Ernst Meurer (painter)

Ernst Arthur Meurer (born February 5, 1884 in Lahr , † March 29, 1956 in Bonn ) was a German living room designer as well as watercolor and oil painter , as whom he mainly worked in the Bonn area.

Life

Ernst Meurer's father, Carl Meurer, worked as an architect. He designed functional and residential buildings in Lahr and Freiburg im Breisgau . Two of his sons, Karl and Volkmar Meurer, also became architects. Ernst Meurer grew up in Freiburg, where he attended elementary and secondary school, which was followed by training at the local arts and crafts school. He then studied painting with Heinrich Kley and Hermann Göhler (1874–1959) at the Karlsruhe Art Academy . This was followed by a traineeship at the Dresden workshops for German household goods , for which Gertrud Kleinhempel worked at the time , and in which he was introduced to artistic and practical living space design.

Gainful employment

From his traineeship, Meurer developed into a commercial activity as a craftsman , which he mainly pursued as a freelance: He developed decorations and forms for living space design, initially specializing in the design of tapestries, backdrop painting and wallpaper. Meurer took on projects with manufacturers in Hanover, Dresden, Hamburg and Gummersbach . In Bonn-Beuel he worked for the Rheinische Tapetenfabrik from 1911 . In the Siegwerk chemical laboratory in Siegburg he got to know the photo-engraving technique and was responsible for ornament design in the production of printing inks for wallpaper production. In 1919 Meurer settled in Bonn. Among other things, he worked for today's Deutsche Steinzeug Cremer & Breuer in Witterschlick , which employed him as a living environment specialist for the development of ceramic bathroom and kitchen furnishings (tiles and bathroom ceramics). He also worked at times as an art teacher at the Bonn vocational school and - during the Second World War - in the vocational education center of the German Labor Front .

painting

In addition to his employment, Meurer devoted himself to painting all his life. As a painter he was also professionally organized. Until it was dissolved in 1933, he was a member of the "Bonner Künstlerbund", then in the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts and after the war in the "Bonner Künstlergruppe". Here he worked together with other Bonn artists, such as Carl Nonn , Alfred Bucherer , Jakobus Linden or Ingeborg von Rath . The focus of Meurer's artistic work was on landscape painting . He was regularly out and about with his watercolor paint box in Bonn or the Bonn area to capture city, country or river scenes. The watercolor sketches were then later transferred in oil onto canvas. From the 1950s onwards, he mainly made watercolors, as oil paintings were no longer in demand.

Meurer was married three times. He had two children with his second wife, Emmy, and the family lived at Argelanderstrasse 76 in Bonn's Südstadt district ; his studio was also located here. From 1950 to 1980 Emmy Meurer ran the Zur Kerze artist bar in Bonn . Meurer's third wife was Hildegard Meurer-Wüllenweber. The artist died in 1956 and was buried in the Südfriedhof . In 1985 the Ernst-Meurer-Weg in the Bonn district of Buschdorf was named after the painter.

Exhibitions

From the 1920s onwards, the artist was frequently exhibited in the Villa Obernier Museum in Bonn, which was destroyed in the war . His works have also been shown in the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren . There are four of his pictures in the collection of the Stadtmuseum Bonn .

literature

Michael E. Hümmer, artist profile Ernst Meurer (1883-1956) , Treffpunkt Kunst (www.treffpunkt-kunst.net)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Oskar Haebler (Ed.), Textile Art and Industry, Illustrated monthly books for the artistic interests of the entire textile industry , Volume 9, Hugo Wilisch, Chemnitz 1916, p. 77 and P. 151 (snippet)
2. ^ Helmut Heyer and Karl Gutzmer, Culture in Bonn in the Third Reich , Volume 62 of: Publications of the Bonn City Archives , ISBN 978-3-92283-2-324 , City Archives and City History Library, Bonn 2002, p. 222
3. ^ Ernst-Meurer-Weg in the Bonn street cadastre