GEORG EINBECK (Golluschuetz 1871 - 1951 Lucerne)
Portrait of Violet, 1914
oil/cardboard, 62 x 51,8 cm
signed G. Einbeck, dated 1914
ESTIMATE € 2000 - 3000
STARTING PRICE € 2000
The German painter, businessman and photographer Georg Einbeck grew up in West Prussia, Berlin and Dresden. After training as a banker and military service, he worked as a commercial clerk in a heavy industry company. Einbeck became increasingly interested in painting and wanted to work as a freelance artist. Alfred Lichtwark, director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, influenced him significantly. Einbeck initially studied at the art academy in Munich. With Norbert Hochsieder he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Einbeck took part in exhibitions at the Berlin Secession from 1903 to 1907 with paintings depicting landscapes and figures; He was also represented in the Berlin Künstlerhaus, at the Great Art Exhibition in Dresden and at exhibitions of the German Artists' Association in Weimar; especially with Parisian street scenes and figurative studies. Einbeck was interested in music and literature and translated ancient Greek works into German. In 1928, Otto Bosshard, director of the Lucerne City Theater, staged an open-air performance of Euripides' "Bacchae", in the text version by Einbeck. In 1928 Einbeck exhibited at the Bernheim-Jeube Gallery in Paris; Based on this, André Warnod and Edouard Worononieckie wrote the monograph "Einbeck. In 1934, the Lucerne Art Museum showed a large Einbeck exhibition. Under the guidance of the Hofmeister brothers (Theodor Eduard Ferdinand Hofmeister and Oskar Ludwig Robert Hofmeister), Einbeck got to know photography in Hamburg and took up photography in 1897 He took part in the international exhibition of art photographs in the Hamburger Kunsthalle until 1899. He was a member of the Society for the Promotion of Amateur Photography. Einbeck was one of the group of amateur photographers who countered the routine of professional photographers with new development methods, image views and modified image sections. He particularly took photographs Rural portraits and landscapes. The Pictoralism collector Ernst Juhl acquired a number of his pictures. The photos can be seen in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg and in the Berlin Art Library.
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