Ernst Fuhrmann (artist)

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Ernst Fuhrmann (born November 19, 1886 in Hamburg , † November 18, 1956 in New York City ) was a poet and writer , philosopher and photographer .

Life

Fuhrmann was the founder of an organic-ecological way of thinking that he called "Biosophy" and, as a photographer, is one of the pioneers of the New Objectivity . He was head of the Folkwang publishing house , after its bankruptcy in 1923 he was involved in the founding of the Auriga publishing house in Darmstadt and Berlin, and in 1928 the Folkwang-Auriga publishing house in Friedrichssegen / Lahn .

From 1931 onwards he also made regular contributions to the magazine “ The Opponent ” published by Franz Jung and Harro Schulze-Boysen . He was involved in the magazine Der Dom from 1930, in which representatives of the life reform ( Gusto Gräser , Max Schulze-Sölde ), the youth movement ( Friedrich Muck-Lamberty , Karl Otto Paetel ) and the biosophical movement (Ernst Fuhrmann, Hugo Hertwig , Franz Jung) came together. In his book of the same name from 1932 he elaborated on the nature-mystical ideas of these forerunners of a “green” movement.

He was the last director of the Folkwang Museum and the estate administrator of the art patron Karl Ernst Osthaus . Fuhrmann emigrated to New York in 1938, he left his archive to the Hamburg publisher Wilhelm Arnholdt . Another extensive part of the estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach.

He was married to the poet Elisabeth Paulsen (1879–1951), a daughter of the theologian Theodor Paulsen . She stayed in Germany with her son Arend. In 1953 Ernst Fuhrmann remarried.

Works

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  • The outlaw. Novel. Folkwand-Auriga 1931 (reprint: Kramer, 1986, ISBN 3-87956-151-6 ).
  • The world of the plant. Auriga, Berlin 1924.
  • Mahatma's mirror. The big breath. A book on the old new meaning of becoming. Folkwang, Hagen i. W. 1921 (anonymous).
  • China. The middle country. Folkwang, Hagen i. W. 1921.
  • The animal in religion. Müller, Munich 1922.
  • Africa. Sacred cults. Prehistory of the hieroglyphics. Folkwang, Hagen iW, Darmstadt 1922.
  • The bee man. Auriga, Gotha, Darmstadt 1924.
  • The plant as a living being. A biography in 200 recordings. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt (Main), 1930
  • Collective edition from the writings of Ernst Fuhrmann. Volumes I – X. Folkwang-Auriga, Friedrichssegen / Lahn 1931.
  • Basic forms of life. Biological-philosophical writings. Edited by Franz Jung. Lambert / Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt 1962.
  • What the earth wants. A biosophy. Edited by Gert Mattenklott. Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-88221-352-3 .
  • Journal: Auriga. Thoughts for outsiders. Folkwang-Auriga, Friedrichssegen / Lahn 1928–1929.
  • Magazine: The Cathedral. Mulhouse 1930.
  • The cathedral. Folkwang-Auriga, Braubach 1932.

literature

  • Rainer Stamm: Carter, Ernst . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 46, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22786-8 , pp. 199 f.
  • Rainer Stamm: "An attempt on a fantastic scale". Ernst Fuhrmann - writer, publisher, biosoph and picture director. In: John M. Spalek , Konrad Feilchenfeldt, Sandra H. Hawrylchak (eds.): German-language exile literature since 1933. Volume 3: USA. Part 5. Zurich, Munich 2005, pp. 72–92.
  • Franz Jung: Building blocks for a new person. About Wilhelm Reich and Ernst Fuhrmann. Edition Moderne, Zurich 1982.
  • Franz Jung: Ernst Fuhrmann - 70 years. In: Structure . New York, October 26, 1956.
  • Ernst Fuhrmann. Directory of his estate and that of Elisabeth Fuhrmann-Paulsen in the Carl von Ossietzky State and University Library in Hamburg. Bautz 2000, ISBN 3-88309-082-4 .
  • Wiebke Hinden: Ernst Fuhrmann: Photo director. The plant photographs in the Auriga archive. Tendencies critical of civilization in photography of the New Objectivity. Lang, 2003, ISBN 3-631-50550-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Krämer: From the disappearance of a poet: attempt on Elisabeth Paulsen. in: Kritische Ausgabe 2002 ( [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kritische-ausgabe.de  
personal data
SURNAME Carter, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jemtschik, Michael (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1956
Place of death New York City