Robert way

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Robert Weise (born April 2, 1870 in Stuttgart , † November 5, 1923 in Starnberg ) was a German painter , draftsman and illustrator . His works are influenced by French Impressionism , and also show tendencies towards Art Nouveau .

Life

Robert Weise was born in 1870. He had to give up his military training in 1888 due to an illness, whereupon he turned to painting. First he took private lessons with Hermann Drück at the Stuttgart Art Academy . In 1889 he switched to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he studied for three years with Heinrich Lauenstein (elementary class), Hugo Crola (preparatory class), Peter Janssen (antiquity and nature class), Adolf Schill (class for ornamentation and decoration) and Arthur Kampf . He continued his studies during the winter months in Paris in 1892 and 1893 at the Académie Julian under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Adolphe William Bouguereau and Henri-Lucien Doucet (1856-1896).

Before he moved to Munich in 1896 , Weise made long trips to Belgium, Holland, Italy and Spain. In the Bavarian metropolis he made friends with employees of the " youth ". The circle included u. a. Fritz Erler , Leo Putz , Reinhold Max Eichler and Adolf Meiser , who studied with Paul Hoecker at the Munich Art Academy . Georg Hirth , the founder of the magazine Jugend , wanted to offer the young artists a forum and commissioned them with the illustration and the decorative design of his weekly. In 1899 some of them joined together to form an exhibition group called “ Scholle ”. From 1900, Weise spent several months a year in Wartenberg near Erding , where he built a studio and a house, but stayed in touch with his colleagues in Munich. In 1901 the Munich Secession made their rooms available to the Scholle artists for an exhibition. Robert Weise received the 2nd class gold medal for his work “Die Städterin”. His works have been shown in various collective exhibitions in Dresden, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Mannheim and Vienna.

In 1901, Weise decided to turn his back on hectic city life and moved to Lake Constance with his wife Walburga and daughter Gertraud . He had already been in the German-speaking Swiss border region in 1899. For five years he settled in Gottlieben on the Swiss bank of the Untersee. The family lived there - son Kurt was born here - for rent in the house of the painter Mathilde von Zúylen-Ammann .

The art writer Fritz von Ostini wrote about this phase of Weise's life : “In the small town on the Untersee, he experienced his happiest and most undisturbed creative years. He was able to stay in the idyllic place until 1906, living in close contact with nature, painting in all seasons. So life and work became a single harmony for him, which filled his being and in the circle of his small family, as in the intercourse with a few spiritually important people who lived nearby (...). There were the poets Hermann Hesse , Ludwig Finckh , Emil Strauss , Emanuel von Bodman , the painter and sculptor Ernst Würtenberger and other professionals. ” Heinrich Schmidt-Pecht , the director of the Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz , bought a painting by Weise and some graphics for the collection.

After meeting Wilhelm Schäfer , works by Weise were published in 1900 and 1904 in the magazine “ Die Rheinlande ” published by Schäfer . After the founding of the " Association of Art Friends in the Countries on the Rhine " initiated by Schäfer , Weise joined it. In 1912 and 1913, Weise was a member of the board of the association's Stuttgart Art Commission and took part in its exhibition in Essen in 1913 .

In the spring of 1906 Robert Weise received an invitation from the " Württembergische Kunstfreunde " to work in his own studio in Stuttgart with an annual salary without obligations and with good exhibition opportunities. In 1911 he received the title of professor. His name appears in 1906 in the list of members of the exhibition catalog of the 3rd exhibition of the German Association of Artists in 1906 in the Grand Ducal Museum in Weimar. In 1914, Weise was appointed to the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar. In 1918 Robert Weise moved to Starnberg , where he died in 1923.

Work and style

Robert Weise's paintings are inspired by French open-air painting, in which nature, figure and light are atmospherically combined to form a peaceful unity.

Although his style is narrative, the two-dimensional compositions appear firmly joined, which is mainly due to the decided, short brushstroke. During his time in Munich and Gottlieber, the painter liked to depict the carefree existence of humans in nature, with the vegetation enlivened by sun and shade providing an unobtrusive and appealing backdrop for his figures, often beautiful women in decorative clothes. In addition, he created still lifes and landscape pictures throughout his life, in which he primarily captured the area near Wartenberg.

Illustrations

  • Marie von Ebner Eschenbach: Hirzepinzchen. A fairy tale. With 6 color plates and a color floral border around text pages by Robert Weise. Stuttgart 1890
  • Jacob Grimm: fairy tales. Union Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1903
  • Wilhelm Hauff: fairy tales. Union Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1901 and 1911

Works in museums

The following museums own works by Robert Weise:

literature

  • Bernd Dürr: Leo Putz, Max Feldbauer and the circle of “Scholle” and “youth” in Dachau around 1900 . Dachau 1989.
  • Andrea Jedelsky: Leo Putz and the “Scholle”. Catalog for the exhibition at Galerie Schüller . Munich 1999.
  • Anne Langenkamp, ​​Barbara Stark: Lake View. German artists on Lake Constance in the 20th century . Ed .: Municipal Wessenberg Gallery. Constance 1998 (exhibition catalog).
  • Monika Nebel: Chronicle of the Scholle artists' association . In: Siegfried Unterberger with Felix Billeter and Ute Strimmer (eds.): Die Scholle. An artist group between the Secession and the Blauer Reiter . Munich 2007, p. 278-286 .
  • Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): Sculptor and painter in the countries on the Rhine . Düsseldorf (no year [1913]).
  • Heike Schmidt-Kronseder: Robert Weise. 1870–1823, painter . Wartenbert 2002 (exhibition catalog).
  • Barbara Stark: Open horizons - art and artists on Lake Constance, in Switzerland and Swabia . In: Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie, Konstanz / Museum Giersch, Frankfurt / Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (ed.): The other modernity - art and artists in the countries on the Rhine 1900 to 1922 . 2013, p. 225–285 and 399 (exhibition catalog).
  • Barbara Stark: Temporary idyll. Painting holidays at Untersee 1880 to 1914, exhibition catalog . Ed .: Municipal Wessenberg Gallery. Constance 2009, p. 22nd f .
  • Way, Robert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 313 .

Web links

Commons : Robert Weise  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Barbara Stark: Open Horizons - Art and Artists on Lake Constance, in Switzerland and Swabia . In: Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie, Konstanz / Museum Giersch, Frankfurt / Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (ed.): The other modernity - art and artists in the countries on the Rhine 1900 to 1922 . 2013, p. 225–285, 399 (exhibition catalog).
  2. ^ Monika Nebel: Chronicle of the artists' association Scholle . In: Siegfried Unterberger with Felix Billeter and Ute Strimmer (eds.): Die Scholle. An artist group between the Secession and the Blauer Reiter . Munich 2007, p. 278-286 .
  3. Barbara Stark: Idyll for a while. Painting holidays at Untersee from 1880 to 1914 . Ed .: Municipal Wessenberg Gallery. Constance 2009, p. 22nd f . (Exhibition catalog).
  4. ^ Fritz von Ostini: Wise and his painting . In: Velhagen & Klasings monthly books . 33rd year September 1918, p. H.1, p. 8 f .
  5. ^ Anne Langenkamp, ​​Barbara Stark: See-Blick. German artists on Lake Constance in the 20th century . Ed .: Municipal Wessenberg Gallery. Constance 1998, p. 13 f . (Exhibition catalog).
  6. s. List of members in the catalog of the 3rd German Artist Association Exhibition , Weimar 1906. P. 58 online (accessed on February 26, 2016)