Adolf Saenger
Adolf Saenger (born March 23, 1884 in Niederdielfen ; † May 7, 1961 there ) was a German visual artist.
Life
Adolf Saenger was born in Niederdielfen near Siegen in 1884. His grandfather was the master bricklayer Johannes Heinrich Singer from Simmersbach im Dillkreis who led Elisabeth Siebel from Niederdielfen to the altar on November 8, 1859 in Rödgen in the evangelical part. Eight children were born in Niederdielfen, including Elisabeth, the mother of Heinrich Adolf, on August 5, 1864. His parents were farmers and he did an apprenticeship as a boiler maker . In 1915 he became a soldier in the First World War . After an injury and a stay in a hospital, he received drawing lessons in the Dortmund workshop hospital. After his release, he studied at the arts and crafts school in Munich from 1917 .
In 1920 he moved to Berlin, one of the European art centers, and studied sculpture with Wilhelm Gerstel at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin . In 1932 Adolf Saenger became a member of the Association of Berlin Artists (VBK), the Berlin Artists' Association founded by Johann Gottfried Schadow in 1841, and got to know artists like Hans Baluschek , Christian Schad and Georg Kolbe .
In 1926 and 1939 Saenger undertook extensive study trips to Italy . "The great recognition for his work" came "only after 1933". Now he worked for the Propaganda Ministry, the Ministry of Education and the Dresden Air War School. Under National Socialism he was praised as "one of the most outstanding bearers of the new German Romanticism". Saenger was a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts.
In 1943 his studio was destroyed by air raids by the Allies. He lived in the eastern part of Berlin for another two years. In 1947 he moved back to his birthplace in Niederdielfen. He was involved in the art scene in Siegerland and Westphalia . His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions.
Adolf Saenger worked in a considerable range that dealt intensively with the surrounding landscape and its people. In addition to numerous oil paintings, he created, for example, city plaques in Siegen and Dortmund or the commemorative plaque for those who fell in World War II in Göttingen. He also designed the first German gold coin of the post-war period.
In 1952 he received the Critics' Prize of the City of Siegen, and in 1959 the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .
In Niederdielfen, where he was born, there is a hall named after him.
Adolf Saenger Foundation
With a deed of foundation dated May 1975, Ms. Johanna Saenger, widow of the artist Adolf Saenger, transferred 66 oil and tempera paintings and over 500 drawings and sketches from the estate of her deceased husband to the Siegen-Wittgenstein district and the city of Siegen , half each.
literature
- Frohmut Bruch-Irle: A. Saenger: Documents on his artistic work , Siegen 1971
- Ulrich Gertz: Adolf Saenger , Vorländer Siegen 1984
Web links
- Regional personal lexicon on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, Article Adolf Saenger
- Literature by and about Adolf Saenger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Regional personal lexicon on National Socialism in the old districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein, article Adolf Saenger .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Saenger, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niederdielfen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1961 |
| Place of death | Niederdielfen |