Eduard Aigner

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Eduard Aigner (born August 6, 1903 in Neuhaus ; † December 22, 1978 in Munich ) was a German painter in the Munich academic tradition .

Life

After secondary school in Eichstätt , where he was in contact with Fritz Burkhardt, the Munich painter of the New Objectivity, who was three years older and later , he attended the arts and crafts school in Nuremberg and from 1923 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He also settled in Munich. Study visits to Paris , Italy and Spain followed . In 1929 Aigner was one of the founding fathers of the Association of Franconian Artists on the Plassenburg in Kulmbach. In 1932 he received the Albrecht Dürer Prize from the city of Nuremberg . In 1943 he took part in the exhibition Young Art in the German Reich in Vienna organized by Reichsleiter Baldur von Schirach with two works .

After the Third Reich , the group " Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft (MKG)" was formed as early as 1945 under the chairmanship of Eduard Aigner and Carl Theodor Protzen, which wanted to be open to modern, experimental directions despite all ties to the pre-war tradition. In practice, however, one remained conservative, that is, both thematically and stylistically, the tradition of the Munich School was adhered to. The MKG exhibitions were very popular. After losing a lawsuit in 1950 in the dispute over the name of the group, the "Group Aigner-Protzen" appeared in the major art exhibition held annually since 1949 in the Haus der Kunst under the name "Neue MKG". Aigner had been based in Wasserburg am Inn since 1961 .

Appreciation

Aigner captured landscapes , people and animals in oil paintings , in watercolors and as lithographs . He also painted still lifes . In terms of subject matter and technique, he oriented himself towards the older Munich painting culture of the 19th century , an academic painting with impasto and large-scale applications of paint; Instead of the dark tones of traditional Munich painting, however, he preferred light colors and thus created "pictures of Arcadian serenity" (Eichler). Works owned by the Städtische Galerie in Munich, among others. In the Palatinate State Library there is an Aigner folder from the Hans-Georg Geißler archive containing biographical and other material under number 200 a .

Exhibitions

  • 2017 - Kunstmuseum Hersbruck - Die Verschollenen - A documentation of the fresco on the Hersbruck town hall (1937–1945) and works from various collections (September 21 to December 17, 2017)

literature

  • Art. Volume 69, 1933/34, p. 332 (illustration); Volume 81, 1939/40, p. 263
  • German art and decoration. Volume 68, 1931, p. 353 (illustration)
  • Art and anti-quality circulars. May 24, 1942, p. 3 (illustration)
  • Aigner, Eduard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 18 .
  • Ruth Stein: Aigner, Eduard . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 , p. 652.
  • Wilhelm Rüdiger: Eduard Aigner, Joseph Mader , CO Müller , Reinhold Pallas . Exhibition April 23 - May 30, 1955. Städtische Galerie, Munich 1955
  • Annette Doms: New ways. About the situation and reception of modern painting in the post-war period in Munich. Dissertation, Munich 2004
  • Hans F. Schweers: Paintings in German museums. Catalog of the exhibited and depot works . 10 volumes. Second updated, significantly expanded and improved edition. Part I: Artists and their works. Volume 1: A-F. Munich 1994

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bund-fraenkischer-kuenstler.de/pages/das-vorstandsteam.php On the history of the Association of Franconian Artists
  2. ↑ Great rush for the "missing". (No longer available online.) Hersbruck Art Museum, archived from the original on October 8, 2017 ; accessed on October 8, 2017 . 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.kunstmuseum-hersbruck.de

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personal data
SURNAME Aigner, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhaus
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1978
Place of death Munich