Albert Seven Mornings

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Albert Siebenmorgen (born December 15, 1894 in Rösrath , † November 2, 1978 in Borken ) was a German photographer , painter , local researcher and teacher.

Life

Albert Siebenmorgen grew up with his twin brother Heinrich and two sisters on a farm in Kirschheiderbroich in Rösrath. He became a teacher and came to Immekeppel in 1919 after serving as an officer in the First World War . He stayed at the Catholic elementary school there until 1962, only interrupted by military service in World War II from 1940 to December 15, 1944, his fiftieth birthday.

Albert Siebenmorgen and his wife Paula had a son and a daughter. Paula Siebenmorgen died in 1972. The daughter brought her seriously ill father to Borken in Westphalia in 1977. Siebenmorgen and his wife are buried in the cemetery in Immekeppel.

Artistic and scientific activities

In addition to his work as a teacher, Siebenmorgen exercised artistic and scientific activities.

As a nine-year-old he made a camera obscura . His father gave the ten-year-old a camera he had bought, which the boy improved himself after a few months. All his life he found the advertising slogan confirmed: "Those who take photos have more out of life!"

He has been described as the "painter of the Bergisches Land ". In the course of his life he painted more than 360 pictures and many drawings, the landscape pictures only after a detailed study of the sources. Some of his paintings have been sold in the USA. Since November 2013, eleven paintings from private collections have been on permanent loan to the public in Overath City Hall .

He observed the weather for decades and recorded his observations for the German Weather Service since 1936 . For this activity he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1976. Many of his publications deal with the weather in the Bergisches Land.

He carried out his astronomical observations with telescopes he made himself , such as the solar eclipse of June 29, 1927.

He also published articles and maps as a local researcher, draftsman and cartographer. Many of his publications appeared in the local press and in the Rheinisch-Bergisch calendar . In the yearbooks from 1925 to 1931, the calendars are adorned with twelve drawings Seven Mornings, in which he worked out the characteristics of the individual months.

Siebenmorgen was one of the authors of the homeland book 800 Years Immekeppel from 1966. He also designed the cover for the book.

climber

Siebenmorgen was an avid mountaineer . He spent many holidays in the Alps. At the age of 77 he climbed the Rimpfischhorn (4,199 meters), at 78 the Breithorn (4,164 meters) and at 80 years old the Alphubel (4,206 meters).

Film portrait

On September 2, 1976, the ZDF broadcast a one-hour portrait of the versatile teacher, artist and scientist, designed by Karlheinz Rehbach, one of the many students at Seven Mornings.

Works

  • Climate and weather in the Bergisches Land . In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar . tape 1956 . Heider, Bergisch Gladbach 1955, p. 125-130 .
  • Stöckelcher vam Kepplersch Karl in Immekeppel . In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar . tape 1957 . Heider, Bergisch Gladbach 1956, p. 84-88 .
  • On the settlement history of our homeland . In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar . tape 1959 . Heider, Bergisch Gladbach 1958, p. 52-59 .
  • The weather is measured in Immekeppel . In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar . tape 1966 . Heider, Bergisch Gladbach 1965, p. 83-86 .
  • Start in the little house with the heart - 65 years as a photographer in many ways . In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar . tape 1969 . Heider, Bergisch Gladbach 1968, p. 110-112 .
  • Bergische Stöckelcher . In: Pictures from the Sülztal . Heimatbuch-Verlag-Sülztal, Bensberg (no year).

literature

  • August Haasbach: Memories of Albert Siebenmorgen . In: Achera . tape 2 , 1982, ISSN  0724-1534 , pp. 44-47 .
  • Paul Reinehr : Albert Siebenmorgen, the "Leonardo von Immekeppel" . In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (Hrsg.): Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar . tape 1998 . Heider, Bergisch Gladbach 1997, ISBN 3-87314-322-4 , p. 151-155 .
  • Working group "Heimatbuch Immekeppel" (Ed.): 800 years Immekeppel . Catholic rectory, Immekeppel 1966.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albert Siebenmorgen: Start in the little house with the heart - 65 years as a photographer in many ways . In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar . tape 1969 . Heider, Bergisch Gladbach 1968, p. 110-112 .
  2. ^ A b August Haasbach: Memories of Albert Siebenmorgen . In: Geschichtsverein Overath (ed.): Achera . No. 2 . Overath 1982.
  3. ^ Paul Reinehr: Albert Siebenmorgen, the "Leonardo von Immekeppel" . In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (Hrsg.): Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar . tape 1998 . Heider, Bergisch Gladbach 1997, ISBN 3-87314-322-4 , p. 151-155 .
personal data
SURNAME Seven mornings, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, painter, local researcher and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Rösrath
DATE OF DEATH November 2nd 1978
Place of death Bark