Gustav Meyer-Buchwald
Gottlieb Gustav Meyer-Buchwald (born August 18, 1881 in Dresden , † October 14, 1918 in Gits in France ) was a German portrait painter .
Life
Gustav Meyer-Buchwald was born as the fourth child of a Dresden artist family. Father Gustav Adolf Heinrich worked as a porcelain painter . Together with his younger brother Erich, he was taught painting and drawing by Ernst Oskar Simonson-Castelli . From 1900 to 1909 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy and was a master student of Gotthardt Kuehl . In 1902 he was one of the founding members of the Dresden artists' association Die Elbier . From 1912 to 1914 he worked and lived in the Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz . His works were shown publicly in the exhibitions of the German Association of Artists and the Dresden Artists' Association. He was an artistically gifted portrait painter, just as his brilliant still lifes could convince of high artistic charisma. In 1914 he was drafted for military service on the Western Front . Shortly before the end of the First World War , he fell in Gits in France. In 1919 the German Association of Artists and the Dresden Artists' Association organized a commemorative exhibition in his honor in Dresden.
literature
- Paul Schumann: Exhibition of the artists' association Dresden 1916. In: The art. 33, issue 23/24, September 1, 1916, pp. 465-474 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
- Hermann Alexander Müller , Hans Wolfgang Singer : Meyer (Meyer-Buchwald), Gustav . In: General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Volume 6, Second Addendum. Rütten & Luenning, Frankfurt am Main 1922, p. 195 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Meyer-Buchwald, Gustav . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 475 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive of the Dresden University of Fine Arts
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer-Buchwald, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer-Buchwald, Gustav Gottlieb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1918 |
| Place of death | Gits , France |