August Oetken
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August Heinrich Hermann Oetken (born February 14, 1868 in Oldenburg ; † May 20, 1951 there ) was a German painter of historicism and mosaic artist .
Live and act
August Heinrich Hermann Oetken was born as the son of the farmer Joh. C. Diederich Oetken and Catharine Oetken born. Vagina born. After attending secondary school in Oldenburg, he learned decorative painting from 1885 to 1888 under the theater painter Wilhelm Mohrmann (1849-1934), who among other things furnished the Oldenburg Court Theater . In 1888 he switched to Ludwig Klingenberg's architectural office and took him on a study trip to France and Spain . From 1891 to 1896 he was a student of the history painter Hermann Schaper in Hanover , then self-employed. In 1898 and 1906 he traveled to Italy to study mosaics . For the decoration of the Elisabethkemenate on the Wartburg near Eisenach with mosaics he received the title of professor in 1906. From 1907 to 1926 he was a lecturer for ornaments and colored decoration in the style of medieval architecture at the Technical University of Berlin . After the destruction of his house at the Tiergarten in Berlin and the loss of all his artistic possessions, he returned to Oldenburg in 1944. Since his small landscapes and still lifes did not sell, he lived impoverished, but was cared for by his adopted daughter and granddaughter.
His marriage to Marie Bestvater on July 7, 1896 resulted in a daughter (* 1903).
Works
Oetken decorated numerous churches and secular buildings with paintings , stained glass , mosaics, etc. and restored old paintings.
- 1891: 20 Oldenburg vedutas as pen drawings. In: Georg Holtzinger (editor): Festschrift of the Oldenburg Trade and Commerce Association on its 50th anniversary in 1891. Stalling, Oldenburg 1891
- 1894: Wall painting of Count Anton Günther on the east wall of the restaurant of the same name on Langen Strasse in Oldenburg
- 1897–1899: Ceiling mosaics in the Grunewald Tower in Berlin
- 1899: Altar of the Maria Laach Abbey
- around 1900: Imperial Lodge of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin
- 1900: Interior of the Old Synagogue in Dortmund
- 1900: Mosaic in the inner dome of the German Fountain in Istanbul
- 1902: Mosaics in the Marienkirche in Bergen on Rügen
- 1903: Mosaics in the Erlöserkirche in Mirbach, Eifel
- 1902–1906: Mosaics in the Elisabethkemenate on the Wartburg near Eisenach
- 1904–1905: Painting of the Nikolaikirche in Bad Schmiedeberg
- 1905: Painting of the St. Petri Pauli Church in Eisleben
- around 1905: Gold mosaic in the chapel of the residential palace in Poznan
- 1906–1908: Paintings and windows of the Liebfrauenkirche in Liegnitz
- 1909 painting of the apse and galleries of the church in Pressel
- 1909: Painting of the village church of Gröben
- 1910: Design of St. Andrew's Church in Teltow
- 1917: Monumental painting in the castle tower in Lübben (Spreewald)
- 1923–1924: St. Louis Cathedral , Missouri
- Cathedral Münsterberg in Silesia
- Windows and interior painting of the Pauluskirche in Halle
- City Church Gröningen
- Bernhard and Eleven Thousand Virgins Church in Wroclaw
- Catholic Church Brockau
- Restoration of the recovered picture treasure in Zielenzig
- Frescoes in the chapter house and monumental paintings in the large remter of the Marienburg , West Prussia
- City church in Elmshorn
- Marienkirche Hadersleben
- Painting and window of the village church in Groß Lüben
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? 10th edition, Degener, Berlin 1935, p. 1162.
- Stefanie Fink: Celebrated and forgotten: The painter August Oetken in Brandenburg. In: Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (ed.): Brandenburgische Denkmalpflege. New series, vol. 3, 2017, issue II, pp. 18–28.
- Hermann Alexander Müller (preparation), Hans Wolfgang Singer (ed.): General artist lexicon. Volume 6, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1922, p. 210 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Oetken, August . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 575-576 .
- August Oetken . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 509 .
- Karl Veit Riedel: Oetken, August Heinrich Hermann. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 534-535 (with picture, PDF lb-oldenburg.de ).
- Gerold Schmidt: The church painter and mosaic artist of historicism Prof. August Oetken (1968–1951) - co-designer of the Melanchthon House in Bretten. In: Stefan Rhein, Gerhard Schwinge (ed.): The Melanchthon House Bretten. An example of the Reformation commemoration at the turn of the century. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-63-0 , pp. 167-212.
- Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition, Volume 7: Menghin – Pötel. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25037-8 , p. 557.
Web links
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- Professor August Oetken ( Memento from August 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Remarks
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↑ Hans Vollmer wrote that this year of birth was wrong and states 1886.
August Oetken . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 509 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oetken, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oetken, August Heinrich Hermann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historicist painter and mosaic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oldenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1951 |
| Place of death | Oldenburg |