Henrik Moor

Heinrich Moor is a redirect to this article. For other people see Heinrich Mohr .

Henrik Moor (born December 22, 1876 in Prague , † November 10, 1940 in Fürstenfeldbruck , also Heinrich Moor ) was a German-Austrian painter and brother of the pianist, composer and inventor Emanuel Moor .

Life

Growing up in Prague and Kecskemét , Henrik Moor lived in New York from 1885 to 1888 due to an engagement from his father, the chief cantor and opera singer Rafael Moor . After studying with Alphonse Legros and Frederick Brown in London and attending the Académie Julian in Paris , he enrolled in 1894 as a student of Otto Seitz and Ludwig Schmid-Reutte at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In 1900 he took part for the first time in the annual exhibition of the Munich artists' association in the Glaspalast .

In 1903 he married the businessman's daughter Eugenie Wolff from Mannheim and settled in Fürstenfeldbruck in 1908, where an artists' colony had emerged over the years . In 1910, Moor joined the Luitpold Group and was soon appointed to its jury member.

During the First World War he was obliged to live as an Austrian and was drafted into the Landsturm in 1917 . In Vienna he applied for a post as a war painter in the art group of the Austro-Hungarian war press quarter , to which he was assigned in March 1918. Until the end of the war he painted portraits of soldiers, landscapes, cityscapes and folkloric motifs on excursions to Feltre on the Piave front , Sarajevo and Cetinje .

The artist supported his large family with seven children through commissioned work at home and abroad as well as exhibition sales. Six of his works were lost in the fire in the Glass Palace in 1931.

Henrik Moor, who received German and Bavarian citizenship in 1929, only managed to keep his Jewish origins secret in the Third Reich with the help of a well-meaning district administrator. His painting Motif from Bern was confiscated from the holdings of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen as "degenerate" in 1937. In 1937 he took over the school for drawing and painting founded by Moritz Heymann in the Türkenstrasse in Schwabing and taught there until he died unexpectedly of a ruptured appendix in November 1940 .

His estate is looked after by the Henrik and Emanuel Moor Foundation.

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Artistic creation

Henrik Moor has created an ambitious work. Throughout his life he was looking for his own artistic statement and did not commit to any kind of sales art, neither in terms of motifs nor style.

From his pictorial inventions it can be seen that he has followed the contemporary art scene and so peculiarities of open-air painting, Art Nouveau, Expressionism and finally abstract painting and futurism appear in the various creative phases.

At the beginning of the 1920s he broke away from figurative painting and experimented with rhythmic, almost gestural structures. Around 1930 he invented a special kind of Futurism, the division of the picture surface into the smallest geometric shapes. He evidently developed his avant-garde art experimentally; a theoretical foundation is not known.

Henrik Moor has left an extensive oeuvre. More than 700 paintings have survived that are in private or public ownership. From 1900 to 1931, more than 100 of his works were shown in the annual exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace, and as many again were on display in sales exhibitions in art associations and galleries. Only a few have so far been clearly identified.

Paintings (selection)

• Wilhelm August von Breitling , 1908, oil on canvas, 113 × 93 cm ( City of Gaildorf )
• Portrait of the painter Professor Fritz Baer , 1913, oil on canvas, 110 × 100 cm ( Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich)
• Pablo Casals , around 1914, oil on canvas, 95 × 75 cm ( Sparkasse Fürstenfeldbruck )
• Alfred Marxer , 1915, oil on canvas, 72 × 58.5 cm (private collection)
• Privy Councilor Wieland with his wife Josefine and friends playing a game of twirls , around 1915, oil on canvas, 145 × 100 cm (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich)
• Portrait of Feldpilot Stabsfeldwebel Karl Urban , 1918, oil on canvas, 70 × 60 cm ( Army History Museum Vienna)
• Portrait field pilot captain Dr. Eugen Macher , 1918, oil on canvas, 70 × 60.5 cm (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna)
• Portrait of the observer, Lieutenant Ladislaus Kullmann , 1918, oil on canvas, 65 × 43 cm (Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien)
• Dr. Owlglass , 1920, oil on canvas, 55.5 × 44 cm ( Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach )
• Selma Des Coudres , 1926, tempera on paper, 16 × 12 cm (private collection)
• Anton Bruckner , oil on canvas (art exhibition in 1931 in the Glaspalast. Destroyed by fire on June 6th)
• Paul Heinzelmann , 1938, charcoal drawing on paper, 49 × 37.5 cm (private collection)
• Interior , no year, tempera on cardboard, 65 × 50 cm (City Archives Fürth / City Collections)

