Leo Samberger

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Leo Samberger
Leo Samberger portrays Friedrich August von Kaulbach . Caricature by F. A, Kaulbach (1902)

Leo Samberger (born August 14, 1861 in Ingolstadt , † April 8, 1949 in Munich , according to other information in Geitau (today Bayrischzell) ) was a German painter and portraitist of Munich celebrities.

Career and work as a painter

Samberger grew up in Bamberg . From 1880 to 1887 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , first with Gyula Benczúr , then, after a break and traveling to Italy, with Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger . From 1888 he worked in changing studios of his own in Munich. In 1892 Samberger was one of the founding members of the Munich Secession . From 1889 to 1895 he worked in a studio building on Theresienstraße in Munich's Maxvorstadt, which was also made famous by other Munich artists . In 1904 Samberger took part in the first exhibition of the German Association of Artists in Munich with the oil painting Nachtgedanken (an anonymous portrait of a woman) and four other works.

Because of the air raids on Munich in World War II , Samberger lived in Geitau from 1943. In 1948 he returned to Munich and moved into a room with an emergency studio in Suresnes Castle ; There he died in April 1949 of flu with subsequent pneumonia .

family

Samberger's mother, the daughter of a senior Bavarian military man, died in 1881. His father, a teacher, shared an apartment with Leo Samberger in Munich from 1895 to 1908, first in Knöbelstrasse in Lehel, then - after a break from Leo's brief first marriage - in Kaulbachstrasse in Schwabing . In 1918 the father died very old. Samberger was married twice. After the death of his first wife, he married again; his second wife died in 1938. Samberger's son Leo Samberger jr. was a district home nurse in Munich for many years.

Relationship to National Socialism

Samberger is not known to be a member of the NSDAP. Together with a number of other Munich artists, including German Bestelmeyer , Oswald Bieber , Roderich Fick , Angelo Jank and Richard Klein , Samberger signed the "Declaration of the German Association of Artists 1933" against "Art Bolshevism", which was published in June in the Völkischer Beobachter . The declaration was directed in particular against Emil Nolde , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , Paul Klee , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the artist group Die Brücke , in general against - so the declaration literally - “[…] the people who set the artistic pacemakers of the disruptive have been communist revolution and have received the strongest and most emphatic support from the Marxist state, lodges and Judaism [...]. "

In 1944 Leo Samberger was put on the God-gifted list of the most important painters in the Nazi state.

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Samberger emerged primarily as a portrait painter. In the early days of his work he was under the influence of Franz von Lenbach , but later developed his own typical expression, which is characterized by a rough, not very detailed line and which was sometimes interpreted as impressionistic.

Samberger portrayed the Munich celebrities of his time, especially people from the artistic community. In addition to his oil paintings, a series of charcoal drawings by Munich artists is significant. Samberger also emerged as a painter of saints. The list of well-known Munich people who were portrayed by him is long. Most famous are his portraits of Joseph Schülein , Father Rupert Mayer , and Pope Benedict XV. and Pope Pius XI.

Leo Samberger's work was described in numerous magazine articles and monographs from 1910 onwards.

Self-description

“ I painted the painter colleague Huber-Feldkirch as a finished portrait in one afternoon. This is probably what suits me best with my temperament. Working out into the fine details is not my thing. Somehow the bold advance pushes me. "

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Represented with a picture at the International Art Exhibition of the Munich Secession , 1893
  • Represented with 24 oil paintings at the exhibition in the Munich Glass Palace , 1926
  • Represented with 42 charcoal drawings in the Glaspalast, 1927
  • Special exhibition on his 70th birthday in the Glaspalast, 1931
  • Participation in the Munich art exhibition, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf 1932
  • Participation in the first Great German Art Exhibition , 1937
  • Participation in the Great German Art Exhibition with three paintings from earlier times, 1941
  • Memorial exhibition in Ingolstadt, 1949
  • Studio exhibition of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen , 1987

Honors and memberships

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annegret Hoberg: Leo Samberger. Hirmer, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7774-4450-2 , p. 10. (with the collaboration of Susanne Neuburger and the son of Leo Samberger)
  2. ↑ including Ekkart Sauser:  Leo Samberger. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 1281-1283.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Samberger, Leo ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 31, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  4. ^ Exhibition catalog X. Exhibition of the Munich Secession: The German Association of Artists (in connection with an exhibition of exquisite products of the arts in the craft) , Verlaganstalt F. Bruckmann, Munich 1904 (p. 29)
  5. ^ Frank Henseleit: The sculptor Bernhard Bleeker (1881–1968) - life and work. Dissertation, University of Augsburg, 2005 ( full text (PDF), p. 42).
  6. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Volume 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 462.
  7. ^ Annegret Hoberg: Leo Samberger. Hirmer, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7774-4450-2 , p. 28. (with the collaboration of Susanne Neuburger and the son of Leo Samberger).
  8. ↑ Honorary members and honorary senators of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, PDF document, accessed on July 11, 2011.
  9. ↑ Samberger, Leo ( Memento from August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Munich City Library, accessed on July 11, 2011.
  10. ^ Hans Dollinger : The Munich street names. 6., act. Edition. Südwest Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-517-08370-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Samberger, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingolstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1949
Place of death Munich or Geitau (today Bayrischzell)