Georg Lührig

Georg Lührig, Jack Daulton Collection, USA

Georg Lührig (born January 26, 1868 in Göttingen , † March 21, 1957 in Lichtenstein ; full name: Heinrich Friedrich Georg Lührig ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Georg Lührig was the son of a photographer. He attended high school in Göttingen, completed an apprenticeship in lithography and then studied from 1885 to 1890 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich a. a. with Karl Raupp , Ludwig von Löfftz and Johann Caspar Herterich .

After studying in Munich, Lührig returned to Göttingen and created his “Dance of Death Pictures”, which were published in 1892 in III. International exhibition of watercolors in Dresden caused a sensation. In 1894 he moved to Dresden, where he worked intensively on lithography . He is considered one of the innovators of this profession in Germany. In 1898 a comprehensive article on his work was published in the magazine “Die graphischen Künste”. Lührig was a member of the Dresden Visual Artists Association , the first Dresden secession movement . At Lührig's suggestion, the “Quarterly Issues of the Dresden Visual Artists Association” appeared.

As additional income, Georg Lührig gave private lessons for art students. Women were denied access to official studies at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Dresden until 1907. In this context, he met Princess Lucie von Schönburg-Waldenburg (1859-1903), whose family he remained connected for decades. Together with his wife Else, née Franke, she invited him to Romania as a drawing teacher for their children in the summer of 1897.

This was followed by a two-year stay in Romania from 1898 to 1900. Lührig settled in Hemeiuş near the Fântânele castle of his patron in the Bacau district. During this time Lührig's children Samfira (1898) and Ferdinand (1900) were born. Numerous other stays in Romania followed until 1914 and after the First World War in the 1920s. Some of his main works such as Ein Pelikan as well as Alter und Jugend (now owned by the Dresden New Masters Gallery ), The Two Olds (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dessau) and Flora ( Städtische Galerie Dresden ) were created in Romania .

From 1908 to 1912 Lührig worked on the frescoes The Day and The Night as a mural for the staircase in the Royal Ministry of Culture in Dresden, the current seat of the Saxon State Chancellery , which were completely destroyed in the air raids on Dresden in 1945 . At the beginning of the 1930s he worked on the mural fire, water, earth, air and man as their master in the Dreikönigsschule Dresden . This mural has also not survived. In 1915 and 1916 Lührig worked as a war painter in Champagne and in 1917 in Syria .

From 1910 to 1916 he worked as a teacher at the Dresden School of Applied Arts . In 1913 he was appointed professor. In 1916 Lührig became a teacher at the Dresden Art Academy . His students included u. a. Willy Wolff . Kurt Wehlte , Heinrich Burkhardt , Paul Sinkwitz , Georg Siebert and Curt Querner . From 1932 to 1933 he was rector of the Dresden Art Academy. In 1934 he left the academy. Until the spring of 1940 Lührig lived as an emeritus in Dresden and then moved to Lichtenstein where he lived in the south wing of Lichtenstein Castle from Prince Günther von Schönburg-Waldenburg, who had a studio set up for him in the park. After the Second World War , Georg Lührig experienced difficult economic years. Attempts to leave Lichtenstein failed. In 1948 his wife died. In 1950 he moved to an apartment in Lichtenstein.

