Christian Saß

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Christian Johann Friedrich Saß (born June 29, 1836 in Preetz , † October 25, 1916 in Kiel ) was a German porcelain painter.

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Christian Saß was a son of the Schumacheramtsmeister Conrad Johann Friedrich Saß (born November 22, 1807 in Kiel, † April 3, 1892 in Preetz) and his wife Julie Auguste Joachine, née Fenker (born September 28, 1803 in Preetz, † April 9 1853 ibid). Due to the decline of the Schumacher trade triggered by industrialization, he and his siblings grew up in poor living and working conditions. He probably learned at the Preetz Wilhelminenschule and completed an apprenticeship as a painter in 1852 after confirmation. Where, when and from whom he received his training is not documented. Saß himself said that he learned from Sophus Claudius . His teacher probably taught him skills that went beyond painting.

After completing his training, Saß got a job "with a portrait painter Boe". Presumably in 1859 he went on a journey and worked in Bremen, Hanover and Braunschweig, among others. From 1866 he worked as a decorative painter in Preetz and also taught part-time drawing at the Preetz trade school. He met the painter Christian Carl Magnussen , who had founded an arts and crafts school in Schleswig . Saß ran a lottery in Preetz to help the new school in Schleswig. As part of this lottery, the first evidence of his artistic work can be found.

On November 2, 1869, Saß married Margaretha Maria Catharina Möller (born September 1, 1841 in Husum , † March 4, 1895 in Itzehoe ), with whom he had two daughters. At the beginning of 1877 he moved with his family to his wife's birthplace. He joined the craftsmen's association and was one of the founding members of the Husum painters' guild in 1879. He had artistic talent, but could not train himself artistically as a craftsman and worked self-taught. Since the artistic work did not offer him sufficient income, he had to paint by hand.

Saß changed his place of residence in Husum several times and from 1881 lived in the house Wasserzeile 46. He created fifty motifs that show Husum and form the focus of his work. He represented the city and landscape in a very diverse way. He wandered through and toured the surrounding area and recorded suitable motifs with detailed pencil sketches. He used this for porcelain work and oil paintings. From 1876 he visited the Halligen and islands off Husum. He went on foot to neighboring villages and places further afield and painted striking buildings there, for example a church or bell tower, pastorate, mill, train station or an important farm. Other landscape painters active at the time had only rarely chosen the Halligen as a motif.

In March 1894, Saß moved with his family to Itzehoe because his eldest daughter had tuberculosis. A doctor from Husum had recommended the place of residence due to the forest air climate. He immediately looked for motifs in the surrounding area and took part in art exhibitions for the first time in 1894 with the "First Annual Exhibition of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Cooperative". Renowned participants there were Richard von Hagn and Adolf Brütt . He later exhibited in Möltenort , Kiel and Husum and joined the Schleswig-Holstein artists' association .

In 1908 Saß moved back to Preetz and in 1910 to live with his younger daughter in Bielefeld . After several changes of residence, he moved to Kiel, where he died in 1916.

Works

Osterhusum water and windmill (1910)

Saß created many porcelain paintings and some oil paintings that show strong influences from porcelain painting techniques. He worked with a wafer-thin brush and depicted his motifs in great detail. With this painting technique, he must have worked while sitting in a protected room; Probably none of his motifs did he paint on site. Since he needed a hard and very fine surface for his small-format, detailed motifs, he mostly worked on sheet metal or wood. His importance as an artist lies in the choice of his motifs. He painted modest apartments for simple craftsmen and traders as well as the houses of citizens and merchants, as well as mansions, public buildings and streets. In addition, there were technical structures such as railway bridges, ports and landing stages, often mills, but also industrial buildings, including the Husum iron foundry PW Matz.

Saß not only painted objects, but also the customs and traditions of the inhabitants. He worked idyllically on his landscape paintings and showed an often idealized, ideal world in which people are rarely seen. His pictures are important pictorial sources for local and regional research.

literature

  • Jürgen Dietrich: Sass, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pages 334-336.

Web links

Commons : Christian Sass  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Dietrich: Sass, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 334.
  2. ^ Jürgen Dietrich: Sass, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 334.
  3. ^ Jürgen Dietrich: Sass, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 335.
  4. ^ Jürgen Dietrich: Sass, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 335.
  5. ^ Jürgen Dietrich: Sass, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 335.
  6. ^ Jürgen Dietrich: Sass, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 335.
  7. ^ Jürgen Dietrich: Sass, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pages 335-336.
  8. ^ Jürgen Dietrich: Sass, Christian . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 336.
personal data
SURNAME Sat, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saß, Christian Johann Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German porcelain painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Preetz
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1916
Place of death Kiel