Johannes Beutner

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Glass mosaic column at the Prague cafe in Dresden

Johannes Beutner (born May 6, 1890 in Cunnersdorf , Saxon Switzerland , † July 18, 1960 in Loschwitz ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Johannes Beutner was born in Cunnersdorf near Hohnstein in 1890. He spent his childhood in Rochwitz . From 1905 to 1906 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy . His teachers included Johannes Raphael Wehle and Robert Sterl . This was followed by an apprenticeship as a chemograph for autotype and color etching until 1909 . After studying again at the Dresden Art Academy from 1920 to 1924, this time with Otto Hettner and as a master student with Ludwig von Hofmann , Beutner worked as a freelancer. From 1931 Beutner was a member of the artist group Sieben and from 1932 to 1934 of the Dresden Secession in 1932 . In December 1941 his son Wolfgang († 2006) was born in Nossen. His son Ernst followed in 1943.

Beutner's grave in the Loschwitz cemetery

After the bombing of Dresden , in which a large part of his work was lost, Beutner moved to Loschwitz at Robert-Diez-Straße 12. He worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist until his death in 1960. His grave is in Dresden on the Loschwitz cemetery .

Like Josef Hegenbarth and Hans Jüchser , Beutner is considered a conservative painter in the circle of the avant-garde Dresden Secession. He mainly created portraits of women and married his long-time model Hilde Franke in his second marriage.

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In addition to numerous nudes, Johannes Beutner also created landscape and portrait works. His best-known work is probably the glass mosaic column in front of Café Prague on Dresden's Altmarkt .

In the first half of 2010, the Pirna City Museum honored this lesser-known Dresden artist with a special exhibition. The artist's first large personal exhibition in a museum was made possible through a number of loans.

Works in museums and public collections (selection)

  • Altenburg (Thuringia), Lindenau Museum (forest park; panel painting, oil, 1928)
  • Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister (The artist's two sons; panel painting, 1947)

literature

  • Fritz Löffler : Johannes Beutner . Art book series "Painter and Work". VEB Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1987.
  • Local association Loschwitz-Wachwitz e. V. (Ed.): Artists on the Dresden Elbhang . Volume 1. Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 1999, ISBN 978-3-936240-01-6 , p. 22.
  • Jördis Lademann (Ed.): Johannes Beutner 1890–1960: Life and Work . Sandstein-Verlag, Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-940319-88-3 .
  • Joachim Menzhausen : In memory of Johannes Beutner . In: Elbhang courier . tape 5 . Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, 2000, p. 6-8 .
  • Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - A group of artists in the field of tension between art and politics. Hildesheim (inter alia) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 193–194, 363–364.
  • Johannes Beutner . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 176-177 .

Web links

Commons : Johannes Beutner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Johannes Beutner, Erich Fraaß , Otto Griebel , Hans Jüchser , Karl Kröner , Paul Wilhelm and Fritz Winkler .
  2. ^ Local association Loschwitz-Wachwitz e. V. (Ed.): Artists on the Dresden Elbhang . Volume 2. Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-936240-09-2 , p. 34.
  3. ↑ Johannes Beutner (1890–1960) - Life and Work from January 30 to May 9, 2010 in the Pirna City Museum. In: pirna.de. Retrieved September 17, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Beutner, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Cunnersdorf , Saxon Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1960
Place of death Loschwitz