Gerhard Beuthner

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Gerhard Beuthner (born July 24, 1887 in Breslau , Lower Silesia , † after 1941) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Beuthner worked - apart from his student days and occasional study trips - in his hometown of Breslau. There he studied at the Royal School of Arts and Crafts (from 1911 Art Academy) with Hans Rosemann and Eduard Kaempffer . From 1907 to 1908 he was enrolled at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

From 1935, Beuthner worked as a teacher for architectural drawing and watercolor technique at the Technical University of Wroclaw. His work contains motifs from architecture and industry, landscapes and marine pieces. He designed book owner's marks ( ex-libris ) and illustrated numerous books. For the dome of the former jury's hall, which was restored in the 1920s / 30s and had an elliptical floor plan, on the 1st floor of the town hall in Schmiedeberg in Lower Silesia in the Giant Mountains , he created a 4-part ceiling painting, which will be accessible after the restoration in 2011. One scene shows the handing over of gifts from the population to King Friedrich II of Prussia , others are allegorical depictions of embroidery, mining, trade and blacksmithing. Some scenes are labeled “G. Beuthner ”.

Works (selection)

  • “Kreuzkirche and St. Martin in Breslau”, 1941; Schlesisches Museum in Görlitz, acquired in 2011
  • "Zniwa" (harvest), oil / canvas, 96.5 × 124 cm (color illustration: http://www.artnet.de/k%C3%BCnstler/gerhard-beuthner/zniwa-SHPdsQpk8BLP8UK3J66bgw2 )
  • “Pejzaż Wiejski” (Village Landscape), oil / canvas, signed lower right: “G. Beuthner ”; inscribed on the reverse; "Curt Ehrentraut | Master glazier | Breslau 5, Gartenstr. 26 | Telephone Ring 9993 "(Warsaw Art Trade: www.altius.com.pl)
  • "Night landscape with an old stone bridge and church tower silhouette", signed lower left; Oil / canvas, 52 × 69 cm (art trade)
  • "Silesian farm in winter", oil / cardboard, signed lower right, 33 × 40 cm
  • Studies from Seehag near Neidenburg , East Prussia : "Fischer in Seehag", "House with stork's nest, Seehag, Lenskihaus", "The Lenskihaus seen from the Seeacker", "Farmer with Göpel, Seehag", "Am Omulefsee, Seehag", "Seehag , Omulufsee "," Masurisches Haus am Omulufsee "," Scheune in Seehag "," Scheune mit Wolken, Seehag "(images: http://www.habenburg.de/bildarchiv/seehag/ )

Book equipment / illustrations :

  • Wilhelm Schremmer: A Silesian Folklore. Cover drawing by Gerhard Beuthner. Priebatsch's bookstore , Breslau 1928.
  • Fritz Müller-Partenkirchen: The track finder. Stories from outside. With pictures by Gerhard Beuthner, Joachim Korn. Mountain town books for young people. Bergstadtverlag Korn , Breslau 1929.
  • Josef Wenter : Monsieur, the cuckoo, the strange one. With pictures by Gerhard Beuthner. Bergstadtverlag Wilh. Gottl. Korn, Breslau 1930.
  • Ernst Petersen: How our forefathers lived. A series of pictures from the prehistory and early history of the German East, based on paintings by Gerhard Beuthner-Breslau. Curt Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1935.
  • Konrad Olbricht (1886-1939): Breslau. The development of an East German city. Pictures by Gerhard Beuthner. Published by Breslau-Deutsch Lissa Flemming 1936.
  • Service of the Vandals on the Siling. According to research and information from Prof. Dr. M. Jahn painted by Gerhard Beuthner. Flemmings Verlag, Breslau-D [eu] t [sch] -Lissa 1937.
  • Erich Lissner with Gerhard Beuthner: From Germany's past. An Erdal picture book. Werner & Mertz Aktiengesellschaft, Mainz am Rhein (approx. 1937).
  • L. Freund, Erdal-Rex GmbH (Ed.): From Germany's early and early days. An Erdal picture book. Werner & Mertz AG, Mainz 1938.
  • Edmund Glaeser: Breslau, bulwark in the German east. Pictures from the history of the capital of Silesia. Pictures by Gerhard Beuthner and Walter Dressler. Priebatschs Buchhandlung Verlag, Breslau 1938.

literature

  • Dressler's art manual 1938.
  • Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . Volume 1. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953 (reprint: Munich 1992) ..
  • Hans Paffrath / Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . Vol. 1, F. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , appendix, p. 439.
  • Maciej Dagiewski and Jan J. Trzynadlowski (Red.): Sztuka Wroclawia 1850 - 1945 w galerii Muzeum Miejskiego Wroclawia. Muzeum Miejskie Wroclawia, Oddzial ‚Muzeum Sztuki Mieszczanskiej. Muzeum Miejskie Wroclawia, Wroclaw 2009. ISBN 978-83-89551-53-5 .
  • Ingeborg Römer: Ancestors and Heroes? Old Norse literature in school and youth books of the national-socialist era. Inaugural dissertation (...) in the Department of Modern Philologies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. 2010., pp. 20, 23 ( https://core.ac.uk  ›download› pdf).
  • Doreen Mölders, Sabine Wolfram (eds.): Key terms in prehistoric archeology, Waxmann, Münster 2014, p. 169 (Fig.).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A painting is dated 1941
  2. ↑ The place and date of death of Gerhard Beuthner are not known. The family name "Beuthner" appears in the address and telephone books of the time for Jewish families in Breslau. The references “† after 1935” or “lost since the end of the war” (www.schlesisches-museum.de/index.php?id=4163) suggest that Beuthner was a victim of the Holocaust
  3. ↑ In the autumn of 1943, more than 1000 Jewish citizens, mostly from Breslau, were deported to Auschwitz ( http://www.statistik-des-holocaust.de/list_ger_sln_43a.html )
  4. ↑ Polish text with illustrations: http://www.bip.kowary.pl/public/get_document_contents.php?id_contents=2459 ; German text: http://resc.deskline.net/documents/1/CZE/6e1a8abe-c780-4f6c-9144-fa2073ec7a34/file.pdf (online)
  5. ↑ Color illustration: www.schlesisches-museum.de/index.php?id=4163
personal data
SURNAME Beuthner, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH after 1941