Gustav Adolf Bauer (Artist)

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Gustav Adolf Bauer (born February 11, 1924 in Augsburg ; † April 27, 2016 there ) was a German artist.

Live and act

Bauer first studied at the Augsburg Art School with Fritz Döllgast and Georg Mayer and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Olaf Gulbransson and then studied with Siegfried Mollier (plastic anatomy) in Munich (1941–1942). This was followed by military service and imprisonment in 1942-1946. He then worked in the commercial area of ​​his parents' furniture business until 1954. From 1954 to 1957 he continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Hermann Kaspar (drawing school), Ritter von Lanz (anatomy studies) and Eduard Ege (graphic studies).

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1949 Swabian Art Exhibition Augsburg
  • 1971 "950 years of Mering" Greifhans-Saal Mering
  • 1971 "Picturesque Friedberg" secondary school in Friedberg
  • 1976 Protection Association of Visual Artists Munich-Ahlen, topic "I"
  • 1978 30th Great Swabian Art Exhibition Augsburg, Swabian Art Prize
  • 1980 House of Art "Framework for European Understanding"
  • 1980 "650 years Ettal" monastery church Ettal
  • 1981 "Gustav Adolf Bauer" Institut Français Munich
  • 1982 Raiffeisenbank Munich
  • 1983 "Drawings and Paintings" Ministry of Economics, Munich
  • 1988 Exhibition of the art prize winners from 1977–1987 Augsburg Town Hall
  • 1998 “Art Prize Winner of the District of Swabia” Large art exhibition in the Folklore Museum Oberschönenfeld

On the artist's oeuvre

In addition to landscapes, figurative representations and portraits, cityscapes are a focus of Gustav Bauer's work. The early works show everyday situations and encounters from post-war Germany and Paris in the 1940s, where he lived and worked during this period. Influences of German Expressionism around Max Beckmann and Ludwig Kirchner are unmistakable here. City views of Paris, London, Venice and Munich followed later. With his conception of painting, which is always oriented towards the subject, albeit generously, Bauer stands in the tradition of the so-called “painters of the lost generation”. His style of painting in the field of tension between Expressionism and Impressionism can be outlined with the term "expressive". Particularly in the views of Venice, the sweeping brushstrokes, the depth of space and the mostly unusually chosen viewpoints are reminiscent of works by the Fauvists Andre Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck.

The charcoal drawing with the title London - a view of the Thames with Tower Bridge, made in 1976, is in turn under the indirect influence of Claude Monet's London Bridge, namely the Waterloo Bridge series. The lines are arranged loosely and fleetingly, soft transitions give the drawing a painterly effect. After his major exhibition in the Bavarian State Ministry of Economics in 1983, Gustav Bauer is now showing a selection of his works for the first time in 25 years, thus offering a fascinating insight into the creative periods of an artist's life spanning three generations and - after a moderate retreat - away from the established art business.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: He lives on in his pictures . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . ( augsburger-allgemeine.de [accessed on September 5, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Gustav Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 2016
Place of death augsburg