Georg Beringer

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Georg Beringer (born August 31, 1879 in Worms , † October 20, 1944 in Friedberg (Hesse) ) was a German teacher and part-time artist .

Georg Beringer self-portrait, source: Bensheim City Archives

Career

Georg Beringer spent his youth in Griesheim and in 1903 came to Bensheim as a teacher in the institution for the deaf and dumb . Professionally secured, he focused entirely on his actual talent and began to develop his idiosyncratic style of art self-taught, not following any school. During his creative period in Bensheim, in particular, a large number of works of art were created that included and combined a wide variety of painting and drawing techniques as well as different styles.

At the beginning of his artistic career - in the years 1906–1908 - there were still oil paintings influenced by Impressionism, mostly depictions of models, but he increasingly concentrated on pencil, charcoal and red pencil drawings as well as pastel painting. Matured and marked by the influences of the war, his pictures are from then on shaped by Expressionism and he is increasingly developing his own, established style. He dedicated himself to the woodcut, here too he taught himself the techniques and thus provided scenes from literature with pictures. The woodcuts in the works of Joseph Stoll from Bensheim - Beringer was his best man and stayed regularly in his studio - should be mentioned here in particular, which illustrated both the series of articles in the Bergstrasse newspaper and the monographs. He created works of art that made him known beyond the borders of Bensheim, such as The Red Rider, The Blue Madonna and The Holy Franziskus, which were presented in the Mannheim Kunsthalle in 1921.

As broad as his techniques and styles are, so are his motifs. Religious and profane motifs can be found, caricatures and portraits of people from his immediate surroundings, everyday scenes and even caricature depictions of buildings, such as the woodcut of the facade of the Bensheim town hall redesigned by Heinrich Metzendorf .

In 1925 Georg Beringer's designs for painting the vaults of Worms Cathedral were presented in the municipal picture gallery in Worms and testify to his increasing popularity and the quality of his works.

The wall paintings of the Nibelungensaal of the Lorsch town hall from the beginning of the 1930s have been preserved to this day . As a Wormsman, he was familiar with the Nibelungen saga and also incorporated the faces of famous personalities into the wall paintings. When the National Socialists came to power, there were design changes and instead of the local figures, representations of representatives of the Third Reich were incorporated. Due to the type of representation, the Gauleiter in the Hessen-Nassau Gau , Jakob Sprenger , demanded the removal of the known people and Beringer implemented the design by 1944, although some of the planned mural could never be completed.

Beringer had to leave Bensheim in 1933 for professional reasons, as the Bensheim and Friedberg institutions for the deaf and dumb were merged in favor of the Friedberg site . Beringer's guilty friend and Friedrich Ringshausen, who had risen to the position of minister of culture when the National Socialists came to power, appointed him to the new location as director. Beringer's commitment to further expand the institution, which has now grown to over 100 students, met with massive rejection. Beringer retired in 1938 due to a stomach ailment.

Georg Beringer was married to Luise Katharina Barbara Auguste Marie Winter. The couple had a daughter together.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Stoll: Bergstrasse Bilderbogen, Bensheim. 1920. Retrieved December 12, 2017
  2. ↑ Joseph Stoll: To Griwwele and Schiewele, Bensheim. 1926. Retrieved December 12, 2017
  3. ^ Joseph Stoll: Stories from the Bergstrasse, Bensheim. 1925. Retrieved December 12, 2017
  4. ↑ Georg Beringer. For the opening of the new exhibition in the Kunsthalle. Bergstrasse Advertisement Sheet, September 21, 1921. Retrieved December 12, 2017
  5. ^ Georg Beringer - the creative artist. Bergstrasse Advertisement Sheet, September 8, 1925. Accessed December 12, 2017
  6. ↑ Fine- tuning before the anniversary celebration. Echo-Online.de August 13, 2015. Retrieved December 12, 2017
  7. ↑ Spielmann who sits offside - special exhibition with works by Georg Beringer. Südhessische Post, March 11, 1995.
personal data
SURNAME Beringer, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1944
Place of death Friedberg (Hesse)