Eduard Winkler (artist)

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Eduard Winkler (born January 13, 1884 in Saint Petersburg , † January 30, 1978 in Munich ) was a German painter , draftsman and graphic artist .

Life

The son of a German-born factory owner had been living in Germany again since he was eleven. From 1901 he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Nuremberg and from 1906 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Peter Halm . In 1946 he initiated the re-establishment of the Association for Original Etching . Eduard Winkler's handwritten autobiography "From my life" contains the following chronological list up to 1957:

Education: 1884 - 1895 Petersburg (Peterhof) St. Katharinenschule 1893-95 1895-1901 Hagen / Westphalia secondary school. Easter final exam 1901 - 1905 Nuremberg, School of Applied Arts 1903 Summer Munich; Volunteer at Steincke & Lohr 1905 Munich; Volunteer at Steincke & Lohr Knirrschule 1905 Winter Knirrschule 1906 Easter Academy d. BK Munich, drawing class Prof. P. Halm 1906 Sommer Braunlage; Vacation with family in the Harz Mountains. 1906 Autumn hike through the Thuringian Forest. Pleurisy in Hildburghausen, convalescence in Meran, 5 months 1907/08 continuation of studies at the academy 1908 summer vacation in Petersburg; Joined the Winkler company as a draftsman 1909 - 1911 Radierschule Halm 1911 Summer landscape studies in Fürstenfeldbruck

Occupation: 1909-1911 Joint studio with Schultheiss and Löffler 1911-1913 Own studio Theresienstr. 34 / II. Self-employed painter and etcher 1913 April - July Rome, Orvieto, Perugia, Assisi, Ancona, Trieste, Wels 1913 Autumn studio in Schellingstrasse 114 / IV 1914 August Studio apartment with brother Emil: Hohenzollernstrasse. 79 / IV First World War: 1914 September Volunteered to go to war. Vosges. 1915 spring officers' course in Münsterlager; further Western Front 1917 Spring Eastern Front (Stochod); Army Gr. Linsingen Cholm 1918 January As a courier to Petersburg 1918 February Advance into the Ukraine; until December 9th in Rostow 1918 September Macedonian Front (September 9th 1918 breakthrough), back to Rostow (Major von Cochenhausen) 1918 Dec. 24th return to Munich, Zieblandstraße, with sister Anna and brother Emil and Resl Prohaska,)

1920s: 1919 November Marriage to Resl 1920 March 3rd Peter born 1921 Sommer Aschau - Höhenberg 1921 Autumn Stockholm, portraits (including noble families) 1922 Sommer Neufels in Württemberg (mill near Schwenzer) 1923 Sommer Neufels in Württemberg (Salm) 1924 Summer Neufels in Württemberg (Salm)

1930s and 1940s: 1938 autumn Florence, Arezzo, Rome, Naples, Capri 1941 Krakow, Posen, Koenigsberg, Danzig, Thorn etc. 1941 October drafted into the military as a war painter 1942 Minsk, Orsha, Mogilew, Smolensk (with Peter) 1942 June, Discharged from the military 1942 September 27th Son Peter died 1945 January Resl in exile! (Dr. Reck-Poing) Fire in the studio 1943 - 1944 Tied to the house by bombing, air raid guard 1945 May reunited. Freed from the enemy! 1946 Big sale of pictures and Etchings, inflation 1947 member of the "Commission for cultural workers". Denazification of colleagues 1948 currency changeover! July. Quota per capita DM 40 plus 20, so a total of 120 DM

After the Second World War: 1949 - 1953 new beginning! Employee at the “Stadtanzeiger”, Berlin. Feuervers., Passauer Bauernkalender among others Negus 4 x 1954 70th birthday! Financial decline! Helping Hands! 1955 Successful application for parental and artist pension from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture. In this way back in balance! III. Trip to Italy (With Hans Schultze by car: Umbria) 1956 Autumn 14 days in Hammerbühl 1957 Collaboration on “Europ. East ”(v. Gordon); Pestalozzi Publishing House "

Eduard Winkler died on January 30, 1978 in a Munich old people's home.

plant

Eduard Winkler worked primarily as a painter and printmaker. His naturalistically conceived landscapes, genre scenes and portraits were still committed to the style of the Munich school of the 19th century. In addition, he illustrated more than three dozen books for young people over five decades (1920s to 1960s). The number of his bookplates should be around 250.

In 1940 and 1941 he took part in the Great German Art Exhibitions in Munich. The New Year's greetings from the 1930s and early 1940s and several of his bookplates reveal his resolute anti-Nazism. An exchange of letters with Günther Weisenborn from 1946 and 1947 shows that Winkler, in 1943, 1944 and 1945, practiced self-written leaflets for a secret group "German Freedom Movement" in Munich mailboxes and sent them anonymously to the wives of senior Nazi officials.

Works by the artist can be found in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen and the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München .

literature

  • Munich painters in the 19th and 20th centuries, Volume 6, Munich: Bruckmann Verlag 1994
  • Karsten Weber, charm of the small form. New Year's wishes, bookplates, book illustrations by Eduard Winkler (1884–1978). Mosbach-Neckarelz 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045334-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eduard Winkler. In: kalliope.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de. Retrieved June 20, 2015 .
  2. ↑ 03141 Eduard Winkler, Matriculation Book 1884-1920 , (accessed on 11/11/12)
  3. ↑ Written estate of the artist in private ownership
personal data
SURNAME Winkler, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1978
Place of death Munich