Gustav Schönleber
Gustav Schönleber (born December 3, 1851 in Bietigheim , † February 1, 1917 in Karlsruhe ) was a German painter .
Life
Gustav Schönleber first attended the local Latin school and then a grammar school in Stuttgart . In childhood he went blind in one eye. He studied mechanical engineering at the Stuttgart Polytechnic , but his cousin recognized his talent and recommended him to study at the private art academy Adolf Lier in Munich , where he studied landscape painting from 1870 to 1873 . Gustav Schönleber discovered many motifs that were later very well-known, such as Besigheim, Rothenburg in 1870 and Hiddensee, which was then difficult to access in 1875 (as an illustration for Edmund Hoefer's publication “Coastal Trips on the North and Baltic Seas”). In addition, he visited famous painting locations in France (including Paris and Dieppe), Italy and Holland (including Sluis).
Gustav Schönleber taught at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe from 1880 to 1917 . As his students u. a. Friedrich Kallmorgen , Raoul Frank , Wilhelm Hasemann , Gustav Kampmann , Paul Müller-Kaempff , Gerhard Bakenhus , August Groh , Adolf Luntz , Eduard Schloemann , Wilhelm Ritter , Max Wilhelm Roman , Alfred Helberger , Max Frey , Georg Burmester and Ernst Eitner .
In 1888 he had the Villa Schönleber , which still exists today , built in Karlsruhe right next to the academy , and in 1913 an extension with a car garage followed, so that the usable area increased to 764 m². At the moment there are studios, the rooms of the educational sciences, the photo workshop and the communication department of the Academy of Fine Arts.
Schönleber was one of the preferred selection of contemporary artists that the “Committee for the Procurement and Evaluation of Stollwerck Pictures” suggested to the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck to commission them with drafts.
After the government of Baden had decided to blow up the Laufenburg rapids , they commissioned Gustav Schönleber to paint the natural wonder and paid 10,000 gold marks for the work.
Gustav Schönleber was a member of the German Association of Artists .
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Relation to impressionism
Today Schönleber is seen as a pioneer of German impressionism . Gerhard Kabierste sees him as the “spiritual father of the Karlsruhe Secession” and refers to his students, who are counted as Impressionism and Expressionism.
His painting style was considered modern by the critics of earlier decades and contemporaries: Art and the beautiful home counted him among the "most important and idiosyncratic Swabian realists and impressionists" [...] and as the "master of nature observation" Michael Lassmann in world art describes the works as "Moderately impressionistic manner and always a dignified muted pitch" Hans Koepf attests to Schönleber "a departure from impressionism"
Motifs
Gustav Schönleber was consequently only a landscape painter. His motifs and painting styles remained very constant in his more than 40-year creative phase. In more recent publications, he has been certified as having a tasteful choice of motifs or a weakness for special motifs. He preferred to paint scenes by the water, both inland waters and coasts, in the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, as well as the outskirts of the Netherlands and Germany. He was particularly interested in seasonal events such as floods. No paintings are documented from other places he traveled, such as metropolises such as London, Paris and Berlin.
Selected Works
- Apothekergäßle von Eßingen , bought by the Munich Art Association
- The quay alle Zattere in Venice with sailing ships and boats , oil on cardboard 33.2 × 28.8 cm, 1871, Städelsches Kunstinstitut Frankfurt
- Fishing fleet near Murano , 1876, Kunsthalle Bremen
- Regatta in Venice , 1877, oil on canvas 100 × 200, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
- Ebb in Vlissingen , 1881, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
- Dutch village , 1882, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
- Mill near Delft , 1882, Sidney and Jenny Brown collection
- Riviera , 96 × 127.5, 1882, Museum Nuss, Karl Ulrich Nuss collection
- Old Eßlingen motif from the older Neckar bridge , oil on canvas 167.4 × 136.5 cm, 1883 Städelsches Kunstinstitut Frankfurt
- Ebbe in Vlissingen / river landscape , oil on hardboard 41.5 × 50.7 cm 1883, Otto-Dix -Haus art collection Gera
- Nieuwe Kerk, Diepenbrugge , 1885
- Houses in Vlissingen , 1885, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen , Munich
- Quinto al mare (various versions, including an oil painting from 1888)
- Enzwehr near Besigheim , 1888, National Gallery Berlin
- Flood on the Neckar , 1885, State Gallery Stuttgart
- Daxlanden , 1890, Kurpfälzisches Museum of the City of Heidelberg
- Flood , 1890 From the Heydt Museum , Wuppertal
- Evening village in Holland , 1891
- Ponte dei Barettari , 1874 (cover picture of the catalog of the exhibition "Venice Pictures in German Art of the 19th Century")
