Eduard Edler

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Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Edler (born February 14, 1887 in Elbing ; † October 2, 1969 in Hamburg ) was a German marine and landscape painter and poster artist living in Hamburg .

Life

Only when numerous paintings by Eduard Edler appeared in the art trade in the early 2000s did science begin to research his life and work. The knowledge remains incomplete: the first information about him is only available when he went to sea as a young man and became a seaman. During the First World War Eduard Edler served in the 3rd Guards Regiment on foot as a grenadier and was deployed with this unit at the front in France. There is only one known hospital stay from July to August 1918 due to a flu epidemic (at the time of the first wave of the Spanish flu ). After the regiment was dissolved in Berlin in December 1918, he was released into civilian life.

The next information about him is only available for 1935. At least since that time he lived and lived in Hamburg. In 1937 he married the widow Elisabeth Emonts there, without adopting her son Heinz Emonts. He uses a small room as a studio in their shared apartment. The marriage was divorced in 1952 and his second marriage was Irmgard Lehmann, born in 1907. Eduard Edler died on October 2, 1969 in Hamburg.

Creation and work

Very few of Eduard Edler's works are dated, so the beginning of his artistic career is difficult to reconstruct. The research assumes that Noble had probably trained as a graphic artist and also as many of his fellow painters (z. B. about Willy Stöwer or Hans Bohrdt ) autodidact has trained as a painter and worked. Edler was able to live from his painting and called himself a marine painter and graphic artist .

In addition to a few landscape paintings from his early work, there are advertising posters for shipping companies in Art Deco style by Eduard Edler . The focus of his work were numerous paintings of ships, which he also painted for shipping companies. These paintings were mainly created between the two world wars. He painted most of the views of the ship for the Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (Hapag), which commissioned a series of pictures in the 1940s for the company's 100th anniversary in 1947. He also worked for Woermann-Linie and the Flensburg shipping company HC Horn . Often he only had blueprints, old views or pictures of sister ships as a template, so that the ship portraits were not necessarily realistic, but should be understood as an approximation. During this time he mainly used gouache paints , the portraits of the ships were mostly shown in traditional side views. During the Second World War, a series of pictures was also taken for the ships of the Hansa building program such as the Alstertor and the like that were built in Danish shipyards (for fear of sabotage for Danish bogus companies) . a. that were confiscated after the war and never ran under the Hapag flag, as the painter showed in his pictures.

After the end of the war, no works are known to begin with. It was not until the 1950s that he painted more ship portraits in parallel to the slowly rebuilt merchant fleet. The main customers were now smaller shipping companies, coasters were often shown . During this time, he could no longer match the quality of the paintings from the 1930s. Instead of gouache paints, he now increasingly uses oil paints . Characteristic of his ship portraits was the smoke rising from the chimney, which was pushed down by the wind. The auction catalogs from this late period offer many pictures of ships, but no further information is available on Eduard Edler's life after the war. His portrayal of life remains a torso.

Works (selection)

  • In the Hardangerfjord
  • The 'Usaramo' on the high seas
  • Summer bay with sailing boats off Capri (1915)
  • MS 'Heluan' rolling on sunny sea
  • Ship portrait of the 'Neviges'
  • To the West Indies, Florida and New York (poster)
  • Sea voyage to America (poster)
  • To Canada (poster)
  • Port view with the 'Hamburg' (poster)
  • Midnight sun in Lofoten
  • Ship portrait 'Prins Bertil'
  • Rufiji River in Tanzania
  • Passenger steamer 'Cap Polonio'
  • Ships in the port of Hong Kong
  • In Hong Kong Harbor (1906)
  • On the wind
  • Woermann Line (poster, around 1920)
  • The 'SS Hamburg' at sea (1930)
  • Ships portrait of the cargo ship 'Rotersand'
  • Arnold Bernstein Line (poster)
  • Ship portrait 'Spitalertor' (around 1944)
  • Steamer Prussia (around 1900–1950)
  • Bremen motor ship 'Brillant' on the high seas (around 1954)
  • Ocean liner and sailing ship in a harbor

literature

  • Maike Bruhns : Edler, Eduard . In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary . Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 102f.
  • Lars Scholl / Rüdiger Ancken: The marine painter Eduard Adler (1887–1969): a biographical approach , In: Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv Volume 27, 2004, Convent Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-934613-83-6 , p. 263– 284, online version .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scholl / Ancken, pp. 265f.
  2. ↑ Scholl / Ancken, p. 267
  3. ^ Lars U. Scholl: Donation of five pictures by the painter Duard Edler. In: Deutsche Schiffahrt , 31 (2009) 1, pp. 25–26.
  4. ^ Bruhns, p. 102
  5. ↑ Scholl / Ancken, pp. 267–270
personal data
SURNAME Edler, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marine painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Elblag
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1969
Place of death Hamburg