Erich Erler-Samaden

* 1870, Frankenstein / Schlesien 1946, Icking

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* 1870, Frankenstein / Schlesien, 1946, Icking

Erich Erler-Samaden initially learnt the trade of book printing. After becoming ill with tuberculosis he convalesced at the village of Samedan in Switzerland‘s Upper Engadine valley. He began to teach himself the technique of working with tempera. The mountain region and its inhabitants were to become his motifs. He gained a large early artistic influence through an acquaintance with the painter Giovanni Segantini. Samedan and Munich were his two places of residence after 1900. As a member of the artist group Scholle he exhibited regularly from 1901 in the Munich Glaspalast (Glass Palace). Erler‘s paintings, with their motifs from the Engadine region, enabled him to join the ranks of successful artists who lived well from their work. In 1905 built a studio in Holzhausen together with his brother, Fritz Erler. With his later wife, he moved to a house in Icking. Despite suffering from lung disease, he volunteered for military service at the beginning of the First World War, in 1914. He was deeply affected by the shocking incidents that he witnessed.

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Leipzig, Museum der Bildenden Künste
München, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Neue Pinakothek
München, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus

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Karl Mayr, Erich Erler-Samaden, in: Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Darmstadt 1905/06, S. 213-244 Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler. Leipzig 1917, Band 10. Georg Jacob Wolf, Erich Erler, Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte, XXXVII. Jg., Berlin, Bielefeld, Leipzig, Wien 1923, S. 145-160 Richard Hamann und Jost Hermand, Stilkunst um 1900, Berlin 1967, S. 223 Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst, Münchner Maler im 19. Jahrhundert. München 1981, Band 1, S. f. Münchner Schmuck 1900-1940. Danner-Stiftung München 1990. Hans Vollmer: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, Leipzig 1999, Band 2. Hartfried Neunzert Hrsg.: Erich Erler - ein Schollemaler, 1870 - 1946. Landsberg am Lech, Neues Stadtmuseum, 2002