David Zacharias

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David Zacharias (born November 5, 1871 in Königsberg , †  August 5, 1915 near Warsaw ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

In 1899 Zacharias began studying at the Royal Prussian Art Academy in Düsseldorf , where he was a master student of Claus Meyer from 1902 to 1906 . He stayed in Düsseldorf and was a member of the Malkasten artists' association from 1906 to 1913 . When the war broke out, he was assigned to a Prussian infantry regiment. He was initially used in the position battle against the Russian army on the Bzura , where he also made some sketches. He fell as a deputy officer in the summer of 1915 in the course of the storm on Warsaw.

Zacharias created figure and landscape pictures, portraits, interiors and still lifes. With Josse Goossens , Walter Heimig and others, he was one of the Düsseldorf artists who adopted the large-scale and impasto painting style of the Munich artist group "Die Scholle" . He showed a self-portrait , an interior and the composition house music in 1913 in Düsseldorf. Drawings that were made during the trench warfare on the Bzura were on view in August 1915 in the Düsseldorf Kunsthalle . In 1917 the Bernhard Teichert art dealer in Königsberg dedicated a memorial exhibition to the artist.

Selection of works

  • Lovers in a meadow, crouching next to a bush, on the river bank , 1905; Oil / canvas, 45 × 60 cm (art trade)
  • Portrait of a Young Woman , 1909; Oil / canvas, 48 ​​× 45.5 cm (art trade)
  • Blooming garden ; Oil / canvas, 70 × 55 cm (art trade)
  • Mary with the baby Jesus ; Oil / wood, 34 × 37 cm (art trade)
  • Three schoolchildren look over the Pregel at the Königsberg Castle : Book cover illustration for the book “Heimatkunde von Königsberg”.

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1902: Trier, Kunstverein: "The Eifel in Art": Eifel landscape
  • 1910: Bremen, Kunsthalle: Large art exhibition. In connection with a special exhibition of the Association of Northwest German Artists, February 1–31. March 1910.

literature

  • David Zacharias. In: Art Chronicle. Weekly for arts and crafts. New series, volume 26, issue 43, EA Semann, Leipzig, September 3, 1915, column 554 (Nekrologe, uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • Zacharias, David . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947.
  • Sabine Schroyen (arrangement): Sources on the history of the artists' association Malkasten. A center of bourgeois art and culture in Düsseldorf since 1848. Cologne 1992.
  • Carola Muysers, in: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 455 (Fig. 624: Frau Neuenborn , 1908).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German list of losses, Prussia 326, report from September 13, 1915: Inf.-Reg. 336, 11th Company. Deputy Officer David Zacharias from Königsberg, Prussia: fallen.
  2. ^ David Zacharias . In: American Art News . tape 14 , no. 4 , October 30, 1915, p. 6 , JSTOR : 25588722 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): Sculptor and painter in the countries on the Rhine. Düsseldorf 1915, p. 136.
  4. ↑ The Rhineland. Monthly magazine for German art . II year. Issue 8, May 1902. Special issue. Bagel, Düsseldorf 1902.
personal data
SURNAME Zacharias, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1915
Place of death near Warsaw