Theodor Blätterbauer
Theodor Bernhard Rudolf Blätterbauer (born December 24, 1823 in Bunzlau , † June 30, 1906 in Liegnitz ) was a German painter, graphic artist and drawing teacher at the Liegnitz Knight Academy. He is one of the most important landscape and architectural draftsmen in Silesia at the end of the 19th century.
biography
Youth and school
Theodor Bernhard Rudolf Blätterbauer was born in Bunzlau on Christmas Eve 1823 as the son of the businessman Johannes Norbert Blätterbauer (born in Wodnian , Bohemia) and his wife Dorothea, née. Seidel (born in Sagan), born. He spent the first years of his life alone with his mother with his widowed grandmother in Sagan . Blätterbauer spent his first five school years with relatives in Reitwein , Lebus district, until his father brought him to Prague . By attending a private drawing school, he received artistic support for the first time, which was continued from 1835 in Reichenberg through further private lessons. A little later, the parents separated and mother and son moved back to Silesia to relatives in Quaritz , Glogau district.
education
In 1838, after graduating from school in Frankfurt (Oder) , he was sent to an apprenticeship against his will at the instrument maker Vogel in Glogau . But he changed his subject early on and continued his apprenticeship at Buchbinder Kreuz. Until 1842, Blätterbauer continued his autodidactic training by copying pictures. Here, among other things, he served Ludwig Richter (1803-1884) as a model. In 1843/44 he did his military service.
Studies
Thanks to the financial support of his father, he stayed in Munich in 1845/46 , where he was able to continue doing artistic work. He gained new experiences on a journey in 1846/47 that took him via Hungary to Belgrade and from there up the Danube back to Munich. In 1848/49 he was accepted at the Munich Art Academy . Here he attended, among other things, the class of antiquities, which is evidenced by a certificate that has been received and signed by the director Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805–1874). His teachers during this time were Raps, Ferdinand Stademann and Julius Lange (1817–1878). A trip to the Alps marked the end of his studies.
Work
In 1849 he settled as a young artist in the Silesian town of Glogau as a freelance painter. Here he married the widowed daughter of the Glogau hotel owner Petermann.
Through further training as a drawing teacher, which he completed in 1853 at the Berlin Building Academy , Blätterbauer was able to accept the position of teacher at the Royal Knight Academy in Liegnitz in 1854 . He also taught at the provincial trade school, gave private lessons and taught at the advanced training school for craftsmen in Liegnitz. During this time he participated repeatedly in exhibitions in Berlin, Breslau, Dresden, Leipzig, Hamburg and Antwerp.
Works
He became known through book illustrations. He often worked closely with his friend, Glogau publisher Carl Flemming. Annual study trips through Silesia, Italy, the Alps and the Rhine gave Blätterbauer the templates. His landscape and architectural drawings had a romantic mood. He also had a clear predilection for depicting medieval buildings. In spite of all this, he was rather unknown in Liegnitz for a long time. It was not until 1898 that the Prussian Minister of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs was appointed professor.
He created hundreds of drawings and watercolors with views of Silesian cities and landscapes, numerous oil paintings and calligraphic works for Silesian associations during his creative period. The documentary value of his steel engravings, lithographs and woodcuts served as illustrations for important pictorial works such as Alexander Duncker's large-scale edition on the rural residences of the Prussian aristocracy or Franz Schroller's three-volume edition on Silesia.
death
Blätterbauer was paralyzed by a stroke in 1905 and died in 1906.
estate
Large parts of his works were transferred to the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts and Antiquities in Wroclaw by will . Other parts were in the Liegnitz town hall, which also contained a museum Blätterbauer room with parts of his studio. Today valuable documents about his life can be found in the State Archives of Liegnitz. In addition to the Liegnitzer Museum, rare original works can also be found in the National Museum in Breslau , in the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie (Regensburg), in the Silesian Museum in Görlitz, in the State Library in Berlin , in the Liegnitzer Collection in Wuppertal and in private ownership. Most of his works are lost and unknown after the Second World War.
literature
- Alexander Duncker (ed.): The rural residences, castles and residences of the knightly landowners in the Prussian monarchy, together with the royal family, household, fideicomass and casket goods (delivery to Silesia and the province of Posen), Berlin, 1853–1881 .
- Hermann Luchs: Silesian princely images of the Middle Ages , Breslau, 1872.
- Heinrich Noé, German Alpine Book. The German highlands in words and pictures. With woodcuts by A. Cloß, Klitzsch and Rochlitzer after Th. Blätterbauer and G. Sundblatt, 2 vols., Glogau 1875–1876.
- Franz Schroller: Silesia. A description of the Schlesierlandes , 3 vol., Glogau 1885–1888, unaltered reprint Frankfurt / Main, 1980.
- Hans J Henske (author), Berlin Historical Society Liegnitz eV (ed.): Elfriede Springer - Theodor Blätterbauer two important Lower Silesian artists: drawings and watercolors , publisher: Henske-Neumann, 2000, ISBN 3980664007 , ISBN 978-3980664004 .
- Ernst Pfudel: Professor Theodor Blätterbauer, a Lower Silesian painter , in: Mitteilungen des Geschichts- und Altertumsverein zu Liegnitz, Heft 3 (1909/10), pp. 193–237.
- Vera Schmilewski: Romantic Silesia. Pictures by Theodor Blätterbauer , Würzburg 1993.
- Exhibition catalog Muzeum Okregowe w Legnicy (ed.): Theodor Blätterbauer's representation of Liegnitz and Silesia in the 2nd half of the 19th century , Legnica 1993.
- Elisabeth von Trux: Silesia in the Bildermeier period , Bergstadt Verlag, Würzburg, 1987, ISBN 3870571225 , ISBN 978-3870571221 , p. 88.
Web links
- Literature by and about Theodor Blätterbauer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Blätterbauer, Theodor . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blätterbauer, Theodor . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blätterbauer, Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blätterbauer, Theodor Bernhard Rudolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bunzlau |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1906 |
| Place of death | Liegnitz |