Julius Meier-Graefe

Julius Meier -Graefe ( born June 10, 1867 in Resita, Banat, Romania today, † June 5, 1935 in Vevey, Switzerland ) was a German art historian and writer. He is considered an important pioneer of Impressionism.

Life

After engineering studies in Munich, Meier -Graefe, son of the engineer Eduard Meier and brother of the entrepreneur Max Meier, since his move to Berlin in 1890 historical and art historical studies devoted. His first art critical work he wrote in 1894 about Edvard Munch. In 1895 he was among the founders of the journal " Pan", but from whose editorial he retired again after one year. After that, usually living in Paris, to Meier -Graefe developed into one of the best connoisseurs of French painting of the 19th century. In its evolution history of Modern Art (3 volumes, 1904 and 1914-24 ), he admitted the French Impressionism a prominent position. This work and its subsequent polemic The case Böcklin (1905 ) earned him the accusation, to argue against " German Art ". Meier -Graefe wrote monographs on almost all the major artists of Impressionism. Exhibition of the Century German Art in the National Gallery in Berlin in 1906 owed ​​to his suggestion the presentation so far little-known works. In particular, the work of Caspar David Friedrich have been presented here for the first time to a wider audience.

Meier -Graefe wrote important biographies of many artists, including on Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh. With a sharp pen and vivid language he wrote many other treatises on art.

In 1930, Meier -Graefe rented with his partner Anne -Marie Epstein the estate La Banette in Saint- Cyr- sur -Mer and moved two years later, the landscape painter Walter Bondy and the writer René Schickele to move into the surrounding area. Meier -Graefe was thus a decisive impetus to the creation of large refugee colony of the German Empire in neighboring Sanary -sur -Mer during the following years ( Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Ludwig Marcuse and others) ..

Writings

Art -historical writings

  • Contribution. In: Stanislaw Przybyszewski (ed.): The work of Edvard Munch: four posts. S. Fischer, Berlin 1894, pp. 75-95. ( Online).
  • Felix Vallotton: Biography of the artist in addition to the main part of his work to date publicierten & a number of original plates, published here = Bio de cet artiste avec la partie la plus importante de son œuvre editee et differentes gravures original & nouvelles. Stargardt, Berlin; Sagot, Paris 1898.
  • The world exhibition in Paris in 1900: with numerous photographic recordings, colored synthetic supplements and plans. Kruger, Paris / Leipzig 1900. ( Online).
  • Manet and his circle. Bard, Marquardt, Berlin 1902. ( The Art: collection of illustrated monographs 7. ).
  • Modern Impressionism: with a colored art supplement and 7 frames in Tonätzung. Bard, Berlin, 1903. ( The Art: collection of illustrated monographs 11. ).
  • Development history of modern art: comparative considerations of Fine Arts, as a contribution to a new aesthetics. Jul. Hoffmann Verlag, Stuttgart, 1904. (Online, Volume 1 ), (Online, Volume 2 ) (Online, Volume 3 ). ( English Translation: Modern Art: being a contribution to a new system of aesthetics 3 volumes Heinemann, London, Putnam, New York, 1908 Translator: .. Florence Simmonds, George W. Chrystal. ).
  • The case Böcklin and the doctrine of the units. Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1905. ( Digitized ). For this rebuttal: Adolf Grabowsky: The battle for Böcklin. Cronbach, Berlin, 1906. ( Online).

Literary works

  • " An Evening at Excellency Laura ," novella ( Westermann's Monatshefte 1892)
  • To the north - an episode (Berlin 1893)
  • The chaste, Prince Lichtenarm I, II The Prince, " a series of novels about the love life in the nineteenth century " (Berlin 1897)
  • Spanish Travel (Berlin 1910)
  • Orlando and Angelica, a puppet show ( with lithographs by Erich Klossowski ) (Berlin 1912)
  • The Tscheinik (Berlin 1918)
  • Henry the benefactor, comedy (Berlin 1918)
  • The pure color (new version of Adam and Eve, 1909 was flopped in Berlin's Hebbel Theater, Berlin 1919) premiere in Dresden in 1920
  • Spanish Travel (recast ) (Berlin 1922)
  • "The Division " in the day - book. Confessions of my cousin, novellas (Berlin 1923)
  • Dostoevsky the poet (Berlin 1926)
  • Pyramids and temples (Berlin 1926)
  • The father (Berlin 1932)
  • Stories besides art (Berlin 1933)

Collection expenses

  • Art is not there for art history. Letters and documents. Edited and annotated by Catherine Krahmer, composed by Ingrid Green Ingersoll. ( = Publications of the German Academy for Language and Literature 77). Wallenstein, Göttingen 2001 ISBN 978-3-89244-412-1
  • Diary 1903-1917 and other documents. Edited and annotated by Catherine Krahmer, composed by Ingrid Green Ingersoll and Jeanne Helsbourg, Wallenstein, Göttingen 2009 ISBN 978-3-8353-0426-0
  • End Times Europe, A collective diary of German writers, artists and scholars in the First World War, ed: Peter Walther, Wallenstein, Göttingen 2008 ISBN 978-3-8353-0347-8
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