Hermann Treuner

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Grave of Hermann and Robert Treuner in the main cemetery in Frankfurt am Main

Hermann Treuner (born February 24, 1876 in Weisenau near Nuremberg ; † July 15, 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German painter , draftsman and model maker who, together with his brother Robert (1877-1948), created the model of Frankfurt's old town in the historical Museum that shows its condition before the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in World War II .

Life

Treuner was the son of the Thuringian- born porcelain painter Gotthold Treuner, who learned his art in the Wallendorf porcelain factory in Wallendorf, Thuringia at the company Carolus Magnus Hutschenreuther . As a journeyman, he went on a journey with his wife Emilie . Finally, via Nuremberg and Coburg, he moved with his family to Frankfurt am Main in 1879 and founded his own studio there . After 1890 Hermann Treuner and his brother learned porcelain painting from their father. During this time Hermann attended the evening courses of the arts and crafts association . He took the subjects of ornament drawing , decorative painting and performing geometry . In the latter discipline he was instructed by the director Ferdinand Luthmer , who in April 1893 gave him a positive certificate for “his hard work and good behavior”. He then received a scholarship at the Städel in the summer semester . First he attended Heinrich Hasselhorst's painting class , and from 1895 that of Eugen Klimsch . In 1896 he switched to Wilhelm Trübner's class , with whom he studied until 1899. Treuner's friends at the Städel included a. the artists Emil Beithan (1878–1955), Hermann Dumler (1875–1944), Fried Stern (1875–1942) and Albert Gianini (1876–1920).

In 1897 Treuner went on a study trip to Thuringia, of which several watercolors and drawings still testify. Later he visited the Spessart , the Odenwald and the Taunus more often . From the Vordertaunus z. B. received two watercolors dated 1900 showing Medenbach and Lorsbach . In the summer of 1905 he worked with the painter Ferdinand Balzer (1872–1916) in the Wilhelmsbad artists' colony near Hanau .

From 1905 to 1914 he participated in the annual exhibitions of Frankfurt artists in the Kunstverein , as well as in exhibitions in various galleries in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. An exhibition discussion in the Frankfurt art salon “Wachendörfer” classified Treuner in 1906 together with the painter Paul Andorff (1849–1920) as the successor to the chronicler of Frankfurt's old town, Carl Theodor Reiffenstein . A review of an exhibition from 1907 at the art dealer Goldschmidt characterized Treuner as an animal painter who advanced to become a “sheep specialist” in this profession. In 1908 Treuner received a special exhibition at the art dealer Ludwig Schames , which was also positively received by the press. It was: "soft, delicate landscape pictures, a few spring moods among them, whose sunny poetry you have to enjoy."

In 1916 Treuner was called up for military service. Before the First World War , his art ensured him a good living for himself and his family. That was to change during the war. He later described his situation as follows: “Before the First World War, the artist also had to live. Frankfurt was able to boast of many art lovers who, without speculative ulterior motives, put local artists in the bread with commissions [...] After the First World War, the situation of the artists deteriorated thoroughly. Large fortunes disappeared due to inflation. Art is mostly a child of plenty. The officials of the state and the city 'processed' it, like any other subject, 'factually'. ”From then on Treuner lived in poor conditions. He worked u. a. as a "part-time teacher" or he took on orders to restore pictures until the city of Frankfurt gave him a small pension in 1956. The Frankfurt journalist Wendelin Leweke described in an obituary in the Frankfurter Neue Presse the decades of poor financial situation of the Treuner family: "Need was often their guest!"

Honors

On his eightieth birthday, Treuner received the plaque of honor from the city of Frankfurt in 1956 .

literature

  • Fried Lübbecke , Treuner's Alt-Frankfurt, The old town model in the Historical Museum , Frankfurt 1955
  • Inge Eichler, Hermann Treuner (1867-1962), An artist's life for Frankfurt , Frankfurt 1995
  • The Frankfurt old town - intact , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 5, 2008, p. 46

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fried Lübbecke, Treuner's Alt-Frankfurt, The old town model in the Historical Museum, Frankfurt 1955, p. 19
  2. ^ Inge Eichler, Hermann Treuner (1867–1952), An artist's life for Frankfurt, Frankfurt 1995, p. 7 f
  3. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, When sheep were still bred in Medenbach, sensational discovery of a historical Medenbach painting, Wiesbadener-Erbenheimer Anzeiger, October 24, 2014, p. 1
  4. ^ Inge Eichler, Hermann Treuner (1867–1952), An artist's life for Frankfurt, Frankfurt 1995, p. 16 f
  5. ^ Fried Lübbecke, Treuner's Alt-Frankfurt, The old town model in the Historical Museum, Frankfurt 1955, p. 22 f
  6. ^ Inge Eichler, Hermann Treuner (1867–1952), An artist's life for Frankfurt, Frankfurt 1995, p. 23
personal data
SURNAME Treuner, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and model maker
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Weisenau near Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1962
Place of death Frankfurt am Main