Erich Kleinhempel

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Erich Kleinhempel (born January 9, 1874 in Neustadt near Leipzig ; † September 2, 1947 in Erbach (Westerwald) ; full name: Friedrich Erich Kleinhempel ) was a German architect , designer and painter .

Life

Erich Kleinhempel completed an apprenticeship in Oskar Haebler's drawing studio . From 1890 to 1893 he attended the Dresden School of Applied Arts . He then worked in various studios, a. a. active in Darmstadt and Einbeck . In 1897 he received an apprenticeship at the Haebler Institute in Dresden and later took over its management. Around 1900 he worked as a freelance artist for the various arts and crafts workshops that were newly created around the turn of the century. a. for the Dresdner Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst by Karl Schmidt-Hellerau , the United Workshops for Art in Crafts and for the workshops for German household items by Theophil Müller in Dresden-Striesen . These houses aimed at a comprehensive reform of the arts and crafts and saw themselves in the tradition of handicrafts, as a reaction to the fast-moving mass production that had arisen since the middle of the 19th century, which stylistically made use of the richness of forms of past eras.

From 1900 to 1907 he ran a private school for arts and crafts at Pohlandstrasse 7 in Dresden-Striesen with his siblings Fritz and Gertrud Kleinhempel . In 1906 Erich Kleinhempel received a teaching position at the newly founded schoolgirls department of the Dresden School of Applied Arts. Erich Kleinhempel was a member of the reform-oriented artists' association Zunft and he took part in the organization of the Third German Applied Arts Exhibition in Dresden, which was important for the development of the reform movement . He was a member of the German Association of Artists . In 1909 he was a founding member of the Dresden Artists' Association . In 1910 he was appointed professor together with Max Frey .

In 1912 he was appointed director of the arts and crafts school and the arts and crafts museum in Bremen as the successor to Emil Högg . Erich Kleinhempel helped the school to gain a national reputation. From 1912 until his retirement in 1934, Erich Kleinhempel was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund . He was a co-signer of the protest letter to the Saxon state government in connection with disabilities by Martin Gropius with regard to the planned establishment of the Bauhaus . In 1934 he moved to Berlin .

Erich Kleinhempel worked as an architect, painter and designer. He worked in almost all areas of applied arts. He created u. a. Designs for furniture , textiles , carpets , wallpaper , upholstery fabrics, crockery in earthenware , faience , porcelain ( Meissen ), book decorations , wooden toys and for goldsmithing . His specialties were interior design and interior design .

Work (selection)

architecture

  • 1906: Georg Springer's house in Dresden - Blasewitz
  • 1906: House for Otto Schambach in Dresden-Blasewitz
  • 1910: Design of a house for Schupp in Dresden
  • 1912: Theodor Steinkopf's house in Dresden-Blasewitz
  • 1912: Design of a house for Jähnrig in Dresden
  • 1922: Design of a house for Schnurbusch in Bremen - Schwachhausen
  • undated: "Manor" near Waren (Müritz)

design

  • around 1910: Piano case in rosewood veneer with colored inlays for the Ferdinand Thürmer piano factory in Meißen (Elbe)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1899: German Art Exhibition Dresden
  • 1899/1900: Dresden, popular exhibition for home and stove . Together with Gertrud Kleinhempel: Design for a “home furnishings for the less well-off middle class”, awarded the Saxon State Medal.
  • 1901: International Art Exhibition Dresden
  • 1902: Turin International Art Exhibition
  • 1905: Decorative arts exhibition of the furniture company AS Ball in Berlin
  • 1906: 3rd German Applied Arts Exhibition in Dresden
  • 1908: Large art exhibition in Dresden
  • 1912: 4th graphic exhibition of the German Association of Artists (three watercolors: The White Puter , Erzgebirgler , Am Knie )

Awards (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gertrud Kleinhempel (1875–1948). Professor and Designer. Internet portal Westphalian history. Retrieved December 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Cordula Bischoff: The first women's class of the Royal Saxon School of Applied Arts in Dresden . In: Marion Welsch and Jürgen Vietig (eds.): Margarete Junge. Artist and teacher on the move to the modern age . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2016, ISBN 978-3-95498-218-9 , pp. 84-103 .
  3. ↑ Petra Klara Gamke: The artists' association guild . In: Karl Groß. Tradition as innovation? Dresden reform art at the beginning of modernism . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-422-06488-5 , p. 39-45 .
  4. ^ Deutscher Künstlerbund: Ordinary members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 17, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Die Kunst, monthly magazine for free and applied arts , 13th year 1910 (volume 22), p. 488. ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ Erich Kleinhempel. Biographical information in the research database on building culture. Retrieved December 19, 2015 .
  7. ↑ piano . In: Architectural Review . 27th year, no. 3 , 1911, pp. VII ( digitized version at Heidelberg University Library).
personal data
SURNAME Kleinhempel, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleinhempel, Friedrich Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, designer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt near Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1947
Place of death Erbach (Westerwald)