Paul Mathias Padua

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Mathias Padua (born November 15, 1903 in Salzburg , † August 22, 1981 in Rottach-Egern ) was a German painter . He felt obliged to the tradition of the realist Wilhelm Leibl , who was highly valued by Adolf Hitler , and was extremely successful as an artist during the National Socialist era .

Life

Paul Mathias Padua was born in Salzburg, but grew up in poor conditions with his grandparents in Geiselhöring and Straubing in Lower Bavaria . He lost his father at the age of nine. Later Padua moved to Murnau and Munich . Padua dropped out of his academic training early and concentrated on his painting. Padua's early work is essentially influenced by the work of the painter Wilhelm Leibl , his later work was increasingly shaped by the New Objectivity . In 1922 Padua became a member of the Munich Artists' Association . In the following years, Padua's paintings were exhibited regularly. In 1928 he received the Georg Shift Prize and in 1930 the Albrecht Dürer Prize of the city of Nuremberg . In the 1930s, Padua's fame increased, so that he exhibited on numerous trips outside of the Munich region and in other European countries.

Padua's career as a young artist devoted to traditional art was rather unusual as he had not had a university degree. He was recognized as an artist in the Third Reich and was represented at the Great German Art Exhibitions 1938–1944 in the House of German Art in Munich with 23 works, including still lifes and female nudes. In 1937 and 1940 he received the Lenbach Prize of the City of Munich for portraits (1937 / Clemens Krauss ) and in 1938 the prize for the most beautiful child portrait . Among the people portrayed there are Franz Lehár and Gerhart Hauptmann in 1938 he created the fresco (farmers in the costume of their home region in the Bavarian Oberland) on the face side of Weilheim Highland Hall, a 1937-38 erected cattle auction hall, which has since also serves as the city Weilheim as an event hall and which was included in the list of monuments of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection in 2017 as an individual monument.

At the beginning of the Second World War, Padua was drafted into a propaganda company as a war painter. After a slight wound during the western campaign , he was sent back to Germany in May 1940. By 1943 he painted some of the best-known pictures of German Nazi propaganda art, such as “Der Fuehrer speaks”, in which Adolf Hitler is propagated as the epitome of the National Socialist conception of religion. The painting "The May 10, 1940," which glorified the beginning of the Western campaign, based history of style at the realism of the 19th century and makes art politically national community and leadership principle represents. 1943 Padua was with three works in the exhibition " Young Art in the German Reich " represented in the Künstlerhaus Vienna . Including “Still life with meat”, “Still life with flowers” ​​and “Flower stand”. In 1943 Padua moved to St. Wolfgang in Austria. At the exhibition German Artists and the SS in Salzburg in 1944 , he exhibited the picture “Der Urlauber”. Nothing is known about his denazification in Austria.

In 1951 Padua returned to Germany. He bought a house in Rottach-Egern from Else Pfeifer (1879–1962), the widow of Max Pfeifer (1875–1942) - son of the sugar industrialist ( Pfeifer & Langen ) Valentin Pfeifer . Here in the Tegernsee valley, he then opened his own “Galerie am See”. As a portrait painter he painted Friedrich Flick and Helmut Horten , Makarios III. , Otto Hahn , Herbert von Karajan , Josef Ertl and Franz Josef Strauss . From 1960 Padua regularly traveled to Portugal to the fishing town of Nazaré . He died on August 22, 1981 in Rottach-Egern as a result of a stroke ; here he is buried in the cemetery at the Protestant Church of the Resurrection .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1924: Munich art exhibition in the Glaspalast
  • 1925: Munich art exhibition in the Glaspalast
  • 1927: Munich art exhibition in the Glaspalast
  • 1930: German art exhibition in Munich in the Glaspalast
  • 1931: Munich art exhibition in the Glaspalast
  • 1932: Art exhibition in Munich in the Deutsches Museum (library building)
  • 1934: Large Munich art exhibition in the Neue Pinakothek
  • 1935: Munich artist. Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin
  • 1935: Munich art, special exhibitions in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich
  • 1935: Great Munich art exhibition. New Pinakothek gallery.
  • 1935: Art Show German Masters. Municipal exhibition building Mathildenhöhe
  • 1936: Heroic Art. Municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus in Munich
  • 1936: The streets of Adolf Hitler . Munich
  • 1937: Animal art exhibition. Exhibition building at Tiergartenstrasse
  • 1937: Figure and composition in the picture and on the wall. New Pinakothek in Munich
  • 1937: Munich annual exhibition. New Pinakothek in Munich
  • 1937: Of German art. Baden-Baden art exhibition. Exhibition building Lichtentaler Allee
  • 1936: Portraits of German men, goldsmithing, love rings. House of Art in Berlin
  • 1938: Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • 1938: German contemporary painters. House of Art in Heidelberg
  • 1938: Large German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
  • 1938: Munich art exhibition. Maximilianeum
  • 1939: Munich art exhibition. Maximilianeum
  • 1939: The farmer and his world. Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig
  • 1939: Large German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
  • 1940: Great German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
  • 1940: Munich art exhibition. Maximilianeum
  • 1940: Great Berlin art exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Berlin
  • 1941: Munich art exhibition. Maximilianeum
  • 1941: Large German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
  • 1942: Large German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
  • 1942: Great Berlin art exhibition in the National Gallery
  • 1943: Contemporary artists in portraits of painting and sculpture. Moritzburg Municipal Museum
  • 1943: contemporary Munich artist. Cologne
  • 1943: Exhibition “ Young Art in the German Empire ” in the Vienna Künstlerhaus
  • 1943: Large German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
  • 1944: Large German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich
  • 1944: German artists and the SS in Salzburg in 1944

Awards

  • 1928: Georg -schicht-Prize for the most beautiful German woman portrait
  • 1930: Albrecht Dürer Prize
  • 1935: Prize for the best German male portrait
  • 1937: Lenbach Prize
  • 1938: 1st prize for the most beautiful child portrait
  • 1940: Lenbach Prize

literature

  • Paul Mathias Padua . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 132 .
  • Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Volume III, 1956, page 537.
  • Berthold Hinz : Painting in German Fascism - Art and Counterrevolution , Hanser, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-446-11938-8
  • Art in the 3rd Reich - Documents of Submission , Catalog of the Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1974
  • Reinhard Müller-Mehlis: Art in the Third Reich . Heyne, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-453-41173-0
  • Chronicle of the Pfeifer family , around 1975 (only published in the family circle)
  • Guest, Klaus: Die Hochlandhalle , in: Lech-Isar-Land Yearbook 2019
  • Martin Papenbrock, Gabriele Saure (Hrsg.): Art of the early 20th century in German exhibitions: Part 1. Exhibitions of German contemporary art in the Nazi era . Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-89739-041-8 , doi : 10.1466 / 20061109.28 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The show “Artige Kunst” shows works from the Nazi era. November 7, 2016, accessed March 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Padua, Paul Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1981
Place of death Rottach-Egern