Karl Stirner (painter)

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Karl Stirner (born November 4, 1882 in Rosenberg ; † June 21, 1943 in Schwäbisch Hall ) was a German painter, illustrator and writer.

Life

Stirner came from a family of craftsmen and farmers in Rosenberg. The father was missing in America. After finishing school in 1896, Stirner began an apprenticeship as a carpenter with the Ellwang master painter Severin Weber and took drawing lessons at an evening school. After completing his apprenticeship and his mother's death in 1899, he went on a journey as a painter - as was customary at the time - for several years. After returning in 1906 he attended the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts for a short time in the class of Prof. Hans von Kolb . He achieved his first great success in 1913 with the illustrations for Eduard Mörike's Stuttgart Hutzelmännlein . In the same year he made a trip to Algeria. After his return he had to seek medical treatment for a lung disease in a sanatorium in Agra , Switzerland. He got to know Hermann Hesse and worked at his library for German prisoners of war . The encounter with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and his expressionist painting style was of decisive importance for his further artistic development . In 1919 he worked with Kirchner on the Stafelalp in Davos. On trips to Sicily, the strong colors of his new painting style were able to fully develop in a variety of landscape paintings. In 1921 he returned home and settled in Ellwangen. There he started a family, and his first books appeared, which, in addition to his pictures, contained poems and stories of his own. In 1929 he made a second trip to Algeria, and then traveled through Palestine with his painter friend Alois Schenk. After his return in 1932 he was commissioned to illustrate the primer for the Catholic elementary schools in Württemberg , which was published again and again and with which generations of students learned to read. In 1936 - on a trip to Italy - he visited Hermann Hesse again. But his lung disease prevented him from working more and more. After several stays in the clinic, he succumbed to his serious illness on June 21, 1943 in the deaconess hospital in Schwäbisch Hall , and two days later he was buried in Rosenberg.

Works (selection)

Watercolor of the Swabian Alb by K. Stirner
  • The Athletes (1912)
  • Epiphany on the Stafelalp (1919)
  • Sunday afternoon (1920)
  • Hay harvest in the orchard (1920)
  • Shooting festival in Ellwangen (1923)
  • Ellwangen - Collegiate Church in Winter (1923)
  • Self-Portrait with Birch Leaf (1927)
  • Rainbow Bowl (1929)
  • In Retzbach's garden (1929)
  • Crucifixion in the Swiss Alps (1929)
  • Jerusalem - David's Castle (1930)
  • Sea of ​​Galilee looking towards the Horns of Hittim (1930)
  • Tiberias - Oriental corner of houses (1931)
  • Sicilian homestead (1933)
  • Self-Portrait in Syracuse (1934)
  • Syracuse - Greek Theater (1934)

Publications (selection)

  • On the move. Eugen Salzer-Verlag, Heilbronn 1922.
  • Of me and you E. Salzer, Heilbronn 1924.
  • At the pilgrimage site. Schwabenverlag, Stuttgart 1927.
  • It becomes right every year. Ellwangen: Schwabenverlag, 1928.
  • The Karl Stirner book. E. Fink, Stuttgart 1935/1946.
  • Walks on the Mediterranean. E. Fink, Stuttgart 1946.
  • What is ours. E. Fink, Stuttgart 1946.

Publications by other authors with illustrations by Stirner

  • Eduard Mörike: The Stuttgart Hutzelmännlein. Holbein-Verlag, Munich 1913.
  • Ludwig Finckh : The soil seer. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1914.
  • H. Hesse, W. Stich: A Swabian book for the German prisoners of war. Publishing house of the Central Library for German Prisoners of War, Bern 1919.
  • August Lämmle : The old church. Eugen Salzer-Verlag, Heilbronn 1926.
  • Alois Wiehl : legendary gold. Schwabenverlag, Ellwangen 1927.
  • August Lämmle: Württemberg folk songs. Eugen Salzer-Verlag, Heilbronn: 1930.
  • Karl Allmendinger  : Primer for the Catholic elementary schools in Württemberg. Schwabenverlag, Ellwangen 1933.

literature

  • Hermann Hauber: Karl Stirner - The Swabian painter poet , Ellwangen: Schwabenverlag, 1982
  • Hermann Hauber: Karl Stirner and Alois Schenk in the Holy Land , Stuttgart: Betulius-Verlag, 2005
  • Hermann Hauber: Karl Stirner 1882–1943, His work in the mirror of art criticism, with a catalog raisonné , Ellwangen: Kultur-, Presse- und Touristikamt, 2007
  • Max Schefold : Stirner, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938.
  • Stirner, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. 6 volumes. EA Seemann, Leipzig.

Web links

Commons : Karl Stirner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The biography of the painter-poet Karl Stirner. gemeinde-rosenberg.de.
personal data
SURNAME Stirner, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, illustrator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenberg
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1943
Place of death Schwäbisch Hall