Albert Hartmann (artist)

Friedrich Ludwig Albert Hartmann (born January 2, 1868 in Michelstadt ; † June 28, 1928 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German artist and university professor .

Life

Hartmann was born the son of the sculptor and engraver Friedrich Adam Hartmann (1833–1898) and his wife Maria Anna Minier in 1868 in Michelstadt in the Odenwald. The Hartmann family emigrated from Switzerland to the Odenwald after the Thirty Years' War. Friedrich Adam Hartmann was one of the most important carvers in the Odenwald in the 19th century. Albert Hartmann attended secondary school in Michelstadt. After graduating from school, he worked in his father's workshop for a few years. From 1885 to 1887 he attended the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich as a sculptor . Albert Hartmann felt increasingly drawn to painting and attended Friedrich Fehr's painting school in Munich. While doing his one-year military service, he met Hermann Hausmann (1865–1907), with whom an intensive friendship developed. From 1890 to 1894 Hartmann worked as a carton draftsman in Franz Xaver Zettler's glass painting .

During this time he made numerous trips to Lake Garda, Ravenna, Venice and South Tyrol. He spent a long time at Tachov Castle in Bohemia with the Princess Windisch-Grätz and a long time in Egypt . After his return from Cairo he was a drawing teacher at the carving school in Erbach (Odenwald) . In the summer of 1897 he met Bernhard Mannfeld , who had been director of the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main from 1895 . Mannfeld brought Hartmann to teach at the Städelsche Kunstschule in 1897/98. There he met Wilhelm Trübner , who had also worked at the Städel since 1895. Trübner and Hartmann mutually influenced each other. Numerous works were created during a joint study trip to Amorbach in 1898.

Since September 7, 1901 he was a teacher for drawing and painting at the TH Darmstadt . In April 1902 he was appointed professor for drawing and painting. He succeeded August Noack , who retired in the spring of 1901 . The professorship was converted into an extraordinary professorship in 1907.

Hartmann left behind numerous drawings, oil paintings and sculptures. In his pictures, landscapes from his numerous journeys and buildings in Upper Hesse are shown in particular. There are also some oil paintings depicting relatives of his. Some works are owned by the Odenwald and Toy Museum in Michelstadt.

Albert Hartmann was married to Marie Eugenie Marx for the first time in 1905 and his second marriage to Marie Dieffenbach from 1916. Several children arose from the marriages. Albert Hartmann died unexpectedly shortly after his 60th birthday in June 1928.

Publications

• Drawing and painting, in: The Grand Ducal Technical University of Darmstadt 1896–1908, Darmstadt 1908, p. 172f.

literature

• August Buxbaum (Ed.): Darmstadt and the surrounding area in two hundred pen drawings, Darmstadt 1920.
• Karl Noack: Albert Hartmann. For his sixtieth birthday. In: Volk und Scholle. Volume 6, 1928, pp. 21–26.
• Christa Wolf and Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1977, p. 75.