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Matej stars

Matej Sternen (born September 20, 1870 in Verd near Vhrnika ; † June 28, 1949 in Ljubljana ) was a Slovenian painter and restorer . He is one of the most important Slovenian impressionists .

Life

Studied in Graz and Vienna, 1888–1899

After attending secondary school in Krško , Sternen studied at the state trade school in Graz from 1888 to 1891 . In Vienna he attended the academy from 1893 to 1899.

Studied in Munich, 1899–1905

In Munich, Sternen attended Anton Ažbe's private school . A photo shows him in Ažbe's studio together with Nadežda Petrović , Nikolaj Seddeler , Igor Emmanuilowitsch Grabar , Alexej von Jawlensky and other painter colleagues. At the same time, friends Rihard Jakopič and Matija Jama were studying with Ažbe from his home country . Since 1902, he worked alongside the oil painting with graphics , the etching , the Crayon and monotype . Ažbe owed the large influx of young art students to his modern and controversial style of painting. Because of his virtuoso brush technique with light and shadow, painting wet in wet - he was highly regarded. Sternen and many other Ažbe students have adopted the characteristic of broad, graphic-ornamental and light-containing color strokes in their own work. The Ažbe painting recipe is very pronounced. B. in Sternens “Mädchenbildnis” from 1902. The appearance of the object dissolves in this painting in an aesthetic play of light and color. Sternen, the artistic lecture became so much an end in itself that his former classmate Richard Graef (1879–1945) wrote him a warning that he should “not paint too much impressionistic, even a bit of a motif.” Some Ažbe students became his imitators and stayed lifelong loyal to their teacher in style and technique. In a further comparison it is remarkable that Ažbe's painting can be stylistically assigned to the impressionism of Lovis Corinth and Anders Zorn .

It is striking in the biographies of several Ažbe students that all of a sudden they were disappointed in their initially so beloved teacher and left his school. Others returned to their homeland, remained Impressionists and hardly noticed how time passed by. Still others went straight to Paris or initially experimented on their own in order to come to Expressionism in different ways. Some of her former colleagues watched her progress with suspicion and incomprehension. This emerges very clearly from a letter Graef wrote to Sternen in 1913: “But do you know the Blue Riders , Kandinsky, Jawlensky etc., these art impostors? [...] And it is a hoax. Oh my God, stars, we are still so young and already belong to the old iron [...] What kind of old-fashioned buttons have we become, stars? [...] Aren't we still painting impressionistically? ”When Ažbe died on August 6, 1905, Sternen initially stayed in Munich to run a drawing school with the German painter Friedrich von Radler until 1907 .

Slovenia and trips abroad, 1907–1914

In 1907 Sternen moved to Slovenia and together with Jakopič set up a drawing school in Ljubljana. He spent 1909 in Paris after a trip through Italy. From 1910 he lived in Duino for two years . He interrupted his stay there to travel through Carinthia and Styria . Further trips took him repeatedly to Munich and Vienna.

In the first World War

Between 1914 and 1918 he worked as a war draftsman , photographer and restorer in various places in Upper Austria .

After the First World War

After the First World War , Sternen returned to Ljubljana. Among other things, he became a drawing teacher in the architecture department of the University of Ljubljana . From 1924 he ran a painting and restoration school. His most famous restoration work in Ljubljana is the restoration of the frescoes in the baroque Franciscan church , which had been destroyed by an earthquake. Sternen painted mainly in oil (nudes, portraits, genre pictures, landscapes, more rarely still lifes). Around 1,300 drawings belong to his estate. After Sternen died on June 28, 1949, he was buried in the Žale Central Cemetery.

literature

AC, stars, Matej, in exh. Cat .: Paths to Modernism and the Ažbe School in Munich, Museum Wiesbaden 1988, p. 128 Tomaz Brejc, Slovenski Impresionisti eropsko slikarstvo, Ljubljana 1982, p. 65–82

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AC, Sternen, Matej, in exh. Cat .: Paths to Modernism and the Ažbe School in Munich, Museum Wiesbaden 1988, p. 128
  2. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, Jawlensky and his companions in a new light, Munich 2004, Fig. 24, p. 39
  3. ↑ AC, Sternen, Matej, in exh. Cat .: Paths to Modernism and the Ažbe School in Munich, Museum Wiesbaden 1988, p. 128
  4. ↑ Peg Weiss, Kandinsky and Munich, Encounters and Changes, in exh. Cat .: Kandinsky and Munich, Munich 1982, p. 37
  5. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, Jawlensky and his companions in a new light, Munich 2004, Fig. 56, p. 67
  6. ↑ Jure Mikuz, La peinture de Matej stars, in exh. Cat .: Matej Sternen, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana 1976, p. 24
  7. ↑ AC, Sternen, Matej, in exh. Cat .: Paths to Modernism and the Ažbe School in Munich, Museum Wiesbaden 1988, p. 128
  8. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, Jawlensky and his companions in a new light, Munich 2004, pp. 59–61
  9. ↑ Jure Mikuz, La peinture de Matej stars, in exh. Cat .: Matej Sternen, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana 1976, p. 24 ff
  10. ↑ AC, Sternen, Matej, in exh. Cat .: Paths to Modernism and the Ažbe School in Munich, Museum Wiesbaden 1988, p. 128
  11. ↑ AC, Sternen, Matej, in exh. Cat .: Paths to Modernism and the Ažbe School in Munich, Museum Wiesbaden 1988, p. 128
  12. ↑ AC, Sternen, Matej, in exh. Cat .: Paths to Modernism and the Ažbe School in Munich, Museum Wiesbaden 1988, p. 128
personal data
SURNAME Stars, Matej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Verd at Vhrnika
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1949
Place of death Ljubljana