Georg Walter Rössner

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Georg Walter Rössner , also Roessner or Rößner, (born March 7, 1885 in Leipzig , † September 3, 1972 in Gundelsby ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Origin and education

Rössner was born the son of a lawyer. From 1895 to 1904 he attended the König-Albert-Gymnasium . As a high school student in 1903 he took drawing lessons from Georg Kolbe . After the family moved to Berlin in 1904, he continued to take private courses in the painting and model school of the sculptor Arthur Lewin-Funcke , with his attempts at painting and drawing being corrected by Lovis Corinth . From 1905 to 1906 he studied portrait painting at the Académie Julian in Paris with the portraitist Marcel-André Baschet (1862–1941). Study visits to Holland, Belgium, Italy and France followed.

Activity as a painter and draftsman

From 1906 Rössner worked as a painter and draftsman in Berlin, at times in close collaboration with Lovis Corinth. In 1910 he went to Munich because there he had the first exhibition of his works; In 1911 he joined the Munich Secession . In the same year he returned to Berlin, where he also took part in an exhibition organized by the Berlin Secession . From 1915 to 1918 Rössner was drafted into the war. In 1920 he joined the Berlin Secession and was supported by Max Liebermann , who also got him a job as a drawing teacher and professor at the State Art School in Berlin-Schöneberg. From 1922 he was on the board of the Berlin Secession, from which he resigned in the same year after differences with Corinth. He now became a member of the Association of Berlin Artists and received a scholarship for the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 1933, after a dispute with Alexander Kanoldt, he was transferred from the State Art School to the United State School for Free and Applied Arts as a teacher of portrait and illustration. In 1935 he had a solo exhibition at the Leipziger Kunstverein . From 1935 to 1939 he was an exchange professor at the Art Academy in Santiago de Chile . Returning to Berlin in 1939, he devoted himself particularly to graphic work and book illustrations, but was also a sought-after portraitist. Karl Scheffler had already praised this on the occasion of an exhibition in Heidelberg in 1927 in the magazine Kunst und Künstler. Illustrated monthly for the fine arts and applied arts , he was one of the few artists who could paint and draw portraits equally well.

During his teaching activity, Rössner had numerous students who later achieved fame and reputation: Hermann Poll was one of them, but also well-known artists such as Ernst Straßner , Georg Netzband and Heinrich Ilgenfritz .

After the war, Rössner retired to his Kate in Gundelsby in fishing , which he had bought in 1943 , after he had to flee in 1945 from Primkenau in Upper Silesia , where he had lived since 1943. The works that were outsourced in Primkenau were lost. Rössner lived and worked from then on in Schleswig-Holstein, and from 1947 also in Sweden, where he regularly spent the winters. He died in Gundelsby on September 3, 1972. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, the Flensburg City Museum organized a large exhibition of his works from August 11 to September 8, 1985.

literature

  • Hans von Wedderkop: The book of Northern Italy. With original drawings by Fritz Heinsheimer and Georg Walter Rössner (=  What is not in the “Baedeker” . Volume 11 ). R. Piper & Co., Munich 1931, OCLC 756477 .
  • Rößner, Georg Walter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 504 .
  • Hollstein & Puppel (ed.): Modern graphics . Berlin 1936, p. 81 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - auction of some works).
  • Rößner, Georg Walter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 91 .
  • Holger Behling: Georg Walter Rössner: (1885–1972); for the 100th birthday . Flensburg 1985 (exhibition at the Städt. Museum Flensburg from August 11 to September 8, 1985).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Holger Böhling: Georg Walter Rössner. Municipal Museum, Flensburg, 1991.
  2. ↑ König Albert-Gymnasium (Königliches Gymnasium until 1900) in Leipzig (publisher): Student album 1880-1904 / 05. Friedrich Gröber, Leipzig 1905, p. 86, no.1738.
  3. ↑ a b Georg Walter Rössner in the picture index of art and architecture.
  4. ^ Karl Scheffler: Georg Walter Roessner. In: Kunst und Künstler: illustrated monthly for fine arts and applied arts. Issue 5, 1927, pp. 183-186 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  5. ↑ Rößner, Georg Walter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 91 .
  6. ^ Karl Scheffler: Georg Walter Roessner. In: Kunst und Künstler: illustrated monthly for fine arts and applied arts. Issue 5, 1927, p. 186 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
personal data
SURNAME Rössner, Georg Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roessner, Georg Walter; Rößner, Georg Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1972
Place of death Gundelsby