Reinhold Breßler
Reinhold Breßler (born March 27, 1868 in Friedeberg (Neumark) , † July 19, 1945 in Potsdam ) was a German genre painter .
Life
Reinhold Breßler comes from an old whitewater family from the province of Posen , who moved to the thriving Neumark in the years 1763–1776, like many other German families . In 1764, the finisher Sigismund Breßler , who came from Birnbaum , took over the land of the old whitework at Friedeberger Obersee and built the house on Woldenberger Strasse 10. This house remained in the family's possession for almost 150 years, and his great-grandson Eduard Breßler still ran a whitework there.
Born on March 27, 1868 in Friedeberg / Neumark as the son of a factory owner, Reinhold Breßler spent his youth on the grounds of the old whitewashing factory outside the gates of the city on the Obersee. There on the bank he observed Ludwig Noster, nine years his senior, using his brush and palette. The desire to also become a painter matured in him. With the school leaving certificate in hand, he left the Friedeberger Gymnasium in 1888.
He first went to Berlin , where he studied under Max Koner at the Art Academy in Berlin , before enrolling at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich on October 19, 1891 , in order to receive training in the natural class under Nikolaus Gysis and Wilhelm von Diez , which should further his later style.
Reinhold Breßler spent most of his life in Berlin. He first appeared in 1898, known as an art and genre painter, in the Berlin address books. Accordingly, he lived in an apartment at Bülowstrasse 20a in Berlin W57, at the same time he ran a studio at Lützowstrasse 83 until 1905. In 1910, 1920, 1930–1932 he lived as a portrait painter, academic painter or painter at Lützowstrasse 60a in Berlin W35, a separate studio is no longer listed. After he briefly set up his domicile at Hildebrandstrasse 12 in Berlin W35 from 1933 to 1936, he moved again to Kurfürstendamm 102 in Berlin-Halensee. This is where his center of life was probably until shortly before the end of his life. The address books list him here as a painter from 1937 to 1943. Breßler was represented at numerous exhibitions as a member of the Association of Berlin Artists . Breßler had been a member of the Berlin Masonic Lodge Zum Pilgrim since 1908 .
After his compatriot Ludwig Noster pointed out the Dutch to him, art trips took him around the world. We find Breßler not only at the Académie Julian in Paris, but also together with Adolf Obst as a companion of Alfred von Waldersee's military campaign into the interior of China to suppress the Chinese Boxer uprising . In the Netherlands he discovered something akin to him. Both the manner of the old masters captivated him as well as the unadulterated Low German race. Here motifs were revealed to him in abundance, which attracted him, gave rise to his most beautiful pictures.
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The Berlin art scholar Frei, judged: “That is the characteristic thing about this unobtrusive art by Breßler: the fine painting and the content of mood, the joy in the painterly appearance of things, combined with the striving for deepening of impressions ... He describes the small world , the life in the farmhouses of Holland and Lower Germany, on the cozy side, in calm objectivity, simple, loyal and truthful, as it presents itself to his eyes and fills his soul. Something homely lives in these pictures, whose not excessive format enhances the intimate effect. So he paints in the manner of the old masters of Holland, but free of their manner, quite independently and personally, with simple objectivity. ”He also shared his talent for portraiture with Noster. In his pictures, the art judge quoted above praised “the immediacy and originality of the external appearance and the wealth of expression of prominent features. Here, too, one notices the influence of the Dutch, from whom the artist starts out, but beyond whom he knows how to emphasize his own values. "
Large numbers of selected works by Reinhold Breßler were printed as art postcards during his lifetime.
- Dutch woman with her child on her lap, holding a large pretzel in her hand. Kitchen interior with canary . Inscribed R. Bressler pinx.Oil on canvas height 64 cm, width 54 cm Lempertz auction, catalog 409 (Cologne 1940)
- Church interior, without further information . No. 131 (Department of the Association of Berlin Artists) in the catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1923
- Inside of a Frisian fisherman's room. The old fisher couple is sitting at a table, next to them the daughter with her child . Canvas. With artist name, height 73 cm. Width 85 cm. Gold frame. Catalog for auction on April 29, 1913 “Paintings and watercolors by masters of our time” Rudolph Lepke's Art Auction House Berlin W, 1913
- Portrait of Professor Carl Thiem , oil on canvas, height 130 cm, width 90 cm, now owned by the Carl Thiem Clinic, Cottbus
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At the hearth fire , facsimile of an art postcard from 1917 after a painting by Reinhold Breßler
The latest war news , facsimile of an art print from 1913 after a painting by Reinhold Breßler
Good comrades , facsimile of an art postcard from 1909 after a painting by Reinhold Breßler
In the sunshine , facsimile of an art postcard after a painting by Reinhold Breßler
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Alexander Müller / Hans Wolfgang Singer "General Artist Lexicon" Literary Institution Rütten Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1922, page 38
- ↑ C.Treu / Dr. Paul Müller "History of the city of Friedeberg in the Neumark and of the country Friedeberg" 2nd edition, Friedeberg 1909, printed and published by Max Eisermann, p. 367
- ^ "Königliches Gymnasium zu Friedeberg Nm., Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the institution, June 29, 1871 - 1-3. July 1896 “Druck und Verlag E. Eisermann Friedeberg, page 43
- ^ Register book of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
- ^ Die Woche: modern illustrated magazine , August Scherl Verlag, Berlin issue no. 39, page 1709 from 1900
- ↑ Eduard Schendel / Hans Schauer “Memories of City and Country Friedeberg”, self-published by the church care service for Friedeberg in Berlin, 1974, page 340
- ↑ Lempertz auction catalog, auction No. 409, Cologne 1940
- ^ Catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1923
- ↑ Heidelberg historical holdings digital
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breßler, Reinhold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German art and genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedeberg (Neumark) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1945 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |