Paul Schroeter (painter)

Paul Schroeter , also Schröter, (born October 26, 1866 in Kempen , Posen ; died 1946 in Linow ), was a German painter and etcher .

Life

Schroeter, from an old Hamburg family, first studied at the art academy in Düsseldorf in the early 1880s , where he was a student of Eduard Gebhardt , Peter Janssen the Elder. Ä. and Adolf Schill was. Here he joined Fritz Overbeck and other young painters of the academy of the student association " Tartarus ", which also published periodicals in which he participated with illustrations. He also got to know the painter Fritz Mackensen , who was already known at the time . The painter Peter Philippi (1866–1945) described “Tartarus” as follows: “[…] in addition to the large ' paint box ' […] the Tartarus Association was a socially refreshing association of young, serious aspiring artists. a. Robert Engels , Karl Krummacher , Ludwig Keller, Otto Modersohn , Robert Weise , Paul Schröter, Adelbert Niemeyer , Ernst Pfannschmidt belonged. "

From Düsseldorf Schroeter moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and joined the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft . Active in Munich since 1893, he became a member of the Munich Secession with participation in the spring exhibition in May 1894. Study trips took him to Holland, Belgium and Spain and for a short time he stayed in the Willingshausen artists' colony , where he worked with Carl Bantzer , Georg Burmester and Wilhelm Thielmann met. In 1895 he received a large gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . Schroeter lived in Hamburg from 1898 to 1901 and became friends with Ernst Eitner and Arthur Illies , the co-founders of the Hamburg Art Club . As an illustrator, he did commissioned work for the Munich magazine Jugend : 1898 Haideblume and Dornröschen und die Alte and in 1913 a vignette .

He had a close friendship with Mackensen, Modersohn and Overbeck, and it was the same who persuaded him to come to the still young Worpswede artists' colony . Schroeter moved to Worpswede with his wife Grete and their children in 1901 , and from there to Bremen-Horn around 1904 , where he became a member of the German Association of Artists . Here in northern Germany he painted portraits, landscapes and interior pictures with mostly rural subjects. Many of the reviews are not always positive, as the magazine Die Kunst 1903 read:

“Paul Schroeter from Munich, who now works in Worpswede, tries hard, but his genre pictures and interiors remain impersonal; Only here and there z. B. in an interior where a mother and her child sit at the dining table while the green garden looks into the room, one forgets this lack of honest observation of nature. "

In 1908 Schroeter left Bremen, moved to Berlin , was a member of the Association of Berlin Artists , and lived there in Lichterfelde at Holbeinstrasse  36.

Schroeter was a still life, landscape, genre and portrait painter and graphic artist. Many of his works are in private collections. Most of his work was lost in World War II .

Works

Hermine Overbeck-Rohte

Portrait of a young woman

• Portrait of Hermine Overbeck-Rohte
• Double portrait from the farmers ball
• Three field workers mowing with a scythe (1901)
• Woman at the Sewing Table (1901)
• The artist's wife with daughter Bettina in her arms (1902)
• Storyteller (1914)
• Houses and church tower in Relingen (1943)

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1893: Solo exhibition, Künstlerhaus Munich
• 1894: Spring exhibition at the Munich Secession
• 1895: Great Berlin art exhibition
• 1894: Solo exhibition, Kunsthalle Hamburg
• 1900: International art exhibition of the Munich Secession
• 1904: Exhibition in Munich, receipt of a gold medal
• 1905: Large art exhibition of the Kunstverein in Hamburg
• 1929: 100 Years of Berlin Art, Association of Berlin Artists
• 1941: Art exhibition in Berlin, National Gallery - Old National Gallery, Berlin
• 1993: Exhibition with pictures by two unknown Worpswede painters 1821–1946: Johann Friedrich Schröder & Paul Schroeter, Barkenhoff Worpswede

literature

• Schroeter, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 297 .
• Roland Demme: agitation by Friedrich Bindewald and his role model Dr. Otto Böckel against the Jewish population in the Wilhelminian era and its effects until today. University Press, Kassel 2015, ISBN 978-3-86219-932-7 , p. 56.

Web links

• Biography of Paul Schroeter , on the website of Volkert Emrath, Berlin
• Paul K. Alfred Schroeter (1866–1946) , on Artnet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Philippi: The small town and its people, pictures, experiences, poems. Walter Hädecke Verlag, Stuttgart, 1949, p. 16.
2. ^ The spring exhibition of the Munich Secession. In: Art for All. 9th year, issue 15, Bruckmann Verlag, Munich May 1894, p. 228 ( self-portrait of Paul Schröter in his studio. Uni-heidelberg.de ).
3. ^ Schröter, Paul, painter, draftsman, illustrator, picture contributor. In: Youth. Issue 33, p. 553; Issue 40, p. 661; Issue 49, p. 1464 ( jugend-wochenschrift.de ).
4. ↑ DKB membership directory 1906: Schroeter, Paul . In: 3rd German Kuenstlerbundausstellung 1906 . Self-published, Weimar 1906, p. 55 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
5. ↑ From exhibitions and collections - Berlin . In: The art . Volume 7: Free Art . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1903, p. 840 , bottom left column ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
6. ^ Paul Schröter, painter . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, part 1, p. 3075. “Lichterf. Holbeinstrasse 36 ".
7. ↑ Painter . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1941, part 2. Sectors, p. 413. “Schroeter, Paul, Lfe Holbeinstr 36”.
8. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: picture portrait of Hermine Overbeck-Rohte ), on Overbeck Museum, Bremen.
9. ↑ Hermann Muthesius : Drawing lessons and "style teaching" . In: Die Kunst - monthly magazine for free and applied arts . 15th year. F. Bruckmann, Munich 1900, p. 487–496, here p. 494 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - image double portrait from the farmers' ball ).
10. ^ Storyteller Graphics - Etching (1914).
11. ↑ Large art exhibition of the Kunstverein 1905 ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF).