Ernst Hassebrauk

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Ernst Hassebrauk (born June 28, 1905 in Dresden , † August 30, 1974 in Dresden) was a German painter and draftsman.

Life

After graduating from high school at the humanistic König-Georg-Gymnasium , he enrolled at the State Academy for Applied Arts in Dresden and at the Technical University of Dresden in 1925 . Then in 1927 he moved to the University of Leipzig to study philosophy and art history. At the same time, he was also a student at the State Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Industry , where he was Willi Geiger's master class . He had his first exhibition there in the Museum of Fine Arts. In 1932 he received the Saxon State Prize and the Holstein scholarship.

Ernst Hassebrauk's grave in the Loschwitz cemetery

Because the National Socialists rejected his painting style as French, his public work was prevented. In the 1930s, for example, he undertook several trips in a kind of inner emigration , mainly to southwest Germany, Switzerland and Alsace . In 1935 Hassebrauk married Charlotte Wießner. Ernst Hassebrauk and Goetz Scheer, the husband of Irma Lang-Scheer , a fellow student of Willi Geiger , had been friends since the late 1920s. The couple remained lifelong neighbors in Dresden.

On a trip to Holland in 1937, a Frans Hals exhibition made a lasting impression on him . After the end of the war he accepted an appointment at the Academy for Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig. In 1947 he was appointed professor. Werner Tübke became his student. In the course of the “ formalism debate ” Hassebrauk was dismissed from teaching in 1949. He returned to Dresden. There he worked as a freelance artist. Outstanding was his work from 1958 to 1960 in the Dresden museums, the best result of which was published in the Dresden picture book . In 1964 he made a trip to Bavaria, Northern Italy and Venice . From 1962 to 1966, the constructivist Manfred Luther took private drawing lessons from Hassebrauk.

Hassebrauk was buried in the Loschwitz cemetery . The artist Hermann Naumann created his grave . At the Zentenar celebration in 2005, Ernst Hassebrauk was honored with a total of 16 exhibitions.

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After expressionist beginnings in the 1930s (first under the influence of Otto Dix , then later by Oskar Kokoschka ), Hassebrauk's preference for the elegant and beautiful later became more and more apparent. He was both a painter and a draftsman. In addition to landscapes, portraits and still lifes, his work includes adaptations of old art. His extensive work moved between impressionist and expressionist traditions as well as in constant confrontation with Dutch and Flemish masters. Also because of his relationship to the West, which he cultivated throughout his life, his art can be described as “an excellent component of an all-German, European art development”, which W. Schmidt describes as follows: “In the awareness of the artistic problems between East and West, between objectivity and Abstraction, Hassebrauk continues the baroque and expressionist traditions of Saxony into an independent contribution ”. But "the barely interrupted change from one totalitarian system to the next prevented real international success, namely across borders, across the wall."

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1929: Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig "Portrait design"
  • 1943: Saxon Army Museum Dresden "Weapons and uniform forms from five centuries"
  • 1960: Anger Museum Erfurt "Paintings and Graphics"
  • 1978: Gallery at the Palmengarten Frankfurt a. M. "Works from five decades"
  • 1979: Galerie Neue Meister in the Albertinum Dresden "Ernst Hassebrauk 1905–1974"
  • 1985: Galerie Döbele Ravensburg "Ernst Hassebrauk 1905–1974"
  • 1988: Gallery at Sachsenplatz Leipzig “Ernst Hassebrauk 100 Works. Painting, colored sheets and drawings "
  • 2005: Otto-Dix-Haus Hemmenhofen "Between Kokoschka and Dix"
  • 2005: Galerie Schlichtenmaier Grafenau "Realist-Impressionist-Expressionist"
  • 2009: Kunstverein Aalen "Ernst Hassebrauk in southwest German private property"

Group exhibitions

  • 1956: Art exhibition in the Albertinum "750 Years of Dresden"
  • 1956: German Academy of the Arts Berlin “The graphic cycle. From Max Klinger to the Present, 1880–1955 "
  • 1962: National Museums in Berlin, National Gallery "German Portraits, 1800–1960"
  • 1976: State Art Collections Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister "200 Years of Painting Dresden"
  • 1981: "Art on the move, Dresden 1918–1933" there
  • 2011/12: Kunsthalle in the Lipsius building in Dresden, “New Objectivity in Dresden. Painting of the twenties from Dix ​​to Querner "

literature

  • Ernst Hassebrauk . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 235-236 .
  • Dieter Hoffmann: Ernst Hassebrauk. Life and work . Belser Verlag, Stuttgart and Zurich 1981.
  • Elmar Jansen : Ernst Hassebrauk graphic portraits . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1959.
  • Ernst Lau: Ernst Hassebrauk, catalog raisonné of prints . Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig 1985.
  • Fritz Löffler : Ernst Hassebrauk 1905–1974 . State Art Collections, Dresden 1979.
  • Lothar Lang: Ernst Hassebrauk. Watercolors, drawings, collages . Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1980
  • Josef Ilg: Cats as aggressively creeping Stasi, images of meaning in the work of Ernst Hassebrauk . Self-published by Ilg, Aalen 2014.
  • Fritz Löffler: Dresden picture book . Drawings by Ernst Hassebrauk. Text by Fritz Löffler. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1968

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Hassebrauk, Ernst in: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Second volume (EJ) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 388).
  2. ↑ Dieter Hoffmann: Speech Kunstverein Aalen , 2009.
  3. ^ Werner Schmidt: Kindlers-Painting-Lexicon . Volume 3, 1964, p. 77.
  4. ^ Hans-Peter Schulz: Foreword to the catalog E. Hassebrauk II , Galerie am Sachsenplatz Leipzig, 1991.
personal data
SURNAME Hassebrauk, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hassebrauk, Paul Herbert Ernst (baptismal name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1974
Place of death Dresden