Georg Tronnier

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Georg Tronnier (* as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Nahrstedt on December 20, 1873 in Gifhorn ; since December 1904 according to a decree of the "Department for Churches and Schools in Lüneburg" he has been using the name Georg Tronnier; † May 2, 1962 in Hanover ) German artist of Munich portrait painting, Art Nouveau and German Impressionism with a very individual stylistic signature.

Life

Tronnier was born in Gifhorn as the son of "Conditor" Wilhelm Gottlieb Louis Nahrstedt and Johanne Friederike Louise Schulze. After the early death of his mother and the emigration of his father to America, he moved with his grandmother to Hamburg in 1888 and attended the trade school there, where Ernst Barlach was trained at the same time . After finishing school, he went to Munich in 1891, made possible by financial support from his aunt Louise Tronnier, wife of the Celle veterinarian Johann Heinrich Tronnier. In gratitude for their help, he later called himself Tronnier. In Munich he first went to Heinrich Knirr's drawing school in order to be able to enter the painting class of the history painter Wilhelm von Lindenschmit in 1893 . In 1894 he returned to Hamburg, in the same year he built up his own life as a portrait painter in Hanover, heavily influenced by Wilhelm Leibl and Franz von Lenbach from Munich . Friends of Hermann Löns , Richard Dehmel , August Bebel and Norbert Jacques, he painted their portraits, posters for the companies Bahlsen and Pelikan , and also devoted himself to landscape painting, also under the influence of the Worpswede painters Heinrich Vogeler , Fritz Overbeck and Udo Peters . In 1904 he married the Hamburg actress Lucie Matthias ; in 1911 the daughter Mirjam is born. After returning from the war in 1917, his painting style changed, he worked less academically, became freer and more colorful. In 1924, Tronnier separated from his wife. Bombed out in Hanover in 1943, he found accommodation in Altenhagen I near Springe / Deister, looked after by the war widow Anneliese Schütt. Here, in addition to many portraits of important people from science and politics, he also painted pictures of the destroyed Hanover old town in a late impressionist manner. In 1955 he returned to Hanover, where he died after a brief illness in 1962. He leaves behind an extensive oeuvre .

Works

  • Wall paintings in the lawyer's house in Hameln , 1.70 × 7.20 / 5.25 m, 1895.
  • Pelican - ink , poster, 73 × 53.3 cm, 1903
  • Pelikan - ink , poster, 68.6 × 47.6 cm (around 1910)
  • Hermann Lön's portraits , oil on cardboard, 1896, 1900, 1927/1943
  • Poacher , oil on canvas, 42 × 32 cm, 1905.
  • Young woman in traditional costume from Bückeburg , oil on canvas, 150 × 110 cm, 1905
  • Lonely House (Seelhorst / Powder Shed) , oil on canvas, 70 × 79 cm, 1908
  • Richard Dehmel , oil on canvas, 80 × 75 cm, 1910.
  • August Bebel , oil on canvas, 93 × 74 cm, 1911
  • several black-and-white and color reproductions of Tronnier's works from the Great Garden in Hanover are shown in the Leipziger Illustrirten Zeitung with the number 3538 in volume 136, around 1910
  • Field Marshal von Hindenburg , cover drawing, 1915
  • Rest on the run , oil on cardboard, 32 × 27 cm, 1920
  • Self-portrait , oil on panel, 40.7 × 35.6 cm, 1921
  • Fritz Stadelmann (arr.): The big city in the country. Art supplement based on original drawings by Georg Tronnier and H. Flecke. Schmorl & v. Seefeld Nachf., Hanover 1927, DNB 361457308 .
  • Misburg cement works , oil on canvas, 70 × 81 cm, 1929.
  • Steinhuder Meer , oil on cardboard, 30 × 40 cm, around 1936
  • Eilenriede Veilcheninsel , oil on canvas, 25 × 18.5 cm, (1946)
  • Old houses on a Leinearm with a view of the castle wing , oil on cardboard, 36 × 29 cm, (1948)
  • Leash section on the Hohe Ufer , oil on cardboard, 24 × 15 cm, 1951
  • Hannover Altstadt Potthof , oil on cardboard, 30 × 24 cm, 1951
  • Kurt Schumacher , oil on cardboard, 60 × 50 cm, 1953
  • Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf , oil on cardboard, 1961

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Karl-Peter Klein: Life and work of the painter Georg Tronnier. The discovery of a mural and the consequences of curiosity. Self-published, Hameln 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045063-1 .
  2. ^ Matriculation book of the Munich Academy of the Arts , accessed on December 11, 2014.
  3. ↑ Norbert Jacques : Lived with pleasure. Novel of my life. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1950, p. 196 ( books.google.de ).
  4. ↑ Detmar Schäfer: Pelikan - The brand. Hanover 2013.
  5. ↑ Kathleen Allner: Pelican. A company makes history. Hanover 2008.
  6. ↑ Jugend, title page of the Münchner Illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kultur und Leben, Munich 1910, issue No. 45, p. 478.
  7. ^ Illustrated newspaper. Volume 136, p. 8 f.
  8. ↑ Hans Hauptmann: Out your Wälsung sword. War poems. Madsack, Hanover 1915 (cover sheet: drawing) Field Marshal von Hindenburg.
personal data
SURNAME Tronnier, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nahrstedt, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Gifhorn
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1962
Place of death Hanover