William Straube

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William Straube (far right) in the Académie Matisse around 1910

William Carl Johannes Bertram Straube (born June 10, 1871 in Berlin ; † May 3, 1954 in Neufrach on Lake Constance) was a German painter in Berlin and Neufrach.

Life

William Straube came from a very art-loving Berlin family and was already involved in drawing and painting as a child. His father Johannes Straube was an organist and harmonium maker, his mother Sarah Palmer came from the English gentry ; the younger brother Karl Straube became a famous organ virtuoso and Thomaskantor .

Throughout his life, Straube moved with alternating accents between the professional fields of art teacher and independent artist. After training as a decorative painter and drawing teacher, he began studying free painting in Berlin, which he broke off after a short time despite the rapid rise to the master class of the history painter Josef Scheurenberg (1846–1914).

He was shaped by numerous study trips to England, Spain, Italy and North Africa, and in particular the years at the Paris Académie of Henri Matisse (1908–1911). He gained further inspiration during his studies in 1915/16 at the Stuttgart Academy from Adolf Hölzel .

In 1918 Straube returned to Berlin, married the well-known violinist Dora von Möllendorff (1886–1971) and again accepted a position as a drawing teacher. The two sons from Straube's marriage, Bertram and Peter, died in World War II. Straube spent the last three decades of his life with his wife on Lake Constance in Neufrach near Überlingen , initially as a teacher at the Schloss Salem school , and since 1929 as a freelance artist again. It was there that his late work was created, which almost exclusively takes up landscape motifs from Lake Constance in watercolor and pastel painting .

William Straube was a member of the German Association of Artists .

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The multifaceted oeuvre of William Straube developed in the area of ​​tension between the French avant-garde and the dawn of modernism in Germany. In addition to Vincent van Gogh , he was influenced by Henri Matisse and Adolf Hölzel . Above all, his work reveals a masterly mastery of drawing technique in a varied style. In addition to Straube's works, his minutes of several correction sessions at the Académie Matisse, in which he recorded the art theoretical statements of his teacher Henri Matisse, are of art historical importance. Straube's artistic estate, including some of his oil paintings, numerous drawings and sketchbooks, is managed by the William Straube Archive and the Singen Art Museum .

Exhibitions

  • 1998: William Straube: Encounters with the avant-garde , August-Macke-Haus , Bonn
  • 2008: In the pulse of modernity. William Straube (1871–1954) - Stations and companions , Achberg Castle

Quotes

"Only weak natures are discouraged and destroyed by great examples, but the strong are enthusiastic and cheered."

- William Straube, On the essence of art

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Straube, William Association of Artists (Memento)
  2. ↑ kunstmarkt.com: William Straube: Biography · Exhibitions · Works (accessed on September 10, 2015)

literature

  • Uta Gerlach-Laxner: William Straube . In: Gisela Fiedler-Benda (Ed.): Matisse and his German students . Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern 1988, pp. 235–254 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern , May 28 to July 17, 1988).
  • Gisela C. Hinze: Life and work of the painter William Straube (1871–1954) . Dissertation, University of Bonn 1990 (2 volumes).
  • Burkhard Leismann (ed.): The great inspiration. German artists in the Académie Matisse . Kunst-Museum Ahlen 1997/2004 (3 volumes, catalog of the exhibition of the same name).
  1. Hans Purrmann , Oskar and Marg Moll , William Straube . 1997, ISBN 3-925608-38-9 .
  2. Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann , Franz Nölken , Walter Alfred Rosam , Gretchen Wohlwill . 2000, ISBN 3-925608-88-5 .
  3. Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann, Marthe Bernstien, Hans Gött, Eugen Hamm , AnnemarieKruse-von Jakimow , Maria Langer-Schöller , Otto Richard Langer , Rudolf Levy , Henri Matisse , Marg Moll, Oskar Moll, Franz Nölken, Hans Purrmann, Walter Alfred Rosam, Jakob Steinhardt , William Straube, Mathilde Vollmoeller , Gretchen Wohlwill . 2004, ISBN 3-89946-041-3 .
  • Ina Ewers-Schultz (Ed.): William Straube. Encounters with the avant-garde . August-Macke-Haus Bonn 1998 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, August 30 to October 25, 1998).
  • Kai-Michael Sprenger (Ed.): Im Pulse der Moderne. William Straube (1871-1954). Stations and companions . District Office, Ravensburg 2008, ISBN 3-9809999-7-1 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Achberg Castle, April 26 to October 12, 2008).

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personal data
SURNAME Straube, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Straube, William Carl Johannes Bertram (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter in Berlin and Neufrach
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1954
Place of death Neufrach on Lake Constance