Georg Lanzenberger

Georg Lanzenberger (born March 24, 1897 in Glonn bei Grafing ; † May 23, 1989 there ) was a German painter .

Life

Lanzenberger came from a family of innkeepers in Glonn. The father was mayor of the market town from 1899 to 1912. In 1914 Lanzenberger wanted to emigrate to South America with his school friend Karl Koller , but only got as far as England . While Koller was able to travel back with the last ship, Lanzenberger was taken to an internment camp on the Isle of Man after the outbreak of war in 1914 . Here he became a pupil of the interned sculptor Gustav Adolf Bredow (1895–1950), who had set up a drawing school in the camp, and of the Austrian painter Toni Binder (1848–1944). On his return Lanzenberger attended the State School for Applied Arts in Munich. His professors included Willi Geiger (1878–1971), Olaf Gulbransson (1873–1958) and the church painter Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl (1856–1925).

Then he set up a studio in Schellingstrasse. On June 2, 1932, he married Anna (Maria) Stettmayer (Augsburg January 4, 1900 - Munich April 20, 1986), a daughter of pastor Kaspar Stettmayer von St. Benno in Munich. Returning to Glonn, he moved into the former forester's house Filzen No. 3 at the Zinneberg train station as a tenant. For a living he ran a sheep farm and a chicken farm for a while. Travels took him to Hungary and Holland . Lanzenberger was mayor of Glonn from 1933 to 1945 . Like all members of the NSDAP who had exercised a public function, he was held together with up to 12,000 men and women in the internment and labor camp of the American occupation forces in Garmisch from 1945 and then in the Moosburg camp, although the community had no allegations of guilt against him templates. He covered many Nazi opponents and denounced anyone. When two children tried to report a person to him for listening to an "enemy radio station", his answer was: "You don't do that!"

In 1947 Lanzenberger returned, classified as a "fellow traveler" by the judges' chamber. He now continued his painting activity. After the death of his brother Maximilian in 1952, he took over the operation of the Glonn cinema in his father's inn "Zur Lanz" for some time. In the following years he was drawn to Lake Garda several times , to St. Angelo on Ischia and the small neighboring island of Procida , in order to capture southern moods on his canvas. On his 75th birthday, Mayor Anton Decker (active 1960–1972) presented him with an honorary gift . After Lanzenberg's death, the house in der Filzen, which he had acquired after 1947 for 5000 DM, fell into stranger hands. The estate was lost as a result. In 1997, a memorial exhibition organized by the Glonn gallery owner Hans Kotzinger (1919–2006) in the former convent school offered a representative selection of his work. After photos by the great-nephew Bernhard Münster of paintings in the exhibition and other paintings that had been determined through research by the Glonn chronicler and home nurse Hans Obermair, the latter created an inevitably incomplete catalog raisonné as a partial reconstruction. Lanzenberger says he painted a few thousand pictures. He did not make any documentation.

Artistic activity

In the 1920s, Lanzenberger's style of painting was influenced by the “ New Objectivity ”. At first he also worked in Fresco . In 1926 he created ten watercolors on hikes in the upper Lech Valley and in the Arlberg area (Tyrol). In 1927 his painting "Girl with Flowers" was exhibited in the Munich Glass Palace. He mostly destroyed his early pictures. In the later years he devoted himself mainly to landscape painting without joining any particular art direction. Oil paintings of houses, churches and Upper Bavarian landscapes were created, mostly from the area around Glonn, as well as rural scenes and flower still lifes . Occasionally he also worked in Fresco again. In the Glonn schoolhouse, he depicted the local fauna in a mural and also created a home for a mythical creature, the "Kreißn". Today it is covered by a wooden wall. A painting "Hans im Glück" was painted on the outside wall of the school. Other small frescoes adorned individual houses in Glonn and in South Tyrol. Since the 1960s, Lanzenberger has also devoted himself to reverse glass painting , depicting churches and chapels from the Glonn area. Exhibitions of his pictures took place in Munich, Düren, Lugano, Bad Aibling and, since 1961, several times in Glonn.

literature

• Beck, Alfred: Great personality. Georg Lanzenberger artistic designer of Glonn. The local painter celebrated his 80th birthday - still active and joyful , in: Ebersberger Zeitung , March 29, 1977.
• Englert, Andreas: The well-known painter celebrates his 90th birthday on Tuesday. Gypsy prophesied him 96 years. Georg Lanzenberger started in England. Exhibitions in the elementary school and in the House of Art in Munich - No fixed style , in: Ebersberger Zeitung March 22, 1987.
• Emmerig, Franz and Hans Kotzinger: Memorial exhibition in honor of Georg Lanzenberger (1897–1989) . Glonn: Galerie am Kupferbach 1993.
• Hufnagel, Christian: “He was not guilty of anything.” At the opening of the memorial exhibition for Georg Lanzenberger, his past as mayor in the Third Reich is not mentioned in: Süddeutsche Zeitung 5./6. April 1997.
• Hufnagel, Christian: A factual impressionist. The commemorative exhibition for the 100th birthday of the Glonn painter Georg Lanzenberger , in: Ebersberger Latest News (regional edition Ebersberg of the SZ). 29./30. March 1997.
• (kk): The painter of the felt. Memorial exhibition for the 100th birthday of Georg Lanzenberger , in: Ebersberger Zeitung, April 7, 1997.
• Köhn, Josefine: The two sides of the painter Georg Lanzenberger. “The mayor did not bring anyone to the concentration camp.” Old citizens of Glonn remember the time of the Third Reich , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 22, 1997.
• Koller, Wolfgang: Georg Lanzenberger , in: Wolfgang Koller: Twelve hundred years of Glonn. History and stories, Glonn: Marktgemeinde 1974, p. 65f.
• [Kotzinger, Hans:] Georg Lanzenberger 1897–1989. Painter in Glonn . Glonn 1997. (Booklet accompanying the memorial exhibition in the Glonn school building).
• Maibach, Dieter: The landscape of the home as a motive. Memorial exhibition commemorates the Glonn painter and mayor Georg Lanzenberger , in: Ebersberger Latest News (regional edition Ebersberg of the SZ). 1993.
• Münster, Robert : G emäldeausstellung in Glonn bei Grafing , in: Charivari 1997, no . 4, p. 60.
• NN: Glonn painter already a legend during his lifetime . in: Ebersberger Zeitung XX. March 1987.
• Sponholz, Hans: Painter Georg Lanzenberger. The homeland seen with new eyes - exhibition in Glonn , in: Ebersberger Zeitung, April 1, 1970.
• Ders .: A versatile impressionist. Exhibition by Georg Lanzenberger. Glonner Künstler has been exhibiting in the school for five years , in: Ebersberger Zeitung, 8/9. April 1972.
• (alk): Georg Lanzenberger died at the age of 92 , in: Ebersberger Zeitung, August 6, 1989.

Web links

• Georg Lanzenberger on marktgemeinde-glonn.de