Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt

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Kurt (also Curt) Meyer-Eberhardt (born April 10, 1895 in Leipzig , † July 25, 1977 in Munich ), actually Kurt Ernst Meyer, artist name since 1916 with the addition of his mother's maiden name, was a German painter , graphic artist and illustrator .

He is known to a wide audience for his well-versed depictions of animals ( drypoint color etchings ) , often aiming at emotion and humor . These were printed by Hanfstaengl Verlag from 1916 until after his death . His early work up to the beginning of the 1920s reflects various art movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His later painting and graphic work on his own commission - especially landscapes, animal portraits and still lifes - are considered to be a contribution to the tradition of a realistic Munich school .

life and work

Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt grew up in Erfurt since 1899 . From 1912 to 1917 he studied at the Grand Ducal Saxon University of Fine Arts in Weimar with Max Thedy , Theodor Hagen and Walther Klemm , whose master class he became in 1916. As a student he tried out portraits , interiors and animal representations as well as impressionistic landscape painting and etching techniques , since 1915 with interruptions due to short-term military service and the beginning of freelance work in Munich.

In the winter semester of 1919/1920 Meyer-Eberhardt returned from Munich to Weimar to the newly founded State Bauhaus . There he attended the nude and portrait course with Lyonel Feininger , possibly also sporadically the preliminary course from Johannes Itten . On July 1, 1920 he married the Bauhaus student Luise Gertrud Neumann († 1965) and finally moved to Munich in the same year.

In the war and early post-war years (1915 to 1920) he created drypoint etchings typical of the time, which mostly thematize marginal group environments (unemployed, brothel, circus) and have both melancholy and satirical tones. This graphic, as well as some study sheets and a painting from his Bauhaus period, document his exploration of expressionist and cubist forms well into the early 1920s. In the following he turned back to an impressionistic and naturalistic art.

Since the mid-1920s, its existence has been increasingly shaped by the dualism of artistic livelihoods - through animal etchings and common hunting images - and independent work in the “inner emigration” . Meyer-Eberhardt's watercolors and pastels of circus puddings (late 1920s / early 1930s) and his cycle of abandoned war horses Memento mori (from 1945) are considered a sensitive, time-critical contribution to animal portraits, while humans disappear from his work in the second creative phase.

Another complex of works, continued to the end of his life, includes interiors and still lifes, especially landscapes of the Munich area and the Mediterranean (since the 1930s, with echoes of Paul Cézanne ). Meyer-Eberhardt withdrew from military service and the art business of National Socialism . Artist friendships evidenced by correspondence connected him to Adolf Brütt and Oskar Coester . From 1972 he received a lifelong honorary salary from the city of Munich. Meyer-Eberhardt's studio was at Gedonstraße 6 in Munich-Schwabing.

On September 29, 2019, an episode of the NDR's Lieb & Teuer program was broadcast, moderated by Janin Ullmann and filmed in Reinbek Castle . In it, an etching by Meyer-Eberhardt was discussed with painting expert Beate Rhenisch, which shows a sitting terrier.

Works

Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt's works can be found in the following public collections:

In addition, a large part of his works is in private hands:

  • Art and Culture Court Fischen, Siegfried Kuhnke
  • Blanc Kunstverlag and Kupferdruckerei, Munich (original plates and hand prints from Meyer-Eberhardt's last printer, Franz Duchatsch)
  • Estate in the care of Christine Wacker

Participation in exhibitions during his lifetime

Personal exhibitions, posthumously

  • 1983: Monastery gallery, Fürstenfeldbruck
  • 1992: Galerie Gangart, Munich
  • 2003: Castle Museum; Classic Foundation Weimar
  • 2007: Galerie Wimmer, Munich

illustration

  • Schnick and Schneck. A cheerful dog story. In pictures and verse. Mayer, Munich 1939.
  • Brösl, the ignorant hunter. Verses and pictures. Schuler, Stuttgart 1964.

literature

  • Thieme Becker Artist Lexicon. Volume XXIV, EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, ISBN 3-363-00729-9 , p. 489.
  • Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Arts of the XX. Century. Volume III). EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, ISBN 3-363-00730-2 , p. 383.
  • Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tout les temps et de tout les pays. Volume 7, 3rd edition. Gründ, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-7000-0155-9 , p. 376.
  • Susanne and Paul Adeloch (eds.): Catalog Klostergalerie Fürstenfeldbruck 1983. Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt 1895–1977. Sales exhibition from March 20 to June 19, 1983. With a foreword by Wolfgang Braunfels . Fürstenfeldbruck 1983.
  • Horst Ludwig (Hrsg.): Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst. Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century. Volume 6, Bruckmann, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7654-1806-4 , pp. 82-84 and Fig. 101-103.
  • Damir Posaricz, Petruschka Thomas, Brigitte Corell (eds.): Camp catalog II. Graphics by Hanfstaengl and Schuler. Blanc Kunstverlag Kupferdruckerei, Munich 2001, p. 126f., Cat. No. me0001-0237, ABE-2163873150.
  • Rolf Bothe (Ed.): Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt - An artist between tradition and avant-garde. Exhibition of the Weimar Classic Foundation and art collections. Schloßmuseum from September 28 to November 30, 2003. Kessler, Weimar 2003, ISBN 3-7443-0124-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Posaricz, Petruschka, Corell (ed.): Camp catalog II. Graphics from Hanfstaengl and Schuler. Blanc Kunstverlag Kupferdruckerei, Munich 2001, p. 126f., Cat. No. me0001-0237.
  2. ^ Ludwig (ed.): Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst. Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century. Volume 6, Bruckmann, Munich 1994, pp. 82-84.
  3. ^ Bothe (ed.): Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt - An artist between tradition and avant-garde. Weimar 2003, pp. 8-28.
  4. ^ Bothe (ed.): Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt - An artist between tradition and avant-garde. Weimar 2003, p. 114.
  5. ^ Bothe (ed.): Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt - An artist between tradition and avant-garde. Weimar 2003, pp. 29-41.
  6. ^ Foreword by Wolfgang Braunfels , In: Adeloch (Hrsg.): Catalog Klostergalerie Fürstenfeldbruck 1983. Kurt Meyer-Eberhardt 1895–1977. without page indication.
  7. ↑ The correspondence is in the private possession of the estate administrator, Christine Wacker.
  8. ↑ Video Meyer-Eberhardt etching "Sitting Terrier" on ndr.de
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Eberhardt, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Kurt Ernst (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1977
Place of death Munich