Carl Reiser

Carl Reiser (born June 5, 1877 in Partenkirchen , † June 17, 1950 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German painter . He worked in oil, gouache , watercolor , created linocuts and other graphics . His subjects were landscapes, architecture, flowers, still lifes and portraits.

Life

Reiser was born as the first son of the royal Bavarian postman Karl Roman Reiser in the Posthotel Partenkirchen . He spent his childhood there in the Reiser headquarters. He has already portrayed people and animals around him on all occasions. In 1888 he went to Freising to attend the royal secondary school, where he completed his school career in 1894 with the absolute exam. He then began his training in the hotel business, which he abruptly broke off during an internship in London in 1898 . Two years in Montreux and Paris followed .

In Paris he went to the private academy Académie Julian . He only came back to Partenkirchen around 1900 and then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . On May 3, 1901, he enrolled for the subject of nature classes at the Academy in Munich with the matriculation number 2314 with Professor Gabriel von Hackl . But more than the traditional learning content at the academy, he was inspired by the teaching methods at the private painting school with Anton Ažbe , who came from Yugoslavia . Ažbe succeeded in conveying not only Munich naturalism but also the modern color theories of the French post-impressionists with their Divisionist painting technique . Reiser also took inspiration from Ažbe's virtuoso spatula technique. He was then able to exhibit his pictures as a guest in the Munich Secession founded in 1892 .

Reiser had his first success as a winter and snow painter in 1906 in an exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace with his pictures "Traces in the Snow" and "Starry Night Over the Wetterstein". From then on his works appeared regularly in youth. Munich illustrated weekly for art and life by Georg Hirth and Fritz von Ostini . In 1913 he received a silver medal at the World Exhibition in Paris , and in 1914 a gold medal at the International Art Exhibition in Munich . His work received attention at home and abroad. In 1915 the Neue Pinakothek in Munich bought his " Palazzo Vecchio in Florence" and the Secession Gallery bought his "Herbst in Schlattan". As a landscape, portrait, architecture, city and still life painter, he used all techniques: watercolor, gouache, tempera and oil. He also used self-made egg colors. He also made charcoal and red chalk drawings. His favorite subjects were, above all, his beloved Werdenfels mountains.

In 1914 the First World War broke out and Reiser served as a deputy sergeant in the artillery regiment "Prinzregent Luitpold" . After the end of the war in 1918 he returned to Munich and opened his studio in Görresstrasse ( Maxvorstadt ). He made a good reputation for himself as a landscape painter in Werdenfels in many exhibitions, often at the Brakl Art House in Munich .

In 1922 he married Charlotte Bauer from Rosenheim. In 1927, the year his only son was born, he was awarded the title "Professor of Fine Arts" by the Bavarian Ministry of Culture , which led his career to a steep upward trend. As a result of the Nazi takeover of power in 1933, he gave up his chair at the Munich Academy and his studio in Görresstrasse and returned entirely to Partenkirchen. Here in Partenkirchen he was elected chairman of the "Werdenfelser Künstlerbund". In his role as Chairman, he was very active and concerned about the well-being and continued existence of his colleagues. He quickly clashed with the Nazi regime because they tried to fill all important posts with vassals loyal to the regime. So the grown artist association Werdenfels, founded in 1902, suddenly faced competition from the combat association for German culture, local group Garmisch-Partenkirchen, established in April 1933 . As an example of the resulting quarrels, it is stated that under the leadership of the then local group leader Dr. Frank Heinz, a dentist and therefore completely unfamiliar with the subject, the exhibition rooms made available for the artists' association were taken away and the winter exhibition with a raffle to promote the artists that was coming up in 1933/34 was prohibited as inadmissible. Prof. Carl Reiser turned to the responsible art chamber and protested and demanded clarification as to which membership was binding for the artists. The Nazi regime demanded entry into the Kampfbund. Reiser was supported by his colleague Prof. Alexander Kanoldt . He turned to the tax office in Garmisch-Partenkirchen with a letter of appeal in which he emphasized the charitable and non-profit character of the winter exhibition - both efforts were unsuccessful and failed due to the regime. After Kristallnacht 1938 , Carl Reiser was defamed as a “Jew friend” and finally deposed. On June 20, 1950, he unexpectedly died of a cerebral haemorrhage as a result of a motorcycle accident.

Honors

In his honor, the municipality of Garmisch-Partenkirchen has renamed the former Frickenstrasse to Prof.-Carl-Reiser-Strasse.

literature

• Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . Seemann, Leipzig 1953/62.
• Official catalog of the International Art Exhibition of the Association of Fine Artists Munich (E.V.) "Secession" 1908. Second edition. Bruckmann, Munich 1908. - Full text .
• Munich art exhibition in 1917, combined with an arts and crafts department for the benefit of the national collection for the relatives of the fallen warriors in the royal glass palace. Organized by the Munich Artists' Cooperative and the Secession, July 1st to the end of September. Official catalog . Verlag der Münchener Künstlergenossenschaft and Secession, Munich 1917. - Digitale-sammlungen.de .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Register books of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, 1809 - 1920. Digital library. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
2. ↑ Alois Schwarzmüller: 1933 - The beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In: Contributions to the history of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen market in the 20th century . Alois Schwarzmüller. 2006. Retrieved February 7, 2019.