Carl Jörres

Carl Jörres, garden in front of a white house around 1920

Carl Heinrich Christoph Jörres (born January 10, 1870 in Bremen , † October 21, 1947 in Bremen) was a German landscape painter .

biography

Jörres was the son of a saddler and upholsterer who ran a shop on Herdentorsteinweg in Bremen. Around 1893 he made two longer trips, which took him to Naples and Budapest, among others. He worked as a decorator in his father's shop. His inclination to painting increased, however, and he broke with his handicraft-oriented father. In 1905/06 Jörres was a student of Fritz Overbeck in Worpswede and in Bröcken near Schönebeck . In the winter months from 1904/05 to 1908/09 he trained at Moritz Heymann's private art school in Munich, where he a. a. was taught by Hermann Groeber , who also taught at the Munich Academy . In 1907 he was impressed by a large impressionism exhibition in Munich .

From 1904 Jörres lived in Leuchtenburg and Worpswede, and from 1909 he lived in the Lilienthal district of Oberende. In the First World War he served as a soldier. At the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule Bremen he taught free perspective in 1922. Around this time he had his studio in Lilienthal until he moved into the historic "bathhouse" on the Wörpe near Lilienthal and showed his works in an exhibition room. From 1927 he had a new studio at the Lilienthaler Klosterkirche. His works were also sold in the Great Art Show in Worpswede and in the Graphisches Kabinett in Bremer Böttcherstraße.

In 1927 Carl Jörres married the painter Henny Stolz (1899–1948), who created portraits , still lifes and interiors . Their daughter Felicia (1931–2006) was born, studied art education and was married to Bodo Wessels, most recently professor of educational science at the University of Bremen.

Since 1933 Jörres has been going regularly to the North Sea coast in the summer, to the island of Langeoog . He exhibited in Bremerhaven in 1935 and in Böttcherstraße in Bremen in 1936 . In 1937 he moved into a studio in the glue factory on the Wörpe.

Memberships

Jörres had been a member of the “Bremer Künstlerbund” since 1919 and was part of its board of directors. He was also in the Association of Northwest German Artists, the Economic Association of Worpswede Artists and in the Reich Association of German Artists . He was a member of the Freemasons .

Works (selection)

Jörres mainly painted in nature: landscapes, seascapes, bouquets of flowers, less often portraits . In his oil painting, he often preferred purer, unmuffled hues, and he painted both largely realistic and impressionistic, at times with expressive tendencies. Some of his pictures were confiscated by the National Socialists as "degenerate" and have remained missing.

His works are or were u. a. in the Kunsthalle Bremen ( grazing sheep and bathing children , 1923), in the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven ( farm garden , 1925), in the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg and in the Provincial Museum Hannover ( gardening , 1927), also in the meeting room of the Stade government ( The Vulkanwerft near Blumenthal , 1928) and in the German Embassy in Washington ( Der Bremer Wall , 1926).

• White rhododendrons. Oil on cardboard, 1905
• Garden in front of a white house, oil on canvas, around 1920
• Grazing sheep and bathing children , 1923, Bremen.
• Cottage garden , 1925, Bremerhaven.
• The Bremer Wall , 1926, Washington.
• Garden in summer heat. Oil on canvas, 1927
• Nursery , 1927, Hanover.
• The volcano shipyard near Blumenthal . Oil, 1928, Stade.
• Summer garden with house. Oil on canvas, around 1932
• Walk in the Bürgerpark. Oil on cardboard, around 1930
• Self-portrait. Oil on canvas, around 1930
• Cows in wide sunlit pasture. Oil on canvas, undated
• Evening sun on the Wörpe. Oil on canvas, undated
• Path through the meadows. Oil on panel, undated

Honors

• The Carl-Jörres Street in Lilienthal was named after him.

literature

• Carl Jörres . In: Hans-Joachim Manske and Birgit Neumann-Dietzsch (eds.): “Degenerate” - confiscated. Bremen artist under National Socialism. On the occasion of the exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Bremen from September 6 to November 15, 2009, Städtische Galerie Bremen, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-938795-10-1 ; Pp. 76-79.
• Memorial exhibition for three Bremen painters: Gustav Adolf Schreiber, Arnold Schmidt-Niechciol, Carl Jörres. Exhibition at Kunsthalle Bremen, June 3 to July 1, 1962. [Exhibition catalog; Catalog design: Julius Kraft . Photos: Hermann Stickelmann]. Kunsthalle, Bremen 1962.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 , pp. 93-94.
• Donata Holz: Carl Jörres: 1870-1947 . Lilienthal Art Foundation Monika and Hans Adolf Cordes, Lilienthal 2004.
• Felicia Jörres-Wessels: Childhood in Lilienthal: memories of Carl Jörres and Henny Stolz. Self-published , Bremen 1980.

Web links

• Carl Jörres (1872–1947) at lot-tissimo