Benedict Momme Nissen

Benedict Momme Nissen

Benedikt Momme Nissen (born April 26, 1870 in Deezbüll , Schleswig-Holstein province , † June 23, 1943 in Ilanz , Graubünden ) was a German painter and writer .

Life

Momme Nissen grew up in North Friesland under the impression of his two painting uncles Carl Ludwig Jessen and Christian Jessen and decided to become a painter himself. Hans Peter Feddersen gave him access to the Weimar School of Painting , which he attended from 1886 to 1889. It formed him there from Leopold Karl Walter Graf von Kalckreuth , Max Thedy and the landscape painter Theodor Hagen . In 1891 Nissen met Julius Langbehn , whose secretary he became. At the same time he began to write for the art magazines "Der Lotse" and "Kunstwart".

Like Langbehn in February 1900, Nissen converted to Catholicism in the summer of 1901 . From 1902 he lived in Munich . Through the mediation of the Rottenburg bishop Paul Wilhelm von Keppler , he could in 1903 Pope Leo XIII. and through the mediation of the Cologne Cardinal Archbishop Anton Fischer in 1910 also portray Pius X. In 1914 he moved to Altötting with his mother , who had now also converted , where he re-edited Langbehn's Rembrandt as an educator in 1922 . As a Dominican since 1916 he had the religious name Benediktus and worked in Berlin-Hermsdorf and since 1935 in Ilanz. He died there in 1943. Nissen was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

Nissen's friezes and portraits, which can be seen in the Ludwig-Nissen-Haus in Husum, are popular. The Hamburg State and University Library is keeping his literary legacy . Another part of the estate is in the archives of the Dominican Province of Teutonia in Cologne.

Works

• In memory of Paul Beckert. In: The Christian Art. Monthly for all areas of Christian art and art history in connection with the German Society for Christian Art. 6th issue, 1924. Ed. of the Society for Christian Art GmbH Munich.
• The Rembrandt German Julius Langbehn. From his friend Benedikt Momme Nissen. Herder & Co. Verlagbuchhandlung, Freiburg im Breisgau 1926.
• Julius Langbehn , Benedikt Momme Nissen: Dürer as a leader. About the Rembrandt German and his assistant. With a letter from Hans Thoma. Verlag Josef Müller, Munich 1928.
• The art of Rembrandt. Picture book on Rembrandt as an educator. Verlag Josef Müller, Munich 1929.
• Julius Langbehn, Benedikt Momme Nissen: The spirit of the whole. Herder & Co. publishing house. Freiburg im Breisgau 1932.
• Culture of the soul. Priests, thinkers, artists in church and people. Herder publishing house, Freiburg im Breisgau 1935.
• Show what you believe Ilanz 1936. (as a manuscript in the State and University Library Hamburg)
• How a German came to Christ. The way of the Rembrandt-German Julius Langbehn. Paulusverlag, Recklinghausen 1937.
• My soul in the world. Confession book by the painter and preacher brother Benedikt Momme Nissen. Herder & Co. publishing house, Freiburg im Breisgau 1940.
• The one church. Benziger Verlag, Einsiedeln 1943.
• My soul in the kingdom of God. Confession book 2nd part by Father Benedikt Momme Nissen OP, printed as a manuscript. Edited by Antonio Gayen. Self-published by Antonio Gayen, Hamburg 1975.

Additional:

• Friedrich Bendixen : Letters to Momme Nissen 1904-1916 (Part 1). With the introduction of Wolf stump. Society of Book Friends, Hamburg 1969. (138 pp.)
• Momme Nissen, Friedrich and Grete Bendixen: Newly discovered letters from Momme Nissen, Friedrich and Grete Bendixen. 1909-1929. Introduction by Wolf Stubbe (= part 2). Society of Book Friends, Hamburg 1969. (59 pp.)
• Julius Langbehn: Rembrandt as an educator. From a German. Introduction by Benedikt Momme Nissen. Verlag CL Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1925.
• Julius Langbehn: The spirit of the whole. Formed into a book [and with an afterword] by Benedikt Momme Nissen. Herder & Co. Verlagbuchhandlung, Freiburg 1930.
• Liane von Gentzkow: The Messenger of God: St. Elisabeth of Thuringia. Preface by Benedikt Momme Nissen. B. Behrs Verlag u. Verlag Friedrich Feddersen, Berlin u. Leipzig 1931.
• Langbehn letters to Bishop Keppler. With a foreword by Benedikt Momme Nissen. Herder & Co. publishing house, Freiburg im Breisgau 1937.
• Julius Langbehn: Langbehn's songs. He who loves only sings about his love. Preface by Benedikt Momme Nissen. Verlag Josef Kösel u. Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Munich (no year, after 1945).

literature

• Henrik Grevenor: Nits, Momme . 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. 485 .
• Nits, momme . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 306 .
• Helmut Ibach:  Langbehn, Julius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , pp. 544-546 ( digitized version ).
• Katja Brockmöller: Momme Nissen (1870-1943): Painter, art critic and networker of Low German native painting. Hamburg 2018 (= writings on art history. Volume 69), ISBN 978-3-8300-9970-3 (with extensive catalog raisonné).
• Gertrud Fiege: Momme Nissen. In: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon. Volume 3. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1974 (there is also a detailed list of pictures and writings by BM Nissen and an overview of the writings published about him up to 1974).
• Peter Schmidt-Eppendorf : Benedikt Momme Nissen. Life picture of a North Frisian convert. In: Posts and communications. Volume 6. Ed. Association for Catholic Church History in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein e. V. Matthiesen Verlag, Husum 1999, ISBN 3-7868-5106-9 .
• Heinrich Merck: Encounters and Events. “Momme Nissen”. Society of Book Friends, Hamburg 1958.

Web links

Commons : Benedikt Momme Nissen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Benedikt Momme Nissen  in the German Digital Library
• Momme Nissen House ; There is also a detailed biography of BM Nissen by Peter Schmidt-Eppendorf momme-enue-haus.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of bequests