Emy Rogge

Emy Rogge (born July 4, 1866 in Schweewarden i. O. (today Nordenham ), † April 7, 1959 Worpswede ) was a German painter and etcher .

Life

Anna Emilie Clara, who was born in Schweewarden at the mouth of the Weser in 1866, was the daughter of Johann Hinrich Rogge, the first private banker in Butjadingen . She was also active as a painter on her 90th birthday and wrote: “Satisfaction and a grateful heart for all the good and beautiful that was brought to me on my long journey on earth surrounds me in the silence of nature. God willing, may the beautiful celebration of the 90th birthday mark a worthy end ”. Emy Rogge died on April 7, 1959 in the “Diedrichshof” retirement home. She found her final resting place in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen.

Art education

The mother, Julie Caroline Clara b. Naumann came from a family of artists in Leipzig. She encouraged Emy to take drawing lessons in a private school in Atens. In 1891 her uncle, the sculptor Oskar Rassau (1843–1912) took her on in Dresden, where she studied with the flower painter Carolin Friedrich (1828–1914) and received drawing lessons from another teacher. She then attended the painting schools of Paul Müller-Kaempff (1861-1941), Georg Müller vom Siel (1865-1939) in the artists' colony Dötlingen and Gerhard Bakenhus (1860-1939) in Kreyenbrück, with whom she founded in 1904 in Oldenburg Artist Association is listed. All three played a major role in the development of Oldenburg landscape painting, which developed parallel to Worpsweder from around 1885. With their own painterly handwriting, they also took nature as their model, reproducing the sensual experience of moor, heather and marshland in the changing light and air conditions of the seasons. Paul Müller-Kaempff went down in history not least as the founder of the Ahrenshoop artists' colony , where a painting school was established in 1894, in which predominantly women, including Emy Rogge, were taught.

Work as an artist

From 1902 Emy Rogge worked in the Berlin “Kaiser Friedrich Museum”, today's Bode Museum . There she copied old masters. She had a permanent job in the museum for 20 years. Kaiser Wilhelm II watched her at work when she copied Holbein's “Kaufmann Gisze” and praised her for her outstanding work technique. She received an honorable certificate for her work from the director at the time, Max J. Friedländer .

Although she worked in Berlin, she was one of the founding members of the "Oldenburger Künstlerbund". In addition, August Oetken , Paula Schiff-Magnussen, Anni Schulmann-Salomon and Marie Stein-Ranke lived in Berlin, Heinrich Köster, Wilhelm Otto and Georg Rohde in Bremen, Rudolf Hellwag in Karlsruhe, Eduard Köster in Hamburg and Paul Müller from the founding members -Kaempff with his wife in the Ahrenshoop artists' colony. Of the 31 full members, ten were women.

She had a great desire to continue her working life as an artist in Worpswede and to get to know the Worpswede landscape. This wish came true in 1922. She wrote: "The village, the heather and the moor became my second home and the field of my work in old age". In the Worpswede landscape, Emy Rogge then had the opportunity to set up an etching workshop together with her brother Cornelius in Worphausen, near Worpswede. The colored and signed etchings of the "Rogges" also spread as postcards. She usually used traditional printing techniques for the graphics she produced. They testify to a sound technical training and have a distinctly picturesque character. In addition to the well-known motifs with rivers and peasant cottages, Emy Rogge also etched sights such as the Worpswede “ cheese bell ” or the Bremen Parkhotel . Her subjects often seem to have sprung from her imagination and have an anecdotal touch. The moods it brings can usually be interpreted in the same way by any observer: the night watchman in wintry moonlight; the visitor who approaches a snow-covered thatched-roof house and follows the light in the dark that illuminates the path from an illuminated window; the lonely hiker crossing a small bridge. The contrasting interplay of light and shadow gives these works a special touch.

On July 4, 2019, a permanent exhibition with works by Emy Rogge was opened in the Museum Nordenham in the Wesermarsch district in connection with the "Frauenort Niedersachsen" campaign.

literature

• Dieter Auffahrt: Article in: Nordwest-Heimat, July 17, 2004
• Dieter Auffarth: Emy Rogge. Biography of an almost forgotten artist . With a contribution by Alice Gudera. Rüstringer Heimatbund, Nordenham 2007, ISBN 978-3-940350-99-2
• Alice Gudera, in: ... and they did paint! . Lilienthaler Kunststiftung Monika and Hans Adolf Cordes, 2007, ISBN 3-00-021669-3 , pp. 60–62
• Nils Aschenbeck : Dötlingen artists' colony . Aschenbeck Media 2009, ISBN 3-932292-78-2 , p. 26 and p. 50
• NDR television . Hello Lower Saxony - July 4th, 2019, 7:30 p.m.