Oskar Zwintscher

Oskar Zwintscher ( born 2 May 1870 in Leipzig, † February 12, 1916 in Dresden ) was a German painter.

Life

Zwintscher studied from 1887 to 1890 at the academy in Leipzig and was 1890-1892 student of Leon Pohle and Ferdinand Pauwels at the Art Academy in Dresden. After his studies, he settled as a freelance artist in Meissen, where he lived for several years on the Albrecht Castle and could Munkeltschen Foundation for Saxon painter, for three years work freely through the " Munkeltsche Legat ," a grant from the E.. In 1898 he first appeared with a larger collection of his works to the public. He was a prize winner at the first contest of Ludwig Stollwerck for draft Stollwerck picture cards in 1898. Judges were Professors Emil Doepler Younger, Woldemar Friedrich, Bruno Schmitz and Franz Skarbina from Berlin as well as a partner in the firm Stollwerck. Other winners were Adolf Munzer from Munich, Gustav Adolf Closs in Stuttgart, A. Haas from Munich, August Unger from Berlin, W. Wulff from Karlsruhe, Helene Schulz from Berlin, Hans anchor from Berlin, A. Bauer Jr., of Dusseldorf, PO Engelhard from Munich, A. Höfer from Munich, A. Klingner from Berlin, H. Krause from Berlin, E. Neumann of Munich, FP Schmidt from Dresden, Ad. Wagner from Kassel and P. Wendling from Friedenau.

1898 Zwintschers picture collection series " Seasons" published in 1900 followed the series " The Tempest ". In 1904 he was judge at a contest by Ludwig Stollwerck and Otto Henkell to the submission of drafts " of illustrations for the purpose of propaganda for their brands of chocolate or cocoa and champagne. " Other judges were Emil Doepler Younger from Berlin, Woldemar Friedrich of Berlin, Klaus Mayer from Dusseldorf, Bruno Schmitz of Berlin, Raffael Schuster Woldau from Munich, Franz Skarbina from Berlin and Commerce Georg Büxenstein from Berlin.

The images are quite Zwintschers in the picturesque tradition of Cranach or Holbein. They are not subjective snapshots, but a realistic recording in the style of the old masters. Ludwig Richter, Moritz von Schwind and Arnold Böcklin have influenced the young artist. With the painter Sascha Schneider (Rudolf Karl Alexander Schneider) he formed a close friendship.

Since 1903 Zwintscher taught as a professor at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. He was a very thorough, pedantic painter and a principled opponent of impressionism. A contemporary once described him as " a good Saxony and true son of the Central German level, but also something strange business and spun. "

Oskar Zwintscher died in 1916 in Dresden. His grave is on the artist Cemetery in Dresden's Loschwitz. The grave figure, a Éphèbe with lowered torch, comes from Sascha Schneider.

Works (selection)

  • The bad news (1891 )
  • Heavy hours (1893 )
  • Longing (1895 )
  • A ghost of the century (1898 )
  • Gram ( 1898)
  • Heinrich Vogeler (1901 )
  • Clara Rilke - Westhoff (1902 )
  • Melody ( 1903)
  • Mayor Beutler (1910 )
  • Mrs. Apel (1912 )
  • Lenz Joy (1915 )
  • Portrait of the writer Ottomar Enking
  • Portraits of his wife - Portrait in Flowers ( 1904), portrait with green black tiles (1906 ), Gold and Perlmutter (1909 ), portrait in the summer garden (1910 )
  • Portraits of other women and children portraits - Portrait with daffodils, portrait with white asters, portrait with yellow daffodils, portrait with dahlias, children portrait with pansies, child with roses.
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