Tony Binder
Tony Binder (born October 25, 1868 in Vienna , † January 18, 1944 in Nördlingen or Munich ) was an oriental painter and illustrator from Austria .
Life and works
Tony Binder was born out of wedlock and was baptized a Catholic on October 27, 1868. Various information is circulating about his artistic career.
According to arcadija.com, he completed a conventional training, studied in Vienna and Munich and exhibited several times in the Glaspalast . According to this source, he was friends with Camille Boiry . In 1890 he went on a trip to Upper Egypt and settled near Cairo ; In 1894 he lived in Istanbul , later again in Cairo and Alexandria . Several paintings by Binder showing motifs from Munich date from 1922, such as the Monopteros and the restaurant building by the Chinese tower in the English Garden .
The biographical information on askart.com largely agrees with these statements: Here, too, the contact with Camille Boiry and the trip to Upper Egypt are mentioned, but also several trips to Italy, a stay in Greece around 1905/06 and a trip to France in 1911 as well as stays in Munich and Vienna, where the artist is said to have married Mary Reiser.
Torben Gülstorff, on the other hand, describes Binder as an autodidact. He came to Cairo for the first time in 1890, lived as a photographer in Alexandria from 1899 and also painted from 1900. In 1906 he gave up his photo studio and lived entirely from painting; his role models were Ferenc Eisenhut and Charles Wilda . From around 1912 until the outbreak of the First World War , according to Gülstorff, Binder was court photographer and court painter to the Khedive Abbas Hilmi II, and during the Egypt boom in the 1920s and 1930s, according to Gülstorff, he often stayed in Egypt and preferably in the Luxor area and became a tourist artist. Some of his paintings were printed as postcards.
His curriculum vitae is presented in a slightly different way in the Orient catalog of the Salzburg Residenzgalerie . In 1890 he visited an older brother in Cairo, then became an assistant in the Reiser photo studio in Alexandria and in 1899 became a partner. He mainly shot outdoors and got around Egypt that way. Only after the studio was closed did he devote himself to painting; from February 1914 he sold his pictures to tourists in the Winter Palace. But in 1914 he was interned in England.
The Dachau picture gallery , which owns several works by Binder and emphasizes his friendship with Eugen Osswald , gives precise dates of life for Binder, who lived in Dachau from 1922 . In contrast to numerous sources available online that mention Nördlingen, Binder's place of death is Munich.
On the occasion of his 70th birthday, the artist received the Goethe Medal . The year before, he had already received the medal of the city of Salzburg in the course of an exhibition in the Salzburg Künstlerhaus .
Tony Binder as an illustrator
The Badrutt guest book
Tony Binder created several drawings for the guest book of the hotelier Anton R. Badrutt, who managed the Hotel Winter Palace in Luxor from 1920 to 1935. This book, bound in parchment and leather, contains a drawing of Tutankhamun on the flyleaf . Other drawings by Binder in the guest book show hotel guests Howard Carter and George Bernard Shaw .
Badrutt's guest book covers roughly the years 1922 to 1950, but the focus seems to be on the 1920s and 1930s. The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and the subsequent excavations took place during this period. During these years, numerous celebrities stayed at the Winter Palace and immortalized themselves in the guest book. The guest book was later in the possession of Badrutt's daughter Carmen Heusser and was rediscovered in 1991 by André Wiese while preparing for an exhibition. In 1998 he published an essay on the guest book, which disappeared when Carmen Heusser, who suffered from dementia , moved to a retirement home and later reappeared in the antiquarian bookshop. The guest book was up for sale again at the 23rd Antiquarian Book Fair in Zurich in February 2018.
Printed illustrations
Binder illustrated a work by the archaeologist Karl Maria Kaufmann . Excavators, mummy hunters and dead cities. From the romanticism of research in the Orient based on personal experiences. With 28 text illustrations by Tony Binder , it was published by Scherl in Berlin in 1928.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry in the birth and baptismal register of the parish Rossau on data.matricula-online.de
- ↑ In the Rossau birth and baptismal register there is also confirmation of his death on January 18, 1944 in Nördlingen. Other sources name Munich as the place of death and, in some cases, the date of death January 20, 1944, cf. z. B. The Wehrmacht: The Archive; Reference book for politics, economics, culture . 1943, p. 812 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ↑ Information about the painter at www.arcadja.com
- ↑ View of the Monopteros at www.hampel-auctions.com
- ↑ Restaurant building at the Chinese Tower in the English Garden at www.hampel-auctions.com
- ↑ Biographical information on www.askart.com
- ↑ Torben Gülstorff: Orient & Occident. Neue Welt Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-950-30618-7 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
- ↑ Christoph Otterbeck: Leave Europe. Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-00206-0 , p. 142 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ^ Salzburger Residenzgalerie: Orient . Residenzgalerie, 1997, p. 133 and 347 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ↑ Horst Heres: Dachauer Gemäldegalerie . Museumsverein Dachau, 1985, p. 274 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ^ Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG: Regesten. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 1983, ISBN 978-3-110-97488-1 , p. 440 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ↑ Salzburger Volksblatt 96, April 26, 1939, p. 3 ( digitized version ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )
- ↑ a b The Golden Books , April 18, 2013 at grandhotelsegypt.com
- ↑ 23rd Antiquarian Book Fair Zurich 2018. Catalog , Zurich 2018, p. 34
- ↑ Review by Franz Haider in Reichspost , November 13, 1928, p. 8 ( digitized version ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Binder, Tony |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Binder, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Orient painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1944 |
| Place of death | Nordlingen |