Erich Erler

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Erich Erler (1919), painted by his brother Fritz Erler

Erich Erler (born December 16, 1870 in Frankenstein in Silesia , † June 19, 1946 in Icking im Isar Valley) was a German painter at the Munich school and worked for the weekly newspaper Die Jugend .

Life

While his brother Fritz Erler was allowed to attend the art school in Breslau at the age of 17, Erich Erler first learned to be a printer . He became an editor in Schweidnitz and made drawings in this context. The cycles Totentanz and Die Nibelungen emerged. Due to tuberculosis , he went to Samaden in the Engadin for a long time . Here he began to paint with tempera . He met the doctor and art collector Dr. Oskar Bernhard know, also the painter Giovanni Segantini . In Breslau , like his brother, he was accepted by the art-loving Jewish Neisser family, which also included Gerhart Hauptmann , Richard Strauss and other artists, as well as many politicians. From 1900 Erler stayed in Munich , where he moved into a studio on Türkenstrasse and became a member of the artist group Die Scholle , with which he exhibited in the Glaspalast as early as 1901 . The Munich Pinakothek acquired a picture of him in 1902. He became known beyond the German borders for his mountain pictures. He got five appointments to art schools, all of which he turned down. Despite his lung disease, he volunteered for the First World War , but was profoundly shaken by its horrors. As a result, the erasing cycles War and From the Front were created . Erler retired to Icking in the Isar valley and worked at times as a farm worker to get to know rural life.

During the “ Third Reich ”, Erler was one of the most important painters of the Nazi state, which is why Hitler personally put him on the so-called God- gifted list ( Führer list ).

At the end of the Second World War , Erler's works were confiscated by the occupying powers as National Socialist products and no longer returned.

The artistic work

Erich Erler: David (1913)
  • Different cycles: Dance of Death , The Nibelungs , War , From the Front
  • Adventurous simplicissimus . Twenty etchings by Erich Erler. Hanfstaengl, Munich 1921
  • 1939: Eva (naked with all kinds of animals) , House of German Art , Munich
  • 1943: Blood and Soil (oil on canvas)

literature

  • Karl Mayr (preface): Erich Erler collection (exhibition catalog), PH Beyer & Sohn, Leipzig 1909 ( archive.org ).
  • Egbert Delpy: Erich Erler's new war etchings. With seven illustrations. In: Reclam's universe. 34: 881-884 (1918).
  • Hartfried Neunzert (Ed.): Erich Erler - a Schollemaler, 1870–1946. New City Museum, Landsberg am Lech 2002, ISSN  0931-2722 .
  • Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst, Munich painters in the 19th century. Volume 1, Munich 1981.
  • Munich jewelry 1900–1940. Danner Foundation, Munich 1990.
  • Erich Erler . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 34, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22774-4 , p. 397.
  • Ewald Bender : Erich Erler . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 606 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Erich Erler . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 50 .

Web links

Commons : Erich Erler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Volume 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 126.
personal data
SURNAME Erler, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenstein , Province of Silesia , Kingdom of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1946
Place of death Icking in the Isar Valley