Curt Echtermeyer

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Curt Echtermeyer (* 1896 in Valparaíso , Chile ; † December 11, 1971 in San Vicente de Calders, Province of Tarragona , Catalonia ), also known as Curt Bruckner or Curt Bruckner-Echtermeyer , was a German painter .

Life

Echtermeyer was born in Chile in 1896 as the son of a German immigrant and his Chilean wife. The family soon returned to Germany. He grew up with his sister Mercedes in Berlin , where he attended an (as yet unidentified) art school from 1914.

Curt Echtermeyer was related to the writer Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer and the sculptor Carl Friedrich Echtermeier , formerly Echtermeyer. The latter changed the spelling of his name in 1905, presumably to distance himself from his eldest son Romolus, Curt's father.

In 1925/26 he lived in Paris , where he made contact with surrealist artists.

In 1962, prompted by the construction of the Wall, he moved from Berlin to the old town of Bamberg , whose appearance and customs impressed him. Since 1969 he had lived in Spain , within sight of the Mediterranean, in the town of San Vicente de Calders in the province of Tarragona. There he and his wife Wally died in an accident on December 11, 1971 and were buried in El Vendrell .

This representative of classical modernism led an artistic double life, developing a surrealistic and expressionistic language of forms on the one hand and producing very popular oil paintings in the style of 19th century realism on the other . As Curt Echtermeyer he often created dark and spacious, dreamlike and disturbing imagery; as Curt Bruckner, however, he produced cozy, idyllic, everyday, and often historical scenes.

literature

  • Curt Echtermeyer, 1896–1971. Oil paintings and pastels . Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin 2014 (including Rüdiger Preisler: My encounter with the painter Curt Echtermeyer ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Echtermeier: a family chronicle. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; accessed on March 15, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.canconsult.de
personal data
SURNAME Echtermeyer, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruckner, Curt; Bruckner-Echtermeyer, Curt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Valparaíso , Chile
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1971
Place of death San Vicente de Calders , Tarragona Province , Spain