Ludwig Dettmann

Ludwig Dettmann in the uniform of an SA troop leader in front of a Horst Wessel commemorative picture, 1935

Ludwig Dettmann (born July 25, 1865 in Adelby , † November 19, 1944 in Berlin ) was a German painter .

Life

Ludwig Dettmann was born in Adelby near Flensburg . He studied at the Berlin Art Academy and initially worked as an illustrator .

In 1894 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .

Under the influence of Max Liebermann , he turned to landscape painting , with atmospheric pictures in oils and watercolors . For the town hall of Altona he created four wall paintings from the history of the place.

In 1891 Dettmann taught at the drawing and painting school of the Association of Berlin Women Artists . In 1898 Dettmann was one of the founding members of the Berlin Secession and was chairman of the board alongside Max Liebermann , Walter Leistikow , Otto Heinrich Engel , Oskar Frenzel , Curt Herrmann and Fritz Klimsch .

In 1900 he was appointed director of the Königsberg Art Academy . Around 1906 he worked with Poppe Folkerts with decorative paintings for the technical universities in Königsberg and Danzig . Two larger wall paintings by Dettmann from 1913 are still in the entrance area of Kiel City Hall . According to Monika Potztal , Dettmann was considered a “champion of impressionism ” in Germany. He was one of the preferred selection of contemporary artists that the “Committee for the Procurement and Evaluation of Stollwerck Pictures” suggested to the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck to commission them with drafts. In 1909 he received a large gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .

In 1913, on the 100th anniversary of the Wars of Liberation, Dettman created a three-part wall frieze for the Königsberg Art Academy from three monumental paintings, each 11 m wide and 4.5 m high. The paintings were also marketed on postcards. The triptych on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Düppel, which was presented at the 1914 Düppel Memorial Exhibition in Sønderborg, was also monumental.

In 1915 Dettmann took part in the exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin, organized by the army and navy, and in May 1916 in the one at the Königsberger Kunstverein . At these exhibitions during the war, mainly portraits of the German generals - von Dettmann could see the portraits of Field Marshals Erich Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg - as well as heroic war and battle paintings. He was an official war painter for the entire duration of the First World War .

Dettmann resigned from editing at the Königsberg Art Academy in 1916 and has lived in Berlin ever since. In 1923 he illustrated Walter Bloems Weltbrand - Germany's tragedy 1914–1918 .

After Hitler's " seizure of power " Dettmann joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party . He sat on the board of the Reich Association of Visual Artists and was a supporter of National Socialism until the end of his life . In 1935 Dettmann was awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science . In 1936 and 1937 Dettmann was chairman of the Berlin Artists' Association .

In 1938 he wrote the book Eastern Front. A memorial to the German struggle , which was added to the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet Zone in 1946 . The appreciation of his works by the National Socialists is also evident from the fact that in August 1944 Adolf Hitler included him in the God-gifted list of the most important artists.

Ludwig Dettmann died in Berlin in 1944 at the age of 79 and was buried in the Dahlem forest cemetery. The grave has not been preserved.

Works

Picture of a Sturm-Pioneer of Sturm-Battalion No. 5 (Rohr)

• Sowing ( Dresden Picture Gallery )
• Spring in Grunewald ( National Gallery Berlin )
• The lost Son
• Holy Night
• Kollegiensaal in Altona Town Hall (1900)
• Grave of farm workers ( State Museum Schwerin , 1892)
• Fischerfriedhof (National Gallery Berlin, 1902)
• Frisian singing (two singing women in a meadow, 1903)
• Sunset (1905)
• Washerwomen on Lake Garda (1905)
• Frisian women leave the churchyard (Königsberger Kunstsammlungen, 1905)
• Altar painting of the St. Petri Church in Flensburg (1909)
• 

  Monumental painting "Raising the People" (1913)
  3-part wall frieze for the Königsberg Art Academy (1913)
  • "Elevation of the People"
  • "General Yorck in his address to the East Prussian estates on February 5th in Königsberg, founding of the Landwehr"
  • "Fight of the Landwehr against the French Guard"
• Triptych for the Düppel memorial exhibition in Sonderburg (1914)

literature

• Ludwig Dettmann . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 26, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22766-3 , p. 489.
• Ewald Bender : Dettmann, Ludwig . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 165–167 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Ludwig Dettmann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 554 .
• Monika Potztal: Ludwig Dettmann 1865–1944. Between avant-garde and adaptation. Boyens, Heide 2008, ISBN 978-3-8042-1249-7 .
• Dagmar Jestrzemski: Ludwig Dettmann painting in the Altona town hall ConferencePoint Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-936406-35-1 .
• Dettmann, Ludwig . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 6 : Degeberg-Egyptolog . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1907, Sp. 252 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Dettmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature about Ludwig Dettmann in the state bibliography MV
• Literature by and about Ludwig Dettmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography on flensburg-online.de; Retrieved August 31, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867 e. V., Club Chronicle: Drawing & Painting School ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2015 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. , accessed June 18, 2015 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Monika Potztal: Ludwig Dettmann 1865–1944, Between Avant-garde and Adaptation . Boyens Buchverlag, Heide 2008, ISBN 978-3-8042-1249-7 .
3. ↑ Detlef Lorenz: Advertising art around 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures. Reimer-Verlag, 2000.
4. ↑ Frank Möller: Charismatic leaders of the nation. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-56717-9 , p. 128 ff.
5. ↑ Ludwig Dettmann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 554 .
6. ↑ Original description in the Federal Archives for Federal Archives-Bild 183-2008-0208-501, Ludwig Dettmann.jpg by August Scherl
7. ↑ Article about Ludwig Dettmann ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2016 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. at KATI Kultur und mehr, accessed on August 31, 2009. 
8. ↑ From the "Biographies of Directors and Teachers" of the Königsberg Art Academy 1845–1945 (PDF; 322 kB)
9. ^ ^{A b} Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 112.
10. ^ List of literature to be sorted out 1946 .
11. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 579.
12. ^ Extraordinary compositions - restored: four wall paintings by Ludwig Dettmann in the Altona town hall . In: Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung - Das Ostpreußenblatt , September 10, 2009 (No. 36), p. 9, archiv.preussische-allgemeine.de (PDF; 3.7 MB).