Florian Bosch

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Portrait of the painter Florian Bosch around 1940, photographed by Franz Kloimstein, Munich

Florian Bosch (born October 13, 1900 in Sauerlach , † September 14, 1972 in Munich ), pseudonym Floriano Bosi , was a German portrait and landscape painter and representative of the New Objectivity .

Live and act

Bosch grew up in the Upper Bavarian community of Sauerlach as the son of a master carpenter. After finishing school he did an apprenticeship as a souvenir painter. At the age of 17 he began studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . His teacher when he entered the academy was Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl . In 1921, while still a student, Bosch was commissioned to make new ceiling frescoes for the Church of St. Dominic in Kaufbeuren . It took Bosch two years to prepare the frescoes, so the church was consecrated again in 1921 without a ceiling painting. At the age of 23, Bosch finally completed the frescoes in a few months in 1923. They show motifs from the thematic area of ​​war and peace as well as portraits of children from long-established families in Kaufbeur. Study trips to Greece, France and Switzerland followed. In 1930 he married Rosa Steinbrecher.

Bosch was particularly known as a landscape and portrait painter. He found inspiring motifs particularly in Lower Bavaria , the Allgäu and Northern Germany ; his spacious landscapes show the tendency towards New Objectivity. He was also a member of the Munich Secession and participated in numerous exhibitions. Together with the two sculptors Ludwig Kasper and Fritz Wrampe , he maintained a studio in the former Schwanthaler Museum from 1923 to 1928 . In 1925 he exhibited for the first time in the Glaspalast in Munich, and in 1928 he participated in the exhibition there with five landscape paintings. In 1937 he made contributions to the exhibitions “Figure and Composition in Pictures and on the Wall” in the Neue Pinakothek . In 1939 Bosch was awarded the Albrecht Dürer Prize from the city of Nuremberg. This was followed by participation in the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich in 1939 and in the Great Art Exhibition in Munich in 1951 and 1954. At least since 1954, he lived in an apartment on Herzogstrasse in Schwabing . In 1967, Bosch, together with Arnold Bawlé and Ludwig Scharl, received the Water Lily Prize from the City of Munich .

After the Second World War, Bosch worked for many years as an art teacher at the Munich vocational school and as a jury member of the Secession. His works are in state and municipal museums and in the hands of various collectors at home and abroad. Bosch died in Munich in 1972. His grave is there in the north cemetery .

Works (selection)

  • Upper Swabian landscape , oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm.
  • Mountainous Landscape , 1939, oil on canvas, 66 × 90 cm.
  • Sunflowers in a Vase , 1939, oil on canvas, 90 × 66 cm.
  • Evening mood at Chiemsee , 1956, watercolors, 44 × 57 cm.
  • Forest valley in Upper Swabia near Ravensburg , 1959, oil on canvas, 65 × 90 cm.
  • Am Chiemsee , 1966, oil on canvas, 60 × 100 cm.
  • In the English Garden , 1970, oil on canvas, 60 × 80 cm.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation books. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
  2. ^ The painter Florian Bosch. Digiporta - Digital Portrait Archive, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The Church. Förderverein St. Dominikus-Kirche Kaufbeuren eV, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
  4. ^ Artists from AZ: Florian Bosch. In: eART.de. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Bettina Best: The history of the Munich Secession until 1938. A chronology. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Reinhold Löschinger: In the footsteps of Florian Bosch . In: Förderverein Heimatfreunde Sauerlach eV (Ed.): Sauerlach - The gate to the Bavarian Oberland . Sauerlach 2000, p. 422 .
  7. ↑ Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich: Biographies from eight centuries . Munich 2016, p. 107 .
personal data
SURNAME Bosch, Florian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bosi, Floriano (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait and landscape painter and representative of the New Objectivity
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Sauerlach
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1972
Place of death Munich