Franz Guillery
Franz Paul Maria Guillery (born June 21, 1862 in Cologne , † June 24, 1933 in Munich ) was a German painter.
Life
Born as the son of the mine director Theodor Guillery, he attended the State Academy of Fine Arts - Städelschule at the Städelschen Kunstinstitut as a student of Eduard von Steinle after graduating from high school in Cologne .
He then studied from April 6, 1880 at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Ludwig von Löfftz and Alexander Strähuber .
In 1884 Franz Guillery came to the Roman Collegium Germanicum , where he stayed - with interruptions - until 1893.
Then he settled in Munich. There he married his wife Josephine. In 1900 the couple had their son Theo, the future painter, and in 1903 their daughter Paula.
As a freelance artist, Franz Guillery mainly dealt with religious topics. Many of his works can be found in churches and chapels. In addition, he created portraits, genre, landscape and city images, as well as many pub and fairground scenes. Guillery also created landscapes from Bavaria, earlier also from Italy.
The artist showed his works in the Munich Glass Palace or in the Prinz-Carl-Palais .
He was the founder of the "Economic Association of Bavarian Fine Artists", until 1920 he was the first chairman of the Bavarian artists' union. Since 1920 he was a member of the Munich artists' cooperative . After the November Revolution he was a member of the Provisional National Council of Bavaria in 1918/19 . From 1925 until his death in 1933 he was an independent member of the Pasing City Council.
literature
- Guillery, Franz Paul Maria . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 315 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- biography
- Matriculation database Academy Munich
- Franz Guillery in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 224
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guillery, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guillery, Franz Paul Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1933 |
| Place of death | Munich |