Albert Lamb

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Albert Lamm (born January 1, 1873 Berlin ; † January 18, 1939 there ) was a German naturalistic painter.

Life and work

Albert Lamm was a child of Clara, b. Schirmer and Armand Max Hugo Lamm. The Protestant family originally came from Burgundy and had emigrated to northern Germany. The father divorced in 1886 and was later married twice.

After attending grammar school, Albert Lamm began training in a mechanical workshop. Then he studied mathematics and physics at the Polytechnic in Berlin and Darmstadt for two years without finishing his studies.

From 1893 to 1895 he studied landscape painting with Eugen Bracht at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin . From 1895 to 1899 he stayed in Thuringia . From 1899 to 1901 Lamm was a master student of the landscape painter Ludwig Dill .

In 1901 Lamm took up residence in Muggendorf (Middle Franconia), where his mother lived until her death in 1918. Albert Lamm was probably relatively isolated from the village population. However, he associated with the Berlin painter Curt Herrmann and his wife Sophie, who spent the summer months in their possession, the nearby Pretzfeld Palace . He also maintained contact with the Nuremberg factory owner Ignaz Bing and his family. Documents that have not yet been made available for research show that Lamm's various contacts and activities in the vicinity of the Berlin and Munich Secession .

Artistically oriented Lamm to painters like Wilhelm Leibl , Wilhelm Trübner , Lovis Corinth and Max Slevogt . He vehemently rejected the new painting ( Expressionism , Futurism , Pechstein , van Gogh , Kandinsky ).

Albert Lamm volunteered for the war in 1914, but his initial patriotic enthusiasm for war soon gave way to disillusionment. Lamm cared for typhus patients in a hospital and was employed as a truck driver in France. In 1916 he was injured in a car accident and returned to Muggendorf.

After 25 years in Muggendorf, Albert Lamm moved back to Berlin in 1926. There he worked as a drawing teacher and supervisor for several years in a youth home for the unemployed (a communal day-time support offer). He reports on the experiences of this time in the book Deceived Youth.

The last years of Lamm's life are still largely in the dark. Some publications are documented in magazines (such as in art and artists ). Albert Lamm died on January 18, 1939 in his last apartment on Neue Winterfeldstrasse ( Berlin-Schöneberg ).

Albert Lamm was almost completely forgotten after his death. Exhibitions and biographical research at the Franconian Switzerland Museum Tüchersfeld have been drawing attention to him again for several years.

literature

  • Zweckverband Fränkische Schweiz-Museum (Ed.): Albert Lamm. Retrospective on a quarter of a century of work in Muggendorf. Tüchersfeld 1997, ISBN 3-9803276-4-7 .
  • Rainer Hofmann (Ed. On behalf of the Franconian Switzerland Museum Association): Albert Lamm - Landscape and People. Tüchersfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-942439-03-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albert Lamm, Dürerbund (ed.): Ultra painting (99th pamphlet on the art of expression). Munich 1912.
  2. ^ Albert Lamm: Deceived youth. From a home for the unemployed. Berlin 1932. (New edition Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-923211-15-9 ) pdf
personal data
SURNAME Lamb, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naturalistic painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1939
Place of death Berlin