Toni Schönecker

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Toni Schönecker, Vítězslav Eibl's memorial plaque
(2007; unveiled in 2008)
( Havlíčka Borovského Street 692 , where the artist lived.)

Anton "Toni" Schönecker (born November 1, 1893 in Falkenau an der Eger , Bohemia ; † November 2, 1979 in Wangen im Allgäu ) was a Sudeten German visual artist . He worked as a painter , fresco artist , watercolorist , draftsman , illustrator , eraser , lithographer , wood cutter , photographer and sculptor .

Life

Painting on the Frauentor , Wangen (1950)
Part of the painting on the Kisslegg town hall (1974)

Toni Schönecker was born in Falkenau an der Eger (today Sokolov ) as the son of a carpenter and finished the three-year apprenticeship as a photographer there in 1910.

Years of traveling followed with stays in Pressburg , Brussels , Berlin and Munich , until in 1913 he got a permanent position at the Imperial and Royal Graphical Training and Research Institute in Vienna . In 1914 they were called up for military service. After the end of the First World War , he started working for the Royal Bavarian Court photographer Franz Grainer in Munich in 1918 . From 1919 (matriculation on May 31, 1919) to 1923 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , with Hermann Groeber among others . He earned his living as a sports illustrator for various publishers, for example for Bergverlag Rudolf Rother , for Velhagen & Klasing in Leipzig , for J. Steinbrener in Schärding and the Karl Adam Kraft Verlag in Karlsbad (later in Augsburg ) as well as for example also in the journal Simplicissimus . During this time, numerous pictures and drawings of mountaineers, climbers and striking mountains in the Alps were created .

In 1924 Schönecker went back to his hometown Falkenau and worked as a freelance artist. In 1940 his works were on view at the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich. In 1944 he was called up for military service again. After the Second World War he lived and worked as a freelance artist from 1946 to 1949 in Partenkirchen , then until 1951 in Klais and from 1953 in Wangen, where he had a studio in Lindauer Tor.

Due to the displacement, almost all of the works from the time before the First World War have survived . In addition to pictures, graphics, drawings - including landscape , portrait and nudes - and sculptural work in the form of monuments, he also created several sgraffiti and frescoes in his Egerland and southern German places of work . In Wangen alone, he created architectural art on around 60 public and private buildings.

Schönecker died one day after his 86th birthday shortly after completing a fresco. His works were exhibited several times even after his death.

Photo and image illustrations (selection)

  • Gustav Goes : In the Wonderful Realm of the Mountain King: A book of fairy tales . Hermann Klemm Publishing House, Berlin-Grunewald 1922.
  • Gustav Goes: fairy tale spirits: fairy tales . Hermann Klemm Publishing House, Berlin-Grunewald 1923.
  • Carl Joseph Luther ; Paul Weidinger: The ski course: A verse u. Picture book. Bergverlag R. Rother, Munich 1925.
  • George Helfrich : The lady on ice skates . Bergverlag R. Rother, Munich 1926.
  • Carl Joseph Luther: Skiers: Ski bunnies, canoeists, climbers and other people; How she draws Toni Schönecker. Bergverlag R. Rother, Munich 1933 (first edition).
  • Gustav Jungbauer (Ed.): Egerländer folk songs . Walter de Gruyter publisher, Berlin / Leipzig 1937.
  • Alfred Görgl ; Richard Paulus (Ed.): Shining World: Poems. Writing workshop, Prague / Verlag Franz Kraus . Reichenberg 1939.
  • Folk heritage of the Sudeten Germans (two-part work). Bastei-Verlag Dresdner Akzidenzdruckerei, Dresden 1939/1940.
  • Karl Springenschmid : Angels in Lederhosen. Laughing stories from the mountains of Tyrol. Karl Adam Kraft Verlag, 1959.
  • Paul Oskar Höcker : Winter Sports , 1929

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Toni Schönecker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of participants in the 'Great German Art Exhibitions 1937–1944': Q – S , Meeting Point Art.
personal data
SURNAME Schönecker, Toni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönecker, Anton (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkenau on the Eger
DATE OF DEATH 2nd November 1979
Place of death Wangen in the Allgäu