Julius Graumann

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Julius Graumann (born May 12, 1878 in Fürth ; died June 2, 1944 in the Auschwitz extermination camp ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Julius Graumann was born in 1878 as the youngest son of the Jewish businessman and banker Gerson Graumann and his wife Maria, b. Bamberger was born in Fürth, the family moved to Nuremberg in 1889 . After graduating from high school in Nuremberg, he began an artistic training in Munich at Heinrich Knirr's private painting school . In 1898 he went on a study trip to Hungary. In the same year he was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He attended the painting class of Carl von Marr and Adolf Hölzel in Dachauand lived there from 1902 to 1914. In 1902 he set up his own studio in Munich. In 1906 he finished his studies at the Munich Academy. The first major exhibitions of his works took place in 1907 in the Munich Glass Palace . In the following years he exhibited together in the Folkwang Museum a . a. with Henri Matisse and Georg Jensen , in Nuremberg, Mannheim, Leipzig, Aachen and Berlin.

Ainmillerstraße 13 in Munich: Julius Graumann's studio was on the 4th floor of the building

In 1907 he founded the school for ornamentation and painting Graumann & Kertz together with Adolf Kertz in Munich . During this time he preferred to create impressionistic cityscapes and portraits. In 1914 he portrayed the Bavarian King Ludwig III in his studio at Ainmillerstraße 13 . During the First World War , Julius Graumann was drafted into the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment as a Landsturmmann on September 2, 1915, but he was spared from serving at the front.

After the war Graumann built on his artistic successes from the pre-war period and participated in various exhibitions in Germany. At the end of the 1920s he went to Berlin for some time . The magazine Jugend (1930, No. 50) used the portrait of Dr. H. von Julius Graumann on his title page.

After the National Socialists came to power , he fled to Switzerland on October 1, 1933 . In March 1934 he went to Paris . Here worked at the Maison Les Hortensias on Rue Jules Chaplain. In 1937 he also exhibited his works in Paris. After the Wehrmacht invaded France, Julius Graumann fled in 1940 to the unoccupied part of France, to Toulouse . In the following years he hid near the Spanish border in the southern French municipality of Bagnères-de-Luchon . In 1942 he was arrested by the Gestapo during a raid, deported to various internment camps and finally on May 25, 1944 to the Drancy assembly camp . From there he was deported five days later on the 75th transport to Auschwitz , where he was murdered shortly after arriving on June 2, 1944.

After the works of Julius Graumann had largely been forgotten after the Second World War , the kunst galerie fürth dedicated a special exhibition to Julius Graumann and Adolf Kerz in 2008. Today his works belong to the inventory of numerous galleries and museums, u. a. the municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus and the painting collection of the museums of the city of Nuremberg.

In the broadcast " Art and Krempel " of BR TV on May 4, 2019, a double image of Graumann was presented. The front of the canvas shows an early Impressionist portrait of a woman, while the back of the canvas shows a self-portrait of the artist in the New Objectivity style from the 1930s.

Works (selection)

Girl painting
Julius Graumann , 
Oil on canvas
54 × 72 cm
The Panther Gallery , Freising

Link to the picture
(please note copyrights )

  • Girl painting (1905)
  • Willow bushes on Gröbenbach with the old Dachau market (1906)
  • Portrait of a boy (1907)
  • Portrait of King Ludwig III. of Bavaria (1914)
  • Going home (1917)
  • Carousel (1918)
  • The wise men from the Orient (1922)
  • In the Romanisches Café (1926)
  • Portrait of the painter Franz Baum (1927)
  • Clay pit (1928)
  • Dachau farming family (1928)
  • Portrait of the writer Hans E. Hirsch (1929)
  • Oktoberfest booth (1929)
  • Alexanderplatz in Berlin (1929)
  • Masks, books and jugs (1930)
  • View from the studio window (1931)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Glaspalast, Munich 1907ff.
  • Folkwang Museum, 1907
  • Exhibition by the Munich Artists' Cooperative, Nuremberg 1912
  • Book trade exhibition, Leipzig 1914
  • First Upper German exhibition, Munich 1925
  • Art gallery, Fürth 2008
  • Museum Art of the Lost Generation, Salzburg 2019

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation database - Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich. Biographies from eight centuries . Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-744-5 , pp. 227 .
  3. ↑ Exhibitions in the Folkwang Museum. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The King's Magnificent Cow. September 28, 2004, accessed May 4, 2019 .
  5. ^ Bavarian Main State Archives Munich - Department IV War Archives: War Master Rolls 1914-1918; Volume: 4501. War log: Vol. 5.
  6. ↑ Julius Graumann. In: Le Mémorial de la déportation des juifs de France. Béate et Serge Klarsfeld, accessed May 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Gedenkblatt Julius Graumann: Gedenkbuch - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945. Federal Archives, accessed on May 4, 2019 .
  8. ^ Art gallery fürth (Fürth) Exhibition: Julius Graumann and Adolf Kertz - From salon to abstraction. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Doppelbild: Two sides of one life . May 3, 2019 ( br.de [accessed May 4, 2019]).

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personal data
SURNAME Graumann, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz extermination camp