Hermann Pleuer ( German: Hermann Pleuer ; April 5, 1863 , Schwäbisch Gmund - February 13, 1927 , Stuttgart ) - German impressionist painter . Particularly famous are his paintings on the railway theme, which depict mainly the Railway of the Kingdom of Württemberg .
| Hermann Pleyer | |
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| him. Hermann Pleuer | |
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| Aliases | "Railway" Player [1] |
| Date of Birth | April 5, 1863 |
| Place of Birth | Schwäbisch Gmund , Kingdom of Württemberg |
| Date of death | January 6, 1911 (aged 47) |
| Place of death | Stuttgart , Kingdom of Württemberg |
| Nationality |  Kingdom of Wurttemberg |
| Genre | |
| Style | impressionism |
Life and work
Born in the family of a jeweler . He received his primary art education at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts ( 1879 - 1881 ), continued at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts ( 1881 - 1883 ), and completed it at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts ( 1884 - 1886 ) [3] .
In 1886 he returned to Stuttgart , where he leads a bohemian lifestyle [4] . The motives of his work at this time are landscapes, the nightlife of bohemia, as well as female nudity in the moonlight.
In the late 1880s . Pleyer is fond of the railroads as a symbol of technological progress; he is captivated, in his words, by “intoxication with speed” (“Rausch der Geschwindigkeit”) [5] . He writes many paintings on which trains, stations and railway stations of the Kingdom of Württemberg are captured. The patron of his new hobby is Baron Franz von Koenig-Faxenfeld, who acquires the paintings of Plauer and places them in the family castle of Faxenfeld [6] .
It is interesting that the son of Franz von Koenig-Faxenfeld, Reinhard von Koenig-Faxenfeld , was also imbued with "intoxication with speed" and became an outstanding engineer and inventor, however, in the field of not railway, but automobile transport . In 1982, Reinhard von König-Faxenfeld founded the “Faxenfeld Castle Foundation”, the funds from which support the public's open access to the castle and the replenishment of museum exhibits in it. In particular, many “railway” paintings by Hermann Ployer are displayed in the art gallery of the castle [7] . Also, the artist's paintings are presented at the Stuttgart Museum of Art .
Player was a member of the German Union of Artists . Along with Otto Reiniger , Christian Landenberger and Heinrich von Zügel, he is among the leading representatives of Impressionism among artists of southern Germany.
Hermann Pleyer died of tuberculosis at the age of 47.
Criticism
Hermann Pleyer was obsessed with the railroad, all his paintings contain locomotives. They are huge and black, they can even be called terrible, one picture depicts a huge cloud of steam, the engine is hidden behind it, the cloud resembles a ball of dirty lime [8] .
<In his paintings> the natural force in iron things, loud, even loud, wild and at the same time beautiful music.
Original text (German)eine elementare Gewalt in den eisernen Dingen, eine laute, donnernde, wilde und prächtige Musik- Theodore Hoyce [9]
Selected Works
Smoking steam locomotive at night
Stuttgart Central Station in the snow
Steam locomotive at the station
Passing train
Bathing girls
Memory
- Hermann-Pleuer-Straße Street in Stuttgart bears the name of Hermann Pleuyer ;
- Also named after Pleier is the street ( Hermann-Pleuer-Weg ) in Ostfildern .
Notes
- ↑ Im Prediger: Hermann Pleuer, der schwäbische Impressionist
- ↑ Hermann Pleuer: "Stuttgarter Hauptbahnhof mit Kapelle"
- ↑ Akademie der Bildenden Künste München - Matrikelbücher - 05067 Hermann Pleuer
- ↑ John Waltman. Die feinen Spuren der Erinnerung, Württembergs Eisenbahnmaler Hermann Pleuer und seine Welt feiert eine Wiederauferstehung im Maßstab 1:87 (German) // Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . - 2008. - May 4. - S. V12 .
- ↑ Die Moderne der Vergangenheit. Schwäbische Post on 10/18/2018
- ↑ Ausstellung Hermann Pleuer
- ↑ Fachsenfeld entdeckt
- ↑ "The Fury of German Impressionism"
- ↑ Ausstellung Hermann Pleuer
Literature
- Gabriele Kiesewetter: Hermann Pleuer (1863-1911). Leben und Werk. Die Entdeckung der Geschwindigkeit , Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8062-1411-5 , Rezension .
- Roland Schurig: “Die Poesie der Schienenwelt so lebendig empfunden” Der Impressionist Hermann Pleuer (1863-1911) , Momente, Beiträge zur Landeskunde von Baden-Württemberg, 1/2007
- Stadt Aalen (Hg.): Pleuer und die Eisenbahn , Stuttgart 1978, Ausstellungskatalog.
- Isabel Grüner: Impressionismus im deutschen Südwesten. Otto Reiniger, Hermann Pleuer, Heinrich von Zügel, Christian Landenberger. Kunststiftung Hohenkarpfen, Kunstverein Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg, Hausen ob Verena 1997, ISBN 3-93-056917-5 .