August Wilckens
Georg Christoph August Wilckens (born June 25, 1870 in Kabdrup near Hadersleben , † August 3, 1939 in Sønderho / Fanø ) was a German painter and restorer.
life and work
The son of a farm owner first visited the students of the Moravian Brethren in Christiansfeld and then the Latin school in Hadersleben . After an extensive hike as a journeyman painter, the Hadersleben-based painter Charlotte von Krogh encouraged him to pursue an artistic education.
From 1888 to 1891 Wilckens attended the arts and crafts schools in Munich and Nuremberg . From 1891 to 1894 he worked as a draftsman in the Dresden Lithographic Institute. From 1894 to 1897 he studied at the Dresden Art Academy . Wilckens was a student of Leon Pohle and a master student of Gotthardt Kuehl . In 1899 he went on a study trip to France and Northern Italy, after which he settled in Dresden and in 1902 became a founding member of the artist group “ Die Elbier ” with his friend Georg Erler .
In January 1899, Wilckens had a spectacular debut in the Kunsthalle zu Kiel with a larger collection of his works. Mainly on view were pictures from the folk life of the North Sea island Fanø , which he had discovered for himself as a place of study on the recommendation of his colleague Hans Peter Feddersen. Here he spent the summer months and in 1906 bought a small house. The theme “Fanø” was almost exclusively part of Wilckens' art and he recorded the local folk life in the heyday of local painting between 1895 and 1914 in his pictures. In his opinion he is close to the Hessian Carl Banzer, who worked at the same time for Kühl and presented the Hessian people life with a simple sense of reality. In 1907 Wilckens received a visit from the budding painter Fritz Fuglsang on Fanø , to whom he recommended that he also begin his artistic training at the Art Academy in Dresden. In 1909 Wilckens married Julie Schoop from Hamburg and moved with her to Gerokstrasse 9 in Dresden. He sold his summer house to the painter Jacob Nöbbe and now bought a larger one with a studio. Occasionally he painted on Fanø with the Swedish painter Carl Johan Forsberg , who had settled on the island with his wife in 1914. After the referendum in 1920, Northern Schleswig, including the island of Fanø, fell to Denmark, and Wilckens was automatically a Danish citizen. However, he continued to spend the winter months in Dresden and the summer months on Fanø.
Between 1900 and 1906 Wilckens created templates for the weaving school founded by Pastor Johannes Jacobsen in Scherrebek . The large curtain in the entrance hall of the Nibelungenhalle in Königswinter comes from him .
He earned a large part of his living as a church restorer and church painter. In North Schleswig he restored and painted the frescoes in the churches of Mögeltondern , Apenrade , Hviding, Toftlund, Holebüll and especially Starup (drafts at Museumsberg Flensburg). In 1897, while working in the church in Mögeltondern, he portrayed the feudal count couple Hans Schack and Mrs. Henny. In 1929/30 a wall frieze was created in the Nikolaikirche in Flensburg for the memorial room for those who fell in World War I.
In the autumn of 1913, the applied arts museum of the city of Flensburg honored him with a large solo exhibition. Wilckens then went on a study trip to Taormina in the winter of 1913/14. He presented u. a. in Dresden, Berlin, Munich, Flensburg, Baden-Baden, Düsseldorf, Breslau, Königsberg, Darmstadt, Hamburg, Fanø and Charlottenborg / Copenhagen. In the course of his artistic life he received a wealth of awards and honors, including a. The state of Schleswig-Holstein awarded him the state's honorary professorship for his remarkable contributions to art, especially for the preservation of the frescoes after the restoration work in the church of Starup was completed. Pictures by Wilckens can be found in numerous collections of art museums in Denmark and Germany. Most of his artistic estate was lost in Dresden during the bombing war.
literature
- Catalog of the Wilckens exhibition Kunstgewerbemuseum Flensburg 1913.
- Brian Dudley Barrett: August Wilckens - An artist from the borderland. Kveller Forlag, Fanø 1994, ISBN 87-984613-6-2 .
- Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Painting in Schleswig-Holstein, catalog of the painting collection of the Städtisches Museum Flensburg, Heide 1989, pp. 319–326.
- Jürgen Ostwald (arrangement): From Eckersberg to Nolde. Artists from North Schleswig 1800 - 1920. Westholsteinische Verl.-Anst. Boyens, Heide 1994, ISBN 3-8042-0670-0 .
- Hans Christian Lassen: Forays through North Schleswig painting. In: Gerd Stolz, Günter Weitling (Ed.): North Schleswig - Landscape, People, Culture. Husum 2005, ISBN 3-89876-197-5 .
Works
- Tapestry Yggdrasil (also “The Three Norns”) 1900, Nibelungenhalle Königswinter and Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig.
- Germanic women, Museumsberg Flensburg
- Wedding on Fanö, 1907/09, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
- Funeral meeting in a Jutland farmhouse parlor, 1908, Galerie Neue Meister Dresden
- Bridesmaids on Fanö, 1908, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
- Evening sun in Sønderho, Museum Art of the West Coast, Alkersum / Föhr
- Bridesmaids on Fanö, 1908 Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld
- Women on Fanö, around 1910, Altona Museum, Hamburg
- Loki and Signi, around 1912, Museumsberg Flensburg
- Women on the dune, 1913, Museumsberg Flensburg
- Fate of the coast, mother with drowned child, 1915. North Sea Museum, Nissenhaus Husum
Web links
- Literature by and about August Wilckens in the catalog of the German National Library
- Search for August Wilckens in the German Digital Library
- Search for August Wilckens in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Homepage Museums in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg
Individual evidence
- ^ Dörte Nikolaisen, From Husum to Hadersleben - The painter Charlotte von Krogh, 2007, p. 64f.
- ↑ Kieler Zeitung January 22, 1899
- ↑ Lilli Martius, The Schleswig-Holstein Painting in the 19th Century, Neumünster 1956, p. 396f.
- ↑ Catalog Hans Fuglsang, Museumsberg Flensburg 2018, p. 12f.
- ^ First Schlee, Scherrebeker Bildteppiche, Neumünster 1984, pp. 301–304.
- ^ Nibelungenhalle - In the footsteps of Richard Wagner. In: nibelungenhalle.de. Retrieved March 15, 2020 .
- ^ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Longing for Arcadia - Schleswig-Holstein artists in Italy. Boysens, Heide 2009, ISBN 978-3-8042-1284-8 , pp. 369-371.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilckens, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilckens, Georg Christoph August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and restorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kabdrup near Hadersleben |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1939 |
| Place of death | Sønderho / Fanø |