Rudolf Bechstein

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Rudolf Bechstein (born April 18, 1897 in Ilmenau ; † April 20, 1961 there ) was a German landscape painter and photographer .

Life

Rudolf Bechstein was the son of the Weimar painter and teacher of the art of modeling at the Grand Ducal Industrial School in Ilmenau, Max Bechstein (1860–1940). He was initially trained by his father. In 1920, after participating in an exhibition of visual artists in Weimar, he became a student of Franz Bunke at the Weimar School of Painting .

Every year since 1892, during the semester break , Bunke traveled with some of his Weimar colleagues and students to Schwaan , his home in Mecklenburg , to paint there; Over time, the Schwaan artists' colony developed from these stays . Rudolf Bechstein stayed in Schwaan several times in the 1920s.

In addition to the Mecklenburg pictures, he also found his motifs in the Thuringian homeland, in the Rhön or in Bavaria. With the help of the Thuringian Exhibition Association, Bechstein was able to develop his works a. a. in Weimar, Eisenach and Schwerin.

In 1927 he founded a postcard publisher, the Thuringian art publisher Rudolf Bechstein in Sitzendorf in the Schwarzatal , where he lived from 1934 to 1950. He ran this publishing house all his life, for which he also worked as a photographer.

During the Second World War he was in French captivity, but could still paint. From 1951 until the end of his life he lived and worked again in Ilmenau.

Works

  • “Spring at the Black Lake” (around 1925); “Landschaft an der Beke” (around 1925); “Bekewiesen” (around 1925) “Oak paddock in the morning mood” (around 1925); "Weg am Fluss" (all Schwaan Art Museum)
  • "Woderich-Villa" (in Schwaan); also painted on the Fischland , including "School on the Schaulbarg in Althagen"

literature

  • Lisa Jürß: Kunstmuseum Schwaan: inventory catalog 2012. Hinstorff, Rostock 2012, ISBN 978-3-356-01557-7 . Pp. 106-109.
  • Lisa Jürß: Schwaan artists' colony. Gallery in the old watermill. Work catalog. Verl. Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2002, ISBN 3-88132-295-7 , pp. 122–125.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Bechstein and Müller families - three generations of artists in Ilmenau. City administration of Ilmenau, accessed on December 14, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Bechstein, Rudolf. In: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons. Hinstorff, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01405-1 . P. 634
personal data
SURNAME Bechstein, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilmenau
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1961
Place of death Ilmenau