Eugen Altenberg
Eugen Altenberg (born June 22, 1886 in Wald - Krausen ; † March 25, 1965 in Solingen ) was a German landscape and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Altenberg, the son of a steel goods manufacturer, attended beginner and drawing classes at the Düsseldorf Art Academy at the age of 14 after high school in Wald . After a year and a half he was able to matriculate there and in the six following years trained as a pupil of Willy Spatz , Claus Meyer and Peter Janssen the Elder as a portrait and figure painter. In 1909 the city of Aachen commissioned him with a portrait of Wilhelm II. In 1910/1911 he did military service in the hussar regiment "King Humbert of Italy" (1st Kurhessisches) No. 13 in Diedenhofen . He then returned to Düsseldorf , where he settled down and became a member of the Malkasten artists' association . As Meyer's assistant at the Düsseldorf Academy, he led an evening course in nude painting . He fought as an officer in the First World War and was discharged in 1917 with the rank of lieutenant after a serious wound, awarded the Iron Cross, 1st class .
In 1918 he settled in his hometown of Wald. He received portraits for portraits of mayors, honorary citizens and other personalities, including the commission to paint the philosopher Friedrich Albert Lange posthumously. In 1929 Altenberg went to Dalmatia for a year . During this time he created paintings of the Mediterranean landscape. Other landscapes were created in the Sauerland , Waldecker Land and the Black Forest . In 1930 he became a lecturer at the municipal painting school in Solingen. In 1932 the Düsseldorf Art Academy awarded him the title of professor .
Web links
- Painter Prof. Eugen Altenberg , biography in the portal eugen-altenberg.homepage.t-online.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016) , PDF
- ↑ Sabine Firouzkhah: Memories of an Original , article from September 22, 2014 in the portal solinger-tageblatt.de , accessed on November 17, 2018
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| SURNAME | Altenberg, Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Forest - frills |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 1965 |
| Place of death | Solingen |