Adolph Beuhne
Ernst Adolph Beuhne (born January 15, 1863 in Oberlößnitz near Dresden , † March 28, 1940 in Hamburg ; also E. Adolf Beuhne ) was a German painter and interior designer .
Live and act
From the age of 15 Adolph Beuhne attended the Royal School of Applied Arts in his hometown. Max Rade and Jean Pape in particular taught a neoclassical style there . In 1883 Beuhne passed the exam as a drawing teacher. He then made drafts of drawings and taught in Frankfurt am Main , followed by Cologne and Karlsruhe . In 1887 he went to Copenhagen . In the Danish capital, Beuhne took over the management of the design department of the furniture manufacturer CB Hansen , which was the market leader at the time and developed its style further. He created medieval Nordic ornaments that included ribbon slings and animal heads, but also incorporated elements of the emerging Art Nouveau and Art Nouveau . Beuhne held this position for ten years.
In 1897 the Hamburg School of Applied Arts appointed Beuhne as a lecturer for furniture designs. As the first non-Hamburg resident at the institution, he was supposed to broaden the school's spectrum. In 1900 Beuhne received the title of senior teacher and in 1909 was appointed professor. The new director of the university, Richard Meyer , brought several new teachers from southern Germany and Austria to Hamburg from 1905. They were successful artists who represented modern styles and expressed leadership claims at the arts and crafts school. Beuhne's prominent position lost its importance. He was hardly noticed and did not take part in the long-lasting rivalries between the northern German artists and the newly arrived teachers.
Beuhne taught the room art class and created designs for highly regarded furniture manufacturers from Hamburg, some of which were shown in the Leipzig "Kunstgewerbe-Blätter". He also gave optional courses in watercolor painting. Beuhne taught at the arts and crafts school until 1929. He was succeeded by the architect Karl Schneider . Adolph Beuhne lived in Hamburg-Hamm until his death in 1940 .
Works
Beuhne created numerous watercolors, which mainly show motifs from Hamburg and were regularly mentioned positively in the press due to the differentiated color design. The Museum of Art and Crafts dedicated an exhibition to the artist for the first time in 1902 and repeated this four times by 1929. Both the Museum of Hamburg History and renowned private galleries showed the paintings in special exhibitions at this time.
In 1966, the Museum of Hamburg History showed a selection from several hundred paintings that a daughter Beuhnes, who lived in Munich, had given the museum a year earlier. Some works that the museum bought in 1914 were also on display. A last, smaller exhibition took place in 1980 in Bergedorf Castle .
Beuhne's work as an interior designer, on the other hand, was not well received during his lifetime.
literature
- Ulrich Bauche : Beune, Adolph . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 4 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 , pp. 50-51 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Goldstein, Ruth Kähler, Hermann Kähler: Dictionary of monograms 1. Walter de Gruyter, 1999, ISBN 9783110144536 , p. 897 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beuhne, Adolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beuhne, Ernst Adolph (full name); Beuhne, E. Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and interior designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberloessnitz near Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1940 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |