Ernst oppler biography

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Ernst Oppler (9 September –1 March ) was a German Impressionist painter and etcher born in Hanover.

Early life
Oppler at a meeting of the Berlin secession (between Lovis Corinth and Emil Orlik), drawing by Erich Büttner,

Ernst Oppler was the son of Edward Oppler, a prominent German-Jewish architect.

He studied at the Academy of Arts in Munich under Nikolaus Gysis and Ludwig von Löfftz. Afterwards he moved to London to study the work of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, one of his favorite artists. He became a member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers in His early work was naturalistic in approach.

In he went to the Netherlands to practise the pleinair method, and painted elegant portraits of the gentry in subdued tones.


Berlin Secession
Ernst Oppler in his studio,

Oppler was a member of the Munich Secession, but became more active as one of the founders of the Berlin Secession, a group of artists who championed the new, Impressionist style.

Oppler moved to Berlin in , and became there a renowned portraitist, and also chronicled daily life through his drawings, etchings, painted cityscapes and genre scenes. With his brother the sculptor Alexander Oppler they had studios in their own Villa Oppler.

Ernst oppler biography wikipedia Paintings, List. Berliner Jahre [ Bearbeiten Quelltext bearbeiten ]. Authority control databases. You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German.

Ernst Oppler was invited seven times to the Venice Biennale and participated six times.

In after controversies about expressionism he stopped participating in the exhibitions of the Berlin secession but he still remained one of the most prominent members of the avantgarde. The German state bought works from Oppler and exhibited them in museums as examples of the new wave in art.

Oppler started to visit dancing performances of the Russian ballet which was very popular at that time and began to document the performances. He became also an important chronicler of the history of ballet in Germany.

Ernst Oppler died in Berlin on 1 March


Works

In Germany works by Ernst Oppler are on display at the National Gallery Berlin, the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, the Lower Saxony State Museum and others.

Outside of Germany, his works are found in the Foosaner Art Museum, the Harvard Art Museums, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Israel-Museum, the Ateneum in Helsinki, the Museum of Modern Art in Venice and others.


Gallery

Double portrait of councilor Georg Spiegelberg and his wife Caroline

At the Beach, oil on canvas,

Three Girls in the Access Balcony, oil on canvas

The Painter and Jo, oil on canvas,

Ballet, oil on canvas

Ballet Dancer, print

Tennis, etching, ca.

Further reading

Jochen Bruns: Ernst Oppler : mit zwei Werkkatalogen,

References
External links

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