Hans Reinhold Lichtenberger

Hans Reinhold Lichtenberger (born April 9, 1876 in Berlin , † August 9, 1957 in Munich ) was a German painter and draftsman.

Life

Lichtenberger attended a grammar school in Berlin and then began to study architecture at the technical university there. In 1898 he moved to Munich to attend classes (together with Paul Klee ) at Heinrich Knirr's private painting school. Since his pictures were already successfully taken, he decided not to study at the Munich Art Academy. The following year he completed a one-year study visit to London. From 1901 the first exhibitions of nude and semi-nude studies took place at the Munich and Berlin Secession. In 1904 he maintained contacts with Lovis Corinth and Alexej Jawlensky. In 1905 he made a trip to Spain. In 1914 Lichtenberger was a co-founder of the Munich New Secession , of which he was president from 1931 to 1933. From 1914 to 1918 he fought on the Western Front in the First World War. The war experience changed his art and he went to paint more night pictures. He specialized in the “colorful world of ballet and the stage bathed in artificial light” in order to capture this in his pictures.

After the Second World War, Lichtenberger participated as a member of the New Group in the annual major art exhibitions in the Haus der Kunst .

Honors

• 1925 Awarded the title of professor
• 1937 honorary member of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts
• 1948 member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1901 Spring Exhibition of the Munich Secession (thereafter regularly represented in the exhibitions of the Munich Secession)
• 1914–1934 regularly in the exhibitions of the Munich New Secession, which he co-founded, until it was forced to dissolve in 1934
• 1946–1963 in the exhibitions of the New Group in Munich
• 1909 Large watercolor exhibition in Dresden
• 1911 Kunsthalle Bremen
• 1914 Werkbund exhibition in Cologne
• 1919 Saxon Art Association Dresden
• 1929 Galerie Heinemann , Munich, Stuttgart, Nuremberg
• 1931 Vienna Secession
• 1932 Berlin, Künstlerhaus.
• 1934 Darmstadt, in the hall of honor
• 1934 Venice Biennale
• 1934 Günther Franke Gallery, Munich
• 1937 Kunstverein München (together with Gabriele Münter )
• 1937 Art and Trade Association Regensburg
• 1941 Duisberg municipal art collections
• 1941 Württembergischer Kunstverein , Stuttgart
• 1946 Schätzler Palais, Augsburg
• 1949 Municipal Gallery in Munich
• 1950 Oberhausen Castle, Rhineland
• 1956 Kunstverein, Munich (80th birthday together with Habermann, Nerud)
• 1962 Memorial Exhibition, Munich Art Association
• 1963 Memorial exhibition for the deceased members of the three artist groups in the Haus der Kunst, Munich

In the cloakroom - ca.1900 (private collection)

Selection of works

• Standing female nude in front of the mirror ; Restaurant scene , Sprengel Museum Hannover
• Alpine foothills , view of the Ludwigskirche , around 1936, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen , Munich
• Above the roofs of Schwabing , 1932, oil on canvas, 80 × 87 cm
• Oktoberfest ; Ludwigstrasse at night , Munich City Museum
• At the toilet , Kunsthalle Bremen
• Ballet Giselle , National Gallery, Berlin
• Oktoberfest: Hippodrome , private property
• The ballet master , private property
• Water carriers , private property
• Ballet rehearsal , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
• Reigen , oil on canvas, 87 × 78 cm
• Dance scene , oil on cardboard, 40 × 55 cm
• In the spotlight , oil on cardboard, 44 × 60 cm
• Spanish dancing couple , oil on cardboard, 26 × 29 cm
• In the National Theater , oil on cardboard, 26 × 34 cm
• Red jacket , oil on cardboard, 24 × 32 cm

literature

• Lichtenberger, Hans Reinhold . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 190 .
• Lichtenberger, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 227 .
• Lichtenberger, Hans Reinhold . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 208 .
• Peter Breuer: Munich artistic heads. Munich 1937, pp. 46-48.
• Bruno Kroll: German contemporary painters. Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1937, p. 160.
• Bruno Kroll: Hans Reinhold Lichtenberger. In: Art for everyone: painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture. 50th year, issue 8, May 1935, pp. 186–189 ( uni-heidelberg.de , with some illustrations).
• Hans Reinhold Lichtenberger. In: Art for everyone: painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture. 54th year, issue 5, February 1939, pp. 128–131 ( uni-heidelberg.de , with further images).
• Hugo von Habermann, Josef Karl Nerud: On the 80th birthday of Hans Reinhold Lichtenberger. In: The art trade. Volume 6, 1956, p. 12.
• Hans Eckstein: Hans Reinhold Lichtenberger. Thiemig, Munich 1966.
• Hans Eckstein: Hans Reinhold Lichtenberger. In: Art and the beautiful home. 1968, pp. 114-118.
• Exhibition catalog Munich City Museum, Munich. The Munich Secession and its painters. Munich 1975, pp. 46-47.
• Exhibition cat. Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Memorial exhibition. For the 100th birthday of the artist, Munich 1976.
• Exhibition cat. Munich City Museum, Munich. The twenties in Munich. Munich 1979, pp. 508-509, 757.
• Hans Kießling: meeting painters. EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 1980, ISBN 3-88096-081-X , pp. 92-95.
• Jutta Held: Art and Art Politics in Germany 1945–1949. Verlag für Bildung u. Study in d. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-88290-105-5 , p. 162.
• Anton Sailer: This Munich. Thiemig, Munich 1982, pp. 22/23, 35.
• Painter and sculptor in Munich. Verlag Kurt Desch, Munich 1946, pp. 56-60.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernd Fäthke: Jawlensky and his companions in a new light. Munich 2004, p. 61 f.
2. ^ Lichtenberger, Hans (Reinhold) . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd, revised and expanded edition. tape 6 : Kraatz – Menges . KG Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094027-2 , p. 423 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
3. ^ Exhibition catalog Kunstverein München 1956
4. ^ Exhibition catalog Great Art Exhibition Munich 1963. Cat.nr. 1080-1086, Lichtenberger, Hans Reinhold ( new group ): short vita a. seven oil paintings attached to the memorial exhibition 1963 .