Franz Klemmer
Franz Klemmer (born November 24, 1879 in Fischenich , today a district of Hürth , † August 7, 1964 in Anzing ) was a German painter .
Life
After finishing school, Klemmer began an apprenticeship as a church painter and, after completing his training, moved to the Munich School of Applied Arts in 1905 . Three years later, in 1908, Klemmer began studying painting in the class of Hugo Freiherr von Habermann at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .
Klemmer joined in 1914 with the start of the First World War in a Bavarian Foot Artillery - Regiment one. Even during the war years, he made sketches and drawings that received great attention.
After the end of the war, Klemmer returned to Munich, where he opened his own studio and began working with Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl , a professor of monumental painting at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Here Klemmer turned to fresco painting and received a teaching position at the Academy of Arts.
In 1926, after Becker-Gundahl's death, Klemmer was appointed his successor and was given a chair for church painting. Among his students was the Augsburg church painter Karl Radinger . From 1930 he carried the title of full professor . In the same year Klemmer painted the widow's cane in the Munich residence , which was destroyed in the Second World War. Other important works by Klemmer during his teaching activities were the ceiling paintings in the parish church of St. Gordian and Epimachus in Legau near Kempten and the dome fresco in the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche Donauwörth (1941).
Through the mediation of the Munich monument protector, architect, painter and photographer Heinrich Ullmann , he designed the ceiling paintings of the churches in Walting and Inching in 1923 and 1927 as early examples from the time of the new objectivity . He took the villagers and the pastor as templates, in inching for the people, who are under the protection of the Madonna's protective cloak.
In 1947 Klemmer retired from the Akademie der Künste , but continued to work. In 1953 he designed the church and war memorial chapel in Pfaffenhofen an der Zusam , which were completed in 1955. Klemmer was made an honorary citizen of Pfaffenhofen. In 1959 Klemmer was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit , and he completed ceiling paintings in the parish church of Wertingen .
Franz Klemmer died in Anzing on August 7, 1964. His grave is in Pfaffenhofen an der Zusam.
In Mertingen near Donauwörth, the Klemmer collection is to be made publicly accessible; There is already a circle of friends here that has launched a series of exhibitions entitled “Professor Klemmer and his students”.
Individual evidence
- ^ Exhibition with works by Klemmer student Karl Radinger in October 2012 , accessed on July 2, 2017
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klemmer, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fischenich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th August 1964 |
| Place of death | Anzing |