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Johann Mutter (born March 7, 1902 in Geretshausen , † October 27, 1974 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German expressionist painter and photographer who dedicated himself entirely to the landscape between Lech and Ammersee . The Lech landscapes in particular testify to the Landsberg painter's closeness to nature and his homeland.

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Life

Johann Mutter studied at the Munich Art Academy with Hermann Groeber and Karl Caspar and in 1934 received the Albrecht Dürer Prize from the city of Nuremberg, endowed with 1000 Reichsmarks . He painted expressionistically in a painterly approach similar to Max Beckmann . Mother's preferred subject is the river landscape on the Lech.

He is said to have designed the Landsberg coat of arms, which was common during the Nazi era. In 1938 the city council of Landsberg ordered 1500 etchings from Johann Mutter, which were to be given to the participants in the confessional march. The special stamp of the Reichspost designed by Johann Mutter and its etching on the occasion of the confessional march of the Hitler Youth to Landsberg was intended to serve as an advertising medium for the city. Johann Mutter was quickly classified as a degenerate artist during the Nazi era . At an exhibition of his pictures in the town hall, a Gauleiter criticized his pictures, whereupon he protested loudly. As a consequence, Mother temporarily withdrew from the visual arts until the end of the Second World War and turned to photography. During the war he photographed works of art threatened by war in the Landsberg am Lech district and the Katharinenbrücke, which was blown up before the American invasion. In the presence of a neighboring child - in order to appear more inconspicuous and not to be caught - at the end of April 1945 he took photos of a prisoner march from the city wall near the Jungfernsprungturm. These photos were rediscovered and published by Anton Posset in 1993. On the basis of the pictures and the suggestion of Anton Posset, the death march memorial has been located here since 1996, designed by the Landsberg artist Heinz Skudlik, the city of Landsberg.

In 1947 he organized an exhibition with graphic art from the 20th century, ostracized under the Nazi era, with Ernst Barlach , Max Beckmann , Otto Dix , Oskar Kokoschka , Paul Klee , Emil Nolde and others. a. in the town hall of Landsberg am Lech. After the war he made Lech landscape photographs for the municipal works and published a portfolio with newly developed historical photographs of Landsberg.

Today, wall paintings by Johann Mutter can still be seen in Landsberg. This includes a market scene at the Pfannenstielhaus on Alte Bergstrasse, as well as a Lechflößer in traditional local costume on a bay window at the “Lechhaus”, on the old city administration building in Katharinenstrasse, in the immediate vicinity of Johann-Mutter-Strasse, which is named after him. Further commissioned work that Johann Mutter carried out for the city is the colored new version of the crucifixion figures at the Bayertor in 1949 and the renewal of the facade painting on the monastery church in 1955.

Mother died in Landsberg in 1974.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Wunder: When will Johann Mutter be discovered? augsburger-allgemeine.de, September 13, 2016
  2. ^ Anton Posset: Landsberg "City of Youth" - The German youth "pilgrims" to the "Hitler city". buergervereinigung-landsberg.de, 2007
  3. ↑ Michael Strasas: The images that must make the city fathers blush in the face. buergervereinigung-landsberg.de; Manfred Deiler, Anton Posset: The last way of the concentration camp prisoners. The end of the concentration camps around Landsberg / Kaufering. buergervereinigung-landsberg.de
  4. ^ Anton Posset : Death March and Liberation - Landsberg in April 1945: The end of the Holocaust in Bavaria , publisher (ed.): Bürgerervereinigung Landsberg in the 20th century , Landsberg, 1993, ISBN 3-9803775-1-2 , p. 5.
  5. ↑ Death March Memorial (Landsberg am Lech). Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
  6. ↑ 02.03.2018: Johann Mutter exhibition. landsberg.de
personal data
SURNAME Mother, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Geretshausen
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1974
Place of death Landsberg am Lech