Eugen Birzer

Eugen Birzer (born December 6, 1847 in Waldsassen , Upper Palatinate , † April 27, 1905 in Munich ) was a German painter and drawing teacher.

Eugen Birzer passed the Abitur examination at the Ludwigsgymnasium in Munich in 1867 and then studied law and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In December 1870 he was wounded as a lieutenant in the Landwehr in action near Loigny-Poupry, north of Orléans, France, and after his recovery he worked in various lithographic institutions in Berlin since 1871. Finally he studied painting at an art school - possibly privately with Ludwig Martin Wilberg (1853–1912) - and briefly at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts . In 1880 he passed the state examination for drawing teaching (probably already in Munich). In the summer of 1889/90 he was transferred to the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich as a substitute teacher for drawing , was appointed drawing teacher and, after frequent illness, was given permanent retirement in 1903 due to proven incapacity for work. Since 1882 he was with Maria Albertine Hermine geb. Gerlinger (* 1863) from Ebersberg. He was the holder of the war commemorative coin 1870/71 for combatants and the service award 2nd class.

As a freelance artist, Birzer mainly created landscape paintings in the tradition of the Munich School around Philipp Röth , Paul Weber and Joseph Wenglein . His motifs, in which he emphasized seasonal moods, he took mainly from the Munich area (Blutenburg, Schleissheim) and the Bavarian Alpine foothills. Birzer was a member of the Munich Art Association and the Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft (MKG), in whose exhibitions he showed his works. In 1885 the Kunstverein bought Birzer's painting spring; Landscape paintings were on view in 1902 and posthumously in 1905 in the annual exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace.

Works (selection)

• Floßlände on the Isar near Munich (1887)
• Roebuck in a forest clearing (1897)
• Moorland (1899)
• Forest clearing with a small pond (1902)
• Landscape near Blutenburg
• Village idyll near Schleissheim
• Farmer's wife on a boardwalk over a stream at the edge of the forest
• View of a village
• Hungarian landscape near Erdö
• View of Munich from the Maximilianeum, art trade
• Schleissheim Palace Canal. Color illustration. In: Hermann Schmid: painter in Schleissheim. Oberschleissheim 1991

literature

• Hyacinth Holland : Birzer, Eugen . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 54 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Günter Meissner: Bīklār – Bobrov . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 11, Saur, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-598-22751-5 .
• Hermann Ebers: memories from high school. Manuscript, Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg 1953.
• Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 174–177 (Fig.).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian loss lists 1870–1871: Landwehr Unterlieutnant; Leibregiment, 3rd Battalion; 2nd Landwehr Battalion: wounded: Orleans, December 2, 1870.
2. ^ Wilberg was a student at the Berlin Art Academy from 1875 to 1878; 1880–83 teacher at the Leipzig Art Academy; 1883–1905 director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin; see. Friedrich Jansa (ed.): German visual artists in words and pictures. Leipzig 1912, p. 640.
3. ↑ Annual reports 1889/90 to 1903/04 and 1905/06 (obituary); Birzer personnel file (including marriage and death certificates): Maximiliansgymnasium Munich, archive; Registration documents (PMB: Birzer, Eugen. Tax list, No. 9962): Munich, City Archives.
4. ^ Report on the work and the existence of the KV Munich [...] 1885. Munich 1886.
5. ^ Official catalog of the Munich annual exhibition in 1902 in the Glaspalast. No. 72: Landscape; also 1905, no. 117 Summer Landscape .