Franz Naager

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Venice (1927)

Franz Naager (born May 25, 1870 in Munich ; † January 9, 1942 there ) was a German painter , graphic artist , sculptor , art collector and entrepreneur .

Life

Naager was the son of a Munich public prosecutor (Higher Regional Court Secretary ). From May 24, 1889, he studied at the Munich Art Academy with Alexander Strähuber , Ferdinand Barth and Gabriel von Hackl . He then spent the years 1901 to 1913 in Venice , where, in addition to his work as an artist, he also bought works of art. Here he founded art workshops with around 200 employees. Influenced by the sculptor and craftsman Lorenz Gedon and the architect Gabriel von Seidl , he designed arts and crafts , including marble inlays , mosaics and sculptural jewelry. After his return to Munich, he bought the house of the former Schack-Galerie (Briennerstraße 19-22) to house his art collections there.

Naager also worked as a graphic artist and writer and was a member of the Munich artists' association "Allotria" . In 1910 he designed relief panels made of Istrian limestone for the main facade of the Berlin Admiralspalast . Around 1911 he created the terracotta - friezes on the facades of residential and commercial building AS Drey (Max-Joseph-Straße 2 in Munich) prepared in the Nymphenburg porcelain factory . In 1922 he was elected an honorary member of the Munich Art Academy.

Fonts

  • Catalog of the gallery Prof. Franz Naager and critical chats about the collection of Venetian masters of the Cinquecento. 2nd edition, Munich 1914. ( archive.org ).

literature

  • Naager, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 320 .
  • Ulrich Christoffel: Franz Naager in memory. In: The art. 85th year 1942, issue 1, pp. 193–197.
  • Naager, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 454 .
  • Hermann Reiner: Munich Impressionists of the Twenties. Babenhausen 1981.
  • Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century. Volume 3, Munich 1982, p. 213.
  • Horst Ludwig: The Munich impressionist Franz Naager 1870-1942. (Catalog for the exhibition at Galerie Reith, Munich, from October 17 to November 29, 1986) Munich 1986.
  • Anja Iwa: Franz Naager. In: Trödler & Collectors Journal , year 2004, issue 5, pp. 58–63.

Web links

Commons : Franz Naager  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 00563 Franz Naager . In: Matriculation database of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (ed.): Matriculation book . tape 3: 1884–1920 ( matrikel.adbk.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Naager, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, sculptor, art collector and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1942
Place of death Munich