Lesser Ury

Lesser Ury ( born November 7, 1861 in Birnbaum, Posen; † 18 October 1931 in Berlin) was a German painter and graphic artist who Impressionism was close in his landscapes, city scenes and still lifes in his late period he created next to biblical monumental images.

Career

Lesser Ury studied from 1879 to 1880 painting at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf with Andreas Müller and Heinrich Lauenstein, then in Brussels, collected in Paris valuable experience with others at Jules -Joseph Lefebvre, exploring Flanders and Munich, where he was in 1886 for a short time at the Academy of Fine Arts enrolled. Ury lived since 1887 in Berlin, from 1920 until his death he had a studio and apartment at Nollendorfplatz 1 in Berlin -Schöneberg.

Among his favorite subjects were the streets of Berlin and the surrounding Brandenburg. Especially for the cosmopolitan city of Berlin Ury felt from the first moment a very special sympathy. This was so much in his art reflected that he was honored on his 60th birthday by the Mayor of Berlin as " the artistic glorifier of the capital".

Work

In the oil painting formed Ury flowers, still lifes as well as his typical coffee house and street scenes dar. In his pastels succeeded Ury, nuanced play of air and light reflections in the landscape. Ury, as a human being more of a loner, trod in art a solitary path while Berlin contemporaries Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth and Max Slevogt combined common artistic interests. Perhaps for reasons of competition was Max Liebermann, president of the academy and influential spokesman of the art scene, the increasing awareness of Ury's an eyesore. Liebermann tried by all means to block Ury's career. Ury was only able to regularly and successfully exhibit in the Berlin Secession, as Corinth succeeded Lieberman was. In 1921 he was made an honorary member of the Secession. Ury went into this decade several times on trips to London, Paris and several German cities. From each trip the artist took each with a wealth of new images. Shortly after a trip to Paris in 1928, the health of the painter deteriorated increasingly by a heart attack. National Gallery and Secession wanted the life work of Ury's honor on his 70th birthday ( 1931). Three weeks before the artist died, however, in his Berlin studio.

Discount

A widespread but false legend has it that half of Ury's work by the Nazis and the war had been destroyed. After his death a number of images and RM 30,000 were discovered in his studio rather. Most of the pictures of the estate were auctioned in October 1932 at the auction house Paul Cassirer from private individuals. Many of his pictures are therefore still in private collections. The last major retrospective took place in 1995 in the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Berlin. 2010 auction of a private collection in Hamburg of the artist's works took place in the Berlin auction house Villa Grisebach.

The honorary grave of Lesser Ury is located in the field G 1, Honor series at the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin -Weissensee.

An anecdote about the hostility Ury and Liebermann is as follows: Ury said to have been one day in Liebermann's studio and herumgekrittelt at one whose images. Later he spread that he had Liebermann's last completed picture. " Det he may ," Liebermann said to have replied and sat for: " However, if he claims one of his pictures was of me, then sue ' I him."

Berlin motives (selection)

Gallery

Unter den Linden after the Rain, 1888

Floodlit, 1889

Leipziger Straße, 1889

In the Café Bauer, 1895

Evening at the Café Bauer, 1898

Ladies, a cab entsteigend, 1920

Bridge over the Landwehr Canal, 1920

High Bülowstraße, 1922

Unter den Linden, 1922

Berlin street in the rain, 1925

Tiergarten avenue Victory Column, 1925