Oskar Obier

Oskar (Friedrich Heinrich) Obier (born August 23, 1876 in Militsch / Silesia ; † August 8, 1952 in Stuttgart ), with the stage name Oscar Obier , was a German late impressionist painter from the Stuttgart school of Reiniger and Pleuer . He created oil paintings based on works by old masters, portraits, landscapes and ivory paintings in miniature format .

biography

Obier found painting at school age. He was discovered in confirmation class by the superintendent Daechsel and promoted by the military count and art patron Andreas von Maltzan .

In 1896 Obier began studying at the Royal Art and Trade School in Breslau with Eduard Kaempffer . In 1899 he first attended the painting school of Carl von Marr at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was then trained by Ludwig von Herterich . In 1902 and 1903 he went on a study trip to Italy, particularly to Florence. In 1904 he continued his studies at the Stuttgart Art Academy under Robert von Haug (1857–1922) and finished it in 1908. From 1906 Obier lived and worked in Stuttgart.

Oil paintings of his homeland Militsch were created early on. His works were exhibited in Wroclaw. During his studies Obier began to deal intensively with old masters, including a. with Rembrandt, Rubens and Velasquez. In 1906, after several preliminary studies, the important triptych “The Great Anatomy Lesson” was created, today in the Stuttgart Art Museum . During this time numerous portraits, charcoal, pen and pencil drawings and etchings were created.

In 1909 the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart organized the artist's first exhibition. The oil painting “The Model” from 1912 was given to art lovers in the countries on the Rhine for the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt. In 1912 Obier married the Kassel children's book author and singer Friederike Goßmann. His only child was born in 1915. After returning from the war in 1918, he divorced. In 1913 he took part in the "Great Stuttgart Art Exhibition" on the occasion of the inauguration of the new art building of the Stuttgart Artists' Union and was mentioned in art books by Julius Baum and Wilhelm Schäfer .

For the first time in 1921, the artist dealt with ivory miniature painting, a watercolor painting to be done with a magnifying glass, in which thin, mostly oval shaped ivory plates serve as image carriers .

For fairy tales ( Manfred Kyber , Die Drei Lichter der kleine Veronika) and stories (B. Ris, Herbstzeitlose), from 1929 "colored illustration thoughts", delicate watercolor series, were created.

Obier was a member of the German Association of Artists . He regularly took part in art exhibitions in the Stuttgart area. Many of his paintings were sold to museums in Stuttgart. He became a member of the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, the Exhibitor Association Künstlerbund Stuttgart and the Association of Visual Artists Württemberg .

After 1944 he lived in Heumaden and Sillenbuch , where he died in 1952 after a long illness.

Works (selection)

• 1900, “View of the Staffelsee”, oil / canvas, private collection
• 1902, “Self - Tyrol. Eppan-Girlan ”, oil / canvas
• 1905, "The old master tailor", oil / canvas, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
• 1905, “Josephine Bock. Seemos - Bodensee “, pen drawing
• 1906, “The Great Anatomy Lesson”, triptych, oil / canvas, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
• 1906, "Young girl (Miss Weller)", pen drawing
• 1908, "Even before the easel", pencil drawing, private property
• 1909, "Der Phantast", oil / canvas, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
• 1909, "Isaac's Sacrifice", oil / canvas
• 1911, "The Model", oil / canvas, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
• 1913, “The Englishwoman”, pen drawing, private property
• 1913, "Friederike with a straw hat", oil / canvas
• 1920, “Portrait of the Mother”, oil / canvas, private property
• 1921, “My little daughter at the age of 7”, miniature on ivory
• 1929, "Krasper - Ferner", charcoal drawing, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Graph. collection
• 1930, “The little anatomy lesson”, oil / canvas, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
• 1930, "Wilhelm Blos (retired state president)", oil / canvas, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart / Villa Reitzenstein
• 1931, “The three lights of little Veronika”, 16 watercolors (based on the novel of the same name by M. Kyber), z. T. private property, z. T. Art Museum Stuttgart
• 1931, “Die Herbstzeitlose”, 5 watercolors (based on the story by B. Ris, Die Herbstzeitlose), private collection
• 1931, “Young girl in a yellow dress”, oil / canvas, private collection
• 1933, "Spring on Lake Constance (Überlinger See)", oil / canvas, private collection
• 1934, “Sunny House”, watercolor, private collection
• 1937, “Self-Portrait”, oil / canvas, private property
• 1939, “Still life peaches”, oil / canvas, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
• 1939, “Mozart Trio”, oil / canvas, private collection
• 1940, "Hornschuch", miniature on ivory
• 1941, "Der Netzflicker", oil / canvas, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
• 1946, "Die Gundel", red chalk drawing, private property
• 1948, “Autumn Trees”, watercolor, private collection
• 1949, “Meinezimmererecke”, oil / canvas, private property
• 1949, "Mondschein", watercolor, private collection
• undated, “In the foothills of the Alps by moonlight”, oil / canvas, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
• undated, “Magnolia blossom in the Wilhelma”, oil / canvas, private collection

