August Heinrich Plinke

August Heinrich Plinke (born April 14, 1855 in Fallersleben , † October 27, 1915 in Hameln ) was a German journalist , painter and illustrator .

Life

Plinke studied from 1875 to 1878 at the art academy in Weimar with Ferdinand Schauss and Alexander Struys and from 1898 to 1899 at the art academy in Berlin . He later worked as an illustrator, particularly in the field of children's literature. He lived in Berlin and for some time in Hanover at Brüderstraße No. 2. In the 1890s, he wrote in various Hanover daily newspapers as an architecture critic, in which he repeatedly formulated sharp attacks against speculative housing construction :

"Internally unsound, common outdoors but with cheap surrogate] s beklitscht and set adorns these buildings were only calculated to the unfortunate buyer in a blinding to the untrained eye, the inferior goods envelope to make it appear acceptable."

Plinke was a co-founder of the Lower Saxony Heimatbund .

Famous works

Children playing in autumn ;
in front of the garden theater in the Great Garden of Hanover-Herrenhausen

" Assistant with a letter of recommendation introduces himself to the coppersmith ";
Oil painting by Plinke, circa 19th century

Painting:

around 1900: Evening dance at the Schützenfest , oil painting in the possession of the Landesmuseum Hannover , with a large number of people from different layers around the round part on Schützenplatz and the former rifle house by Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves in the background

Books:

Frida Schanz : The trip with Santa Claus. A Christian story. With 40 original drawings by Aug. H. Plinke, Schwager, Dresden [1889].
Adolf Bartels, August H. Plinke: Memorial book for children. Schauenburg, Lahr 1892.
New guide through Hanover. With the plan of Hanover and Linden and 2 theater plans. Klindworth, Hanover 1892.
Harry Wünscher : The goose-girl. A fairy tale. Poetry. With pictures by Aug. H. Plinke, Beyer, Langensalza [1899].
The development of the newer architecture in Hanover. In: Festbuch for the Hanover Provincial Teachers' Assembly. Ed .: Hannoversche Provinziallehrerversammlung, Volume 25, Hannover: 199, pp. 21–41.
Children's days in lust and plague. Pictures, by August H. Plinke. With text by Helene Binder , 2nd edition, Beyer, Langensalza [1931].
Motley in the year round. Pictures by August H. Plinke, with text by Helen Binder, 2nd edition, Beyer, Langensalza [1931].
Schwänzelpeter and Schlumpeliese. A picture book for good children and those who want to become one. Pictures by August H. Plinke. Text by Otto Weddigen , 3rd edition, Langensalza: Beyer, [1931].

literature

Plinke, August H .. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 288 ( archive.org ).
Plinke, August H. In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Hrsg.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 3 : Lhérie – Quittry . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 455 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Helmut Plath : Hanover in the picture of the centuries. 3rd, expanded and improved edition, Hanover: Madsack, 1966, pp. 94 f., 105.

Web links

Commons : August Plinke - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Plinke, August H. in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Helmut Plath: Hanover in the picture of the centuries , 3rd, expanded and improved edition, Hanover: Madsack, 1966, pp. 94f., 105
↑ Plinke, August H. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 155 .
↑ Plinke, August H. In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 233 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - Supplements).
^ Walter Buschmann : Linden. History of an industrial city in the 19th century (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , vol. 92), also dissertation 1979 at the University of Hanover, Hildesheim: Lax, 1981, ISBN 978-3-7848-3492-4 and ISBN 3-7848 -3492-2 , p. 356 foot; limited preview in Google Book search

personal data
SURNAME	Plinke, August Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Plinke, August H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German journalist, painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	April 14, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fallersleben
DATE OF DEATH	October 27, 1915
Place of death	Hamelin

[Plath-1] Helmut Plath: Hanover in the picture of the centuries , 3rd, expanded and improved edition, Hanover: Madsack, 1966, pp. 94f., 105

[Thieme-Becker-2] Plinke, August H. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 155 .

[3] Plinke, August H. In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 5th unchanged edition. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 233 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - Supplements).

[4] Walter Buschmann : Linden. History of an industrial city in the 19th century (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , vol. 92), also dissertation 1979 at the University of Hanover, Hildesheim: Lax, 1981, ISBN 978-3-7848-3492-4 and ISBN 3-7848 -3492-2 , p. 356 foot; limited preview in Google Book search