Christian Modersohn

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Christian Modersohn (center) with painter colleague Gustav Kuennemann (left) and photo artist Ulrich Brinkhoff , 1993

Christian Modersohn (born October 13, 1916 in Bremen , † December 24, 2009 in Bremen) was a German painter .

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Life

Christian Modersohn was the youngest son of the painter Otto Modersohn (1865–1943) and his third wife, the singer and painter Louise Modersohn-Breling (1883–1950). She was the second eldest daughter of the first Fischerhude painter Heinrich Breling (1849–1914). Christian Modersohn was born in Bremen and grew up together with his brother Ulrich Modersohn (1913–1943) and the two older half-sisters from Otto Modersohn's first and second marriage, Elsbeth Modersohn and Mathilde "Tille" Modersohn in Worpswede , and from 1917 after the final The family moves to Fischerhude and on the Gailenberg, above Hindelang in the Allgäu. At the age of seven he received piano, singing and violin lessons. His original career aspiration was a singer . Since he showed his talent for drawing at an early age, he began to study art at the Nordic Art College in Bremen in 1934, inspired by the work of his parents , which he continued from 1936 to 1940 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Here he was a student of Karl Caspar and Adolf Schinnerer . In the latter, he studied the techniques of the old masters, learned the difficult gradation and transparency of the colors and discovered the watercolor, which became decisive for his artistic work.

He was a soldier from 1939 to 1943, but was able to complete an academy semester in 1940. After a serious wound near Stalingrad , he returned to the Allgäu, where his father Otto bought an old farmhouse as a second home in 1930 and Christian spent part of his youth. From 1946 to 1957, he and his mother began to build a family gallery where exhibitions, readings and concerts were held.

In 1947 he married Anna Lipp (1921–1997) from Vorderhindelang. The children Heinrich , Ulrich, Antje and Johannes Modersohn were born between 1948 and 1961. After his mother's death in 1950, he took over the gallery on the Gailenberg. He sold the house in 1957 to the mining engineer Konrad Grebe (inventor of the coal plow ) and then, encouraged by his wife, moved with his family to Fischerhude. There he built a studio in Bredenau in the neighborhood of his aunt Olga Bontjes van Beek (1896–1995), Heinrich Breling's youngest daughter.

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Christian Modersohn is the third generation of the Modersohn painter dynasty, and his son Heinrich is continuing this tradition. Christian Modersohn's pictorial work testifies to the love for creation and for people. In addition to numerous sensitive portraits , Christian Modersohn created an abundance of - as his friend Helmut Schmidt called it - “generous landscape watercolors ” that capture the diverse moods of the landscape in the Wümmeniederung . In addition to painting, Christian Modersohn devoted himself from 1974 to 1996 with great dedication to building the Otto Modersohn Museum in Fischerhude. His cultural achievements were honored with the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class , on his 85th birthday .

Exhibitions (incomplete)

literature

  • Christian Modersohn: My father's legacy - two lives for art . Otto Modersohn Museum (Ed.), Fischerhude 2005. Audio book, autobiography and biography of Otto Modersohn's father. ISBN 3-929250-06-3 .
  • Christian Modersohn - retrospective . Otto Modersohn Museum 1996, ISBN 3-929250-02-0 .
  • Gerd Presler: A day in the life of Christian M. In: For Christian Modersohn. A reader in friendship . Fischerhude 1996, pp. 84-87.

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personal data
SURNAME Modersohn, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2009
Place of death Bremen