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The forgotten painter of Sindelsdorf

2020-11-23T19:30:30.254Z


That Franz Marc lived in Sindelsdorf? Well known. And that Heinrich Campendonk lived and works in the village for a while is now known to many lay people interested in art. But who was Jean-Bloé Niestlé? This forgotten painter could soon be given new honors in Sindelsdorf.


That Franz Marc lived in Sindelsdorf?

Well known.

And that Heinrich Campendonk lived and works in the village for a while is now known to many lay people interested in art.

But who was Jean-Bloé Niestlé?

This forgotten painter could soon be given new honors in Sindelsdorf.

Sindelsdorf

- Jean-Bloé Niestlé belongs to the narrow circle of the “Blue Rider”.

But nevertheless the animal painter, born in French-speaking Switzerland in 1884, does not belong to this expressionist artist association around Wassily Kandinsky and Co .. Because he embodied a completely different style of painting.

But: "He was close friends with Franz Marc and also with Campendonk", knows Christl Hübner, who is from Sindelsdorf and who was instrumental in creating the "Malerweg" in Sindelsdorf and who also researched Niestlé as part of the creation of this art walk.

Franz Marc and Niestlé probably met for the first time around 1904.

A friendship developed out of which Niestlé Marc followed to Sindelsdorf in 1910.

According to Hübner, he lived here on the upper floor of what was then the Lautenbacher bakery - a building on the town's main street, where a new building now stands.

As a child, Hübner still shopped in this bakery.

Here, in his living room, the animal-loving painter is said to have even kept birds free, she says.

Whether this is true has not been proven.

However, there is evidence that Niestlé met August Macke and Wassily Kandinsky in Sindesldorf.

That the friendship with Franz Marc intensified and one with Heinrich Campendonk built up.

And that - although Niestlé was rather distant from the avant-garde ideas of these painters - he took part in the first “Blue Rider” exhibition in Munich in 1912 with his own picture.

Because his rather naturalistic style was so alien in the midst of the expressive works of Marc and his artist friends, he withdrew the picture shortly after the exhibition opened, reports Hübner.

During his years in Sindelsdorf, Niestlé painted intensively.

A constantly recurring motif is the landscape of the Loisach-Kochelsee moor at different times of the year and with its abundant bird life.

"He depicted motifs from our homeland - primarily the animal world," says Hübner.

Even before Niestlé followed Marc to Sindelsdorf, he had often traveled to the Kochler district of Brunnenbach for painting stays.

At that time, however, Niestlé still lived in Gauting near Munich.

With his painting stays in the Oberland, the animal painter Niestlé joins a long tradition, because long before the artists of the “Blauer Reiter” discovered the Blue Land for themselves, animal and landscape painters from Munich liked to go to work in the country where they were found their motives and moods, says Hübner, and mentions Franz Marc's father Wilhelm as an example.

In 1913, Niestlé married his girlfriend Marguerite Legros.

The witnesses were Franz and Maria Marc.

When the Marcs moved to Ried bei Kochel in 1914, the Niestlé couple also left the place and moved to Seeshaupt with their befriended couple Campendonk.

When Niestlé twins were born in December, the godparents included Franz and Maria Marc and Paul Klee.

Hübner finds it a shame that hardly anyone from Sindelsdorf knows that the painter Niestlé once lived and painted in the village for several years.

In general, the artist never achieved great fame, which was mainly due to the fact that he was seriously ill as early as 1919 and could hardly paint any more.

In 1913 the painter had his first and only solo exhibition with 40 works, which traveled to various German cities.

Hübner would now like to make the forgotten painter better known in the village.

He deserves it, she says, "because of the beauty of his works and their colors, which show our native nature".

She already has a few ideas on how Niestlé in Sindelsdorf could raise awareness, especially among young people.

Her thoughts include a kind of exhibition as well as painting courses in Niestlé's footsteps.

But nothing is concrete yet.

Source: merkur

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