Ernst Schumacher (painter)

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Ernst Schumacher (born July 11, 1905 in Munich-Gladbach , † 1963 in Berlin ) was a German painter , graphic artist and university lecturer at the University of Fine Arts (HfbK) Berlin (since 1975 University of the Arts Berlin ).

biography

Ernst Schumacher attended the elementary class for painting at the Düsseldorf Academy when he was sixteen. There he was strongly influenced by Max Stern , who had gone through a similar artistic career: as a young artist, he, too, relied above all on the practical experience that can be acquired through study trips. The travel destinations were almost identical: Holland (from 1920), several times France and southern Italy (1923 and 1927). The necessary travel money was earned by Schumacher u. a. by working in Bruno Goller's studio (1921). In 1922 Ernst Schumacher became a member of the artist group Das Junge Rheinland , which enabled him to have several exhibitions at Mutter Ey and in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf . After the group was dissolved in 1928, he joined the Rhenish Secession as a member . He had his first solo exhibition abroad (1933) in the Paris gallery of Jeanne Castel. In the same year he returned to Germany and chose Berlin as his new main residence, where he met his older painter colleague Werner Gilles from Rheydt . Disappointed by the disputes within the Berlin Secession as well as by the national socialists enforced conformity of art, Schumacher increasingly withdrew into the inner emigration , which he spent in Schwarzenbach an der Saale from the late 1930s to 1947.

His appointment as professor at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin took place in 1947 by the then rector Karl Hofer .

As a full member of the German Association of Artists , Ernst Schumacher's works were shown at a total of twenty annual DKB exhibitions between 1951 and 1986. As early as 1951, he was a member of the jury on the extended DKB board . At its first annual exhibition in Berlin in 1951, he showed four oil paintings.

In 1954 Ernst Schumacher received the Cornelius Prize from the city of Düsseldorf. In 1958 he was awarded a scholarship at the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo . From 1955 to 1961 he was a regular member of the DKB board.

As a member of the New Group, Schumacher had submitted three oil paintings with Italian motifs to the Association of Exhibition Management Haus der Kunst München eV in early 1963 , shortly before he died. This exhibition took place from June 12th to October 10th in the Haus der Kunst . Before the catalog for the Great Art Exhibition went to press, the association under the then President CO Müller decided to show four more paintings by Schumacher in the "1963 Memorial Exhibition" for the numerous artists who died after the Second World War, which were members of the New Group , the Munich Secession or the Neue Münchener Künstlergenossenschaft (NMK-G.) .

Ernst Schumacher died in the early summer of 1963.

Works (selection)

Ernst Schumacher's initially Impressionist style of painting increasingly changed from small-format, natural oil paintings to medium-format landscapes of expressive design and firmness. His preferred subject , apart from a few still lifes and interiors , remained until the end of his painterly life's work, the respective rural or urban surroundings with their houses, as he saw them on his travels.

  • Monument Square , 1929
  • Cafe Royal Paris , 1931
  • Farmhouses , oil on canvas, 80 × 85 cm, 1935
  • Hiddensee , 1935
  • Deep sky over the Brandenburg landscape , 1939
  • Green House , oil on cardboard, 50.2 × 65 cm
  • Alley in Schwarzenbach , 1938
  • French small town , 1948
  • Window picture , oil on canvas, 100 × 70 cm, 1950
  • Interior with flowers , oil on panel, 107.5 × 82.5 cm, 1950
  • Lonely House , oil on canvas, 80 × 100 cm, 1950
  • Spring evening , oil on canvas, 72.5 × 92 cm, 1951 (Schumacher received a prize donated by the Berlin Merchants Association at the DKB exhibition in 1951 for this picture )
  • Church ruins , oil on canvas, 81 × 100 cm, 1951
  • Houses in landscape , watercolor, 1954
  • Finca in Benidorm , gouache on canvas, 1956
  • House in a southern landscape , oil on canvas, 40 × 50 cm, 1957
  • Flanders houses , oil on canvas, 53 × 64 cm, 1960
  • Pineta (pine forest) , oil on canvas, 80 × 120 cm
  • South port , 80 × 100 cm
  • Roman park , 75 × 110 cm
  • Forio , oil on canvas, 60 × 90 cm, 1962
  • Blooming tree , oil on canvas, 117 × 72 cm

student

literature

  • Schumacher, Ernst in: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Fourth volume (QU) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 234)
  • Karl Heinz Ruppel : Ernst Schumacher. Walter Rau publishing house, Dietmannsried 1947.
  • Edwin Redslob : The painter Ernst Schumacher , Konrad Lemmer Verlag, Berlin 1951.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ digiporta.net: Schumacher, Ernst. Short biography, p. 4 (accessed March 30, 2016)
  2. ↑ s. Exhibition catalog of the Deutscher Künstlerbund 1950. First exhibition in Berlin 1951, in the rooms of the Bild University. Arts, Hardenbergstr. 33 , complete production: Brothers Hartmann, Berlin 1951. ( Ernst Schumacher : cat.no 186-189, no page numbers. Ill .: lonely house )
  3. ↑ Villa Massimo | Scholarships. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Board members of the German Association of Artists since 1951 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 30, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  5. ↑ Large Art Exhibition Munich 1963 , Süddeutscher Verlag Munich, official exhibition catalog 1963 (p. 117: catalog no. 825–827, fig. Pineta p. 122)
  6. ↑ ibid. in the appendix memorial exhibition 1963 : (p. 190: catalog no. 1178–1181, fig. blooming tree p. 221)
  7. ↑ s. the short version of his work from the point of view of ZADIK online (accessed on March 30, 2016)
  8. ^ Edwin Redslob: Ernst Schumacher , pp. 35, 75
  9. ↑ Illustration on the 1994 annual ticket of the Viersener Heimatverein, together with a vita of the painter. online (accessed March 30, 2016)

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personal data
SURNAME Schumacher, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schumacher-Salig, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich-Gladbach
DATE OF DEATH 1963
Place of death Berlin