Georg Erler (artist)
Georg Oskar Erler (born October 15, 1871 in Dresden , † July 6, 1950 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German artist. He worked as a painter, graphic artist and etcher.
Life
The son of a Dresden master locksmith attended the Dresden School of Applied Arts from 1891 to 1894 and then the Art Academy until 1898 , which he graduated as a student of Gotthardt Kuehl . Hugo Bürkner was one of his other teachers . Study trips to Paris (1897), Munich (1898) and Rome followed.
Erler settled in his hometown of Dresden and quickly enjoyed success. With the large-format etching Devotion of the Miners Before the Shift , he won the large gold medal in 1887, and in 1901 the two-year Roman scholarship of the Academy with the likewise large-format etching Between Work . In 1902 he was one of the founding members of the artist group Die Elbier , along with Ferdinand Dorsch and other students of Kuehl . In 1909 he was a founding member of the Dresden Artists' Association . From 1913 to 1937 Erler was professor for figurative drawing at the Dresden Academy of Applied Arts , where he was popular and influential as a university professor. Alfred Hesse was one of his students .
In Erler's extensive work, the focus is on graphics. From 1900 he created numerous caricatures that quickly made him famous. In 1932 the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden honored Erler with an exhibition that showed a selection of his caricatures. Erler's painterly production is comparatively low.
Above all, Erler was a master at the technique of etching. He created cityscapes, landscapes and nudes. Like many artists of his generation who graduated from the Dresden Art Academy around 1900, Erler saw his artistic duties as conveying beauty and harmony.
Numerous works by Erler were lost in the bombing raid on Dresden on February 13, 1945. The artist spent the last years of his life in Ainring in Upper Bavaria. He never got over the loss of his Dresden studio. Until his death he kept in close contact with his friends in Dresden.
literature
- Georg Erler (artist) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 34, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22774-4 , p. 401.
- Erler, Georg Oskar . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 608-609 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Georg Erler . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 51 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erler, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Erler, Georg Oskar (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1950 |
| Place of death | Bad Reichenhall |