Heinrich Knirr
Heinrich Knirr (born September 2, 1862 in Pantschowa , Austrian Empire , today Vojvodina , Serbia ; † May 26, 1944 in Staudach, Bavaria) was a German painter . He was best known as a landscape and portrait painter .
Life
Heinrich Knirr attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna , studied under Christian Griepenkerl and Carl Wurzinger and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studied under Gabriel von Hackl and Ludwig Löfftz .
In 1888 he founded a private painting school in Munich, which was very popular throughout Europe. The most famous students included Paul Klee , Rudolf Levy , Ernst Oppler , Emil Orlik , Fabius von Gugel and Carl Strauss . From 1898 to 1910 Heinrich Knirr was also a teacher at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1922 he lived in Staudach in Upper Bavaria .
From 1914 he withdrew from his teaching activities and moved to Starnberg . Heinrich Knirr was a member of the Munich and Vienna Secession and the German Association of Artists . He painted portraits (mostly of children), genre pictures and flower still lifes , and occasionally landscapes.
In the era of National Socialism Knirr was a valued artist. He was already represented at the first Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich with a portrait of Adolf Hitler . A total of 14 objects were presented at the Nazi art exhibitions. Knirr also portrayed Hitler's driver Julius Schreck and created a posthumous portrait of Hitler's mother Klara . Hitler hung both pictures in his study at the Berghof on the Berchtesgadener Obersalzberg . In 1942 Knirr received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science .
Student (selection)
- Hugo Baar
- Paul Basilius Barth (1881–1955)
- Giulio Beda
- Erma Bossi
- Max Burgmeister (1881–1947)
- Paula Deppe (1886-1922)
- Walter Geffcken (1872–1950)
- Wladimir Georgievich Bechtejew (Wladimir Georgievitsch von Bechtejeff)
- Otto Illies
- Eugen von Kahler
- Paul Klee
- Hans Reinhold Lichtenberger
- Anton Lutz
- Wadim Meller
- Carl Monday
- Ernst Morgenthaler
- Emil Orlik
- Hans Purin
- Hans Friedrich Rohner
- Wolf Röhricht (1886–1953)
- Gustav Bernhard Rüschhoff (1886–1947)
- Walter Schnackenberg
- Wilhelm Scholkmann
- Hans Sponnier
- Karl Staudinger
- Hermann Stenner
- Edmund Steppes
- Joseph Paul
- Numa Donzé
Exhibitions
A collective exhibition took place in 1922 at the Heinemann gallery in Munich .
Works (excerpt)
In public ownership:
- Family portrait , Ca 'Pesaro - Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna , Venice
- Anxious hours , Szépművészeti Múzeum , Budapest
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Knirr, Heinrich ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 16, 2015)
- ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 317-318.
- ↑ Carla Pellegrini Rocca, a gallery owner on the trail of an elusive artist, Carla Pellegrini Rocca on her research on Erma Bossi, in exh. Cat .: Erma Bossi, A Search for Traces, Murnau Castle Museum 2013, p. 60
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knirr, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pantschowa, formerly Austrian Empire, now Pančevo , Serbia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1944 |
| Place of death | Staudach, Bavaria |