August Wilhelm Remme

August Wilhelm Remme (born August 24, 1892 in Osnabrück ; † May 8, 1971 in Leer ) was a German teacher and sculptor .

Life

August Wilhelm Remme was born on August 24, 1892 in Osnabrück as the son of the manager Wilhelm August Remme and his wife Katarina Luise Karoline. He was a teacher by profession and has been active in East Friesland in Loga, Brinkum, Holtgaste, Emden , Upleward and Leer since 1913 .

On April 19, 1919, he married Amalie Elise Johanne Bruns in Holtgaste . This marriage resulted in three children: The first son died in 1920 while giving birth in Holtgaste; the second son, Hans-Benno, died in World War II and the third child, daughter Ingeborg, married Meyer-Remme, was born on September 14, 1926 in Emden. She died in Aurich in 2000.

Around 1930 he lived in Emden. How long he lived there is currently not known. What is certain is that he has mostly lived in Leer since 1947. He died in Leer on May 8, 1971 at the age of 78 and was buried there in the Evangelical Lutheran cemetery.

sculptor

His calling was the fine arts. He is described as being self-taught . He mainly created his works of art from clay. The raw East Frisian clay, which was also used to burn bricks, was his material. From this he formed expressive, distinctive portraits of the different types of people that existed in his adopted home East Frisia . He let the clay burn and some figures were colored after the fire. He also used plaster of paris as a further material, from which he also formed figures, some of which have also been colored. He was involved in the art group Emden, in the Ostfriesischer Kunstverein and is said to have been a member of the BBK - Association of Visual Artists .

As early as 1929 Remme was present at exhibitions in northern Germany together with other sculptors and painters . So z. B. from the exhibition directory of the art group Emden from 1930 that Remme exhibited four exhibits at the 5th East Frisian Art Show. Unfortunately, only one work of it, the Alte Friesin, is included as a picture in the catalog. This work still exists today and is privately owned.

Other currently known exhibitions are the 5th Ostfriesische Kunstschau in the Klunderburg in Emden from August 17 to September 1, 1930 and an exhibition in Oldenburg in December 1937 in the Oldenburg Augusteum. After the war, an East Frisian culture show took place in Aurich in the great landscape hall in 1945, in which Remme also exhibited. It is known from 1949 that an exhibition took place in the local history museum in Leer, at which Remme was represented with several works. The exhibition must have generated great interest as it was featured in several newspapers. Newspaper articles from these years also show that the exhibitions were carried out together with well-known East Frisian artists such as Hinrikus Bicker-Riepe, Heinrich Driehling, Marie Krüger, Gertrud Wurmb, Heinz Johann Pahing, Karl Freede, Georg Hering, Heinz Johann Otto Pahling and Hans Trimborn have been. Further exhibitions in the East Frisian area are occupied until the mid-1950s. It is known from the 1960s that works came to Osnabrück, Melle, Hanover and Aurich. In 1989 the 23rd year of the Ostfriesland art calendar was published; there the picture of his sculpture “The Listener” is published. This work still exists today and is privately owned. Recently, two works by Remme have been publicly written: The work “Der Teetrinker” is in the possession of the Bünting Tea Museum in Leer. In September 2016, the Bünting Tea Museum published an article on Remme's work on the Internet.

A portrait of a young woman, Irmgard Meyer-Dinkgräfe, and another work are in the Emden State Museum. In 2006 the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden published an article about the portrait, written by Hans Peter Glimme.

literature

• Henri Nannen : August Wilhelm Remme, the sculptor from Friesland . In: The picture. Monthly magazine for German art, past and present , issue 10, October 1934.
• Studio visit to East Frisian artists , author unknown, possibly Müller, newspaper unknown, dated July 24, 1948.
• A designer of the Frisian face , in: Rhein-Ems-Zeitung of May 26, 1951.
• Ernst Bahl: August W. Remme, an East Frisian sculptor . In: Zeitschrift für Kultur, Wirtschaft und Verkehr 1952, No. 1, pp. 7–82.
• Hanns Gerd Rabe: Osnabrücker Art and Artists - 1900 to 1970. In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen Volume 81, 1974, ( digitized ).
• AH: East Frisian earth lives in the artwork . In: Ostfriesenzeitung from September 11, 1958.
• Walter Baumfalk: Fine arts in East Friesland in the 20th and 21st centuries . East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-940601-33-9 , p. 354.

Web links

• august-wilhelm-remme.de
• Hans-Peter Glimme, Emden State Museum. Artwork of the month July 2006, portrait bust Irmgard Meyer-Dinkkgräfe
• The tea drinker, exhibit of the month September 2016, Bünting Tea Museum in Leer