Niederbronn Les Bains Poster by Lucien Blumer

Lucien Blumer Poster Niederbronn Les Bains Chemins De Fer Alsace Lorraine D’Alsace and De Lorraine Niederbronn Les Bains by Lucien Blumer. It is sold plain, unaffected. We note fold marks, tears. The edges are very damaged. The colors, however, remained vivid. Lucien Blumer (born October 14, 1871 in Strasbourg and died July 9, 1947 in Strasbourg) is an Alsatian impressionist painter, watercolorist, illustrator, photographer and collector. He is cited by François Lotz, in his book Les Peintres alsaciens as being from an artistic point of view the most Alsatian of painters, his painting effectively reflects with great charm and understanding the scenes of the rural art of living of the early 20th century. Born into a Francophile family, Lucien Blumer followed the traditional training of Alsatian artists of the time, in German, from Karlsruhe to Paris without forgetting his mother tongue. Since the Treaty of Frankfurt on May 10, 1871 and the annexation of Alsace to the Reich, Strasbourg has become the capital of the Reichsland, region of the Empire. Having studied in Germany and been educated in the Germanic way, he speaks German, but does not feel German. Like many Alsatian artists of that time, he was immersed in French culture. He perfectly mastered the spoken and written French language as attested by several articles in the review L’Alsace française in 19292 He notably created the Kunschthafe group in 1899 with his friends from the Cercle de Saint-Léonard, Stoskopf, Spindler for the preservation of Alsatian culture in the face of excessive Germanization. This is the time when artists frequent the Stammtisch, places of exchange and conviviality. Over the years, the Kunschthafe group has been at the origin of discussions around the renaming of the review Images alsaciennes en Revue alsacienne illustrée (1898), the creation of the Musée alsacien, du Salon des arts de la Revue alsacienne illustrée at Bader-Nottin, from the Alsatian Art House or even from the Alsatian theater2. At 26, in 1897, he presented his first exhibition at the Society of Friends of the Arts. He rubbed shoulders with other famous artists from Alsace such as Charles Spindler with whom he contributed to the creation of the Alsatian Museum and was a pupil of Lothar von Seebach. Lucien Blumer succeeds Gustave Stoskopf as president of the AIDA (association of independent artists of Alsace) in 1919. Lucien Blumer has taken numerous photographs of Gertwiller and the towns and villages of Alsace. Wikipedia source. HEIGHT 110 CM WIDTH 61.5 CM Z208