Berthold Hellingrath
Berthold Franz Hellingrath (born October 27, 1877 in Elbing , West Prussia , † December 15, 1954 in Hanover ) was a German painter , etcher and university professor .
Life
Hellingrath was the son of a Rhinelander and a Silesian . When he was five years old, he moved to Danzig with his parents, Bertha and Franz Hellingrath. He received his first painting lessons at the Provincial Art School in Gdansk with Wilhelm August Stryowski (1834-1917) and Bernhard Sturmhoefel (1853-1913). He studied at the Dresden Art Academy from 1899 to 1905 and was a master student of Gotthardt Kuehl . The study in Dresden took place on the advice of Arthur Bendrat , whom he met on his study trip (in the wake of Kuehl) to Danzig and with whom a lifelong friendship developed. From 1907 he had his own studio in Dresden, where he was acquainted with Erich Heckel , the founder of the artist group “ Die Brücke ” (1905), and with Max Pechstein . He also traveled frequently to the Baltic Sea and often stayed in Gdansk .
In 1925 he became a lecturer in architectural painting , proportion theory and free-hand drawing for civil engineers etc. at the Technical University of Hanover . In 1928 he was appointed honorary professor there.
The National Socialists rejected his painting, so that Hellingrath was excluded from the Reichskunstkammer in 1937 because of “foreign painting” . A large part of his works was lost forever due to the bombing.
He died in 1954 as a result of a traffic accident.
Honors
- 1953: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
Works
- Rector Otto Blum , oil painting, owned by the University of Hanover
- Hellingrath's works are still traded in the 21st century.
literature
- Willibald Reichertz: East Germans as lecturers at the Technical University of Hanover (1831–1956) . In: East German family studies . XVIII (55th year), No. 3 . Degener & Co., Insingen 2007, p. 109-120 .
Web links
- Website Berthold Hellingrath
- Literature by and about Berthold Hellingrath in the catalog of the German National Library
- The play of light and shadow. The graphic artist Berthold Hellingrath was born 125 years ago. In: Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung , December 14, 2002 (biography)
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berthold Hellingrath: Born 140 years ago in Elbing… West Prussian State Museum , Warendorf
- ↑ ye: Arthur Bendrat, on the 40th anniversary of the Danzig painter's death (= Landsmannschaft Westpreußen [Hrsg.]: Westpreußen-Jahrbuch . Volume 4 ). Rautenberg, 1954, ISSN 0511-8484 , p. 103-105 .
- ↑ Erwin Massute: Blum, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 322 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Overview with several works at Artnet.de , accessed on February 11, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hellingrath, Berthold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hellingrath, Berthold Franz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, etcher and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elbing , West Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1954 |
| Place of death | Hanover |