Lührig was a member of the German Association of Artists , the Association of Visual Artists (Secession) , later in the Dresden Art Cooperative , in 1910 in the artist group Grün-Weiß , in the Dresden artist group in 1913 and participated in the artist group Neue Gruppe in 1925 . The Neue Gruppe 1925 was represented with its own department at the Dresden 1925 art exhibition organized by the Dresden Art Cooperative , in which the Dresden Secession also took part.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1891: International Art Exhibition Berlin, shown: March mood on a country road and four watercolor studies.
• 1891: Munich annual exhibition, shown: Returning workers , oil.
• 1892: III. International exhibition of watercolors, pastels, hand drawings and etchings in Dresden, shown: 5 chalk boxes from the cycle on the dance of death .
• 1893: Neumann'sche Hofkunsthandlung zu Munich, shown in March: entire cycle with 12 chalk boxes on the dance of death .
• 1893: Lichtenberg's Dresdner Salon, shown in May: entire cycle with 12 chalk boxes on the dance of death .
• 1894: Academic art exhibition in Dresden, shown: March mood on a country road (III.) , Oil. Spring myth, based on motifs from the Edda (intended as large tapestries; cycle) , oil (exhibition numbers 263–266).
• 1895: Academic art exhibition in Dresden. shown: landscape (bath) , oil. Naked! , Oil.
• 1896: International Art Exhibition Berlin, shown: quarry , watercolor. Bathing Amazons , colored stone print. A group of pine trees on a hill , colored lithograph .
• 1897: International Art Exhibition Dresden , shown: stone knocker , oil. Hill with blooming blackthorn , watercolor. Half-length portrait of his wife , color lithograph. Elderberry bush , color lithograph. Pine trees in winter , color lithograph.
• 1897: Munich annual exhibition
• 1899: Dresden German Art Exhibition, shown: landscape , oil. Three girls , oil. Portrait study , pen drawing. Head of a gypsy woman , pen drawing. Tree walk , lithograph. Portfolio: Poor Lazarus , lithographs.
• 1901: International Art Exhibition Dresden
• 1902: German National Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf
• 1903: Saxon Art Exhibition Dresden
• 1904: Large art exhibition in Dresden
• 1905: "Second exhibition of hand drawings by German artists", Galerie Arnold in Dresden
• 1906: "Opening exhibition of the Ernst Arnold Gallery" (at Schloßstrasse 34), Dresden
• 1910: Exhibition of the Grün-Weiß group in Dresden, shown: Evening in Aswan I and II . In the desert . Game in Luqsor . House in Luqsor . View from Ramesseum I and II . Mokattamhöhe near Cairo . Old mosque near Cairo . Gypsy girl . Group: Man and Woman (sketch for fresco) . Head of a woman (sketch for fresco) . Expression Study . Sleeping . Portrait sketch (Baroness v. K.) .
• 1911: Large art exhibition in Düsseldorf
• 1912: "Hand drawings and watercolors by old and modern masters", Galerie Arnold, Dresden
• 1913: Great Berlin art exhibition
• 1913: "Dresden Artist Group 1913", Galerie Arnold, Dresden
• 1915: Special exhibition "Georg Lührig", Galerie Arnold, Dresden
• 1916: “Pictures from the front in Champagne”, black and colored hand drawings, April – May 1916, Leipziger Kunstverein
• 1917: Saxon Art Association in Dresden
• 1925: New group in 1925 at the art exhibition of the Dresden Art Cooperative, shown: old silver poplar . Big meadow bouquet . Peasant group . Fruit branches of magnolias . Melons and peppers . Corn on the cob . Waldbach . Lawn . Moss cushions . Wild wine apples and leaves . Eggs and jug .
• 1925: Great Berlin art exhibition
• 1929: Special exhibition "Georg Lührig" in the Saxon Art Association on the occasion of his 60th birthday
• 1932: “Saxon Art in Hand Drawings and Watercolors”, Dresden City Museum and Bad Elster
• 1934: Saxon Art Association
• 1938: 1st exhibition in 1938, Dresden, Sächsischer Kunstverein
• 1938: Georg Lührig special exhibition and Ferdinand Brütt estate exhibition , Leipziger Kunstverein
• 1948: “150 years of social trends in the fine arts”, Stadthalle am Nordplatz, Dresden
• 1956: “The graphic cycle. From Max Klinger to the present. A contribution to the development of German graphics from 1880 to 1955. “ Deutsche Akademie der Künste Berlin
• 1963: “Socialist contemporary art and proletarian revolutionary art of the 20th century”, State Art Collections Dresden , Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister
• 1965: "German graphics between 1871 and 1914", State Lindenau Museum , Altenburg
• 1966: “German Art 19./20. Century “, State Museums in Berlin , Altes Museum , Nationalgalerie
• 1966: “New acquisitions by the Freital Municipal Art Collection”, Haus der Heimat, Freital
• 1966: “Departure and victory. The German working class in the representation of the fine arts 1890/1965. ”, Marstall , Potsdam
• 1967: “Käthe Kollwitz and her contemporaries. Exhibition on the 100th birthday of Käthe Kollwitz “, Central House of German-Soviet Friendship , Berlin
• 1968: “50 years ago. First World War, November Revolution, post-war period. Prints and Drawings by German Artists 1914–1924 ”, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
• 1980: "Thirty Years of the Art Collection of the GDR Academy of Arts ", Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic
• 1981: “Dresden Graphics from the Bridge to the Present”, State Lindenau Museum, Altenburg
• 1989: "Art - Academy - Dresden. Painting, graphics, sculpture by teachers and students in the 20th century ”, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts

literature

• Friedrich von Boetticher : Lührig, Georg . In: Painters Works of the Nineteenth Century: Contribution to Art History . tape 1 . Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 905 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Lührig, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 449 .
• Lührig, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 231 .
• Martin Papenbrock, Gabriele Saure (Hrsg.): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions . Part 2. Antifascist artists in exhibitions in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-040-X , doi : 10.1466 / 20061109.27 .
• Rolf Günther, Ilka Melzer: Georg Lührig . In: Goppeln as a painter's village . City Collections Freital, Freital 2009, p. 46 .
• Andreas Dehmer, Birgit Dalbajewa: Georg Lührig in Romania (1897-1900). For the 150th birthday . In: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Ed.): Dresdener Kunstblätter . No. 1/2018 . Sandstein Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-95498-364-3 , ISSN  0418-0615 , p. 25-33 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Rolf Günther, Ilka Melzer: Georg Lührig . In: Goppeln as a painter's village . City Collections Freital, Freital 2009, p. 46 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Jean Louis Sponsel : Georg Lührig . In: The graphic arts . Volume 22.Baden 1898, p. 91-102 ( digitized version ).
3. ↑ Andreas Dehmer, Birgit Dalbajewa: Georg Lührig in Romania (1897-1900). For the 150th birthday . In: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Ed.): Dresdener Kunstblätter . No. 1/2018 . Sandstein Verlag , 2018, ISBN 978-3-95498-364-3 , ISSN  0418-0615 , p. 25-33 .
4. ^ Sa Association Artis Causa e. V .: Sophie Princess of Albania. Retrieved May 9, 2015 . 
5. ^ Antje Heinze: Georg Lührig . In: Special exhibition 2014 in the Pillnitz Castle Museum. “From anemone to zinnia - the language of flowers. Dresden painting of the 20th century ” . Media information, Dresden 2014, p. 21 ( schlosspillnitz.de ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; accessed on May 9, 2015]). Georg Lührig ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ Lichtenstein Castle. (PDF) Lichtenstein house stories. Lichtenstein City Museum, accessed on May 9, 2015 . 
7. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Lührig, Georg ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 5, 2015)

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Lührig in the catalog of the German National Library