Sepp Biehler

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Sepp Biehler (born May 30, 1907 in Konstanz on Lake Constance , † February 11, 1973 in Bernau , Black Forest ) was a southwest German painter.

Sgraffito "What should shine in the fatherland must begin in the house" by Sepp Biehler (1907–1973) from 1953 on an apartment block in the street "Mittlere Flur" in Wertheim, dimensions: approx. 7.50 m × 5 m

Life, education

Apprenticeship as porcelain painter; Studied at the Karlsruhe Art Academy . Between 1956 and 1969, S. Biehler lived in Hamburg , Boxberg in the Main-Tauber district and near Tauberbischofsheim , then after his last residence in Bernau he relocated.

Artistic work

After he oriented himself towards the New Objectivity from the end of the 1920s , Sepp Biehler soon became one of the better-known painters in the exhibition scene in southern Germany. From the 1930s onwards, Biehler provided numerous private and public buildings in Constance and its surroundings with decorative wall paintings and created Stations of the Cross in some churches. In 1938, together with Elisabeth and Fritz Mühlenweg as well as Alexander Rihm and Werner Rohland, he founded the Constance painter group in 1938 .

After the Second World War , the artist increasingly oriented himself towards figurative abstraction, but retained the themes of his earlier work: religious motifs, landscapes and figure paintings. The mosaics , sgraffiti and stone carvings he created shape many a cityscape in the Main-Tauber district to this day .

In southern Germany, at least a dozen churches received their artistic design through its wall paintings and glass windows .

Exhibitions

  • colored and gray leaves. 1967, Kunstverein Konstanz, Wessenberghaus
  • Paintings, graphics, drafts 1907 to 1973. Memorial exhibition, 1978, Kunstverein Konstanz, Wessenberghaus, with catalog
  • From the new objectivity to figurative abstraction. 2003, Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie Konstanz, Kulturzentrum am Münster, with catalog

Publications

  • Sepp Weber: The Gerchsheimer Kreuzweg cycle. Images, reflections. Self-published, Boxberg 1966.
    • Our Lord's Way of the Cross - Then and Now. Images, reflections. Calig-Verlag, Munich 1978.
  • Erich Hofmann (texts): 40 years of Laugelegumper: 1954 to 1994. Pictures and drawings. Stadler, Konstanz 1993.
  • Karl-Heinz Becker (compilation): The Way of the Cross of Jesus: a consideration as an opportunity for departure. Stations of the Cross. Karl-Heinz Becker, Walldürn 2005
  • Bernhard Möking (Ed.): Legends and Schwänke vom Bodensee. Illustrations. See-Verlag, Friedrichshafen; Südverlag; Rosgarten Verlag, Constance; Lappan Verlag, Constance
  • Hubert Baum (Ed.): Johr us - Johr ii. Alimannischs Chalenderbüechli for town and country, for large and small. Woodcuts.

source

  • Exhibition flyer for the 2003 exhibition in Konstanz

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Biehler, Sepp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1973
Place of death Bernau , Black Forest