Giulio Beda
Giulio Beda (born January 20, 1879 in Trieste , † April 9, 1954 in Dachau ) was an Italian-German painter . The main subject of his work is Dachau and the landscape around the city on the Amper, but he also painted views of Venice.
Life and artistic work
His father, Francesco Beda , was a well-known history and portrait painter who u. a. worked for Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sisi). Giulios, who grew up in his father's studio, showed artistic talent at an early age. At the age of 13 he went to the Venice Art Academy . There was his teacher Guglielmo Ciardi .
After four years of study, he returned to his father's studio. Giulio Beda was 21 years old when his father died suddenly and unexpectedly. He made the decision to go to Germany, namely to Munich, where he attended Heinrich Knirr's painting school . It was here that the artist learned about the endeavors of open-air painting in Dachau. In 1907 he decided to move to the artist's village on the Amper, started a family, and his children were born here.
Giulio Beda was a hardworking painter. One motif is dominant: it is its large, wide, often moving sky, often indulging in many colors. It is mostly a question of widescreen images, in which at most the lower third shows a piece of flat land and a long distance. Everything else in the picture belongs to heaven (Thiemann-Stoedtner 1981, p. 250). In his memories of a Dachau painter , Carl Thiemann reported that he often met his painter colleague working somewhere in God's free nature. And further:
Because he was almost exclusively a landscaper. So he painted picture after picture and sold it without recording its existence in a note or something like that. Since, as far as can be seen, he only rarely gave the paintings a date, it is difficult to determine the sequence of his painting (Thiemann-Stoedtner 1981, p. 250).
In Dachau, where a street commemorates the artist, Giulio Beda was considered an original. He was unusually tall and always in a good mood. His funny sounding manner of speaking with an Italian touch and his drastic expression made him a welcome entertainer.
A considerable number of his pictures can be viewed in the Dachau Picture Gallery.
Works (selection)
- View of Stetten (oil / canvas)
- Groebbrieder Street in Dachu (oil / canvas)
- Venice Grand Canal (oil / canvas)
- Farmhouses in the Dachau moss summer (oil / cardboard)
- Villa of the Dachau sculptor Ignatius Taschner (oil / cardboard)
- Arcade in the Dachauer Hofgarten (oil / canvas)
- Autumnal flowers in the Dachau court garden (oil / canvas)
- Autumn time in the moss (oil / canvas)
- Midsummer sky over Etzenhausen (oil / cardboard)
- Shepherd with herd (oil / cardboard)
- The Liebhof is vaulted by a radiant summer cloud sky (oil / cardboard)
- Golden Firmament (oil / canvas)
- View of Günding (oil / canvas)
- View of Dachau (oil / canvas)
- Wide field landscape (oil / wood)
- Afternoon in the Dachauer Hofgarten (oil / canvas)
- Summer time (oil / canvas)
literature
- Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century, Volume 5, Munich 1993, pp. 63-64
- Ottilie Thiemann-Stoedtner: Dachauer painter. The artist's place Dachau from 1801 to 1946, Dachau, p. 247 ff
- Carl Thiemann: Memories of a Dachau painter, Dachau, p. 21 f
Web links
- Literature by and about Giulio Beda in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.dachauer-galerien-museen.de/HTML_Bilder/GG_allgemein.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bede, Giulio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trieste |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1954 |
| Place of death | Dachau |