Hermann Anton Bantle

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Hermann Anton Bantle (born April 22, 1872 in Straßberg , † July 27, 1930 in Munich ) was a German fresco painter and commercial artist and is considered a master of sacred monumental painting. He is considered a publicist "with ethnic tendencies".

Life

He was the son of Josef Anton Bantle (1846- ??) and Theresia Schilling. Bantle learned his trade at the Beuron Monastery . During this time in Beuron , he was strongly influenced by the Beuron art school and, among other things, contributed pictures of the stations to a devotion to the Way of the Cross. Furthermore, he created signs of high sacred art with his precious wall paintings. He worked in Bietenhausen (church), Vilsingen , Dettlingen , Öflingen (painting torso with a cloister in the Catholic parish church of St. Ulrich from 1914) and Kaiseringen (mural in the All Saints Church from 1919).

But instead of enjoying the regular life in the region, Bantle moved to Paris and Rome. “It didn't hold up in the monastery, but it wasn't made for outside,” says the historian Casimir Bumiller. Bantle experienced his most fruitful and inspired time in Rome. His lesser-known works include watercolors and charcoal pencil drawings such as the girl portrait and the half-portrait of a boy , which were created during his art studies in Rome in 1906, as well as the portrait of a woman (1908) and the vedute of houses with avenue of trees in Monte Falcone (1910), which also emerged in his Italian years (1905–1914).

His extensive artistic estate is owned by the city of Gammertingen . The estate, consisting of 468 pictures, which until October 2008 were rather improperly housed in the attic of the Gammertingen town hall and not accessible to the public, will in future be in the exhibition of the municipal museum in the old Oberamt . According to the exhibition organizer Casimir Bumiller “Bantle is considered the last fresco painter. He left comparatively few traces, that would have been more likely to be done by the savages, the lutes, the expressionists who were active at the same time as Bantle ”.

literature

  • Hermann Anton Bantle . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 6, Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-22746-9 , p. 594.
  • Gerd Bantle: The Strasbourg exhibition provided completely new insights. Hermann Anton Bantle was more than "just" a painter of religious motifs . In: Journal for Hohenzollern History . Volume 47, 1997, pp. 40-41
  • Anton Pfeffer: A preacher in a painter's smock. In memory of Hermann Anton Bantle on his 80th birthday . In: Hohenzollern annual books of the Association for History, Culture and Regional Studies of Hohenzollern . Volume 13, 1953, pp. 91-107
  • Xaver Schilling: Hermann Anton Bantle. On his 80th birthday on April 22, 1952 . In: Hohenzollerische Heimat, Volume 2 (1952) No. 4, pages 57-58.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Internet file of the Utah Genealogical Society (www.familysearch.org).
  2. ↑ Stefanie Häußler: Creative: The group is bursting with ideas, the “Museum Alter Oberamt” working group provides a look behind the scenes . In: Schwäbische Zeitung of January 29, 2011
  3. ↑ Uwe Puschner, Walter Schmitz, Justus H. Ulbricht: Handbook on the "völkisch movement" 1871-1918 , Verlag Saur, 1999, ISBN 3598114214 or ISBN 9783598114212 ( excerpt )
  4. ↑ a b c Ignaz Stösser (is): A city celebrates. A huge festival attracts many to the “City” of Gammerting . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from October 20, 2008
  5. ↑ Philipp Koll: Way of the Cross. A Stations of the Cross devotion with station pictures by Hermann Anton Bantle . Steyler publishing house bookstore Kaldenkirchen. Kaldenkirchen 1959

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personal data
SURNAME Bantle, Hermann Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bantle, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Straßberg (Zollernalbkreis)
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1930
Place of death Munich