Winfried Tonner

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Winfried Tonner (born January 12, 1937 in Brno ; † February 23, 2002 in Munich ) was a Sudeten German painter and art teacher .

Life

Winfried Tonner was the great-grandson of the painter and graphic artist Josef Roller and the great-nephew of Alfred Roller . In 1939 he moved with his parents from Moravia to Regensburg . He graduated from high school in 1958 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate . From 1958 to 1963 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Anton Marxmüller and Josef Oberberger and graduated with the state examination for art education.

His first job as an art teacher was from 1964 to 1968 at Stiftland-Gymnasium Tirschenreuth . In 1967 he married Heidi Schwarztraub, with whom he had their daughter Ulrike in 1971, who is also active as an artist. From 1968 to 1995 he taught at the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Regensburg and also worked as a freelance artist.

In 1993, Bavarian television visited Tonner's studio for a film about artists in Regensburg. In 1997 Tonner donated the Art Prize for German-Czech Understanding .

Winfried Tonner died suddenly and unexpectedly of heart failure at an artist festival at the Munich Secession .

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Tonner work includes about 100 paintings, 1,500 graphics and 600 watercolors, which is owned by tonner widow, in the Bavarian State Painting Collections , in the Germanic National Museum , in the Regensburg East German Gallery are and privately owned.

Large Regensburg family picture

In 1984/1985 he painted the "Great Regensburg Family Picture" of the Thurn and Taxis Princely Family and inadvertently received a great deal of media attention throughout Germany. The 260 cm wide and 205 cm high tempera painting shows Johannes and Gloria von Thurn und Taxis and the three small children they share twice; on the one hand all together on a painting presented by the painter, on the other hand the children playing on the floor to the right of the painting and the two parents seeing the overall situation in the mirror hanging above. 70,000 D-Marks were agreed for the commissioned work  , which the family was not prepared to pay in full after completion. Ultimately, Tonner paid back the deposit and kept the painting himself. Wend von Kalnein confirmed the artistic quality of the painting at that time. In 1986 it was exhibited in the Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg. It is now in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d report in the Mittelbayerische Zeitung : The forgotten master of July 26, 2017, vol. 73, no. 170, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Winfried Tonner ; Source: Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg (ed.): Thalatta, Thalatta! Regensburg 1989, p. 73.
  3. ^ A b Winfried Tonner , Kunstkabinett.com.
  4. ↑ Winfried Tonner and his `` Großes Regensburger Familienbild '' , Musée Imaginaire, December 2001.
  5. ^ Tonner and Gloria , Der Spiegel 47/1968, November 17, 1986.
  6. ^ Winfried Tonner , Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts.
personal data
SURNAME Tonner, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sudeten German painter and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2002
Place of death Munich