Hermann Euler (painter)

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Hermann Euler (born July 14, 1900 in Aschaffenburg , † January 6, 1970 in Eichbichl near Rosenheim) was a German painter.

Life

Hermann Euler was born as the son of the Munich brewery director Konrad Euler and his wife Meta Hein. He came from an art-loving house and began painting after his school days in Munich, initially without training until he attended Moritz Heymann's painting school from 1919 , where he was to meet his future wife, the painter Daisy Campi .

In 1921 he moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , first in Heinrich von Zügel's class , then from 1922 to Angelo Jank . He completed his studies with him in 1927 as a master class student .

In 1925 he joined the Munich Secession Artists' Association . The first study trips to Norway were to prove particularly formative for him and his painting . The discovery of the expressive representation of landscapes as well as his enthusiasm for Edvard Munch are reflected in his work from this time. From 1926 onwards he mainly traveled to France with Daisy Campi. After his return, Hermann Euler founded the Munich artists' association Generation with fellow students, Daisy Campi and friends like Carl Meisenbach .

In 1928 he married Daisy Campi and they moved into a studio in Munich's Adalbertstrasse . A four month honeymoon to France, Belgium and the Netherlands followed. Their son Alexander was born in 1930, and two years later the Eulers acquired the Eichbichl farm on Rinssee near Rosenheim. Another year later, in 1934, he and his family moved from Munich to the countryside. The occupation with agriculture initially took up a lot of the young painters' time. In spite of this, painting did not take a back seat and in 1935 the Carnegie Foundation New York invited them to show some of Hermann Euler's pictures in an exhibition.

In the 1950s he toured Paris with Wolf Neitzel , followed by extensive study trips to Italy, with Marlene Neubauer-Woerner , Erwin von Kreibig and Karl Rössing , and from 1961 to Yugoslavia, France and Spain. Hermann Euler died in 1970 as a result of a car accident suffered ten years earlier.

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Hermann Euler had found his Arcadia in Eichbichl am Rinssee. The unspent naturalness of this area was to be decisive for his pictures. His picturesque props came from the closest everyday environment, the fenced-in cottage garden in front of his courtyard, sometimes in the heaviness of late summer, sometimes reduced to a winter skeleton.

The still lifes should also be mentioned in this context: It is an irritation of the familiar sight to place arranged still lifes in the landscape and thus to shake familiar proportions. The remote nature of such still life landscapes is exemplified by Oskar Coester , as is Filippo de Pisis' master still lifes .

Although drawing did not play a decisive role in the painter's work, Euler proved to be a confident draftsman in his pictures. His pictures are characterized by rhythm and decisiveness in the use of form. With violent gestures they appear on the screen written to be. In later years, the black brushstroke is often added, which remains decisive over a rather glazed application of paint.

The oil paint , applied alla prima , is deprived of its greasy sheen by the chalk base of the canvas. The impasto, but in places also glazed matt surface forms an unmistakable connection with the luminosity of multiple broken color accords.

Starting from the impressionistic dissolution of the object, his painting developed into a cultivated expressive handwriting far removed from all fashions.

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Exhibitions / selection

Literature / selection

  • Euler, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 60 .
  • Andre Meller, Hermann Euler , in: Revue du Vrai et du Beau
  • Konrad Weiß, At the jury free
  • Walter Talmon-Gros, romanticist of the landscape, the exhibition of the Secession
  • WP Schulz, painter and farmer - impressions from our visit to Chiemgau
  • Hans Heyn, It is not the direction that decides, but the quality - exhibition by Hermann Euler in the Städtische Galerie in Rosenheim
  • W. Petzet, the painter in his landscape
  • Hans Heyn, The Studio Window - Hermann Euler
  • Hans Heyn, The Eulers - Pictures from an Ideal World
  • Klaus Jörg Schönmetzler , Time of Still Pictures - Hermann Euler Memorial Exhibition
  • Hans Heyn, The Eulers - An artist couple
  • Euler, Hermann . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 35, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22775-2 , p. 308.
  • Birgit Löffler: Hermann Euler and Daisy Campi - off the Chiemsee . Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86828-074-6 .

Web links

Commons : Hermann Euler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. Birgit Löffler: Hermann Euler and Daisy Campi - Away from the Chiemsee . Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86828-074-6 , pp. 18-19.