Hermann Pleuer

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Hermann Pleuer

Hermann Pleuer (born April 5, 1863 in Schwäbisch Gmünd , † January 6, 1911 in Stuttgart ) was a Swabian impressionist and landscape painter . He is best known for his railway pictures of the Royal Württemberg State Railways .

Stuttgart Central Station in the snow , oil on canvas

Hermann Pleuer was born as the son of a gold goods manufacturer. After attending the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts (1879–1881) and the Stuttgart Art Academy (1881–1883), he studied at the Academy in Munich. In 1886 he returned to Stuttgart and was initially noticed as a bohemian , he created pictures of bohemian artists and night pictures (female nudes in the moonlight) as well as landscape pictures, before he turned to railroad painting, fascinated by the technical development of industrialization and the "intoxication of speed" . Pleuer found financial support from the patron Freiherr von Fachsenfeld . He died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 47.

Hermann Pleuer was a member of the German Association of Artists . Along with Otto Reiniger , Christian Landenberger and Heinrich von Zügel, he is one of the most important representatives of Impressionism in southern Germany.

The Pleuer-Passage in Schwäbisch Gmünd train station has been named after Hermann Pleuer since 2014.

literature

  • Professor Hermann Pleuer 1863–1911 . In: Walter Klein: Gmünder Kunst der Gegenwart, Stuttgart: Greiner & Pfeiffer 1924 (Gmünder Kunst; 4), pp. 60–65.
  • Gabriele Kiesewetter: Hermann Pleuer (1863–1911). Life and work. The discovery of speed , Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8062-1411-5 , review .
  • Roland Schurig: "The poetry of the rail world felt so vividly" The impressionist Hermann Pleuer (1863–1911) , moments, contributions to regional studies of Baden-Württemberg, 1/2007.
  • City of Aalen (ed.): Pleuer and the railway , Stuttgart 1978, exhibition catalog.
  • Isabel Grüner: Impressionism in the German Southwest. Otto Reiniger, Hermann Pleuer, Heinrich von Zügel, Christian Landenberger. Hohenkarpfen Art Foundation , Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg Art Association, Hausen ob Verena 1997, ISBN 3-93-056917-5 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ John Waltman: The fine traces of memory, Württemberg's railway painter Hermann Pleuer and his world celebrates a resurrection on a scale of 1:87 , Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, May 4, 2008, page V12.
  2. ↑ Double exhibition in the galleries for art and technology, pictures by Plauer and Modellbahnen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , City of Schorndorf, 2006.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schorndorf.de  
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Pleuer, Hermann ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 12, 2015).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  4. ↑ Railway station and Pleuer-Passage opened , press release of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd from April 17, 2014.

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SURNAME Pleuer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German impressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1911
Place of death Stuttgart