Eric Isenburger

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Eric Isenburger (born May 17, 1902 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 26, 1994 in New York City ) was a painter of German-Jewish origin who lived in France from 1933 and in the USA from 1941.

Life

Eric Isenburger attended the model school (Realgymnasium) in Frankfurt am Main between 1912 and 1920 . In 1920 he began studying art at the Frankfurt Art Academy ; at the same time he was enrolled in the Frankfurt School of Applied Arts and was a student in the graphics class of Franz Karl Delavilla . After an extensive trip to Italy as far as Rome, Isenburger graduated from the School of Applied Arts in 1925. After moving to Barcelona , he had his first own studio and studied at the Academía dellas Bellas Artes . Isenburger married Anna Jula Elenbogen in Warsaw on December 5, 1927 .

In 1928 he moved to Vienna , where he took a studio apartment on Spittelauer Platz. During this time, Isenburger worked as a freelance artist and stage designer. In 1929 he took a trip to the south of France.

After his mother's suicide in 1931 and the inheritance that followed, Jula and Eric Isenburger decided to go to Berlin and set up their own studio on Paulsbornerstrasse. They traveled to the Italian Riviera .

Between January and March 1933, after smaller group exhibitions, Isenburger had his first solo exhibition in the Wolfgang Gurlitt Gallery . After the Reichstag fire and a Feme review in a National Socialist magazine about Isenburger's “ degenerate Jewish art ”, Gurlitt advised the Isenburgers to leave Germany and go to Paris for the time being. From 1933 to 1934, Isenburger got into a creative crisis after moving to Paris. He experimented with abstraction and surrealism and worked primarily on paper and parchment . With older work, he participated in the Salon d'Automne in 1933 and Salon de Printemps in 1934.

In June 1934 he took part in the emigrant exhibition in Parsons' Galleries, London. In January 1935 Isenburger had a first successful exhibition in the "Galerie Moderne" in Stockholm . Scarce financial means forced the Isenburgers to spend the summer in Nice in 1935 , where they finally moved in 1937. A second successful exhibition in the Galerie Moderne followed between December 1936 and January 1937 .

Around 1938 the Isenburgers moved to Grasse into a leased farm that would provide their livelihood in the future.

From 1939 to 1940 the artist was interned as a German immigrant in Les Milles and later in St. Nicolas ; During this time he made numerous drawings by his fellow prisoners. Isenburger fled in September 1940 and waited in Nice for an opportunity to leave the country. 1941 met Isenburg in Cagnes-sur-Mer on Pierre Bonnard ; he was granted a visa for the United States and, with the assistance of the Emergency Rescue Committee , left Spain and Lisbon in March .

In the same year he had his first successful solo exhibition at the Knoedler Gallery in New York, which was followed by eight more by 1962.

From 1956 Isenburger was an Associate Member ( ANA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York, was elected member ( NA ) one year later and taught there until 1980. In June 1962 Isenburger again had a solo exhibition in the Wolfgang Gurlitt Gallery in Munich.

Between the 1950s and 1980s he made sketches, drawings and pastels on numerous trips, especially to southern Europe, which later often served as templates for oil paintings.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Dieter Distl (Ed.): Eric Isenburger. 1902-1994. Selected Works. Bickel, Schrobenhausen 1999, ISBN 3-922803-31-8 , (exhibition catalog, Neuburg an der Donau, Städtische Galerie am Rathausfletz, May 2 - June 13, 1999).
  • Martin Meisiek: Studies on the life and work of the painter Eric Isenburger (1902–1994). Master's thesis at the University of Regensburg. 2003 (not published).
  • Martin Meisiek: Exile experience in expressive realism painting. In: Anke Köth, Kai Krauskopf, Andreas Schwarting (eds.): Building America - Migration of Images. Volume 2, Thelem, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-939888-18-5 , pp. 325–343.
  • Eric and Jula Isenburger. From Frankfurt to New York. Exhibition catalog. Michael Imhof Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-0626-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Hierholzer: Painter and Dancer. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. November 5, 2017, p. R5.
  2. ^ Nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "I" / Isenburger, Eric NA 1957 ( memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 27, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Isenburger, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1994
Place of death New York City