Stefan Jäger (painter)

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Romanian postage stamp from 1998, Stefan Jäger (left), Swabian traditional costumes (right)
Stefan Jäger Museum, in the painter's former studio in Hatzfeld

Stefan Jäger (born May 28, 1877 in Csene , Torontál , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary , † March 16, 1962 in Hatzfeld , People's Republic of Romania ) was a painter of Danube Swabian life.

Life

Stefan Jäger was the son of the barber Franz Jäger and Magdalena Jäger born. Schuller from Billed . At 12 he attended Franz Wieszner's private school in Temesvár , and at 16 the middle school in Szeged , where he recognized his penchant for painting. In 1895 he took up a four-year art course at the model drawing school and the drawing teacher training institute in Budapest . Here he worked with Professor Ede Balló and Bertalan Székely, among others .

Jäger's first successful works found relatively good sales with the Budapest art dealer Almásy; he mainly worked on order on some saints , still lifes and various landscape paintings . In 1906 the community Gyertyámos ( German  Gertjanosch ) ordered a painting on the subject of the settlement of the Germans in the southeast . This project was financed through a large-scale collection campaign. His greatest work was created, the immigration triptych . Because of its considerable dimensions (5.10 × 1.45 meters), the painter divided the picture into three parts: wandering , resting and arriving .

In 1906, while traveling through Austria , Germany (especially to Stuttgart , Ulm and Nuremberg ) and Italy, he studied and sketched the costumes of the ancestors from the various settlement landscapes. Jäger made numerous composition drawings about the different stations of the settlement during the Swabian marches , in which he recorded not only the costumes from Baden-Württemberg , Alsace-Lorraine , the Black Forest and the Lahn area but also the costumes of the local Romanians and Serbs with particular attention to detail.

In 1910, Stefan Jäger settled in Zsombolya (German Hatzfeld , Romanian Jimbolia ), where he lived until his death in 1962. In 1930 the first exhibition of his pictures was opened. In 1957, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, he was awarded the Romanian Order of Labor, 2nd class . In 1969 the Stefan Jäger memorial was set up in the painter's former studio in Jimbolia, from which today's Stefan Jäger Museum emerged .

Works

Selection:

  • The settlement of the Germans in the Banat (lost), approx. 1905, 300 cm wide
  • The Immigration of Germans in Hungary , 1906–1910, 145 × 510 cm, oil on canvas, owned by the Banat National Museum
  • Self-portrait , undated, 270 × 210 cm, oil on cardboard, owned by the Banat Museum
  • Study of costumes , 1907, 135 × 205 cm, oil on cardboard, owned by the Banat Museum
  • Rossmühle , 200 × 300 cm, watercolor and gouache on paper, private collection
  • In section , 330 × 450 cm, oil on wood, private property

literature

  • Karl-Hans Gross: Stefan Jäger - Painter of His Homeland , Volume 1, Oswald Hartmann Verlag, ISBN 3-925921-11-7
  • Karl-Hans Gross: Stefan Jäger - Sketches, Studies and Drafts , Volume 2, Oswald Hartmann Verlag, ISBN 3-925921-57-5
  • Annemarie Podlipny-Hehn : Stefan Jäger , Kriterion Verlag, 1972, Bucharest
  • Peter Krier : Catalog for the exhibition and the symposium on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Swabian painter's death , published by: Hilfswerk der Banater Schwaben, Ingolstadt 2012

Appreciation

The Stefan Jäger Foundation was set up in 1996, the purpose of which is to support the German minority and to maintain the German language and the customs of the German minority. In the course of this, the Stefan Jäger Prize was created, which is awarded to people under the age of 30 who are particularly dedicated to these goals.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homage to Stefan Jäger , accessed on April 6, 2013
  2. ^ Stefan Jäger Foundation on the website of the democratic forum of the Banat Berglanddeutsche, accessed on November 25, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian painter of Danube Swabian life
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Csene , Torontál , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1962
Place of death Hatzfeld , People's Republic of Romania