Emil Beurmann

Emil Beurmann ( born March 14, 1862 in Basel, † February 5, 1951 ) was a Swiss writer, poet, draftsman and painter. He was regarded as a woman and favorite artists only.

Life

Emil Beurmann was the son of an upholsterer and grew up in Basel. From earliest youth, painted, wrote and composed Emil. In painting lessons, which he took with Hans Reuter sand, he met Lisa Ruutz know, the later poet Lisa Wenger and prefer argued with her ​​as to devote himself to painting. 1881, Emil to the artists' Mecca Paris, rendered in the Latin Quarter, a chamber and found very quickly after such illustrious artists such as Albert Anker, Lovis Corinth, Cuno Amiet and Giovanni Giacometti. 1894 Monsieur Emilie came to Cairo and spent with his two models Nebiha and Chadiga a good life. As the homeward drove Swiss " Belami " after one year Egypt back to Switzerland, not only Chadiga and her friend, the belly dancer Amina, but also a whole oriental squad of fire spouts, drummers, magicians and snake charmers, the Beurmann accompanied him as an impresario in « Palais des Fees " occur at the second Swiss National Exhibition of 1896 in Geneva left.

It published in Basel Emil Beurmann Travel Reports in newspapers and book form and blossomed quickly into a real painter poet who could look back witty books and countless paintings at the end of his life to hundreds of amusing and critical feature articles, a dozen finally.

1897 pulled the bohemian to Spain where he had many women acquaintances while waiting more or less culturally joyful ladies better society on the well-beloved home in the studio. After his return, " Beuz » made ​​, as he called himself in his books, numerous pictures in Paris, Frankfurt and Munich. With 52 years suddenly grabbed him by the great love in the person of his model, the 27-year Mariely Brunner, a subsidiary of wohlsituiertem Mansion. Despite the opposition of the mother he married in August 1914 to be " Beuzli " and together they then led a lively artists marriage. Since both members of the city's theater Commission Basel were, they experienced all the great guest performances 1914-1940 and invited famous people such as Richard Strauss, Max Reinhardt, Richard Tauber and Hans Albers to his home. Although " Beuz " and " Beuzli " were warmly attached, Emil threw sometimes also keep an eye "on the little girls in jersey ", while his wife corresponded intensively with a Basel star lawyer, who with violet ribbon worshiped her by typewriter pages of love letters.

At the age of 89 years, Emil Beurmann died. His tomb is located on the Wolf graveyard.

In Bénézit, the renowned artist lexicon, Emil Beurmann is appreciated in all its original facets in two columns of text - an honor that was bestowed only a few Swiss painters of his generation.

Works

• Youth folly - poems of two friends (1890)
• Kumbuk the Elephant, his experiences and his entry into the New Elephant House at the Zoological Garden in Basel - put into verse, with illustrations and dedicated to all the little friends of the Garden (1892 )
• Painter rides in the East and in Spain ( 1899)
• En passant - Sketches and chats (1902 )
• Chadigas trip to Europe and other sketches (1906 )
• Sparrow Songs of Emanuel (1923 )
• New Sparrow Songs (1924 )
• Rundschau verses of Emanuel (1928 )
• A painter spinisiert - new by Emanuel (1932 )
• Emanuel says ... - Poems and Stories (1930 )
• Gix and Gax - poems and dialogues by Emanuel (1935 )
• Voices from the Basement - Poems and Other by Emanuel (1937 )
• E few Rym, e few Gritz from Emanuel and Fritz ( between 1900-1940 )
• So it looked Beuz - Poems (1941 )
• Of people and things: from the diary of a Painter ( 1942)
• E liederligs Shamrock - dialect operetta 3 file ( translation Nestroys Vagabond, 1938)

• Many paintings