Julius Herburger

Julius Herburger (born May 25, 1900 in Ravensburg ; † September 2, 1973 ibid) was a German painter and graphic artist, member of the Berlin Artists 'Union and the German Artists' Union , and a founding member of the Oberschwaben-Bodensee secession.

life and work

Herburger studied from 1919 to 1927 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart under Professors Heinrich Altherr and Christian Landenberger . As the youngest member of the Berlin Artists' Union, his pictures have been exhibited in Berlin , Essen , Munich , Stuttgart and Vienna . In the 1920s he had several exhibitions in the Württemberg region. During his study trip to Paris with Willi Baumeister in 1926, he met Fernand Léger , Le Corbusier and Piet Mondrian . In 1928 he took part in the Stuttgart Secession for the first time and received the Stuttgart City Prize. In 1937 his “Bodensee-Landschaft” was removed from the Ulm Museum by the Nazis . The mural “The Friends” from 1928 (in the Albert Einstein High School in Ravensburg) was painted over because he refused to paint swastika flags on his friends' hands. The mural was exposed again in the 1980s and can be viewed during normal school hours. In 1939 he was called up for military service in World War II . The Oberschwaben-Bodensee secession was co-founded by him in 1946. In 1952 he became a member of the jury for the Stuttgart Secession and a board member of the Oberschwaben Art Association.

Most of his many landscape motifs were created in Langenargen on Lake Constance. Two large oil paintings in the Langenargen Museum are evidence of this. Herburger was very embittered by the events in the so-called Third Reich . In a dispute with a client about the intended delivery time, he instructed the café owner: "You can make cakes at any time on command, but that is not possible with works of art !!" (Source: L. Krafft, present at this conversation)

In terms of art history, Julius Herburger belongs to the Lost Generation and Expressive Realism .

Honors

• 1972: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Herburger, Julius ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 22, 2015)  
2. ^ Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive Realism. Painting of the Lost Generation , Hirmer, Munich 1994, p. 387.
3. ^ Ingrid von der Dollen: The Museum of Expressive Realism in the New Kißlegg Castle. (PDF; 257 kB) In: Im Oberland 2003, Issue 1. District Ravensburg, 2003, accessed on June 1, 2012 . 

literature

• Landscapes by Julius Herburger . With texts by Armin Ayren, Herbert Karl Kraft and Walter Münch. (= Art on the Lake; Vol. 1). Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1980, ISBN 3-922137-04-0
• André Ficus (Ed.): Secession Oberschwaben-Bodensee. Painter and sculptor in a landscape 1947–1977 . Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1977
• Eduard Hindelang (ed.): Julius Herburger - paintings, drawings . To the exhibition in the Museum Langenargen. Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1990, ISBN 3-922137-69-5
• Thomas Knubben (Ed.): Julius Herburger. The early years . Catalog for the exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Ravensburg. City of Ravensburg, Ravensburg 2000, ISBN 3-9804641-9-9
• Andreas Schalhorn: Julius Herburger (1900–1973) . In: Painter in Upper Swabia between Baroque and Modern . On the exhibition in Schloss Achberg 1999. Ravensburg district, Ravensburg 1999, pp. 179–186
• Friedrich Weller: “Don't impress, but delight”. The painter Julius Herburger . In: Schwäbische Heimat, 51/2000, pp. 194–203
• Rainer Zimmermann (Red.): Julius Herburger. Catalog of the Ravensburg Municipal Collection . City of Ravensburg, Ravensburg 1989

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Herburger in the catalog of the German National Library