Egbert Lammers

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Egbert Lammers (born July 30, 1908 in Berlin , † March 26, 1996 in Piesenkam , Waakirchen municipality ) was a German painter and glass painter.

Life

Egbert Lammers was the eldest of three sons of Aloys Lammers (1877–1966) and his wife Helene, geb. Küchenhoff (1883-1968). From 1925 to 1933 the father held the office of State Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of Culture. During this time, relationships with artists developed through the family's weekly salon, who were to assume groundbreaking importance for Egbert Lammers. He maintained a long-term exchange with the sculptor Edwin Scharff (1887–1955) and the painter Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann (1883–1973). Egbert Lammers' earlier contact with Gottfried Heinersdorff (1883–1941), who is considered a reformer of German glass painting, also went back to this paternal circle of friends.

His first important drawing teacher was William Straube . After graduating from the Prinz-Heinrich-Gymnasium in Berlin, he studied philosophy and art history in Berlin, Tübingen and Bonn. He also attended Willi Jaeckel's private art school , for correction with Hans Purrmann, and later he was a student of Eugen Spiro . During the semester break he traveled to the south of France with the painter Merveldt. As a student in Berlin, he became an active member of the Catholic student association Askania in the KV . In 1931 he received his doctorate in Bonn under Paul Clemen . His dissertation was entitled “ Charles Hoguet , a Contribution to Berlin Art History. "

Apse mosaic in St. Antonius Potsdam-Babelsberg

From 1932 to 1936 he was a teacher at the private fashion school “Der Sturm” run by Herwarth Walden and Richard Dillenz in Berlin, until it was closed by the Nazis. Then he worked as a freelancer. In 1932 he created his first plaster mosaic in St. Adalbert in Berlin, and in 1935 his first glass window in Berlin-Siemensstadt. From this time until 1944 he received regular orders for glass windows (Berlin-Karlshorst, Herz Jesu, Jüterbog, Gleiwitz and others). In 1942 he created a window cycle consisting of a choir window, twelve windows for the nave and two windows for the baptistery in the Catholic Church of St. Boniface in Belzig in Fläming. In the same year a monumental apse mosaic was created for the Catholic Church of St. Antonius in Potsdam-Babelsberg. In the depiction of the Adoration of the Lamb from the Revelation of John he deliberately represented people among the adoring elders who contradicted the racial ideal of the National Socialists .

In 1935 Lammers married Annelise Hans (* 1908, † 2010).

In August 1944 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . At the end of the war he was captured by the English in Denmark. He was released in August 1945 and went to Werl in Westphalia. There he painted pastel portraits for food, gave lectures and taught art history in schools. He created glass windows in Werl and Unna, and from 1952 he received regular orders again. In 1956 he built a studio in Werl. In the course of the next 30 years he created glass windows and mosaics for churches, schools, communities, companies and private individuals in around 70 locations in Germany and abroad. In 1973 he moved to Piesenkam in Upper Bavaria.

Exhibitions

  • Fall 1930/31 and 33 in the Berlin Secession
  • November 1932 in the Gurlitt Gallery in Berlin
  • 1973 Complete exhibition in Werl
  • 1990 Exhibition in the Rykenberg Municipal Museum in Werl with paintings, drawings and drafts of stained glass windows from 1973 to 1989
  • 1998 Memorial exhibition for the 90th birthday in the Sparkasse and in the Propsteikirche in Werl

literature

  • Illustrated book "Glass windows by Egbert Lammers" Josef-Keller-Verlag Starnberg 1965
  • Annette Jansen-Winkeln (ed.): Artist between the times: Egbert Lammers, Wissenschaftsverlag für Glasmalerei Eitorf, Büsch bei Merten 1998
  • Susanne Gierczynski: Egbert Lammers (1908–1996) glass painter between historicism and modernity, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich, Berlin 2005.

Web links

Commons : Egbert Lammers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Teodolius Witkowski: St. Anthony in Potsdam-Babelsberg - A contribution to the history of the church and community , Potsdam 2011, pp 26-28
personal data
SURNAME Lammers, Egbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1996
Place of death Waakirchen -Piesenkam