Edmund Harburger

Edmund Harburg ( April 4, 1846 in Eichstätt, † November 5, 1906 in Munich) was a German painter and draftsman.

Life

Well by confusion of names he is variously reckoned among the Jewish -born artists of Munich; However, his ancestors were Catholic faith. The great-grandfather Johann Adam Harburg ( * ca 1739, † 1802) was from Velburg in the Upper Palatinate, the grandfather Lorenz Harburg was born in 1778 in Breitenbrunn in the Upper Palatinate, and died in 1845 as a draper in Eichstätt; the father was Franz Xaver Harburg (* 1814 in Eichstätt; † as a merchant in Mainz). 1838 married this in Mainz Elisabeth Lauer ( * 1819 in Mainz), daughter of a flagstone dealer. In Mainz, the son of Edmund learned the trade of mason, which he held until 1865. In Mainz he also received first artistic inspiration by the animal painter Johann Erdmann Gottlieb Prestel (* 1804, † 1873), the brother of his employer, and dabbled in murals of the Prussian casinos.

After six years of apprenticeship, he moved into the Polytechnic in Munich to educate yourself in the building trades, but went more and more to his real passion and studied from May 1866 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts ( Matrikel-Nr. 02245 ) with Karl Raupp and Wilhelm ( Heinrich) Lindenschmit this year in the antiques category. Besides painting, he was particularly interested in the illustration and caricature art; Wood engravings by him were first published in 1872 in a book of the Mainz local poet Friedrich Lennig. First, put the magazine " The Gazebo " political cartoons from his hand, then, from 1870, the " Fliegende Blatter ", which he delivered about 1,500 humoristic drawings to 1906 and the sheet coined together with Adolf Oberlander and Adolf Hengeler around the turn of the century.

Harburg, he studied the Dutch genre painting of the 17th century ( including David Teniers the Younger and Adriaen van Ostade ). In 1871 he gave up on a long time in the Tyrol, where he painted a variety of interiors. 1876/78 he copied Old Masters in Venice. In 1882, he was waiting with a separate, printed in Munich at Braun & Schneider large format " E. Harburg album "on 60 of his works.

Harburg was a performer of ordinary people. His humorous genre pictures show Munich Volkstypen, petty bourgeois, tipplers and business people, but also nobles, officials, judges, professors and students, often in well- covered interiors. His figures he provides witty funny, but not a caricature in the sense of excessive and hurtful dar. addition to his humorous drawings in charcoal or soft pencil he also created oil paintings with motifs from the life of the people. He wrote numerous interior studies, and he painted still lifes and portraits, including twelve self-portraits.

His works were exhibited, among others since 1871 in the Munich Glass Palace, 1882/84 in the Salon de Paris in the Berlin Academy and in 1905 in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. Of 1883/84 he was represented with 19 fellow painters on a Munich artist subjects. In 1890 he was in the publication " homes münchener artists " represented with his built his own house in the Nymphenburgerstraße 55.

Works (selection)

Works Harburgers can be found in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich ( " Beaux restes " and " Wine " ), in the Mainz Museum (including " Rübenschälerin " and " Important dispute " ), in the Darmstadt Museum, the City Museum of Munich as well as in museums in Gdansk, Gothenburg, Leipzig, Münster in Westphalia, Prague, Reichenberg iB and Zurich. For most of the following works are pencil, chalk or pen and ink drawings and wood engravings.

  • The beer drinker
  • The village barber
  • The peasant brawl
  • Am stillen Herd
  • Tavern in Tirol
  • The Seamstress
  • Couple sitting on bed, behind a fan
  • The Cozy
  • Pipe Smokers ( watercolor drawing, 1900)
  • Zecher with an empty jug (1890)
  • Judge and defendant
  • Two men at the opulent food ( Watercolour 1900)
  • Two women walk in interview ( pencil)
  • When cider (wood engraving, 1904)
  • A Gods Trunk ( contribution to the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1905, No. 368)
  • Portrait of an Old Man with Top Hat and beer mug
  • A middle-class couple ( charcoal drawing )
  • Two farmers and an old woman, standing in the living room talking (oil on canvas, 1900)
  • Still Hilarious ( man with two barrels ) (Oil, 1896)
  • Three men in the pub (oil on canvas)
  • Headshot of a boy ( in the manner of Morillio, oil on canvas)
  • Woman portrait with white headscarf (1875, oil)

For a painted on both sides Munich pictures compartments with 21 illustrations on 20 wooden segments, created 1883/84 in oil on wood, Harburg has delivered a humorous scene.

Publications with Harburgers work

  • The gazebo. Illustrated Family Journal
  • Flying leaves, 1870-1906
  • Friedrich Lennig: Something to laugh. With lIlustrationen ( wood engravings ) by Edmund Harburg, Mainz: Franz Kirchheim 1872, 200 pp., more edition in 1879, 9th edition 1890, 10th edition 1920
  • The dangerous rescue, ( a boy pranks, 9 images with verses ), 1873 /74 ( 4th ed ), Handkolierte wood engravings, 37x27 cm
  • Edmund Harburg: 50 images. Munich, Braun & Schneider, nd (c. 1890)
  • Edmund Harburg: E. Harburg album ( 60 sheets with mostly full-page illustrations ), Munich: Braun & Schneider ( 1882)
  • Süddeutsche Monatshefte (1907 ) (mt among other cartoons Harburgers )
  • Munich humor, hundreds of drawings and jokes by Edmund Harburg, ( annual gift in 1984/85 the company Kaut - Bullinger & Co GmbH & Co KG), Munich: Fritz Kriechbaumer undated (1985 ), about 100 nichtpag. S. m. full-page. cartoons
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