Erich stupid
Erich Dummer (born September 30, 1889 in Lübeck ; † February 7, 1929 there ) was a German painter of the early 20th century .
Life
Coming from a humble background, Dummer copied equestrian fights and sea battles, sunsets and the fairytale castle on the Montsalvage mountain from colored templates. In his first heroic-tragic attempts at painting, lights broke out of the deliberately serious darkness that made bright spots of color shine.
Karl Sondermann was the first teacher to teach him the first steps. Nature exerted a strong influence on him. The first two years of his apprenticeship pushed his inner world of romantic emotional life back. It was the particular landscape, the Wakenitz and, furthermore , Herrnburg , where the artist spent a summer painting. A certain sobriety and objectivity, but also the intensity and seriousness of the factual confrontation with nature, marked his pole. This was not only expressed in his pictures of that time, but also in his poems such as "Fremd" or "Masken".
For further studies he turned to Weimar . At the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School , he first entered Professor Tedy's class of antiquities, according to the program. His real goal, however, was to get support from Professor Theodor Hagen . The Thuringian landscape with its colorful magic was his teacher. With the refinement of his paint application, he enriched his palette. The artist considered the painting “Reading in the Open” to be one of his best from that time.
In Munich , where the artist turned in 1910 mainly for portrait painting, the study of art theory and art history was of great importance. He dealt with Lenbach's conception of the picture and the copying of Böcklin's mythological-romantic painting served to test his own romantic expressiveness.
After a short stay in Berlin in 1911 (including with Ulrich Huebner ), he returned to Weimar for a short time. The year in Berlin encouraged the development of color. This should later be further developed in the local landscape. The picture “Stadtgraben” shows the picturesque freshness of this time. During a stay in his home country, the question of studying art was cleared up for him: “ It is only being undertaken to strengthen the economic future. "
His self-portrait from 1912 shows how the artist overcame his problematic Lenbach period. It is particularly freshness in painting, and Dummer found a typical form here in the overall pose, which he later basically only varied. With this the self-portrait seemed to have been discovered by him as an inner psychological standard; several more were to follow. The exhibition of 1928 was entitled "Twenty Years of Self-Portraits" with reference to this.
In the winter of 1914/15 he studied Delacroix's writings . These also had an impact on his landscape painting.
The art historian and later founder of the Behnhaus, Carl Georg Heise , who was appointed museum director of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck in 1920 , became his sponsor .
Under the influence of Cézanne , his pictures experienced a lightening and loosening of color. The new creative period that was just beginning received another strong impetus from a stay of several weeks in Timmendorfer Strand in the spring of 1921 . The two large pictures created there emerged from a series of studies and smaller pictures. Here the influence begun by Cézanne was to be completed.
Dummer was chairman of the "Association of Lübeck Artists". He was a member of the board of directors of the Overbeck-Gesellschaft zu Lübeck and for a time its artistic director . Furthermore, Dummer sat on the jury of the " North-West German Artists Association ".
Dummer also had a lively talent for writing. He often expressed these in the Vaterstadtische Blätter , with which he had a special relationship. Once they were the first to reproduce his pictures with his texts.
Works
Thuringian time
- Reading outdoors
- The road to Tiefurt
- The view over roofs
- Landscape with blue fence
Munich time
- Street in a bare plain
Back in Lübeck
- Self-portrait (various)
- Moat
- Summer in Schwartau
- Sweden Church
- Forest experience
- The blown house
- Frisian landscape
- Evening on the steep bank
Figurative images
- Annunciation of the angel to Mary
- Saint Martin shares his cloak with the beggar
Museum property
- Behnhaus in Lübeck with solo exhibitions in 1915, 1917, 1923, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1940, 1950, 1968 and 1989.
literature
- Exhibition catalog Lübeck 1968 and 1989.
- AB Enns : painters discover Travemünde. In: The car . 1953, p. 122 ff.
- AB Enns: Erich Dummer - a wrestling artist. (10 fig.), In: Der Wagen. 1969.
- AB Enns: Art and the bourgeoisie. Lübeck 1978, p. 207 ff.
- Horst Hannemann: About Erich Dummer 1889–1929. (11 fig.), In: Der Wagen. 1990.
- Alken Bruns (Ed.): Lübeck CVs. Neumünster 1993, p. 113 ff. (Same text as: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 10, p. 106 ff.)
- Erich Dummer †. In: Father-city sheets. No. 10, February 17, 1929.
- Erich Dummer †. In: Lübeckische Blätter . No. 7, February 17, 1929. (Heise)
- Erich Dummer †. In: Lübeckische Blätter. No. 49, November 17, 1929. ( Abram B. Enns )
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Remarks
- ↑ in which the exhibition was to take place in autumn 1929
- ↑ His successor in 1927 was the much more conservative Georg Behrens-Ramberg .
- ↑ Because of the autumn exhibition of the deceased artist that was planned for February 1929 in the Behnhaus.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stupid, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1929 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |