Gottlieb August Bauer

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Gottlieb August Bauer (born February 21, 1828 in Weil am Rhein , Grand Duchy of Baden , † February 16, 1913 there ) was a German landscape and portrait painter .

life and work

View of Loerrach

Bauer's family came from Niefern in the northern Black Forest. He was the son of the master butcher Lorenz Bauer and his second wife, Anna Maria Röschard.

In 1850 he withdrew from military service in the Grand Ducal Baden army , which was reorganized by Prussian officers after the mutiny of 1849. During this phase, some of the Baden troops were also housed in garrisons on Prussian territory. Bauer stayed in Switzerland for a while. In 1853 he began to study portrait and landscape painting in Munich , which continued with interruptions until 1864. After his return from Munich he lived in Weil until his death and remained unmarried. He devoted himself to painting and was inspired by the Munich school . His portraits often show people in Markgräfler costume and his landscape pictures are often characterized by thunderstorm moods, which also earned him the nickname thunderstorm builders.

In 1939 Bauer was given an honorary grave in the hamlet cemetery. A street in his hometown has been bearing his name since 1980 and an exhibition was held in his hometown on the 100th anniversary of his death.

literature

  • Julius Kraus: Gottlieb August Bauer: 1828-1913 . In: the Markgräflerland issue 2/1986, pp. 139–156. Digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
  • Sunja Hadji-Cheykh: The "storm builder ": life and work of the landscape painter Gottlieb August Bauer . In: Willa 1991, pp. 82-94.
  • Hans H. Hofstätter: Gottlieb August Bauer (1828-1913) . In: Hans H. Hofstätter; Berthold Hänel (editor): Die Maler des Markgräflerlandes, Freiburg 2000, pp. 18–19.
  • Freundeskreis Gottlieb August Bauer (Ed.): Late Romanticism on the Upper Rhine . Catalog accompanying the commemorative exhibition on the 100th anniversary of death. Weil am Rhein 2013.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Kraus p. 139
  2. ↑ 90 works are shown for the first time. Weiler Zeitung, July 17, 2013, accessed on July 28, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Gottlieb August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Because on the Rhine
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1913
Place of death Because on the Rhine