Alfred Particle

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Alfred Particle
Memorial stone in Ahrenshoop, Strandweg 1. Donated by his friend Gerhard Marcks
Bodden landscape near Ahrenshoop

Ernst Fritz Alfred Particle (born October 7, 1888 in Goldap , East Prussia ; † ( lost ) October 20, 1945 in Ahrenshoop ) was a German landscape painter.

Life

Alfred Particle was born in 1888 as the son of Goldaper District Court Secretary Adolf Particle (1857–1945). After attending primary school in Szittkehmen and grammar school in Insterburg , he spent six months in 1905 at the arts and crafts school in Königsberg i. Pr. In 1905 joined particles to the Art Academy Konigsberg , which he held until 1907 when Ludwig Dettmann , Olof Jernberg and Heinrich Wolff visited. He then worked as a freelance painter and pursued further studies in Munich , Weimar and Berlin (1911). He was a member of the Free Secession and the German Association of Artists .

From 1914 to 1918, Particle was a soldier in the First World War . From 1919 to 1921 he shared a studio with the sculptor Richard Scheibe in Berlin and had first encounters with Gerhard Marcks . In 1921 he married Anna Dorothea Körte (1892–1967), the daughter of Major a. D. and musicologist Oswald Körte , who had owned a house in Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea since 1904. From 1921, Particle also had his residence and a studio here.

In 1929 he was appointed professor for the landscape class at the Königsberg Art Academy. With his students he went on study trips through East Prussia . With him u. a. Ingrid Andersson and Ulrich Knispel (1911–1978). In 1930/1931 he was a guest of the Villa Massimo in Rome alongside Werner Gilles on a scholarship . After the academy closed, he taught landscape painting from 1933 to 1944 at the State Masters' Ateliers for Fine Arts in Königsberg, the successor institution to the art academy. In 1937 several of his works were exhibited as Degenerate Art in Munich.

In February 1945 he and Eduard Bischoff fled East Prussia to Ahrenshoop by bike. There he disappeared on October 20th looking for mushrooms. His body was never found.

Alfred Particle was one of the most important actors in the East Prussian landscape, especially the Masurian hilly landscape south of his hometown Goldap. His works of art hang, among others, in the Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg , in the Museum Stadt Königsberg in Duisburg and in the Kunsthalle Mannheim . His works can also be found in the Rostock Cultural History Museum and the Ahrenshoop Art Museum . In 1949 the Kunsthalle Bremen showed a memorial exhibition for Alfred Particle. Another exhibition took place in 1988 on his 100th birthday in the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg.

Works (selection)

In front of the red house in 1925
  • 1911: haymaking . Oil on canvas
  • 1913: Portrait of Dorothea Körte . Oil on canvas
  • 1913: Standing act under willows . etching
  • 1914: Bathers at the lake and female nudes with child . 2 etchings
  • 1919: Rural elegy . oil on wood
  • 1919: Rider with horse in front of praying nuns . oil on wood
  • 1919: At the haystack . oil on wood
  • 1920: Peasant woman with two goats . Oil on canvas
  • 1920: Shepherd songs . Graphic portfolio, F. Möller Verlag, Potsdam 1920
  • 1921: Sunday morning . Oil on flax
  • 1923: winter landscape . Oil on canvas
  • 1925: In front of the red house . Oil painting
  • 1925: laundry in the snow . Oil painting
  • 1929: Bodden landscape. When working in the fields . oil on wood
  • 1929: Coastal landscape with women working in the fields . oil on wood
  • around 1930: port entrance . painting
  • after 1930: fishing nets . Oil on canvas
  • around 1931: Brüsterort lighthouse . Oil painting
  • 1932: Late summer day . Oil painting
  • 1934: Niehagen . Pen and ink
  • 1935: meadow plants . Watercolors
  • 1938: Snow swept in Masuria . Oil on canvas
  • 1939: Evening landscape with meadows and fields . Watercolors
  • 1940: Bodden landscape near Ahrenshoop . Oil on canvas
  • 1943–1945: Darß village landscape in winter . Watercolors
  • 1943: House by the lake . Oil painting
  • Morning over shifting dune . (Nidden)
  • Harbor in the fog . (Nidden)
  • Country life . 10 etchings
  • The women and sheep . Oil on canvas
  • Landscape with farmhouses . oil on wood

literature

  • Particle, Alfred . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 549 .
  • Old Prussian biography , p. 1035 f.
  • Ferdinand Möller (Ed.): Graphic folder "Hirtenlieder" with etchings by Alfred Particle . Ferdinand Möller Verlag, Potsdam 1920. (4 issues).
  • Ruth Negendanck : Ahrenshoop artists' colony. A landscape for artists. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-294-9 , pp. 169–177.
  • Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001. ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , pp. 140 f.
  • Katrin Arietta: Alfred Particle. The "broken fiction of the idyll" . MCM Art Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-9811946-5-4 .
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 7368 .
  • Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop (ed.): “Around us is a day of creation” - from the artists' colony to the present day. Ahrenshoop 2013, ISBN 978-3-9816136-1-2 , p. 116 f.

Web links

Commons : Alfred Particle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography (Deutsche Fotothek)
  2. ↑ Biography (University of Mainz) (PDF; 322 kB)
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Particle, Alfred ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 4, 2015)
  4. ↑ Painting and works on paper by Alfred Particle (Ostsee-Zeitung, January 23, 2010) ( Memento from July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Particle, Alfred . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
  6. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
  7. ^ Particle, Alfred . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 549 .
  8. ↑ Rupert Schreiner (arrangement): Alfred Particle: Painting. An exhibition for the 100th birthday. Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, April 21 - June 26, 1988, Museum Ostdt. Gallery, Regensburg 1988.
  9. ↑ Graphic folder “Hirtenlieder” with etchings by Alfred Particle. City of Potsdam, September 2010, accessed on December 11, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Particle, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Particle, Ernst Fritz Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Goldap , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1945
Place of death Ahrenshoop