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 1909 Oskar Obier Württ. Stuttgart Art Association
• 1915 “Christoph H. Drexel and Oskar Obier” Folkwang Museum Essen

Participation in important exhibitions

• 1913 Large art exhibition in Stuttgart for the inauguration of the art building of the Stuttgarter Künstlerbund
• 1914 art exhibition of the Württ. Kunstverein Stuttgart
• 1914 International exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bremen 1914 (February 1 - March 31, 1914)
• 1927 Anniversary exhibition of the Württ. Kunstverein Stuttgart on the occasion of its centenary
• 1932 Exhibition of the Stuttgarter Künstlerbund
• 1938 Silesian art exhibition of the Württ. Kunstverein Stuttgart
• 1948 Christmas exhibition Württ. Kunstverein Stuttgart
• 1949 Exhibitor Association Künstlerbund Stuttgart
• 1949 Exhibition of the Württ. Kunstverein Stuttgart
• 1949, 1950, 1951 traveling exhibitions Association image. Artist Stuttgart
• 2009 three. The triptych in modern times. Stuttgart Art Museum
• 2015 The sharpness of the pictures. The etching in the vicinity of the Stuttgart Academy. City Gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen

literature

Books, encyclopedias, directories

• F. Back: Directory of the paintings. Grand Ducal Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1914, p. 233.
• Julius Baum: The Stuttgart Art of the Present. Stuttgart 1913, pp. 59-60, 300 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Emmanuel Bénézit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs…. 8 volumes, Gründ, Paris 1955, p. 402.
• Emmanuel Bénézit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs…. 10 volumes, nouv. Ed. Volume 7: Loy-Oka. Gründ, Paris 1976, T 7, p. 774.
• Emmanuel Bénézit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs…. 14 volumes, Volume 10: Mullert – Pinto Pereira. Gründ, Paris 1999, p. 313.
• J. Busse: International manual of all painters and sculptors of the 19th century (= Busse directory ) Verlag Busse Art Documentation GmbH, Wiesbaden 1977, p. 916.
• RM Gorenflo: Directory of visual artists from 1880 to the present day. A biographical-bibliograph. Reference work on contemporary art. Rüsselsheim 1988, Volume 2, p. 604.
• Gabriele Howaldt: Painting 1800 to 1900. Part 1. Hess. Landesmuseum Darmstadt and Hans Peters Verlag, Hanau 1979, p. 78 and photo no.76.
• Gert K. Nagel: Swabian painters, sculptors and other artists - An illustrated artist lexicon of the last 200 years. Stuttgart 1975, p. 116.
• Gert K. Nagel: Swabian artist lexicon. From the baroque to the present. Kunst & Antiquitäten Verlag München 1986, p. 90.
• Wilhelm Schäfer: Sculptor and painter in the countries on the Rhine. Düsseldorf 1913, pp. 71, 84 and 168.
• Hans F. Schweers: Paintings in German museums. Catalog of the exhibited and depot-stored works, 3rd edition, Saur Munich 2002, part I, volume 3, p. 1447.
• Obier, Oskar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 551 .

Exhibition catalogs

• Draftsman in southwest Germany from 1900 to 1945. Owned. Exhibition June 30 to August 22, 1976. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphic Collection, Stuttgart 1976, No. 89.
• Art of the 19th and 20th centuries in Baden-Württemberg. 25 years of the gallery of the city of Stuttgart in the art building. Acquisitions since 1961. Exhibition February 6 to March 9, 1986. Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1986, p. 99.
• Three. The triptych in modern times. Exhibition February 7 to June 14, 2009. Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Pp. 66-69, 311.
• The sharpness of the pictures. The etching in the vicinity of the Stuttgart Academy. Exhibition July 24 to October 11, 2015. Städt. Gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen. Pp. 054-055.

Newspapers, magazines

• Oskar Obier in the Württ. Kunstverein. In: Deutsches Volksblatt. Stuttgart, Vol. 61, No. 231 of October 11, 1909, p.
• Württembergischer Kunstverein: Oskar Obier and Martin Nicolaus. In: Swabian Mercury. October 15, 1938.
• Silesian art exhibition. A consideration of the exhibition at the Württ. Kunstverein. Volkischer Beobachter October 10, 1938.
• To the pictures by Obier, Planck, von Heider, Hoffmann and HE Braun-Kirchberg. In: The picture. 1939, pp. 114-118.
• Two well-known painters died. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. August 11, 1952, No. 183, p. 5.
• Oscar Obier died. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. August 11, 1952.
• NN: Painter Oskar Obier. In: Militsch – Trachenberger Kreis- u. City Gazette. 1954, No. 7, p. 2.
• Bärbel Röhricht: Oskar Obier - a military child. On the 25th anniversary of his death on August 8, 1977. In: Militsch – Trachenberger Kreis- u. City Gazette. 1977, No. 287, p. 4.
• NN: It was the 40th anniversary of ... In: Militsch – Trachenberger Kreis- u. City Gazette. 1992, No. 9, p.
• Chr. E. Palmer, T. John: Three presidential portraits in the Villa Reitzenstein. In: Swabian homeland. 2005/2, pp. 202-213.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Obier, Oskar ( kuenstlerbund.de ).