Eugen croissant

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Eugen Croissant (born October 18, 1898 in Landau in the Palatinate , † February 2, 1976 in Breitbrunn am Chiemsee ) was a German painter and caricaturist .

life and work

Eugen Philipp Croissant was born as the son of the painter August Croissant . After elementary school he attended the humanistic grammar school in Landau. The inclination for drawing, painting and caricaturing became apparent early on. From 1918 to 1920 he studied architecture at the Technical University in Munich without a degree . When his father showed several of his drawings to Max Slevogt and he was enthusiastic, he agreed to his son's transfer to the arts and crafts school.

From 1920 to 1922 Croissant studied art in Munich under Professors Julius Diez and Willi Geiger ; 1923 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Karl Caspar .

Croissant stayed in Munich as a freelance artist. There he became a member of the Palatinate Corps Transrhenania in 1928 . In the 1920s and 1930s he went on painting trips to France, Greece, North Africa and the Balkans. He was a member of the German Association of Artists under Max Liebermann , the Munich New Secession (until 1944) and the “New Group” (from 1946).

Many of his watercolors were destroyed both in 1931 when the Munich Glass Palace burned and in 1943 when his studio was destroyed.

With his wife Elisabeth, who worked as an artist with reverse glass paintings and woodcuts , he then moved to the Chiemsee near Breitbrunn. From then on, Croissant became the painter of the Chiemsee .

On his 70th birthday he became an honorary member of the Society of Heinrich von Zügel Friends . In 1975 he received the prize for painting from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . A year later, Croissant died on the Urfahrn peninsula in Breitbrunn.

Exhibitions

  • 1943 Exhibition of Young Art in the German Reich in the Vienna Künstlerhaus
  • 1958 Palatinate landscape - art exhibition Eugen Croissant on the occasion of his 60th birthday , Villa Streccius , Landau
  • 1963 Art exhibition Eugen Croissant on the occasion of his 65th birthday , Galerie Schöninger, Munich; Pfalzgalerie , Kaiserslautern & Villa Streccius, Landau
  • 1976 Memorial exhibition in the Villa Streccius, Landau
  • 1998 Eugen Croissant 1898-1976 - landscape watercolors and caricatures , Max Slevogt Gallery, Edenkoben - Landesmuseum Mainz
  • 2006 commemorative exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Rosenheim
  • 2016 Palatinate landscapes: pure nature with Albert Haueisen, Max Slevogt, August and Eugen Croissant, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern

Public collections

Works

Croissant mainly painted landscape watercolors with motifs from the Palatinate and Chiemsee. Oil paintings are rare. His humorous caricatures have been published by the weekly Fliegende Blätter , Simplicissimus and Schweizer Nebelspalter , among others . Unfortunately, all of his works are undated.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 177 , 348
  2. ↑ H. Setzer, M. Croissant: The artist family Croissant
  3. ↑ a b c d e B. Brauksiepe, A. Neugebauer: Artist Lexicon Rhineland-Palatinate
  4. ↑ a b c d e H. Blinn: The other Eugen

literature

  • Behind the moon. Chiemsee-Chronik , Eugen Croissant, Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, 1949, ISBN 3-475528-56-8
  • The other Eugen , Palatinate Art Publishing House, 1977
  • Die Welt des Eugen Croissant , Verlag Pfälzer Kunst, 1980, ISBN 3-922580-05-X
  • B. Brauksiepe, A. Neugebauer: Künstlerlexikon Rheinland-Pfalz , 1986, page 38
  • H. Setzer, M. Croissant: The Palatinate Artist Family Croissant , Plöger Verlag, 1991, pp. 65–97, ISBN 3-924574-61-8
  • Clemens Jöckle, Sigrun Paas: Eugen Croissant: 1898-1976 - landscape watercolors and caricatures . Landesmuseum Mainz, 1998, ISBN 3-932310-10-1
  • Croissant, Eugene . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 495 .

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personal data
SURNAME Croissant, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Landau in the Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH 2nd February 1976
Place of death Breitbrunn am Chiemsee