Josef Futterer

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Flowers in a Vase, 1930

Josef Futterer (born February 12, 1871 in Mondfeld , † February 20, 1930 in Munich ) was a German draftsman, painter and etcher. He was August Futterer's brother .

Artistic career

After moving to Munich, Futterer was rejected from the art academy there , because Franz von Defregger said he could no longer learn anything there. From the turn of the century he began to work for the Meggendorfer-Blätter , Jugend and Simplicissimus . In 1905, Futterer took part in the IX with a pastel . International art exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace. From 1909 onwards, Impressionism gained more and more importance in his works, figural themes such as interiors, landscapes or pieces of flowers. Another exhibition followed in Mannheim in 1910, and in the same year a "collective exhibition by Josef Futterer" in the Thannhauser Gallery in Munich. In 1911 the painting "Copyist in the Gallery" was acquired for the Neue Pinakothek . In 1912 he and his brother August Futterer were made honorary citizens of Mondfeld. They set up a foundation in Mondfeld. King Ludwig II appointed Josef Futterer royal in 1915. Bayer. Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He also made sketches and artist portraits from Munich's pub life. Josef Futterer went to Berlin in 1923 and joined the Berlin Secession at the suggestion of Max Liebermann . In 1928 he returned to Munich, and in the same year the Heinemann Gallery showed his works. He died on February 20, 1930 at the age of 59 in Munich. During the Second World War, 50 pictures that were brought to Würzburg were destroyed in the last days of the war and his studio apartment in Munich, in which his widow Klara Futterer kept most of his estate, was destroyed. In the Lenbachhaus there are 2 paintings - Landscape with a red parasol (acquired in 1952) and a bouquet of flowers (acquired in 1928).

Work and reception

Josef Futterer not only painted, he was also a talented draftsman and caricaturist, whereby he was able to quickly bring the little people, such as servants, flower women, waitresses, dumpling eaters, drinkers, to paper with a certain social criticism. Futterer's paintings, on the other hand, are characterized by an impressionism close to pointillism . In addition to interiors, landscapes and pieces of flowers, he also painted figural subjects. Extreme coloristic and compositional techniques fill his paintings with a radiant light. The well-known flower pieces by Futterer have a special luminosity, the interiors are reminiscent of Adolphe Monticelli and Édouard Vuillard . Hermann Reiner counts Futterer as a representative of Munich Impressionism to which the following painters belong:

Important exhibitions

  • 1905 - IX. International art exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace
  • 1910 - Exhibition in Mannheim
  • 1910 - Collective exhibition "Josef Futterer" in the Thannhauser Gallery in Munich
  • 1928 - Exhibition at the Heinemann Gallery
  • Permanent exhibition in the county museum in Wertheim.

Others

Josef Futterer was a gifted harmonica player, he played on so-called piccolos, a mini harmonica. After Reiner, Puccini and Caruso praised him as the best harmonica player in the world, Richard Strauss and Henry Ford were also listeners of his ability.

literature

  • Anton Sailer, the inventor of fodderism, Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 12, 1971.
  • Karl Spengler, It happened in Munich, p. 171 ff, Munich 1962.
  • Catalog of the exhibition Josef Futterer, Galerie Goedecker Bad Aibling 1980.
  • Roda Roda, Schwabylon .
  • Hermann Reiner, Munich impressionist of the twenties, 1981.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H. Reiner, Munich Impressionists of the Twenties, 1981, with numerous illustrations (Reiner 1981).
  2. ↑ H. Reiner 1981 without page number.
  3. ^ Image of the copyist in the gallery .
  4. ↑ H. Reiner 1981.
  5. ↑ H. Reiner 1981.
  6. ↑ H. Reiner 1981, who refers to the art historian Georg Jacob Wolf .
  7. ↑ H. Reiner, Munich Impressionists of the Twenties, 1981.
  8. ↑ H. Reiner 1981 with reference to the laudation on the 100th birthday of the painter by Anton Sailer.
personal data
SURNAME Futterer, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Futterer, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Moon field
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1930
Place of death Munich