Emil Pottner

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Emil Pottner (born December 10, 1872 in Salzburg , Austria-Hungary , † after September 28, 1942 probably in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp ) was an Austrian painter , graphic artist and ceramist of impressionism .

Life

Emil Pottner was the child of a Jewish family of actors; from 1891 he studied at the Munich Academy with Herterich and Paul Höcker and in Berlin. He got ideas for his artistic work in the porcelain manufactory in Delft . Shortly after the turn of the century, he settled in Berlin. From 1905 he was active in the field of small sculpture and invented his own system of porcelain sculpture ; he also worked in the fields of painting, etching , lithography and woodcuts . In 1911, for example, he created a collection of 79 Vogel models for a majolica factory. Emil Pottner was a member of the German Association of Artists . He was elected to the board of the Berlin Secession in 1913 and was best known for his depictions of animals.

Pottner also wrote several self-illustrated books; In 1912 his texts appeared with lithographs in Paul Cassirer's Pan-Presse . He lived in Petzow on the Havel; his property by the water gave him inspiration for his paintings, graphics and ceramics. As a result of the ban on Jews imposed by the Nazi regime , Pottner had to give up his ceramics workshop in Charlottenburg at the end of 1933. In 1938 he had to sell his property in Petzow, on which he had created his garden pictures and woodcuts. On July 24, 1942, he was deported to Theresienstadt , from there to Treblinka on September 26, and then to the Maly Trostinez extermination camp. His last sign of life was dated September 28, 1942.

Appreciation and reception

Pottner's work was recognized by Karl Schwarz as early as 1928 :

“ Emil Pottner is an artist of astonishing versatility in the technical representation of a special area. Starting from the landscape as a painter, he discovered his love for the feathered world and became one of its most lively interpreters in painting and graphics, not least in ceramics and fine porcelain figurines. "

Pottner's works were exhibited in the Jewish Museum in Berlin's Oranienburger Strasse in 1935 ; Braunschweig also honored his 80th birthday in 1952 with an exhibition. In a large Secession exhibition of the Berlin Art Association in 1982, Pottner was represented with ten paintings, graphics and ceramics. Since the 1990s, the art historian Markus Oertel has compiled extensive material on the work and life of Pottner. His works are u. a. at the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art .

Exhibitions

Works (selection)

  • Self-image 1892
  • Baumgartenbrück in summer. 1911
  • Thor's shadow. 1915
  • The citizens of Calais. 1915
  • Upper Bavarian farmhouse.
  • St. Francis.

Publications (selection)

  • Impressions from the life of birds. Twenty stone drawings and text by Emil Pottner. Paul Cassirer, Berlin 1912, DNB 1066760101 .
  • Summer days in the poultry farm. Twenty stone drawings and text. Paul Cassirer, Berlin 1912, OCLC 19986595 .
  • Story of a young crow. Narrated and illustrated by Emil Pottner. Alf Häger Verlag, Berlin 1924, DNB 367625121 .
  • Birds on the water. Häger, Berlin 1924, DNB 362308330 .

literature

  • Emil Pottner - Impressionist highlights in painting and sculpture. Edition Galerie Mutter Fourage, 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-044068-7 .
  • Karl-Heinz Friedrich: Petzow - Relatively absolute. BoD-Verlag Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3-7431-9258-4 .
  • Pottner, Emil , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 300

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Blume Berger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Manual Austrian authors of Jewish origin 18th to 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1972.
  2. ↑ a b c portrait ( memento from October 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in the Berliner Morgenpost
  3. ^ Wolfgang Immenhausen, Regine Reinhardt, Galerie Mutter Fourage: Art and Life 1909–1943: the Berlin art publisher Fritz Heyder. 2002.
  4. ↑ matrikel.adbk.de
  5. ↑ Max Liebermann, Sigrid Achenbach, Matthias Eberle, National Gallery: Max Liebermann in his time. Prestel Verlag, 1979.
  6. ↑ Joanna Flawia Figiel: Karlsruhe Majolika: Guide through the museum in the majolica.
  7. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Pottner, Emil ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 14, 2015)
  8. ^ Eva Caspers: Paul Cassirer and the Pan-Presse: A Contribution to German Book Illustration . 1989, p. 86.
  9. ↑ eart.de
  10. ↑ toennesmann.arch.ethz.ch
  11. ↑ brooklynmuseum.org
  12. ↑ moma.org
personal data
SURNAME Pottner, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, graphic artist and ceramist of impressionism
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH after September 28, 1942
Place of death uncertain: Maly Trostinez extermination camp