Gustav Traub

Gustav Traub (born December 23, 1885 in Lahr / Black Forest ; † May 16, 1955 in St. Märgen ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Gustav Traub painted the Burgheim church in watercolors at the age of twelve and later learned the craft of a master painter. After attending the Karlsruhe School of Applied Arts , he lived in Paris for two years. He then worked in Munich, where he added to his repertoire of landscape paintings around Upper Bavaria and made red chalk drawings and a large number of book illustrations. He drew for the Meggendorfer-Blätter for seven years and from around 1918 for the Fliegende Blätter . In addition, the portfolios of Gottfried Keller's Seven Legends (1920) and Silent Times (1921) come from his hand as well as the illustrations in the volume of poems Tu´ ab den Staub der Straße by Stefan Peuchel . He took part in exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace as well as with twenty landscape paintings in the Great German Art Exhibition from 1937 to 1944.

On April 20, 1939, Hitler's birthday , Traub was awarded the title of professor. Hitler had already acquired some of Traub's pictures after an exhibition in the Haus der Deutschen Kunst . In the same year, a complete exhibition of the works created by Traub took place in Lahr. Traub was the secretary of the Association of Drawing Artists and a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative .

During a vacation in the summer of 1940 he stayed at the Hotel Goldene Krone in St. Märgen, where he made the acquaintance of the Black Forest painter Karl Hauptmann . Traub set up a studio in St. Märgen in 1941 after he and his wife had lost all their belongings in Munich. There, in his studio on the top floor of Wagensteigstrasse 4, he died on May 16, 1955. Traub was buried in Kempten .

During his time in the Black Forest, Traub often painted on particle board , as these were easy to obtain at the time.

Traub was also a music lover. He also worked as a writer and wrote anecdotes from his youth. Traub was friends with Ferdinand Staeger , who had a stylistic influence on his work as a graphic artist.

reception

Traub's Black Forest landscapes are reminiscent of the Bernau painter Hans Thoma , who liked a picture by Alt-Breisach. Edgar Schindler also compares him with Albert Welti , Ludwig Richter , Moritz von Schwind and recognizes that his works are influenced by the "Upper Rhine Gothic". Furthermore, he attests to his graphics, which go in the thousands, a “gently flowing line and a lively movement” and describes them as “full of joyful ideas”.

"Has created an abundance of slightly archaic , imaginative small graphics ( bookplates , place cards , etc.)."

- Thieme-Becker

On Traub's 125th birthday, an exhibition with his works took place from May to December 2010 in the St. Märgen Monastery Museum . In addition, there are two oil paintings and several sketches in a dining room dedicated to the painter in the Hotel Hirschen.

literature

Gustav Traub . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 347 .
Gustav Traub . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 465 .

Web links

In honor of Professor Traub. In: Badische Zeitung , May 12, 2010

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Edgar Schindler: Gustav Traub in: Das Bild . Monthly for German art creation in the past and present , year 1939, pp. 237–241.
↑ ^a ^b Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painting in the 19th and 20th centuries Century . Volume 6. Munich 1994, p. 421.
^ Rudolf Ritter : Gustav Traub . In: Geroldsecker Land . Vol. 29, 1987, ISSN 1614-1407 , pp. 78-86 .
↑ Ruth Hötzel-Dickel, Horst Dieter Meier (ed.): Karl Hauptmann 1880–1947: the Black Forest painter: on the 60th anniversary of the artist's death , modo, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 3-937014-81-0 , p. 17.
^ ^A ^b Elmar Klein: St. Märgen: A stroke of luck in the history of St. Märgen . In: Badische Zeitung , May 27, 2010; Retrieved August 29, 2010.

personal data
SURNAME	Traub, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 23, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lahr / Black Forest
DATE OF DEATH	May 16, 1955
Place of death	St. Märgen

[schindler-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Edgar Schindler: Gustav Traub in: Das Bild . Monthly for German art creation in the past and present , year 1939, pp. 237–241.

[bruckmann-2] Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painting in the 19th and 20th centuries Century . Volume 6. Munich 1994, p. 421.

[ritter-3] Rudolf Ritter : Gustav Traub . In: Geroldsecker Land . Vol. 29, 1987, ISSN 1614-1407 , pp. 78-86 .

[4] Ruth Hötzel-Dickel, Horst Dieter Meier (ed.): Karl Hauptmann 1880–1947: the Black Forest painter: on the 60th anniversary of the artist's death , modo, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 3-937014-81-0 , p. 17.

[klein-5] A ^b Elmar Klein: St. Märgen: A stroke of luck in the history of St. Märgen . In: Badische Zeitung , May 27, 2010; Retrieved August 29, 2010.