Ernst Hackländer

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Ernst Hackländer (born July 31, 1913 in Essen , † April 30, 2000 ) was a German sculptor.

ancestors

Hackländer's ancestors on his father's side came from Well and had a farm there that they had to auction off after 1800. Then the owner's son, Friedrich Hackländer, who was considered stingy, went to Wermelskirchen and opened a shop for seeds on the Eich. He lived in house number 12, which later became the Bastian wallpaper shop . Friedrich Hackländer had the sons Friedrich and Peter, the latter of whom fought as an infantryman during the Franco-German War . After the end of the war, Friedrich Hackländer enabled his sons to use his fortune to open the Hackländer Brothers plush weaving mill . The long, slate-roofed building of the factory was on the area of ​​the Villa Hulverscheid opposite the Wermelskirchen train station.

Friedrich Hackländer the Younger married Jettchen Weber, whose parents had business contacts as hauliers as far as Antwerp . Peter Hackländer, Ernst Hackländer's grandfather, married a woman from Bielefeld who died early. The family lived at number 31 Berliner Strasse, where Ernst Hackländer grew up happily until he started school.

Hackländer's father Friedrich (* 1876 in Wermelskirchen) attended a rectorate school in his place of birth and passed the Abitur examination in Barmen . After studying medicine in Munich and Berlin , he headed the Essen “Lürmann Foundation” from 1904 as a specialist in nervous and mental disorders. In 1913 he created the “Sanatorium Dr. Hackländer ”, which from 1928 to the end of 1966 was only used by the Düsseldorf State Insurance Company.

Hackländer's mother named Paula, who married in 1909, came from an East Prussian family that the Bishop of Salzburg had expelled in 1732 due to religious reasons . The family then settled in Mettmann . The great-grandfather named Kircher worked there as a self-employed master baker and was the father of 21 children from three wives. His youngest son Ernst and his son Wilhelm, who married Johanna Franz from Königsberg , opened a confectionery and bakery in Essen, from which the no longer existing large-scale bakery Kircher-Rheinbrot in Lüttringhausen emerged.

Live and act

Boy with fish in Essen's Grugapark
Monument to Agnes Miegel

Hackländer attended the Folkwang School in his hometown and listened to Alfred Fischer and Josef Enseling's sculpting class there . From 1937 he lived as a freelance artist, studied in Vienna and Munich and lived mainly from portraits made to order. During the Second World War he had to work as a technical draftsman for the Krupp works. He later worked with his friend and poet Friedrich Karl Witt and used his poetry for his work, while Witt took up influences from Hackländer's work.

After the end of the war, Hackländer created noted crucifixes for the Bochum Epiphany Church , Lutheran churches in Dortmund and Essen and the gargoyle "Boy with Fish", which is one of the sculptures in Grugapark today. From 1950 he was of the opinion that the contemporary conception of art was destroying what he did not want to contribute to. For this reason, he initially did not create any other works of art, but learned the professions of a chiropractor and physiotherapist. Together with his sister Maria, he ran the sanatorium founded by his father until the end of 1966.

In 1967 Hackländer resumed his artistic activities with the aim of consciously positioning himself against the zeitgeist. In 1970 he co-founded the German Academy for Education and Culture in Munich . The German Cultural Association of European Spirit awarded him a golden ring of honor in 1986. The Haus der Kunst dedicated an exhibition to him in 1988, followed by exhibitions in Bad Bevensen and Ottobrunn in 1990 and 1991 .

Hackländer was married to the sculptor Ruth Kötter, with whom he had the son Thomas and who died in 1989. After the death of his wife, he worked as a sculptor in a very abstract way, with recognizable philosophical exaggerations, in which, however, a clear image of man could always be recognized. This can already be seen to some extent in the bronze sculpture "The Blind Seer", which he designed in 1985 for the portal of the Bredeney parish hall . In 1998 he created a sculpture by Giordano Bruno . At the suggestion of his friend Witt, he created the 110 centimeter high statue of "Coppernicus" in 1990/91. On behalf of an art lover, he designed a figure reminiscent of Agnes Miegel , which he donated to the Agnes Miegel Society in March 1993 . The city of Bad Nenndorf had this memorial removed in 2015 due to Miegel's history.

literature

  • Ursula Schmidt-Goertz: Guardian of the image of man: A Bergisch sculptor . in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1994 . Heider Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach, pages 106–112.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Hackländer: Obituary notice. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , Essen regional edition, May 3, 2018, accessed on December 9, 2018.
  2. ↑ Ursula Schmidt-Goertz: Guardian of the image of man: A Bergisch sculptor . in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1994 . Heider Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach, page 106.
  3. ↑ Ursula Schmidt-Goertz: Guardian of the image of man: A Bergisch sculptor . in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1994 . Heider Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach, pages 106-107.
  4. ↑ Ursula Schmidt-Goertz: Guardian of the image of man: A Bergisch sculptor . in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1994 . Heider Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach, page 107.
  5. ↑ Ursula Schmidt-Goertz: Guardian of the image of man: A Bergisch sculptor . in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1994 . Heider Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach, page 107.
  6. ↑ Ursula Schmidt-Goertz: Guardian of the image of man: A Bergisch sculptor . in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1994 . Heider Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach, page 109.
  7. ↑ Ursula Schmidt-Goertz: Guardian of the image of man: A Bergisch sculptor . in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1994 . Heider Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach, page 109.
  8. ↑ Ursula Schmidt-Goertz: Guardian of the image of man: A Bergisch sculptor . in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1994 . Heider Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach, page 110.
  9. ↑ Ursula Schmidt-Goertz: Guardian of the image of man: A Bergisch sculptor . in: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1994 . Heider Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach, page 110.
  10. ↑ Miegel days in the sign of parting . SN-Online of March 3, 2015. Accessed December 8, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Hackländer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2000