- Edge of the village , 1895
- Evening in Dordrecht , (from the House of Traine-Blaubach, Cologne. Shown at the International Art Exhibition Berlin 1896)
- Bucht , ( Viktor Mössinger Collection . Shown at the International Art Exhibition Berlin 1896)
- In the port of Specia , 1897, oil on paper 41 × 59, formerly the Abraham Adelsberger collection
- Enzwehr , 1899. Loan from Dresdner Bank to the District President, later National Gallery Berlin (missing)
- Mill in Besigheim , 1900 painting and sculpture collection of the city of Nuremberg
- Landscape , Wilhelm Brandes Collection of the City of Constance
- Work for the Reichstag building: Strasbourg (1897) Rothenburg (1908)
- Surf on the North Sea beach , 1903. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Galerie Neue Meister (lost, lost during the war)
- Whit Sunday , 1903 Kunsthalle Bremen
- Partie an der Enz , municipal painting collection Pforzheim, February 23, 1945 destroyed by fire in an air raid
- Old Houses on the Canal Oil on canvas 43 × 32, formerly Peter Burnitz Collection
- At the Yser , 1915
- Constance , Cologne City Museum
- Venetian fishing boats , oil on canvas 18 × 24, Leipzig Museum
- Seascape , acquired in 1929 from Paula Salomon-Lindberg and Albert Salomon at the Carl Nicolai Gallery in Berlin
Sotto Marina near Venice, 1875
Lot in the old town of Esslingen, 1880
Children playing on Lake Constance
Exhibitions
Works by Schönleber were shown in such important galleries as Kunstsalon Schulte and Galerie Thannhauser, as well as at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878 and the World Exhibitions in Vienna, Melbourne, Chicago and St. Louis.
In 1895 Schönleber represented Germany together with Max Liebermann and Fritz von Uhde at the first Venice Biennale . The Fritz Gurlitt Gallery showed a solo exhibition in Berlin in 1910. For his 60th birthday in 1912 there was a large Schönleber exhibition in Stuttgart.
At the beginning of 1918, the Kunsthaus Schaller in Stuttgart organized the “Gustav Schönleber estate exhibition ”. The accompanying catalog was written by Theodor Heuss , who had previously written about Schönleber.
family
Gustav Schönleber was born as the fifth child of Friedrich and Heinrike Schönleber and had 8 siblings. The Bälz family, whose son Erwin Bälz was three years older than Gustav Schönleber , also lived in the family house . When the family spent their summer vacation in Belgium in 1901, Wilhelm Hausenstein was hired as a private tutor. The father ran an industrial company with 170 employees. In 1882 Gustav Schönleber married Luise Deffner and they had three children together. The son Felix became a sculptor, the son Hans Otto became a doctor and also worked successfully as a graphic artist.
Appreciations
In 1882 he was made an honorary member of the Munich Academy .
On January 24, 1911, Schönleber was awarded the Pour le Mérite .
In 1912, Wilhelm II , King of Württemberg awarded Schönleber the Great Gold Medal for Art and Science on the ribbon of the Order of the Crown .
The University of Freiburg awarded him an honorary doctorate.
A street and a school are named after Gustav Schönleber in Bietigheim, and one street each in Cuxhaven and Karlsruhe.
literature
- Renate Miller-Gruber: G. Schönleber (1851–1917). Monograph and catalog raisonné, Freiburg 1984 / Karlsruhe 1987.
- Leo Mülfarth : Small lexicon of Karlsruhe painters. Karlsruhe 1987, ISBN 3-7617-0250-7 , pp. 99-101.
- Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Ekensund artists' colony on the north bank of the Flensburg Fjord , Heide 2000, pp. 82–85.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustav Schönleber in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography at karlsruhe.de
- Gustav Schönleber in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detlef Lorenz: Advertising art around 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures. Reimer, 2000.
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Schönleber, Gustav ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 30, 2016)
- ↑ Article in the Badische Latest Nachrichten (Karlsruhe) from February 1, 2017
- Jump up ↑ Art and the Beautiful Home - Volume 66, 1968
- ^ Die Weltkunst, Volume 73, Issue 7-10 / 2003, p. 1112
- ↑ Swabian Art History - Volume 4 - page 67
- ↑ http://www.leo-bw.de/web/guest/detail/-/Detail/details/PERSON/kgl_biographien/118964399/Sch%C3%B6nleber+Gustav Renate Miller-Gruber (Author) From: Badische Biographien NF 2, 251-252
- ^ Josef August Beringer: Studies on German Art History, 2014
- ^ Fritz Stoltenberg (1855–1921): a landscape and marine painter from Kiel
- ↑ http://www.leo-bw.de/web/guest/detail/-/Detail/details/PERSON/kgl_biographien/118964399/Sch%C3%B6nleber+Gustav Renate Miller-Gruber (Author) From: Badische Biographien NF 2, 251-252
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schönleber, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bietigheim-Bissingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1917 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |