Oskar Graf (painter)

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Oskar Graf (born December 26, 1873 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; died February 22, 1958 in Bad Boll ) was a German naturalist painter . He also called himself Oscar Graf . He saw himself as a painter, graphic artist and etcher.

Life

Oskar Graf was the son of the businessman Oskar Graf (1843–1903) and his wife Elisabeth Barbara Graf, b. Franz (1844-1928). He spent his childhood and youth in Heidelberg . In 1893 he moved to the then artists' colony in Dachau and achieved mastery in one of the most difficult techniques, the aquatint etching. Graf was a pupil of Heinrich Knirr (1890/91), Ludwig Schmid-Reutte (1891) and Adolf Hölzel (1891–93), later in his time in Paris (1894) by Ferdinand Cormon.

Aquatint sheets such as "Judas" or "Flood Moon Night", as well as the colored etching "Heidelberg" published in 1904, became famous around the turn of the century. For his art paper "Pieta" he received the gold medal in art exhibitions in Dresden and Munich and in 1902 from the City of Vienna.

In 1902 Oskar Graf married the painter and graphic artist Cäcilie Bader-Pfaff, b. Pfaff, who from then on called herself Cäcilie Graf-Pfaff . Together with her he created a portfolio of watercolors from Dalmatia.

As an early member of the German Association of Artists , he took part in the first DKB exhibition in the Kgl in 1904, which was then still organized by the Munich secessionists . Art exhibition building on Königplatz with the oil painting Homecoming . Before the First World War, Oskar Graf was appointed "Royal Professor" by the Wittelsbach family. During the First World War he was a war painter under the command of Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria; during the Second World War he was the sole war painter in Italy. In 1919 he got a teaching position for freehand drawing at the TH in Munich. Graf later received the "Goethe Medal for Art and Science".

During his creative period, etchings such as "Holledauer Brücke near Ingolstadt", "Danube Bridge near Leipheim", "Echelsbacher Brücke", "Bridge over the" Drachenlochschlucht "," Cathedral in Siena "," Markus-Platz in Venice "," Bamberg Rider "were known ", but also pictures from the Dachau period, from Heidelberg, Limburg, Salzburg, from Lake Constance and city and landscape pictures from Italy. The oil paintings" Crucifixion "," Adoration of the Magi "," David and Goliath ", as well as "Aphrodite" (the latter today in the possession of the German Historical Museum in Berlin).

Oskar and Cäcilie Graf lived together in Freiburg / Breisgau, Dachau and Munich-Schwabing . After the death of his wife in 1939, the apartment in Munich was bombed during World War II, and Oskar Graf relocated to Bad Boll. Here mainly his landscape paintings in oil were created. He died on February 22, 1958 in Bad Boll; He was buried in Munich in the forest cemetery .

literature

  • Book about Oscar Graf on his 80th birthday in 1953 published by Günter Thiemig, Munich
  • Book "Oscar and Cäcilie Graf - Etching" published by Franz Hanfstaengl, Munich
  • Photo book Salzburg by Hermann Kerber, KuK court bookseller, Salzburg, with 200 pictures by Oscar and Cäcilie Graf
  • Documentation about Oskar Graf and Cäcilie Graf-Pfaff In: Das Bild 1936, Issue 12, pp. 376–383 (with 6 illustrations).
  • Art in the Third Reich 1937, No. 9, illustration Bridge near Leipheim

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. 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) , Publishing House F. Bruckmann, Munich 1904, p. 21: Graf (-Fbg.), Oscar, Munich. Fig. 15: Homecoming. Oil painting.
personal data
SURNAME Count, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Count, Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of naturalism
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1958
Place of death Bad Boll