Egon Adler (painter)

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Egon Adler (born 1892 in Karlsbad Austria-Hungary ; died February 22, 1963 in New York City ) was an Austro-Czech-American painter and graphic artist .

Life

Adler studied in Berlin , Munich and Weimar . He worked in Karlsbad and Prague and frequented the Prague artist café Arco , where he shared the regulars' table with Alfred Kubin . In 1913 he exhibited the pictures Adoration of the Child and Christ on the Mount of Olives at the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin as "Egon Adler, Munich" . Herwarth Walden had him already in 1912 in the ninth exhibition of the gallery "Der Sturm" together with Arthur Segal and Paul Gauguin shown. In the same year he was in correspondence with Else Lasker-Schüler , who gave him a fitting portrait in a short essay:

"... He is so completely his own, completely himself, and his heart in a frame. But his brother, who died young, is buried in his heart, and the painter's hand creates an intimate figure when the angel of his memory rises. Then suddenly he lies between the colors - a star between vermilion and marin on the palette for the large brushes. All of Egon Adler's pictures are games, they are sweet, they have wide-open eyes, they are all God's father hand and call ... "

- Else Lasker-Schüler in her essay Pan (No. 17 of January 24, 1913, p. 412 ff.)

He was inspired by and in exchange with the Munich expressionists Franz Marc , August Macke , and Alexej von Jawlensky . In Vienna he came into contact with Oskar Kokoschka . During the Weimar Republic, Adler worked in Berlin for his own advertising company. He also took part in exhibitions at the Prague Secession . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he went back to Czechoslovakia . In 1938 he fled to Switzerland and emigrated from there to the USA .

In the 1950s, Adler participated in the development of abstract expressionism in New York City . The Goethe-Haus in New York showed posthumously pictures of him in a solo exhibition from January 7 to February 15, 1964 .

The National Socialist destruction of Central European culture meant that even in the 1990s there was no trace of Egon Adler for Josef Kroutvor : "a Prague expressionist who seems to have devoured the earth"

Literature / exhibitions

  • That was what Karlsbad discovered . With 32 illustrations by EA; Walther Heinisch, Karlsbad 1925 (self-published first edition 1922)

This work was a parody of the Karlovy Vary society, to which he held up a mirror, so to speak. He himself notes in the foreword to his work, the first edition of which was self- published in 1922 :

“Originally, 'Das discovered Karlsbad' was a substantial volume of philosophical treatises that would certainly be suitable for securing the author a future post as mayor . However, the publication of the extensive work must be refrained from, because one should gently meet its residents, who are already noticeably inclined to sleeping sickness. And so it happened that the physical dimension of this book was reduced to the spiritual dimension of the crowd, which helps both parts: I don't have to become mayor and the reader is spared the trouble of having to leaf through a thousand uncomfortable sentences to finally get to those pictures which are taken from my unique collection. EA "

  • Josef Kroutvor : Les lacunes de l'histoire: Teschner, Adler, Feigl . in: Maurice Godé, u. a. (Ed.): Allemands, Juifs et Tchèques à Prague de 1890 à 1924. Actes du colloque international de Montpellier 8-10 December 1994 , Montpellier 1996 (Bibliothèque d'Études Germaniques et Center-Européennes; 1), pp. 405-409

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Information from his grandson Jeffrey L. Sippil : Biography Egon Adler at www.askart.com , accessed: December 2, 2015
  2. ↑ Cafe Arco at kafkaesk.de
  3. ^ First German Autumn Salon. Berlin 1913 . Verl. Der Sturm, Berlin 1913, p. 32
  4. ^ Friendship with Else Lasker-Schüler. Dedications, portraits, letters. A list of sources for the works and letters of the poet Private website, status: June 21, 2015, accessed: December 2, 2015
  5. ↑ a b E. A., (Egon Adler). The discovery of Karlovy Vary. A satire. at www.vialibri.net , accessed on December 2, 2015
  6. ^ Josef Kroutvor: Prague in the cycle of dead cities . in: Kurt Krolop (Ed.): Kafka and Prague: Colloquium in the Goethe-Institut Prague, November 24-27, 1992 . Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-11-014062-4 , p. 85
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech painter, American painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1963
Place of death New York City