingshausen, in the same year he received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science . From 1935 to 1938 he worked on the Waldreiter and in 1938 on the Farmer Gimpel and in 1939 on the portrait of the old woman Schäfer - in that year Carl Bantzer was placed on the list of candidates for the German National Prize for Art and Science .

In 1941 he stayed in Willingshausen for the last time, and he painted his last figures, the Willingshausen waterworks and the forest landscape . Carl Bantzer died in Marburg at the age of 84.

A school in Schwalmstadt- Ziegenhain and street names in Kassel , Marburg, Gießen , Goppeln and Schwalmstadt are reminiscent of the work of Carl Bantzer. In 2015, the Carl-Bantzer-Schule in Schwalmstadt-Ziegenhain erected a statue of the namesake in their schoolyard. The life-size interpretation was created by Ewald Rumpf at the suggestion of the school development association .

In 2005 the novel Schwälmer Tanz was published by the author and physician Henning Schäfer . The crime story is about two preliminary studies of Carl Bantzer's picture Schwalm Youth at Dance .

student

Signatures

  • CB
  • CNB
  • C. Bantzer
  • CNBantzer

Works (selection)

Carl Bantzer: The evening
  • Supper in a Hessian village church. 1892
  • Willingshausen. 1898, oil on canvas, 150 × 73.5 cm (private collection)
  • The evening. around 1903, oil on canvas
  • Schwalm farmers. 1931

Exhibitions

Works in museums (selection)

estate

The estate of Carl Bantzer contains family papers, correspondence, sketches etc. of the painter and is kept as a deposit in the Hessian State Archive in Marburg (inventory 340 Bantzer). It has a circumference of around 2.3 running meters and will run from 1871 to 1941. The holdings are fully indexed and can be researched online using the Hessen archive information system .

literature

  • Willy Oskar Dressler (Ed.): Dressler's Art Handbook 4 - A reference book for German fine and applied arts. Rostock 1909.
  • Carl Bantzer . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 6, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22746-9 , pp. 595f.
  • Erich Haenel: Bantzer, Carl Ludwig Noah . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 447 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Müller-Singer , artist lexicon.
  • Carl Bantzer, the German painter. In: Velhagen & Klasings monthly books, 40th year 1925/1926.
  • Andreas Bantzer: Carl Bantzer, a life in letters. Letters, reports, catalog raisonné. Association of Malerstübchen Willingshausen, 1998, ISBN 3-9801308-7-8 .
  • Carl Bantzer: Hessen in German painting. 1935.
  • 20th century art in Hessen. 1965.
  • Hellmuth Heinz : Carl Bantzer (painter and work). Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1981.
  • Bernd Küster : Carl Bantzer . Donat, Bremen 2002 / 2. corrected and extended Ed., Bremen 2003

Web links

Commons : Carl Bantzer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5761, p. 420 ( digitized version ) ..
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members since 1903 / Ordinary members Bantzer, Carl (accessed on May 18, 2018)
  3. ^ Exhibition catalog X. Exhibition of the Munich Secession: The German Association of Artists (in connection with an exhibition of exquisite products of the arts in the craft) , Verlaganstalt F. Bruckmann, Munich 1904 (p. 19: Bantzer, Carl, Dresden. Fig. 27: The evening . )
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 29.
  5. ↑ bundesarchiv.de: R 55/1017 National Prize for Art and Science 1939. Proposals for award winners (accessed on December 28, 2015).
  6. ↑ Overview of the holdings "Carl Bantzer's estate"  (HStAM holdings 340 Bantzer). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), accessed on July 7, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Bantzer, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bantzer, Carl Ludwig Noah (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German impressionist painter and art writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Ziegenhain (Schwalmstadt)
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1941
Place of death Marburg