Peter Baumgartner (painter)

Peter Baumgartner

Peter Baumgartner (born May 24/25, 1834 in Giesing near Munich, † December 12, 1911 in Munich ) was a German painter .

Life

As the son of the carpenter Leonhard Baumgartner and his wife Katharina, b. Wetsch, Peter Baumgartner was born in the village of Giesing, which was not yet incorporated into Munich. He received his first artistic training at Jakob Filser's "drawing school". The 16-year-old then studied at the Munich Polytechnic with Joseph Anton Rhomberg and from 1849 at the Munich Art Academy , with Hermann Anschütz and Johann Georg Hiltensperger , among others . After he had earned enough money of his own by painting portraits, he became a private student in 1857 in the studio of academy professor Carl Theodor von Piloty , who soon asked him to work on commissioned works. Together with Piloty he toured the Rhineland , France , Flanders and Austria .

In early 1862 Baumgartner married Anna Bernklau (1846–1918) from Munich, with whom he had five children, of which only one daughter survived. The family lived in Munich at different addresses until the successful artist was able to buy his own house in Georgenstrasse in 1875 and in Schwabing in 1878 . "Baumgartner's human appearance, characterized by an elegant way of thinking, legitimate self-confidence, constant willingness to help" and his "limitless aversion to all appearances were appreciated."

Baumgartner researched the backgrounds, interiors and details of most of his works from the lives of children or farmers and their urban visitors in Upper Bavaria and in the mountains of Tyrol ; In addition, he designed themes from literature ( Don Quixote ) and saga ( Die Sieben Schwaben ), but also flower pieces and still lifes. In addition to the paintings, Baumgartner's sketchbooks were also very attractive, filled with notes based on nature, including animal and occasional portraits (including by Wilhelm Busch , Franz von Lenbach , Hermann Kaulbach , Julius Victor Carstens and Hermann Anschütz ) ; Unfortunately, nothing is known about their whereabouts, as well as that of his numerous oil sketches.

His first painting is Landsknechte in a church, throwing booty , exhibited in Munich in 1858. This was followed by The Seven Swabians in the Forge in 1859, which was praised on the occasion of its presentation at the Münchner Kunstverein: “(...). The execution of the individual costumes and equipment of the blacksmiths and their equipment was of a photographic tangibility and truth that is seldom seen among the Munich painters. " After further compositions, in 1861 the last painting was the portrait of his bride, Anna Bernklau, in the Piloty School. The beggar monk of 1862 was awarded a gold medal on the occasion of the art exhibition of the world exhibition in Melbourne , 1883. From the end of the 1860s, Baumgartner turned to the rural motifs characteristic of his work, with scenes of the alpine pasture and its urban visitors, from middle-class, rural and pastoral households and other, mostly humorous events.

Peter Baumgartner: The fight for the remains, 1880

In the painting The Struggle for the Remains , painted in 1880 , in which peasant boys poke at the leftover food left by a monk, the stage-like composition clearly shows the relationship to the Upper Bavarian peasant theater. a. Henry Albrecht in his illustration Das Volksschauspiel in the Bavarian highlands: captured a scene from “Jägerblut” .

Baumgartner was a member of the Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft (MKG) and the Kunstverein and was friends and a. with the painter colleagues Anton Braith , Rudolf Epp , Johann Baptist Hofner and Christian Mali . A large number of his works were sold to Switzerland, but above all to the USA, mostly through the art dealers Hugo Helbing and J. B. Neumann in Munich. With the technical and artistic quality of his life's work, Baumgartner can be classified as an important representative of Munich painting of the second half of the 19th century.

The painter died at the age of 77 after a stroke in Munich. He was buried in the Munich North Cemetery, his grave was abandoned in 1981.

Works (selection)

• Landsknechte in a church, throwing booty , 1858; German general and historical art exhibition, Munich 1858
• The disturbed midday meal ; a soldier on sentry duty is surprised by his captain while eating, 1861
• The declaration of love , Don Quixote declares his love for Dulcinea, 1861; Fig. As a wood engraving in: Illustr. Ztg. Leipzig , Volume 38 (1868/69), p. 176
• In the forest smithy ; A Capuchin shod his donkey in the ruined blacksmith's hut built into the rock, 1862
• The heared petition , 1865
• The marriage contract ; Bridal couple in Upper Bavarian costume accompanied by advisors at the lawyer, 1866
• Bride lessons by the pastor , 1866
• The St. Martin's Goose ; Monk and kitchen maid, 1869
• Married couple having their hair cut , 1872
• Arrival at the Alm , 1877
• Disturbed midday rest ; sleeping pastor awakened by a bride and groom; 1878
• The Battle for the Remains , 1880
• The painter on the Alm , 1883
• The naturalist on the mountain pasture , 1883
• Returning home from the market , 1888

literature

• Friedrich Pecht : History of Munich Art in the 19th Century . Munich 1888, p. 251 ( digitized version ).
• Julius Meyer, Hermann Lücke, Hugo von Tschudi (Hrsg.): General Artist Lexicon , Vol. 3, 2nd edition, Leipzig 1885, p.?.
• Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history . Volume 1, Dresden 1891, pp. 52-53 ( digitized version ).
• Hyacinth Holland : Baumgartner, Peter . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 84-85 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Report on the activities and membership of the Munich Art Association during 1912 , Munich 1913: Nekrolog; with portrait photography
• F. Martini: (On the 25th anniversary of his death), in: Munich Latest News , December 12, 1936 (with photographic portrait).
• Amanda Schäfer, in: Das Bild. Monthly . Karlsruhe 1939, issue 5, pp. 144-145 (with ill.).
• Baumgartner, Peter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 278 .
• Heidi C. Ebertshäuser: Painting in the 19th Century. Munich School . Munich 1979, p. 165.
• Rudolf M. Bisanz (arr.): The Rene Von Schleinitz Collection of the Milwaukee Art Center: Major Schools of German Nineteenth-Century Popular Painting . Milwaukee 1980, p. 47.
• Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 1. Munich 1981, p. 67.
• Baumgartner, Peter . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 7, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22747-7 , p. 617.
• Siegfried Weiß : The struggle for the remains - humor and social criticism in the work of the Munich painter Peter Baumgartner (1834–1911) and his relationship to the Upper Bavarian peasant theater . In: Pantheon , Munich 1999, pp. 203–207 (fig.).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Advertisement, in: Bairischer Eilbote v. September 21, 1845, No. 114, p. 1093: “J. Filser, drawing institute owner and teacher at the higher holiday school - lives: Fürstenfelderstrasse 19 on the 1st floor “.
2. ↑ Entry in the matriculation database .
3. ↑ probably the daughter of the engraver Anton Bernklau and his wife Anna Maria, b. Pettinger; see. Note about their wedding, in: Königlich Bayerischer Polizey-Anzeiger von München , No. 77, October 2, 1833, p. 999.
4. ^ Address book Munich 1902: Hohenzollernstr. 48/1 l .; Atelier: RG.
5. ↑ Amanda Schäfer, in: Das Bild. Monthly . Karlsruhe 1939, issue 5, pp. 144-145.
6. ^ Munich art report . In: Neue Münchner Zeitung , No. 312, December 31, 1859, p. 1245.
7. ↑ Fig. In: Illustrirte Zeitung Leipzig, No. 2617, August 26, 1893, p. 239.
8. ↑ Erich Schreibmayr: Personalities in Munich Cemeteries 1784–1984 . Self-published, Munich 1985, p.?.