Anton Hackenbroich

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Anton Hackenbroich (born December 28, 1878 in Düsseldorf , † 1969 ibid) was a German landscape , still life , figure and portrait painter of the Düsseldorf School and art under National Socialism .

Life

Hackenbroich studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1899 to 1907 . There were serious Roeber , Willy Spatz and Peter Janssen the Elder his teachers. He then became a master student of Eduard von Gebhardt . In 1906, while still a student at the Düsseldorf Academy, he won the fourth prize in the competition for the decoration of the foyer of the Stadttheater Barmen , which was organized by the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , with the design of the German Masters . Hackenbroich lived as a painter in Düsseldorf until his death and established himself there as a “popular portrait painter” of the upper classes. His income allowed him to live in a villa colony in Düsseldorf-Grafenberg .

Hackenbroich was a member of the General German Art Cooperative . He also belonged to the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten . He was on the board of this association in the 1920s. In the 1930s and 1940s he was a participant in the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich (1937, 1939, 1940, 1944). The painting Neue Jugend , which shows a blond “ Aryanyouth from the Hitler Youth with a party flag and which Hackenbroich had submitted for the art exhibition in 1937, was one of the paintings that Adolf Hitler acquired at the exhibition. It was also shown in full in the Nazi youth reading book Deutscher Wille .

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  1. The art. Monthly books for free and applied arts . Volume 21, Volume 13 (1906), p. 263 ( Google Books )
  2. Velhagen & Klasings monthly books , Volume 33 (1919), p. 112
  3. Hackenbroich, Anton, painter, Böcklinstr. 7 . In: Address book for Düsseldorf and suburbs , Düsseldorf 1911, part 2, p. 214
  4. Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on June 27, 2018
  5. ^ Officially commissioned address book of the city of Düsseldorf . Düsseldorf 1924, part 1, p. 84
  6. ↑ List of participants in the “Great German Art Exhibitions 1937–1944” in the House of German Art - Munich , website in the portal treffpunkt-kunst.net , accessed on June 27, 2018
  7. ^ Westermannsmonthshefte , Volume 163 (1937), p. 249
  8. Andrea Zinnecker: Romanticism, Rock and Kamisol: Folklore on the way to the Third Reich - the Riehl reception . Internationale Hochschulschriften, Volume 192, Verlag Waxmann, Münster 1996, ISBN 978-3-8932-5393-7 , p. 128