Eugene Meister

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Eugen Joseph Meister (born June 8, 1886 in Straubenzell , † January 29, 1968 in Zurich ) was a Swiss painter .

Life

Meister was the son of the photographer Johann Heinrich Meister and spent his youth in Bischofszell , where he also attended school. From 1902 he lived in Zurich and completed an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor until 1904. He then continued his education at the Zurich School of Applied Arts and in 1906 spent two semesters at the Munich School of Applied Arts, where he mainly attended modeling courses. There he took his first steps self-taught in painting. Works of contemporary painting led him early to a Fauvist style with strong color tones. In the collection of the Zurich iron dealer Richard Kisling he saw works by Hodler, Amiet, Giacometti and van Gogh's Mädchen vor Weizenfeld . In 1910 he made a trip to Italy and in 1911 together with the painters Hermann Huber and Albert Pfister to Tunis, Algiers and Morocco, from where he received formative impressions regarding painting. In 1913 he created the wall painting Fries with three figures against a blue background for the Romance seminar in the college building of the University of Zurich , which, like Paul Bodmer's frescoes, were painted over again shortly afterwards . In the following years he spent a long time in the Engadin, Ticino and also in the Valais mountains, where he painted landscapes and created decorative paintings in various newly built SAC mountain huts . Between 1921 and 1927 he was in Berlin with interruptions, where he created urban landscapes and copied old masters in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum . 1927–1928 second trip to Algeria, 1930 to Paris and 1933 to Naples. After a long stay in Teufen in the Appenzellerland until the early 1940s, he led a very quiet life back in Zurich. He regarded sculpture as a job that he practiced on building sites in Zurich again and again into old age. He is not known to have any sculptural work of his own. In 1958, the Schaffhausen Art Association dedicated a large solo exhibition to the 72-year-old in the Museum zu Allerheiligen . In the following years, Eugen Meister often came to the area around Schaffhausen, she inspired him to paint numerous landscapes.

Act

Awards

  • In 1960 Eugen Meister received the Georg Fischer Art Prize from the city of Schaffhausen

Exhibitions

  • Galerie Albin Neupert, Zurich, from 1910
  • 20th Biennale di Venezia , Venice, represented in 1936 with three works in the Swiss Pavilion.
  • Kunsthaus Zurich , 1916; 1931; 1938
  • Switzerland. National Art Exhibition, 1919; 1922; 1928; 1951
  • Art Museum St. Gallen , 1952
  • Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, 1958; 1973
  • Schleuse Gallery, Stadthausgasse, Schaffhausen, 1963; 1964; 1968
  • School building in the Siblingen SH community , 1964
  • Rotapfel-Galerie, Zurich, 1959, 1961
  • Galerie am Stadelhofen, Zurich, 1966
  • Galerie Klöti, Rothrist AG, 1966

Publicly owned works

  • confederation
  • Kunsthaus Zurich
  • Girl with a thistle (1943) Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen
  • Lucerne Art Museum
  • Zurich city

literature

  • Carl Brun: Master, Eugen . In: Swiss Artist Lexicon - Dictionnaire des Artistes Suisses . tape 4 : Supplement A-Z . Verlag Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1917, p. 562-563 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Artist Lexicon of Switzerland, XX. Century. Volume 2, Verlag Huber & Co. Frauenfeld, 1967.
  • Catalog of paintings and sculptures: Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen [ed. in Zsarb. with the Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich], 1989
  • Master, Eugene . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Girl in White , National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, nga.gov
  2. ↑ Gustav Kruck: New Club huts of the SAC In: Federation of Swiss Architects (ed.): The work . Issue 1. Bümpliz, Bern 1921, p. 127–136, here 136 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Rudolf Frauenfelder: painter Eugen Meister. In: Schaffhauser portfolio. No. 32, Lempen & Cie. 1964, pp. 44–45 ( digishelf.de )
personal data
SURNAME Master, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meister, Eugen Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Grub cell
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1968
Place of death Zurich