Leo Putz

Professor Leo Putz ( born June 18, 1869 in Merano, South Tyrol, Austria - Hungary, † July 21, 1940 in Merano, South Tyrol, Italy ) was a Tyrolean artist. The artistic work of Leo Putz includes the Art Nouveau, Impressionism and the beginnings of Expressionism. Focus of his work are figures, nudes and landscapes.

Life

Leo Putz studied from 1889 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and at the Académie Julian in Paris. His first studio was referring Leo Putz 1897 in Munich. In the same year he joined as a full member of the Secession in Munich. In 1899, he worked as a co-founder of the artists' association Flounder, which included among others Walter Georgi, Fritz Erich Erler and Adolf Munzer. " Flounder " pursued the principle of individualism with the demand to its members, " that everyone has their own soil to till, which was of course to be found on any map." Leo Putz also worked intensively on the weekly youth, which published many works of Leo Putz as paintings reproductions or title page. During this time, Leo Putz also worked as a commercial artist. His posters are dominated by münchener Art Nouveau. So he painted billboards for the Modern Gallery in Munich.

The State Gallery of Dresden and the New Royal Pinakothek Munich acquired in 1903 several of his works. From 1905, Leo Putz was awarded several medals for his works. 1909 acquired the Bavarian plaster nationality - a prerequisite for the right conferred on him in the same year professor. Between 1909 and 1914, Leo Putz spent the summer months in Hartmann's mountain castle in the Bavarian Chiemgau within the meaning of plein-air painting. Therefore, he is also one of the Chiemsee painters. With Leo Putz also the German artist Hans Roth and the American Edward Cucuel, who were both students of Leo Putz worked. There, the renowned works of " Hartmannsberger time " as the " Kahn pictures" or nudes bathing girls ( " The Bathers "). Focus of the early work of Leo Putz was the image of the beautiful woman that he treated very varied. In 1913 he married the landscape painter Frieda Blell. 1923 drew Leo Putz to Gauting.

Leo Putz broke in January 1929 with his family to South America. By 1933 Shine worked in Brazil and Argentina. At the request of Lucio Costa in 1931 he took a professorship at the Academia de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro. There he gave lectures on image composition and was a teacher of the later renowned landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. During his stay, Leo Putz documented the varied impressions on canvas. The work created in these years is marked by a lighter and more tropical color scale and forms a second peak of his career. Focus of the South American plant, the landscape and the character image. The South American works were shown after the return of Leo Putz to Germany in 1935 in a major exhibition in Munich.

Leo Putz showed public opposition to National Socialism. His work has been classified as "degenerate art ". Leo Putz 1936 was repeatedly interrogated by the Gestapo and eventually had to flee to South Tyrol ( Italy). In 1937 he was banned from working in Germany. In the following years until his death in 1940 his work mainly consisted of images of castles and landscapes of the region.

After an operation, Leo Putz, died on July 21, 1940 in Merano. His death was officially hushed up in Italy and Germany. His remains were interred in the cemetery Gautinger.

Training

Leo Putz began his first studies at age 16 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he got his step- brother, Robert Poetzelberger, an education in painting techniques. In 1888 he joined the class nature of the history painter Gabriel von Hackl, where he learned objectivity and accuracy in the drawing. Meanwhile his father was convinced by the talent of his son, so he supported a training of 21 year-old at the Académie Julian in Paris. His teachers were Jean -Joseph Benjamin -Constant and William Adolphe Bouguereau. After military service, Leo Putz returned to Munich and attended the Academy of Fine Arts painting class by Paul Hoecker, the first "modern " at the Academy, who taught in the studio and plein air painting and on the individual development of his students put value. From this painting class the first employees to whom was Leo Putz involved (stone) went to the " youth " and " Flounder " out.

Museums

Works by Leo Putz have been exhibited internationally, among others, in the following museums:

  • Munich: Bavarian State Painting Collections, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, City Museum
  • Nuremberg: Urban Gallery
  • Dresden Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister
  • Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts
  • Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts
  • Buenos Aires Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
  • Merano: City Museum

Exhibition

  • 2009: Leo Putz - exhibition on the 140th anniversary, gallery Schüller in the Bayerischer Hof, Munich

Auction results

The painting " In the autumn garden " received 460,000 euros the previous record contract for a work by Leo Putz.

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