Fritz Grotemeyer
Fritz Grotemeyer (actually Friedrich Albert Theresia Grotemeyer , born June 19, 1864 in Münster , † July 28, 1947 in Witten ) was a German illustrator , portrait , history and war painter . Grotemeyer has received several awards for his work.
Life
Grotemeyer's parents Albert and Bertha Grotemeyer, née Westhoff, founded a coffee house at Aegidiistraße 10 in Münster in 1850 . Fritz Grotemeyer was born here as the ninth of eleven children. Fritz Grotemeyer later painted this coffee house.
Grotemeyer completed an apprenticeship as a textile merchant. To train as a painter, he went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin in 1887 , where he passed the entrance exam on October 8, 1887. He took up his studies as a studio student of the painter Woldemar Friedrich , who was appointed as a teacher for life drawing at the art academy in 1885 . Later Grotemeyer studied with Paul Friedrich Meyerheim . He received a grant from the Adolph Menzel Foundation in 1893 and was personally supported by Adolph von Menzel . Around 1900 Grotemeyer produced the military parade on the Prinzipalmarkt in Münster . As a representative of academic history painting from 1895 to 1902, as a master student of Anton von Werner, he painted the monumental painting The Peace Negotiations 1648 in the town hall of Münster for the meeting room of the Stadtweinhaus in Münster. From Kaiser Wilhelm II. Grotemeyer received the order of the crown for the painting. In addition, Adolph Menzel's attention was drawn to Grotemeyer through the painting. This took Grotemeyer in as a student and became his patron and advisor. His works were shown regularly at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . Grotemeyer received his first major commission in 1897 for the monumental mural entitled Handover of Bergedorfs to Hamburg-Lübeck Troops , which he made for the Hamburg City Hall .
For the Illustrirte Zeitung from Leipzig , Grotemeyer traveled to the western front as a reporter at the beginning of the First World War between 1914 and 1915 . Here he worked as a war painter in Flanders and northern France . The result was a picture showing young German infantry soldiers before the battle of Langemarck .
Grotemeyer's trip to the Orient in 1916 |
Between February 27, 1916 and November 14, 1916, at the request of the Ottoman Minister of War Enver Pascha , he went on a trip to the Orient to document the war in the Ottoman Empire, allied with the German Empire, as a photo reporter. The contact with Pascha came after Grotemeyer had met his sister in Berlin. During his trip to the Orient he painted as a war painter approved by the Ottoman Army in the Ottoman Empire , today's Turkey . He was also a war correspondent in Palestine . On February 27, 1916, he arrived in Constantinople , was unable to continue the journey due to the weather and thereupon made sketches of the city. He also stayed for some time on a German warship. After a 14-day trip to the Dardanelles, he sent his first drawings to the Leipziger Illustrirte. It was not until May 1916 that Grotemeyer was able to join a troop unit to continue the journey to Suez. His next stop was Aleppo . In Damascus , Grotemeyer met the commander-in-chief of the fourth Ottoman army, who personally took him to Jerusalem by car. From Beersheba he went on excursions into the desert. His trip to the Orient ended on the Sinai Peninsula , where he was forced to turn back for health reasons. On June 22, 1916 he started his return journey. On July 20, 1916, he was in the Austro-Hungarian hospice, from whose windows he painted the view of the old city of Jerusalem in the morning hours. During his stay in Jerusalem, he made dozens of drawings of the old city. Due to his deteriorating health, he returned to Constantinople, where he was diagnosed with a severe form of malaria that made him lose his hearing. On November 14, 1916, he went back to Berlin. During his trip to the Orient, Grotemeyer made hundreds of sketches and drawings. In 1916 he painted the Hermon in the Lebanon Mountains , a scene from the Bir-Biren oasis in the desert of North Sinai, Father Heinrich Hänsler of the Dormition Abbey as a field chaplain with the troops of the Suez expedition, the fountains of Birseba and the construction of the Baghdad railway by English prisoners. Back in Berlin he made further drawings that show his trip to the Orient and were published by the Leipziger Illustrirten in the following years.
From 1918 to 1945 Grotemeyer lived again in Berlin. He created a poster as a lithograph for the days of sacrifice on August 17 and 18, 1918 in favor of the colonial warrior donation, which was acquired by the Münster-Museum Association in 2003 and made available on permanent loan to the Münster City Museum. For the colonial warrior donation, Grotemeyer also designed a series of postcards with motifs from German East Africa . On March 3, 1919, Grotemeyer was present on Pariser Platz in Berlin when the soldiers returned from East Africa, whom he captured in a painting. In addition, Grotemeyer painted large-format oil paintings in the 1920s, which are characterized by oriental motifs. Several of these works are owned by the city of Münster.
A painting with the title Großflugtag Münster 1931 was created at Loddenheide airfield in 1931 . Grotemeyer also dealt with the Thirty Years War . In 1939 he bequeathed a large part of his drawings to the city of Münster.
