Paul Berger-Bergner

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The painter Paul Berger-Bergner

Paul Berger-Bergner (born February 10, 1904 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † July 18, 1978 in Mannheim ) was a German painter .

Life

Paul Berger-Bergner was the son of Paul Bergner ( P. Bergner recte Berger ), a restorer , director of the Rudolfinum (the only public gallery) in Prague, and his wife Maria Bergner, nee. Blasphemers. A friend in his childhood and youth in Prague was Josef Paul Hodin , whose artist novel Die Brühlsche Terrasse Bergner's career in the Dresden artist circle is about.

When his father died early, he had to begin an apprenticeship. He completed this in the painting studio of the porcelain factory in Schlackenwerth near Karlsbad . Then he became a student with Walter Klemm in Berlin . In 1925 Berger-Bergner began studying at what was then the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden with Robert Sterl . In 1928 he became a master student, from 1931 he worked as a freelance painter in Dresden. Berger-Bergner was a member of the Dresden Secession in 1932 . As a proletarian revolutionary artist in the 1920s and 30s Berger-Bergner created a number of demonstration pictures.

In 1940 he moved to the now occupied Prague, from 1941 to 1945 he was a soldier in the Wehrmacht. When his studio in the Polytechnic School on Antonsplatz was destroyed in 1945, he lost part of his work. After the war, Berger-Bergner became a teacher of painting at the University of Applied Sciences in Mannheim , which he took over in 1957.

In terms of art history, he belongs to the Lost Generation and Expressive Realism .

Berger-Bergner had a relationship with Thea Piekara for a while, they had a child.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Works in museums and public collections (selection)

  • Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister ( demonstration ; panel painting, 1932)
  • Cologne, Museum Ludwig (among others: dying child; mail merge, 1931)

literature

Josef Paul Hodin: Paul Berger-Bergner (1974)
  • Paul Berger-Bergner and his students . Municipal Art Gallery Mannheim, 1979 (catalog)
  • Josef Paul Hodin : Paul Berger-Bergner - life and work . Hamburg: Christians, 1974
  • Josef Paul Hodin : The Brühl Terrace . Hamburg: Christians, 1969
  • Paul Hopfer: 1948 . Gerhard Stalling AG, Oldenburg, 1947
  • Peter Wiench: Berger-Bergner, Paul . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , p. 367.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - An artist group in the field of tension between art and politics. Hildesheim (inter alia) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 193, 363.
  2. ^ Lothar Lang : Painting and Graphics in the GDR. Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1983, p. 48.
  3. ^ Rainer Zimmermann : Expressive Realism. Painting of the Lost Generation. Hirmer, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7774-6420-1 , pp. 351-352.
  4. ↑ a b picture index of art & architecture
personal data
SURNAME Berger-Bergner, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1978
Place of death Mannheim