Wilhelm Amandus Beer
Wilhelm Amandus Beer (born August 9, 1837 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 19, 1907 there ) was a German painter and university professor who gained popularity primarily through motifs from foreign countries. In his work, depictions from Russia and depictions from Russian folk life predominate - this earned him the nickname Russen-Beer .
education
After his first drawing lessons with his great-uncle Anton Radl , Beer was a pupil of Jakob Becker at the Städel Art Institute until 1852 , whose genre painting in the style of the Düsseldorf school shaped him. He then trained in history and fresco painting under Edward von Steinle, and traveled to Antwerp and Paris for further studies .
Artistic career
First study trips in the area around Frankfurt made him stay more often in Kronberg im Taunus , he was part of the wider area of the Kronberg painters' colony . In 1857 he visited Munich and the Alps and traveled to Vienna. However, his repeated trips to Russia were of decisive importance. During longer stays in the Smolensk Governorate from 1867 to 1870 and 1877 - especially on the estate of the painter Sergei Andrjewitsch von Baryschnikoff - Beer studied the characteristics of the country and its people in detail. Special popularity gained painted in the Frankfurt studio images of fairs of various places such as the painting bear trainers at the carnival from Slednowa in Smolensk. After a trip to Italy in 1880 and a visit to the Netherlands in 1895, the artist, who had lived in Frankfurt since 1870, was appointed head of a master's atelier at the Städel Art Institute and two years later, in 1899, was appointed professor. The graphic artist Kurt Jäckel was among his master students .
student
- Emil Beithan (1878–1955)
literature
- Beer, Wilhelm Amandus . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 169 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Uwe Opper (ed.), Andrea Weber-Mittelstaedt: The Kronberger painter colony and befriended Frankfurt artists. Opper, Kronberg im Taunus 2008, ISBN 978-3-924831-06-6 .
Web links
- Wilhelm Amandus Beer †. Frankfurt has lost one of its best artists. , in Rhein und Düssel (No. 10) of March 10, 1907, p. 8
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beer, Wilhelm Amandus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Russians-Beer (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1907 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |