Ernst Lübbert

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Ernst Lübbert in the trenches

Ernst Heinrich August Johannes Lübbert (born July 26, 1879 in Warin ; † August 29, 1915 near Grodno am Njemen ) was a German painter and illustrator .

Life

Ernst Lübbert monument in Warin
Poster designed by Ernst Lübbert, 1911

Ernst Lübbert was the first child of the administrative officer Johann (Leonhard Christoph) Lübbert and his wife Fransika (Charlotte Marianne), née. Schäfer, born in the small Mecklenburg town of Warin. As the eldest of three sons, he grew up in Stavenhagen since 1886, where his father had found a job as an official record clerk. Lübbert first attended the Stavenhagener Bürgererschule, then a private boys' school there and finally briefly the grammar school in Neubrandenburg, which he left in 1896 without a high school diploma.

Lübbert embarked on a career in drawing early on. After brief private drawing and painting lessons, he studied from 1896 at the “Royal Academic University for the Fine Arts” in Berlin, with Adolf Schlabitz , Joseph Scheurenberg , Max Koner and Friedrich Kallmorgen , among others . His great talent quickly emerged. Since 1904 worked as a freelance artist. Extensive study trips took him to Dalmatia, Montenegro, Italy, Tyrol, Scotland and Paris.

Lübbert's main works are various oil paintings that have been shown at art exhibitions in Hamburg and Berlin. For the sake of earning a living, however, he mainly worked as a cartoonist and illustrator. Numerous drawings for advertisements appeared in the daily press. Lübbert is best known today for his participation in the work "The World in a Hundred Years" (Berlin 1910), to which u. a. Bertha von Suttner , Ellen Key , Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson , Eduard Bernstein and Hermann Bahr contributed.

On August 2, 1914, Lübbert was called up for military service. On the same day he married his long-time girlfriend Hedwig Techel. Filled with patriotic feelings, he took up the job. At dawn on August 29, 1915, as a lieutenant and company commander, he was shot in the stomach during an assault on Lipsk near Grodno on the Nyemen (today: Hrodna , Belarus ). His body was transferred to Schwerin and buried in the old cemetery there. The grave is adorned with an extraordinary tomb designed by Wilhelm Wandschneider .

Publications

  • A night in the KDW dolls camp [Illustr .:] Ernst Lübbert [u. a.], Berlin: Verl.-Anstalt Buntdruck [approx. 1910].
  • Arthur Brehmer (Ed.): The world in a hundred years. With illustrations by Ernst Lübbert, Berlin: Verlagsanstalt Buntdruck [approx. 1910].
  • Calendar of the "Berliner Morgenpost" for the year 1914 , designed by Ernst Lübbert, Berlin undated [1913].

literature

  • Arthur Brehmer: The amiable Mecklenburg artist Ernst Lübbert. Stiller, Schwerin 1927.
  • Margret von Thünen: Ernst Lübbert. A Mecklenburg portrait and genre painter. In: Neubrandenburg Mosaic. No. [9]. 1983. Neubrandenburg 1983, pp. 67-75.
  • Thomas Zahn: Ernst Lübbert 1879-1915. Painter and illustrator. Stavenhagen, 1991.
  • Christian Madaus: The painter Ernst Lübbert. [Published on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of death]. Stock and Stein, Schwerin 1995. ISBN 3-910179-22-3 .
  • Thomas Zahn: Ernst Lübbert. [With a detailed catalog raisonné.] In: kikut. Plattdütsch gistern un hüt. Ed .: Fritz Reuter Literature Museum Stavenhagen. Volume 30 (2008), pp. 5-47.
  • Thomas Zahn: News about Ernst Lübbert (1879-1915). In: Reuterstädter Official Journal. Wittich, Sietow Vol. 1 (2005), 2, p. 15.

Web links

Commons : Ernst Lübbert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See for example: Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger of January 11, 1916. Evening edition. First supplement, p. 4: “Good voice”. Advert for Wybert throat tablets.
  2. ↑ Andreas Platthaus : Unfortunately, we don't want to be a world power. What a book from 1910 tries to tell about the world today. In: FAZ, August 7, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Lübbert, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lübbert, Ernst Heinrich August Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Was in
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1915
Place of death near Grodno on the Nyemen