Paul Preyer

Paul Preyer (born March 24, 1847 in Düsseldorf ; † December 18, 1931 there ), was a German painter.

Life

The son of Johann Wilhelm and Emilie Preyer, née Lachenwitz, two years older than his sister Emilie , embarked on an artistic career like her and received initial inspiration and instruction from his father. In 1863, at the age of sixteen, he enrolled at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , of which Eduard Bendemann was director. After the preparatory period in the class of antiquities, he switched to the painting class of Karl Ferdinand Sohn , where he learned the basics of painting technology and art. After son resigned his teaching post in 1863, he moved to the private studio of his nephew, Wilhelm Sohn . In November 1867 he moved into his own studio in Düsseldorf, which his father had rented for him.

From 1873 to 1931 Paul Preyer was a member of the Malkasten Artists' Association and in 1894 on its board. The Malkasten archive keeps a caricature drawn by Hans Kohlschein .

In 1883 Paul Preyer married Elise von Beauvais from Düsseldorf (1864–1943); Son Willy - like his father occasionally before - mainly worked as a restorer in Düsseldorf. Paul Preyer died at the age of 84 and was buried in the Düsseldorf North Cemetery.

In 1864 Paul Preyer went public for the first time with a portrait and received benevolent attention: "The portrait is beautifully drawn and painted with a lot of talent and it promises a happy future for the talented young man." Paul Preyer subsequently exhibited other portraits, including that of his father at the easel, that of the engraver Rudolf Stang , a friend of the family, and another of the then famous Belgian composer and cellist Jules de Swert (1843-1891), who in 1865 worked as concertmaster in Düsseldorf until 1868. For a short time, the artist also devoted himself to the subject of still lifes: under the influence of Wilhelm Sohn, he turned to figurative compositions that were used in interiors of the Dutch Baroque and Empire with the attention to detail of the costumes . These included paintings with titles such as Lady on the Terrace Reading a Letter , Elegant Young Lady in a Castle Interior , The Singer at the Lute , A Jeweler or On Birthday Morning , with which he was shown at numerous exhibitions - including in Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Düsseldorf , Hanover and Munich - was represented and found buyers at home and abroad.

Selection of works

• Johann Wilhelm Preyer asleep , drawing 1863
• Nature study , 1867, oil on cardboard laid down on wood, 19 × 19 cm (art trade)
• Gartenlaube , 1870, oil on cardboard, laid on wood, 32 × 37.5 cm, inscribed: “P.PREYER. Sept. 1870 “, Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum
• Johann Wilhelm Preyer at the easel , 1872, commissioned by the New York art dealer Samuel Putnam Avery, auctioned in 1873
• The Reader - Two Ladies and a Gentleman on the Balcony , 1876, oil on paper, laid down on canvas, 23 × 30 cm (art trade)
• The school boy , 1891, oil on canvas, 54.5 × 44.5 cm (art trade)
• Portrait of a lady with a cat , around 1900, oil on canvas, 58 × 46 cm (art trade)
• Little soldier with poodle , Rosenheim, Städt. Art collection, Max Bram Foundation
• Still life with fruits and Romans on a white tablecloth , oil on canvas, 24 × 11.5 cm, inscribed "P.PREYER", Fig .: Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting, Volume 3
• Still life with a Chianti bottle and filled wine glass , oil on canvas, 45.5 × 36.5 cm (art trade)

literature

• Preyer, Paul. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 326 ( archive.org ).
• Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists , prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Volume 3. Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1921.
• Alfred Schubert : Preyer, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 395 .
• Alfred Schubert: Paul Preyer's 80th birthday. In: Düsseldorfer Nachrichten, No. 149, March 23, 1927 (photo).
• Emanuel Bénézit (founder): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume 8, Paris 1976.
• Claudia Schipper, in: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , p. 114 (fig.).
• Siegfried Weiß (arrangement) , Hans Paffrath (ed.): Preyer: Johann Wilhelm 1803–1889 and Emilie 1849–1930: with the catalog raisonnés of the paintings by Johann Wilhelm and Emilie Preyer. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86832-003-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Düsseldorfer Anzeiger. April 28, 1868
2. ^ The New York Times. 14./15. May 1873: The Avery Sale.