In 1942, Grotemeyer was commissioned to produce a portrait of the mayor of Münster, Dr. Georg Sperlich and a picture of Hitler . On August 11, 1941, Grotemeyer received an order from the Minden magistrate to create the Minden history cycle consisting of nine pictures for the town hall hall, showing the history of the city of Minden . He made the works in the war years 1942 and 1943 and completed the series of pictures on January 19, 1943. Before the town hall was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1945, the works were stored in a magazine until they were made accessible to the public again by the Minden Museum in 2002. The Minden Museum devoted several exhibitions to Grotemeyer over the decades.
In 1945 Grotemeyer moved from Berlin to Witten .
For an exhibition in Chicago , Grotemeyer produced an illustrated book of everyday scenes from the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus , for which Empress Friedrich wrote the introduction.
In addition, Grotemeyer created architectural images and historical representations of his hometown Münster.
Grotemeyer was buried in the Lauheide forest cemetery. In Münster-Kinderhaus the Grotemeyer street was named after him.
Works
Paintings by the artist can be found in various cafes, restaurants, hotels and museums in Grotemeyer's hometown Münster.
Some of Grotemeyer's works can be seen today in Café Grotemeyer on Salzstrasse opposite the Erbdrostenhof in Münster. Further works can be found in a permanent exhibition in the Münster City Museum , including the painting The Peace Negotiations 1648 from 1902 in the Münster City Hall , which has been in the museum's possession since 1989. Grotemeyer bequeathed many of his works to the Münster City Museum as early as 1939. Further works by Grotemeyer can be found in the Hotel Kaiserhof on Bahnhofstrasse in Münster. There are also paintings by Grotemeyer in the Kiepenkerl restaurant in Münster. The painting Dämmerschoppen can be seen in the Anabaptist room of the Gasthaus Stuhlmacher on Prinzipalmarkt .
The Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden acquired the equestrian image of the Afro-German military musician and emperor hussar Elo Wilhelm Sambo, which Grotemeyer painted in 1927. Born in Cameroon, Sambo was after his Kesselpauker military career as a coffee cook in Albin Middendorf's posh restaurant on Prinzipalmarkt in Münster. Albin Middendorf commissioned the portrait of Sambo from Grotemeyer.
Grotemeyer painted the cycle of pictures "Baron von Romberg" for the Middendorf confectionery in Münster.
In September 1933, Grotemeyer made a life-size and realistic painting by the Münster dentist Hermann Austrup. Austrup's descendants decided to sell this painting in early 2013, the value of which is estimated at a four-digit euro amount.
| year | Surname | Art | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1892/1893 | Snowball fight in the city | Oil on cardboard | Academy of the Arts Berlin |
| 1892/1893 | Child scenes | six drawings | Academy of the Arts Berlin |
| 1897 | Handover of Bergedorfs to Hamburg-Lübeck troops | Monumental mural | Hamburg City Hall |
| 1902 | The peace negotiations in 1648 in the town hall of Münster | Oil on canvas | City Museum Münster |
| around 1905 | At the Schwielowsee | Oil on canvas | Privately owned |
| 1912 | A girl is peeling potatoes | Oil on canvas | |
| 1913 | Portrait of a lady with a red dress and a coral necklace | Oil on canvas | |
| 1916 | Expedition on the Sinai Peninsula | Watercolor on cardboard | |
| 1917 | Street in Jerusalem | Oil on canvas | |
| 1918 | War in the Colony Tanga on November 4th, 1914 | Oil on canvas | |
| 1918 | Construction of the Baghdad Railway | ||
| 1919 | My parents' house in 1856 | Oil on wooden panel | City Archives Münster |
| 1919 | The summer house (Geldern) | Oil on wooden panel | |
| 1919 | A shady entrance to a house in Geldern | Oil on wooden panel | |
| 1923 | A Swiss lake | Oil on canvas | |
| 1926 | Horse drink in Altmünster | oil | Sylt |
| 1927 | Elo Wilhelm Sambo | Equestrian image | Military history museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden |
| 1931 | Major flight day Münster 1931 | painting | |
| 1938 | Portrait of a hunter with his dog | Oil on canvas | Privately owned |
| 1942/1943 | Minden history cycle
|
nine paintings | Minden Museum |
| 1946 | Raven steals the dog's food | Oil on canvas | Privately owned |
| Industrialized grain harvest | Oil on canvas | Privately owned | |
| Cows by the pond | Oil on canvas | Privately owned | |
| 1947 | Wedding ceremony of Henry the Lion | ||
| Twilight pint | painting | Gasthaus Stuhlmacher in Münster | |
| Rest under a tree on Jebel Musa | Oil on canvas | ||
| Hermann the Cheruscan | |||
| The merchant of Venice | watercolor | ||
| The art critic / conversation over tea | Oil on canvas | ||
| Portrait of Karl I. | Oil on canvas | ||
| Baron von Romberg | Picture cycle |
literature
- Fritz Kempmann: The painter Fritz Grotemeyer - His life and work , Volume 82, Art History, 2009, LIT Verlag , Münster, ISBN 978-3-8258-1334-5
