Julius Exter

Julius Leopold Bernhard Exter ( born September 20, 1863 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, † October 16, 1939 in Overseas am Chiemsee ) was a German painter, sculptor, and Royal from 1902 professor.

Background, education

Exter was born into a ramified Palatinate merchant family who has been resident in Ludwigshafen, Neustadt and Bad Durkheim. He is the brother of the architect August Exter. His training as a painter, he was at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Life

He belonged to the Munich Secession, which he co-founded in 1892. Two years later he joined the Free Association of Munich Artists' very progressive. In 1900, he was a pioneer of modern painting in Munich and was not only among colleagues as " colors prince ". Among his pupils was the Freiburg painter and sculptor Eva Eisenlohr.

In the whole of Germany, and especially in Switzerland, the images of the avant-garde painter found paragraph. Exter developed from historicism to the lively colors of expressionism. In the winter of 1908 he used intensive contact with Franz Marc. With his painting technique and colorful experiments he was close to the group of artists of the Munich New Artists' Association and the editors of Der Blaue Reiter. The focus of his artistic career were figurative compositions, portraits, landscapes and nudes. His expressive late works is one of the highlights of the southern German painting at the beginning of modernity.

The 1902 acquired by Julius Exter in overseas Feldwies am Chiemsee farmhouse to Stricker became an artist seat and location of its well-known throughout Europe painting school. He moved his residence 1917 final of Munich there.

Exter died on October 16, 1939 at 9:05 clock in the Exter - house from heart failure. The Künstlerhaus Exter is open to the public as a museum and gallery.