Oskar Zwintscher

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Oskar Zwintscher, photo by Hugo Erfurth , 1907
Self-Portrait , 1895

Oskar Bruno Zwintscher (born May 2, 1870 in Leipzig , † February 12, 1916 in Dresden ) was a German painter .

Life

Oskar Zwintscher, a son of the piano teacher Bruno Zwintscher (1838–1905) and brother of the pianist Rudolf Zwintscher (1871–1946), studied from 1887 to 1890 at the Leipzig Art Academy and School of Applied Arts and was a student of Leon Pohle and Ferdinand Pauwels from 1890 to 1892 at the Dresden Art Academy . After his studies, he settled as a freelance artist in Meißen , where he lived for a few years in the Albrechtsburg and was able to work freely for three years thanks to the "Munkelt'sche Legat", a grant from the E. Munkelt'schen Foundation for Saxon painters . In 1898 he went public for the first time with a larger collection of his works. In 1898 he was a prize winner in Ludwig Stollwerck's first competition for designs for Stollwerck collectibles . Many well-known artists took part in the competition; the judges included Emil Doepler the Elder . J., Woldemar Friedrich , Bruno Schmitz and Franz Skarbina . In order to improve his livelihood, Zwintscher temporarily worked as a cartoonist for the Meggendorfer papers .

In 1898, Zwintscher's collection of pictures “Jahreszeiten” was published, in 1900 the series “Das Gewitter” followed. In 1902, at the invitation of Rainer Maria Rilke, he visited the Worpswede artists' colony , where he was supposed to paint a portrait of himself and his wife Clara . It is believed that the recommendation came from Heinrich Vogeler , whom he met in 1900.

Zwintscher's grave

Since 1903 Zwintscher taught as a professor at the Dresden Art Academy . Zwintscher was also an early member of the German Association of Artists . Already at the first annual DKB exhibition, which was organized in 1904 in the Royal Art Exhibition Building on Königsplatz in Munich with the help of the secessionists , he took part with an oil painting in symbolist Art Nouveau . In 1904 he was a judge in a competition by Ludwig Stollwerck and Otto Henkell for the submission of designs "of illustrations for the purpose of propaganda for their chocolate or cocoa and champagne products." Other judges included Emil Doepler the Elder. J., Woldemar Friedrich, Claus Meyer , Bruno Schmitz, Raffael Schuster-Woldan and Franz Skarbina.

Oskar Zwintscher died in Dresden in 1916. His grave is in the artists' cemetery in the Loschwitz district of Dresden . The grave figure, an ephebe with a lowered torch, was made by Sascha Schneider .

classification

Zwintscher's work shows a variety of art-historical influences. He made use of both Greek and Italian pictorial inventions, which he combined with the current composition and color conceptions of Art Nouveau . It forms contradicting balancing acts between traditional historicism and contemporary Art Nouveau.

Portrait of Heinrich Vogeler , 1902
Adele in hamster fur , 1914

Zwintscher was a very careful, downright pedantic painter and a principled opponent of Impressionism . A contemporary described him as "a good Saxon and a real son of the Central German level, but also a little bit strange and crazy."

His pictures are entirely in the painterly tradition of Lucas Cranach or Hans Holbein ; they are not subjective snapshots, but a realistic shot in the style of the old masters. Ludwig Richter , Moritz von Schwind and Arnold Böcklin influenced the young artist. He had a close friendship with the artist Sascha Schneider.

With fifteen of Zwintscher's paintings, the Albertinum Museum is one of the painter's most important groups of works, alongside that of the Dresden City Gallery . For a research project, it was also possible in 2020 to bring the long-lost painting Adele in Hamster's Fur , a portrait of his wife Adele from 1914, to Dresden as a long-term loan. Zwintscher's 150th birthday on May 2, 2020 will be celebrated accordingly.

Works (selection)

  • The Bad News (1891)
  • Hard Hours (1893)
  • Longing (1895)
  • A Ghost of the Century (1898)
  • Grief (1898)
  • Portrait of Clara Rilke-Westhoff (1902)
  • Portrait of Heinrich Vogeler (1902)
  • The Melody (1903)
  • Pieta (1906)
  • Lord Mayor Beutler (1910)
  • Mrs. Apel (1912)
  • Lenzfreude (1915)
  • Portrait of the writer Ottomar Enking
  • Portraits of his wife - Portrait in Flowers (1904), Portrait with Green-Black Tiles (1906), Gold and Mother-of-Pearl (1909), Portrait in the Summer Garden (1910)

  • Longing , 1895

  • Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke , 1902

  • Portrait of Clara Rilke-Westhoff , 1902

  • Girl with White Asters , 1903

  • The melody , 1903

literature

Web links

Commons : Oskar Zwintscher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs , 1904, Part I, p. 972.
  2. ↑ Kunstgewerbeblatt , Volume 9, 1898, p. #.
  3. ↑ Ralf Hübner: The still puzzling painter . In: Saxon newspaper . May 2, 2020.
  4. ↑ Janina Majerczyk: Oskar Zwintscher: Between Symbolism and New Objectivity , p. 35 (online)
  5. ↑ Members since 1903 on the website of the Deutscher Künstlerbund , last accessed on December 7, 2017
  6. ↑ 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). (Exhibition catalog) Publishing house F. Bruckmann, Munich 1904, p. 33, fig. 51 ( boy and lily ).
  7. ↑ Kunstgewerbeblatt , 15th year 1904, p. #.
  8. ↑ See the web link Saxon Biography
  9. ↑ “Adele im Hamsterfurz” comes to Oskar Zwintscher's 150th birthday in the Albertinum , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, published and accessed on February 5, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Zwintscher, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zwintscher, Oskar Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1916
Place of death Dresden