Peter Jakob Schober

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Peter Jakob Schober (born December 13, 1897 in Gschwend , † July 22, 1983 in Bad Bleiberg ) was a German painter of expressive realism .

Life

He was the youngest of his parents 'eleven children and from 1911 attended the teachers' college in Backnang , after which he was a trainee lawyer at various elementary schools. He took part in the First World War from 1916 to 1918 and was seriously wounded on the Western Front. From 1919 to 1922 he was a drawing and gymnastics teacher in Calw , then he completed art studies at the Stuttgart Academy until 1929 , with Christian Landenberger , Heinrich Altherr and Alexander Eckener , among others . While he was still a student, Schober took part in exhibitions at the Stuttgart Secession . From 1929 to 1932 he stayed in Paris , where he came into contact with Impressionism and Cézanne . In 1931 he came back to Stuttgart, where he married his wife Berta. In 1932 he received a teaching position for etchings at the Stuttgart Academy, from 1937 he was a freelance artist.

From 1939 Schober did military service. He was a reporter in the fighting areas in the east, u. a. together with Fritz Nuss . In 1943, his studio in Stuttgart, along with almost the entire factory, was destroyed by the effects of the war. His family then moved to rural Billensbach , where Alfred Lörcher had previously moved and where his friend Rudolf Yelin also lived in neighboring Etzlenswend . Schober himself became a prisoner of war towards the end of the war, where he met Otto Dix in a camp in Colmar . In 1946 Schober returned home from captivity and planned a studio house in Billensbach, which the family moved into in 1949.

From the early 1950s onwards, Schober received numerous commissions for art in architecture . In addition to these applied works, a free work was created, which soon gained its impressions from extensive trips to Spain, France, Italy and North Africa. Schober was chairman of the Stuttgart Secession from 1954 to 1968. In addition, from 1950 he was a member of the Heilbronn Artists' Association , of which he was made an honorary member in 1972. In 1967 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, and in 1973 he was appointed professor. He died in 1983 while on vacation in Bad Bleiberg (Carinthia).

Works

In public space

Sgraffito by Peter Jakob Schober (1959) on the former Milchhäusle in Beilstein-Billensbach
  • Glass wall in the meeting room of the town hall and murals in the auditorium of the grammar school and the castle pharmacy in Beilstein
  • Three glass windows in the Johanneskirche in Beilstein-Billensbach
  • Unicorn on the facade of the unicorn pharmacy in Heilbronn
  • Ballroom of the Harmonie concert and congress center in Heilbronn
  • Reception hall of Heilbronn main train station
  • Stained glass window in the Kreuzkirche in Heilbronn
  • Entrance hall of the Wartberg School in Heilbronn
  • Sgraffito Der Minnesänger Schenk von Limpurg at the town hall in Gaildorf (1954)
  • Fresco at the primary school in Gschwend
  • Weingärtnerwand in the Ratskeller Stuttgart
  • Fresco on the outer wall of the sugar beet association at Sonnenbergstrasse 28 in Stuttgart
  • Sgraffito at the Affaltrach gymnasium and festival hall, Michelbachstraße 4 in Obersulm
  • Sgraffito on the outside wall of IG Metall Heilbronn-Neckarsulm foreman with apprentice (1952)
  • Meeting room in the former Aalen town hall (1936)
  • Frescoes in the town hall of Crailsheim (1953 and 1958)

Book illustrations

  • Primer for the Protestant primary schools in Württemberg , Union-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1933
  • Josef Stauder (Ed.): It buzzes in the box: Schwänke von der Front , Cantz, Stuttgart, 1942
  • Gottfried August Bürger: Münchhausen's Travels and Adventure , Union-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1953

literature

  • Ehrenfried Kluckert: Peter Jakob Schober. Monograph with catalog raisonné . Theiss, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0850-6

Exhibitions with catalogs

  • Peter Jakob Schober: Landscape and Portrait 1927 - 1977 , October 7 - December 4, 1977, Heilbronn City History Museum
  • Peter Jakob Schober: Painting, graphics , March 14 - May 3, 1981, studio gallery of the Hans Thoma Society, Reutlingen
  • Peter J. Schober - paintings, watercolors, drawings , March 12 - April 12, 1982, Villa Merkel , Esslingen
  • Peter Jakob Schober, 1897–1983: Painting of Expressive Realism , April 9 - August 27, 1995, Hohenkarpfen Art Museum , Hausen ob Verena
  • Peter Jakob Schober - Enhancement of the Real: Exhibition for the 100th birthday , September 28th - November 15th 1997, Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Dätzingen Castle, Grafenau, ISBN 3-89298-117-5
  • Chalk drawings , July 12 - September 6, 1998, Städtische Galerie Böblingen, ISBN 3-928754-23-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Bauer: Pictures from a heroic time. (PDF) City of Aalen, 1986, accessed on February 3, 2018 .
  2. ^ Helga Steiger: Art in the city: Crailsheim in golden light . swp.de, August 25, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Schober, Peter Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressive realism painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Gschwend
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1983
Place of death Bad Bleiberg