Erich Hasenclever

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Erich Wilhelm Hasenclever (born June 26, 1886 in Ehringhausen near Remscheid , Rhine Province ; † 1967 in Burg an der Wupper near Solingen ) was a German genre and landscape painter and etcher from the Düsseldorf School . From 1921 to 1933 he was the museum director of Burg Castle .

Life

Erich Hasenclever, son of the entrepreneur and honorary citizen Moritz Hasenclever, studied painting from 1908 to 1910 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Claus Meyer , Peter Janssen the Elder and Willy Spatz his teachers. He later studied in Munich under Carl Seiler and Hans von Bartels . He placed people and landscapes of the Bergisches Land at the center of his art, the focus of which shifted more and more from figurative genre painting to landscape painting.

After the First World War , in which he had participated as a soldier, he lived in Burg-Unterburg in an old Bergisch half-timbered house on Solinger Strasse (corner of Eschbachstrasse) and worked as a painter. He also looked after the museum at Burg Castle, for the reconstruction of which his father Moritz had chaired the castle building association he co-founded as well as provided generous financial support from the 1880s onwards. In 1921 Erich Hasenclever took over the management of the museum on a part-time basis. Above the knight's hall and the bower, he designed an atmospheric sequence of Altbergian living rooms, for the furnishing of which he brought together rural and middle-class furniture and other objects from the Bergisches Land.

After the outbreak of World War II , Hasenclever went on study trips to Mecklenburg, Western Pomerania and the Uckermark. In 1949 he took part in group exhibitions in Remscheid, Düsseldorf and at Burg Castle. In 1957 he was the first Bergisch artist to receive the Bergisches Kunst- und Kulturpreis des Schlossbauverein.

literature

  • Hasenclever, Erich . In: Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, Volume 2.
  • Lore Reinmöller: Erich Hasenclever. The painter of the Bergisches Land . In: Romerike Berge , 43rd year, 1993, issue 1, pages 10-14.
  • Dirk Soechting: Erich Hasenclever (1886–1967). The painter of the Bergisches Land. Exhibition in the Bergisches Museum Schloß Burg March 12 - May 31, 1993 . In: Romerike Berge , 43rd year, 1993, issue 1, pages 1–9.
  • Dirk Soechting: Erich Hasenclever. Biography compiled from newspaper clippings owned by the family . In: Romerike Berge , 43rd year, 1993, issue 1, pages 15-19.
  • Beate Battenfeld : Erich Hasenclever . In: Romerike Berge , 67th year, 2017, issue 3, pp. 16–21.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. ↑ Moritz Hasenclever became an honorary citizen of Burg an der Wupper on February 24, 1904 .
  3. ↑ J. Christof Roselt: The Bergisches Museum Schloss Burg an der Wupper (= museums of cultural history in Germany , Volume XI). Verlag Cram, De Gruyter & Co., Hamburg 1969, p. 16 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ Thomas Wintgen: He is considered the "Bergische painter" . Article from January 5, 2018 in the portal solinger-tageblatt .de , accessed on October 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hasenclever, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hasenclever, Erich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German genre painter and landscape painter as well as etcher of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehringhausen near Remscheid , Rhine Province
DATE OF DEATH 1967
Place of death Castle on the Wupper near Solingen