- A. Steinkamp: Funny playmates. A collection of the most beautiful nursery rhymes and songs with colored pictures. , Steinkamp-Verlag, Duisburg, 1895
- From sunny days , 20th edition, Stuttgart a. a., Unionsverlag , 1910
- The war 1914/16 in words and pictures , Volume 2, German publishing house Bong & Eo., Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna, Stuttgart
- The war 1914/16 in words and pictures , Volume 8, German publishing house Bong & Eo., Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna, Stuttgart
- Illustrated History of the World War , 1914–1918, Volume VIII
- Greetings to the British landing forces , In: Illustrierte Zeitung , No. 3915, July 1918
- Münster Tourist Office : Fritz Grotemeyer and Münster , In: Das Schöne Münster , issue 11, 9th year, 1937
- Karl Unruh: Langemarck, Legend and Reality , Bernhard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz, 1996, ISBN 978-3763759491
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to other information, Grotemeyer died in Münster. Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Vol. 4. Görres - Hittorp . 2nd edition, KG Saur, Munich 2006, p. 189.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Westfälische Nachrichten : Fritz Grotemeyer , Münster, July 28, 2016
- ↑ a b c grotemeyer.net: Albert Grotemeyer family , accessed on January 10, 2013
- ↑ a b c d Münstersche Zeitung : Drilled with a brush: Fritz Grotemeyer's portrait of the dentist Herman Austrup is for sale ( online ( memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )), Münster / Feuilleton, Münster, Manuel Jennen, January 10 2013
- ↑ a b c d traditionsverband.de: artist portrait: Fritz Grotemeyer , accessed on January 11, 2013
- ↑ a b c d e Café Grotemeyer: Historisches ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 10, 2013
- ↑ a b Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe : E-mailing list> Monthly archive 2003 - 10
- ↑ a b City of Münster : 33 Cabinets on City History: Painting of the 19th Century ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 11, 2013
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Westfälische Nachrichten : From Constantinople to Sinai: Fritz Grotemeyer accompanied Ottoman and German troops in 1916, but his drawings also show the oriental idyll , Münster, Martin Kalitschke, July 28, 2016
- ↑ Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe : Historizing painting: Military parade on the Prinzipalmarkt in Münster , accessed on December 1, 2013
- ↑ a b c Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe : The Thirty Years War in German History and Genre Painting of the 19th Century - An Inventory ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Documentation / Exhibitions, Text Volumes, Volume II: Art and Culture, Siegfried Müller
- ↑ germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org: Pictures - Germany at War, 1914-1918: The Fights , accessed on December 1, 2013
- ^ A b Westfälische Nachrichten : 1916: Fritz Grotemeyer from Münster travels through the Orient , Münster, July 28, 2016
- ↑ Illustrated History of the World War , 1914-1918, Volume VIII, p. 17
- ↑ a b Punktum magazine: 160 years of Café Grotemeyer ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , In Profile / Kult !, Fall 2010, p. 10
- ^ Münstersche Zeitung : 1916: Fritz Grotemeyer from Münster travels through the Orient , photo gallery, accessed on August 13, 2016
- ↑ websitehome.co.uk: A Collection of Illustrated Postcards with a Colonial Theme , accessed December 1, 2013
- ↑ Münster City Archives: Central Office
- ^ Mindener Tageblatt : The new Mindener Museum: reopening October 7, 2012
- ↑ kaiserinfriedrich.de: Volkserbildung: Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ulrich Menzel : The peace negotiations in the town hall in Münster 1648 , accessed on January 11, 2013
- ↑ Stylus Magazine: Hotel Kaiserhof Münster - Sophisticated art and excellent service ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Architecture / Regional, January 2012 edition, Münster / Osnabrück
- ^ Westfalium: Der neue Große Kiepenkerl , Westphalia, March 19, 2012
- ↑ Gasthaus Stuhlmacher: Anabaptist Room , accessed on December 1, 2013
- ↑ a b Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr : Wilhelm Sambo - black musician and Prussian hussar ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , November 26, 2012
- ^ A b Westfälische Nachrichten : picture by Fritz Grotemeyer: Museum from Dresden buys portrait of El Sambo , Münster, Gabriele Hillmoth, November 4, 2012
- ↑ a b c Ruhr Nachrichten : Famous Grotemeyer painting surfaced: The hussar in the café ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Münster, Manuel Jennen, October 11, 2012
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grotemeyer, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grotemeyer, Friedrich Albert Theresia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German illustrator, portrait, history and war painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1947 |
| Place of death | Witten |