Charles Spindler

Jean Charles Spindler (born March 11, 1865 in Börsch , † March 3, 1938 in Saint-Léonard (Leonardsau) near Börsch) was an Alsatian artist.

Life

Charles Spindler, son of a notary, was a great-nephew of the French painter Louis Pierre Spindler . From 1882 he studied fine arts in Düsseldorf , Munich and Berlin . In Düsseldorf he was a student of Peter Jansen the Elder until 1889 . Ä. and Eduard Gebhardt . In Munich, Martin von Feuerstein introduced him to the Ott brothers (glass artists) in 1887, for whom he carried out some work in Strasbourg .

After returning home, he was supported by Anselm Laugel . From 1893 to 1896 he edited the bilingual magazine Elsaesser Bilderbogen / Les Images Alsaciennes with Joseph Sattler . In 1897 he opened his own artist workshop in Leonardsau. From 1898 to 1914 he published the magazine Revue Alsacienne Illustrée . As a cabinet maker , Spindler made a name for himself by reviving marquetry in furniture construction (1893).

A number of Spindler's works are exhibited today in the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg .

Honors

1925: Knight of the Legion of Honor.

Books

Anselm Laugel: Costumes and customs in Alsace . 1902 (illustrated by Charles Spindler)
René Bazin : Les Oberlé . 1915 (illustrated by Charles Spindler)
Alphonse Troestler and Michel Loetscher (eds.): Charles Spindler: L'âge d'or d'un artiste en Alsace. Mémoires inédits 1889-1914 . Nancy 2009, ISBN 978-2-35578-034-9

literature

Eberhard Kasten: Spindler, Erwin . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 105, de Gruyter, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-023271-4 , p. 292 f.

Web links

Commons : Charles Spindler - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Les amis de la Leonardsau

Individual evidence

^ Renate Treydel: Spindler, Louis Pierre . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 105, de Gruyter, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-023271-4 , p. 293.
↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 440

personal data
SURNAME	Spindler, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Alsatian artist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 11, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Börsch
DATE OF DEATH	March 3, 1938
Place of death	Saint-Léonard (Vosges)

[1] Renate Treydel: Spindler, Louis Pierre . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 105, de Gruyter, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-023271-4 , p. 293.

[2] Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 440