Philipp Bauknecht

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Philipp Bauknecht (* 1884 in Barcelona ; † February 26, 1933 in Davos Dorf) was a German expressionist painter and graphic artist.

Life

Philipp Bauknecht: Evening in the Mountains, 1920

Philipp Bauknecht was born in Barcelona in 1884 . He came from a family of watchmakers from Schramberg in (then) Württemberg . In 1892/93 his parents returned to their hometown Schramberg. He completed an apprenticeship at the carpenter's school in Nuremberg and attended the Royal School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart under Bernhard Pankok , whose employee he became. Around 1910 he moved to Davos in Switzerland because of tuberculosis , where he studied a. a. Klabund and Erwin Poeschel know. A few years later, Bauknecht was also able to make contactsErnst Ludwig Kirchner , with whose work there is some agreement. Between 1920 and 1933 there were exhibitions of his pictures and woodcuts in Switzerland and Germany. In 1925 he married Ada van Blommestein from the Netherlands and traveled with her to Holland. From 1925, his health deteriorated due to tuberculosis. He died on February 26, 1933 during an operation in Davos. After his death, his widow and their son moved back to Baarn near Hilversum in the Netherlands and kept his pictures. His picture Shepherd Conversation was confiscated by the National Socialists in 1937. His works were rediscovered in 1960.

Subjects

The surroundings of the Swiss Alps and his illness inspired him to work on mountains, landscapes, villages, ice skating, hiking, rural life, illness and death.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1924 Berlin, Jury-free art show, Landes exhibition building at Lehrter Bahnhof
  • 1926 Dresden, international art exhibition
  • 1937 Munich, Entartete Kunst, House of Art
  • April 24 to May 23, 1948: Philipp Bauknecht , Württembergischer Kunstverein .
  • 1965 Bremen, Philipp Bauknecht Paula Becker-Modersohn-Haus
  • 1976 Davos, Philipp Bauknecht Galerie Iris Wazzau
  • December 22, 1984 to February 7, 1985: Philipp Bauknecht. Exhibition for the 100th birthday , Galerie Iris Wazzau
  • March 31 to May 5, 1985 "Philipp Bauknecht, a German Expressionist painting. Woodcuts" Schramberg in the castle
  • 2007-08 Bern, Art Museum, Groningen, Groninger Museum, Chur, Bündner Art Museum Expressionism from the Mountains - Kirchner, Bauknecht, Wiegers and the group Rot Blau
  • 2013 Davos, Philipp Bauknecht Galerie Iris Wazzau
  • April 9 to November 2, 2014: Philipp Bauknecht (1884–1933). Davos Mountain Worlds in Expressionism , Museum Würth in Künzelsau (Hohenlohekreis)
  • November 23, 2014 to April 19, 2015: Philipp Bauknecht. Davos Mountain Worlds in Expressionism , Kirchner Museum Davos

literature

  • Pieper, Paul / Utzinger, Rudolf: Philipp Bauknecht: paintings, watercolors, woodcuts . Münster: Free artist group "Schanze", 1963.
  • Gioia Smid (Ed.): Philipp Bauknecht: Expressionist in Davos, 1884-1933 . Bussum 2002. ISBN 90-6868-313-6 .
  • Stutzer, Beat [Hrsg.]: Expressionism from the mountains. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Philipp Bauknecht, Jan Wiegers and the Red-Blue group . Zurich: Scheidegger and Spiess, 2007. ISBN 978-3-85881-190-5 .
  • Laun Sylvia Phillip Bauknecht (1884–1933), life and work. European university publications, Frankfurt am Main 1992, Peter Lang, ISBN 3-631-44095-2
  • Gerd Presler: Philipp Bauknecht, Expressionist in Davos 1884-1933 at: presler.de
  • Thorsten Sadowsky; Beat Stutzer Phillip Bauknecht (1884–1933). Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2014, ISBN 978-3-89929-287-9 ; Catalog of the exhibition in the Museum Würth Künzelsau. 192 pages.

Web links

Commons : Philipp Bauknecht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bauknecht. In the hiding place. Painting. In: Der Spiegel 34/1961 of August 16, 1961
  2. ^ Gerd Presler: Philipp Bauknecht. Expressionist in Davos 1884–1933 at presler.de
  3. ↑ Monika Köhler: The new discovery of a pioneer. In: Südkurier of April 29, 2014.
  4. ^ Exhibition by Philipp Bauknecht, Museum Würth
personal data
SURNAME Bauknecht, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1933
Place of death Davos