Conrad Pfau

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Conrad Pfau (born January 4, 1885 in Wimpfen / Neckar , † September 22, 1954 in Munich ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Birthplace of Conrad Pfau in Bad Wimpfen

Pfau was the son of a decorative painter. After preparatory studies in Strasbourg and Düsseldorf , he came to the Munich Art Academy in October 1913 and became a master student of Peter von Halm and Carl von Marr . In the First World War he was injured and transferred to a hospital in Würzburg to convalesce . There he met Hildegard Feeser, whom he married in 1917. During this time he created numerous etchings and complete portfolios in which he depicted the landscape of Middle Franconia in a painterly, but realistic handwriting .

After the war he returned to Munich. In 1927 he took part (with the painting Portrait of Government Director Dr. Roth ) in the Munich art exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace . His portraits, landscapes and still lifes, which he executed in a clayey manner inspired by Wilhelm Leibl , met the National Socialists' understanding of art . From 1938 to 1943 he participated regularly in the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art . At these six exhibitions he was represented with a total of 23 paintings. Adolf Hitler bought six of them alone . Other buyers were Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels . In 1938 he showed there girls in the landscape (cat. No. 734) and atelier with nudes (cat. No. 733), in which he combined painter and model in one motif, in 1940, among others, the paintings old woman (cat. No. 897), peasant woman with headscarf (cat. No. 896) and female half- nudes (cat. No. A324), and in 1943 the oil paintings Idyll on the Fraueninsel (cat. No. 672) and young island woman (cat. No. 673).

He spent the time of the Second World War in Bad Kissingen from 1941 , and returned to Munich in 1945. His marriage to Hildegard Feeser was divorced in 1938.

Exhibitions

  • July 1 to September 30, 1920: Art exhibition in the Glass Palace (2 oil paintings and 5 etchings)
  • 1934: Joint exhibition of the Munich artists' cooperative "Summer Exhibition 1934"
  • 1935: Group exhibition at the Munich Art Association
  • 1978: Paintings and graphics by the Wimpfen painter Conrad Pfau (1885–1954) , Bad Wimpfen town hall

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 05303 Konrad Pfau . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 3: 1884–1920 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00004662-8 ( matrikel.adbk.de ).
  2. ^ Horst Ludwig: Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 6, Bruckmann, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7654-1633-9 , p. 176.
  3. ↑ The paintings Adolf Hitler acquired are: Girls in the Landscape (1938, Cat. No. 734), Female Nude (1939, Cat. No. 851), The Source (1940, Cat. No. 895), Peasant Woman with Headscarf (1940, cat. No. 896), old woman (1940, cat. No. 897), praying old man (1940, cat. No. 899). See Ines Schlenker: Hitler's Salon , Peter Lang, 2007, pp. 237, 243, 249.
  4. ^ Frick Art Reference Library: Munich art exhibition 1920 in the Glaspalast . Knorr & Hirth, Munich, p. 45 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ M. Papenbrock: Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions. Part 1, p. 208.
personal data
SURNAME Peacock, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peacock. Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Wimpfen
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1954
Place of death Munich