Clemens Prüssen

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Clemens Richard Prüssen , also Prüssen (born June 18, 1888 in Cologne ; † October 23, 1966 there ), was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Prüssen grew up as the son of the Cologne tool manufacturer Felix Prüssen and his wife Maria Josefine, née Gattermann, in an upper-class family. From 1899 he attended the Schiller-Gymnasium in Cologne- Sülz . With the secondary school leaving certificate, Prüssen left grammar school in 1907 and, at the insistence of his father, completed a two-year design internship at the then newly founded Peters glass painting company in Bielefeld . In 1909 he enrolled in painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There was Eduard von Gebhardt his teacher and Ernst Inden a college friend. In 1910 he made the acquaintance of the "Eifel painter" Fritz von Wille , who introduced him to his painting style and subjects on excursions that he offered for Düsseldorf students. In 1911, Prüssen moved to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich to continue his education with Franz von Stuck . But in 1912 he moved on to Karlsruhe , where he completed his academic training at the Grand Ducal Baden Art School under Ludwig Dill and Walter Georgi by 1913/14 . In Karlsruhe he also met Alfred Holler .

In 1914 Prüssen returned to his hometown. There he married Aloysia Renner on May 23, 1914. In 1920 this marriage was divorced. Until the bankruptcy of his father's factory, which had faltered from 1923, in 1928, Prüssen received monthly support from his father. After that, he was dependent on making a living himself, which he succeeded in doing through commissioned work for children and family portraits, which he accepted from 1929, through the production of illustrations for a Cologne publisher, and through other commissioned work.

The 1930s are considered to be Prussia's most creative creative period. Together with his painter friend Inden and other friends he often traveled to the Eifel . There, many landscape views in small canvas formats were created in open-air painting. In 1936 he took part in the exhibition “The new way of art to the people”, which was organized by the “joint work of art and artists” under the umbrella of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts with great propaganda effort in Mayen . The obligation to take part in an exhibition had previously enabled him to spend six weeks in Polch and paint there as part of a NS artist grant . From the mid-1950s, Pruss's painting increasingly focused on Cologne and the surrounding area.

Since 1923, Prüssen was married to Karoline, nee Helbig, for the second time. He last lived in an apartment in Cologne- Klettenberg with his wife and son Udo . There he died of a heart condition in 1966 at the age of 78.

literature

  • Conrad-Peter Joist: landscape painter of the Eifel . Eifelverein Verlag, Düren 1997, ISBN 978-3-9218-0512-1 .
  • Herbert Budweg: The Eifel painter Clemens Prüssen. Homage for the 125th birthday in June 2013 . In: The Eifel. Journal of the Eifelverein . Volume 108 (2013), Issue 2, pp. 23–26 ( PDF ).
  • See the Eifel through the eyes of Clemens Prüssen . In: Rhein-Zeitung , Issue C of March 17, 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 3247 from October 25, 1966, registry office Cologne West. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
  2. ^ Conrad-Peter Joist: Landscape painter of the Eifel . Eifelverein Verlag, Düren 1997
  3. ^ The National Socialist joint venture "Art and Artists" in the Mayen district in 1936 , website in the eifel-und-kunst.de portal , accessed on April 7, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Prüssen, Clemens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prüssen, Clemens Richard (full name); Prüßen, Clemens Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1966
Place of death Cologne