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1900, 1902–1904, 1907–1908, 1910–1914, 1916–1931 Glaspalast Munich
• 1907 Exhibition of the Association of Fine Artists Munich Secession
• 1913 Spring exhibition of the Upper Austrian Art Association in Linz
• 1914 Biennale di Venezia
• 1914 Exhibition by the Société des Artistes Indépendants in the Salon des Indépendants, Paris
• 1932 Munich art exhibition in the Deutsches Museum
• 1995/1996 Henrik Moor. An exhibition in the Fürstenfeldbruck City Museum
• 2016 Henrik Moor (1876–1940). Avant-garde in secret. Museum Fürstenfeldbruck and Museum im Kunsthaus May 12 to September 25, 2016

literature

• H. Marchand: Henrik Moor. In: The onion fish . Magazine about books, art and culture. Munich, 23rd year 1930/31, issue 2, pp. 64–67.
• Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Military Science Institute): Flying 90/71. Exhibition catalog. Volume II: Flying in the First World War, paintings and drawings. Vienna 1971.
• Erwin Steinbeißer: Henrik Moor, a painter from Bruck. In: Amperland. Local history quarterly for the districts of Dachau, Freising and Fürstenfeldbruck. 18. Vol. 1, 1982, pp. 233-236.
• Walter G. Well: Painter in the Fürstenfeldbrucker Land. Published by the Fürstenfeldbruck district and city savings bank. Hirmer Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7774-4970-9 , pp. 72-75.
• Horst Ludwig (arrangement): Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries. Century. Volume 6, Bruckmann, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7654-1806-4 , pp. 91-94.
• Henrik Moor. An exhibition in the Fürstenfeldbruck City Museum December 16, 1995 to February 26, 1996. Organized and published by the Kester-Haeusler-Stiftung, Sparkasse and Stadt Fürstenfeldbruck (with a working study by Renate Wedl-Bruognolo). Fürstenfeldbruck 1995, ISBN 3-931548-08-2 .
• Klaus Wollenberg: We ask you to prove your Aryan descent ... The Jewish painter Henrik Moor in the years of the Third Reich. In: Amperland. Local history quarterly for the districts of Dachau, Freising and Fürstenfeldbruck. 41. Vol. 1, 2005, pp. 5-11. ISSN  0003-1992
• Angelika Mundorff, Eva von Seckendorff (ed.): Henrik Moor. Avant-garde in secret . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817387-3-5 . Second, corrected edition, 2017, ISBN 978-3-9817387-5-9 .

broadcast

• Julian Ignatowitsch: Henrik Moor exhibition in Fürstenfeldbruck. Deutschlandfunk (Kultur heute), May 15, 2016

• Gaby Weber: Henrik Moor exhibition 'Avant-garde in the Hidden'. BR Fernsehen (Rundschau-Magazin), May 15, 2016

• Sarah Khosh-Amoz: The meadows blue, the clouds sulfur yellow - the painter Henrik Moor in Fürstenfeldbruck. Bavaria 2 (country and people), September 11, 2016

Web links

1. ↑ Internet presence of the Henrik and Emanuel Moor Foundation
2. ↑ Figure portrait of Pablo Casals
3. ^ Illustration of a portrait of Anton Bruckner in the catalog of the Munich art exhibition in 1931 in the Glaspalast
4. ↑ Article about Henrik Moor in Amperland
5. ↑ Broadcast The meadows blue, the clouds sulfur yellow and Henrik Moor picture gallery