Jean-Bloé Niestlé

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Jean-Bloé Niestlé , actually Jean Alfred Niestlé (born August 16, 1884 in Neuchâtel , Switzerland ; † February 2, 1942 in Antony, south of Paris ) was a Swiss animal painter .

Life

Jackdaw in the daisy field , 1909

In 1903 Niestlé began studying painting in Nuremberg , which he continued the following year in Munich . In 1905 he met Franz Marc and influenced him in his work. He encouraged him to implement the preference for animals in such a way that they should not be depicted as zoological representations, but rather the artist should put himself in the animal's shoes and capture its essence in painting. In 1906 he exhibited in the Munich Secession . From 1910 he lived like Marc in Sindelsdorf . In 1911 he took part in the first exhibition of the editorial community of the Blauer Reiters in Munich, which had split off from the New Artists' Association Munich (NKVM) after artistic differences . However, he was distant from her, as he could not identify with the avant-garde tendencies of the group, and shortly after the opening he withdrew his image of Fitislaubensänger . His motifs were depictions of the native flora and fauna in a realistic manner.

From 1914, Niestlé lived in Seeshaupt in a house owned by the art collector Bernhard Koehler . Already at the end of 1913 he suffered a creative crisis that was exacerbated by the loss of his friends Macke and Marc, who fell in World War I , and which lasted until 1916. At this time began his second, Expressionist creative period, which he had to almost completely stop after 1919 due to severe symptoms of paralysis. In 1938 he left Seeshaupt with his family and moved to Paris. In 1942 Niestlé died in Antony near Paris.

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Starting from the art directions of naturalism and impressionism , he was influenced by his compatriot Léo-Paul Robert and the Swedish animal painter Bruno Liljefors from around 1907. In 1908 he reached the first high point of his artistic development with his large-format bird pictures, which were created through intensive studies of nature with the help of photography . He was familiar with nature, immersed himself in it, and in this way he achieved portrait studies of animals in their pristine surroundings, untouched by humans. After the early death of his friend Marc in 1916, he tried to combine his ideas with his ideas and opened himself up to the influence of Heinrich Campendonk in his works of deer and foxes, which were then symbolically represented .

Exhibitions

  • 1911: Participant in the first exhibition of the Blue Rider
  • 1913: First solo exhibition at the Gurlitt Gallery , Berlin
  • 1913: Participation in the First German Autumn Salon , Berlin

His works are exhibited in the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Neuchâtel and in art museums in Winterthur and Bern .

Works (selection)

  • 1910: Song thrush in the barberry bush , private property
  • 1910: Whinchat in a flower meadow , private property
  • 1910: Pulling starlings , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , Munich
  • 1911: Starenflug , Musée d'art et d'histoire, Neuchâtel
  • 1911: Hooded crows in hoarfrost , Musée d'art et d'histoire, Neuchâtel
  • 1918: Waders , Musée d'art et d'histoire, Neuchâtel

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanna Partsch: Marc , p. 10 f.
  2. ^ Jean-Bloé Niestlé , sindelsdorf.de, accessed on March 26, 2011
  3. ^ Kettererkunst : Jean Bloé Niestlé, accessed on March 26, 2011
  4. ^ A b Eva Chrambach:  Niestlé, Jean Bloé. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 243 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Niestlé, Jean-Bloé
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niestlé, Jean Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuchâtel , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1942
Place of death Antony , France