Professor Hermann Dischler
25th September 1866 – 20th March 1935
Hermann Dischler was born on the 25th of September in 1866 in Freiburg i.Br. He received his artistic training in the art school in Karlsruhe, he was student of Gustav Schönleber. Thereafter he was engaged as a painter in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald area.
1894, after he finished his studies, he built himself an artist’s workroom in Freiburg i.Br. At this time he went on a lot of trips and his trusty camera followed him everywhere. Five years later he started to number and comment his artworks, which he collected in 29 «Bildbüchern (books of pictures)».
In the winter months from 1905 to 1907 he stayed in the Todtnauer Hütte, where a lot of his oil studies arise.
The snowy winter landscapes became his typical theme and he called himself «Schneemoler (snowpainter)». 1917 he received his professorship by Grand Duke Friedrich II.
In 1927 he had an exhibition with artists like Curt Liebich, Julius Heffner, Wilhelm Nagel, Wilhelm Wickertsheimer a.o., they called themselves «Die Schwarzwälder (the Black Forests)». He died on the 20th of March in 1935 in Hinterzarten. Today his works are extremely appreciated because the snowy landscape present the untouched nature.
Lit: Exhibition Catalogue Augustiner Museum, Freiburg i.Br., 1993
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Herbstauktionen 04.–05.10.2013
Museales frühbarockes Prunkkästchen
Museum quality early Baroque ornamental casket. Michel and Conrad Mann, Nuremberg
Michel und Conrad Mann, Nürnberg
Originales Deckelschloss mit zwei schließenden Riegeln und Originalschlüssel. Guter, altersbedingter Zustand.
Den Kassetten von den Nürnberger Brüdern Michel und Conrad Mann kommt innerhalb des europäischen Kunsthandwerks eine besondere Bedeutung zu. In ihrer miniaturhaften Ausführung sind sie so einzigartig, dass wohl jedes internationale Museum sich glücklich schätzen würde, wenn es eines dieser Meisterwerke für seine Sammlung erwerben könnte.
Typisch für die Kassetten der Gebrüder Mann sind die gravierten, teils durchbrochenen Eckleisten aus Kupfer, eine meist reich verzierte Deckeloberseite mit umlegbarem Tragegriff sowie der Messingkorpus. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt das vorliegende Prunkkästchen eine besondere Rarität da, da es nicht wie sonst aus Messing, sondern aus Eisen gefertigt ist.
Provenienz: norddeutsche Privatsammlung.
Literatur: Ewald Berger, Prunkkassetten, Meisterwerke aus der Hanns Schell Collection, Stuttgart 1998, S.