Robs Mayer

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Robs Mayer

Robert Manfred Friedrich Mayer (born December 20, 1907 in Maulbronn ; † December 13, 1989 in Meisenheim ) was a German artist, painter, graphic artist and art teacher. He created oil paintings, watercolors, copperplate engravings and book illustrations.

life and work

Robs Mayer was born as the son of a self-employed printer and publisher in Maulbronn.

His artistic training began with an engraving apprenticeship in Pforzheim and attending the local arts and crafts school. He also studied with Adolf Hildenbrand . The Pforzheimer Kunstkreis organized the first exhibition of its own works. Hugo Troendle supported him in Munich . Study visits to Stuttgart, Vienna and Florence followed. He exhibited copperplate engravings at the Jury-Free Art Show (JKB) in Berlin. Then he returned to Munich.

The artist and death, oil

In 1931 he married the flower painter and book illustrator Marianne Schneegans from Kreuznach and accepted a teaching position at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Maulbronn. In 1939 he was engaged as an art teacher at the Spohn School in Ravensburg . As a freelance artist, he made drawings by Marianne Schneegans as copperplate engravings , and printed and published them himself.

At the beginning of the war , he volunteered for military service for acute reasons, because he feared being classified as a degenerate artist and being banned from painting. He was used as a radio operator. Later he was entrusted with setting up exhibitions in the OKH area . The impressions from the many countries to which he was sent as a soldier found their expression in landscapes and portraits of the local population. These works were later shown in exhibitions about World War II. During the French captivity in Rumersheim in Alsace, 240 large oil paintings were created, including private commissioned works, as well as sacred pictures for the decoration of churches in the region.

Back in Maulbronn from captivity, he initially mainly painted landscapes and taught at the Ev. Theological seminar , at the Progymnasium and since 1958 at the Paul-Schneider-Gymnasium in Meisenheim a. Glan. Influenced by the tendencies that modern art had taken, he now painted abstract paintings, which are often based on a landscape theme.

under water, oil

It was bizarre found objects from nature - roots, stones or lichen - that inspired him to create experimental watercolors and expressive oil paintings. He had found his own style in expressionist abstraction and color exaggeration. At the same time, delicate, poetic landscape watercolors were created.

After retiring in 1972 he continued to work as a painter. The focus of this work was the watercolor, whereby he repeatedly experimented with materials such as wax, ox gall or lacquer paint and tried out new techniques.

The artistic estate is predominantly in private hands, e.g. B. Collection Manfred Heinrich, Maulbronn. Numerous pictures are publicly accessible in the town hall of Maulbronn as well as in the old synagogue Meisenheim / Glan and in two rooms of the Hotel Meisenheimer Hof in Meisenheim / Glan.

Exhibitions

  • 1980: Asperger Gallery, Maulbronn
  • 1990: Mühlacker, Galerie Schneider, "In memoriam RM"
  • 1990: Meisenheim a. Gl.in memoriam RM
  • 1991: Maulbronn, Fruchtkasten
  • 1997: Maulbronn, Fruchtkasten, "The artist couple Robs and Marianne Mayer"
  • 2007: Meisenheim a. Gl., Meisenheim synagogue support and development association, exhibition on the 100th birthday of the painter Robs Mayer, the war work is shown on a large scale for the first time.
  • 2008: Maulbronn, Museum on the Schafhof

Book illustrations

  • Margarete Baur-Heinold: Nannes Ferienreise Ill.Robs Mayer & Marianne Schneegans, Thienemann Verlag Stuttgart 1951.
  • Toni Regenberg: Meet at the Arctic Circle, report on a trip to the north. Ill.Robs Mayer, Thienemann Verlag Stuttgart 1954.
  • Jonny Behm: Balkans, Baksheesh and Bazaars, two reporters on Karl May's footsteps. Ill.Robs Mayer, Thienemann Verlag Stuttgart 1954.
  • Jonny Behm: trip to the thousand islands. Ill.Robs Mayer, Thienemann Verlag Stuttgart 1955.
  • Rudolf Naujok: The Lord of the Dune. Ill.Robs Mayer, Thienemann Verlag Stuttgart 1955.
  • Jack Hambleton, Heinz Panzram: fliers over the bush, adventures in Canada's primeval forests. Ill.Robs Mayer, Thienemann Verlag Stuttgart 1955.
  • Anna Müller-Tannewitz: Little Sun Schonela, a girl's story from old Louisiana. Ill.Robs Mayer, Thienemann Verlag Stuttgart 1969.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Bossert 2012, p. 7 ff.
  2. ↑ http://www.muehlacker-news.de/muehlacker_artikel,-Einblick-in-die-Kuenstlerseele-gewaehrt-_arid,82289.html

literature

  • Bossert Hans-Martin (Ed.): Marianne Schneegans. Children's books, advent calendars, flower watercolors, catalog raisonné, Husum 2012, ISBN 978-3-86530-179-6 , pp. 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, 23, 90, 91, 92, 94.
  • Krüger, Reto: Flowers & Blossoms: Watercolors by Marianne Schneegans , Maulbronn 2010, ISBN 978-3-926414-28-1 , p. 3 (not paginated).
  • Heinrich, Jutta and Manfred (eds.), Art Collection Jutta and Manfred Heinrich, Berlin 1st edition, no year (2012), ISBN 978-3-00-043933-9 , p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Robs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayer, Robert Manfred Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, painter, graphic artist and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Maulbronn
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1989
Place of death Meisenheim