Ernst Odefey
Ernst David Julius Christopher Odefey (born November 13, 1882 in Hamburg ; † September 1, 1964 in Hamburg-Blankenese ) was a German painter and graphic artist.
Life
Ernst Odefey completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer in Hamburg from 1898 to 1901 and was then in this profession until 1904 at “L. Handorff, Kiel - lithography and high-speed press lithography ”. In 1905 he was at the Landeskunstschule Hamburg as a student of Julius Wohlers . From 1906 he studied at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar as a student of Ludwig von Hofmann , Hans Olde and Theodor Hagen , interrupted in 1910 by a scholarship to Paris. In 1911 he was also a master student with Hans Olde.
From 1912 to 1919 he was a lecturer in figurative drawing and painting at the State Art Academy in Kassel . Study trips took him to Holland and several times to Bornholm . In 1912 Alfred Lichtwark acquired a work by Odefey for the Kunsthalle Hamburg, depicting the painter Hermann Linde . From 1929 to 1936 he lived as a freelance artist in Hoopte on the Elbe. In 1936 the company moved to Hamburg-Blankenese. From 1938 to 1956 he was a teacher of life drawing at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . Further study trips took him again to Bornholm, Austria, Italy, Tyrol and the Dolomites.
Ernst Odefey was a member of the German Association of Artists , of the Hamburg Artists 'Association from 1832 and of the Hamburg Artists' Association since 1920 .
literature
- Odefey, Ernst . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931.
- Odefey, Ernst . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 505 .
Web links
- Ernst Odefey - Life and Works of the Hamburg Painter and Graphic Artist - Exhibition in the library of the Helmut Schmidt University , Hamburg 2016
- Culture tip "Ernst Odefey" - Hamburg always different! on YouTube (on TIDE TV - to the exhibition at the Helmut Schmidt University)
- Ernst Odefey (1882–1964) painting and graphics , exhibition at the Bienenbüttel cultural association, 2017
- Works by Ernst Odefey on the Artnet portal
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutscher Künstlerbund ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) - overview of members
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Odefey, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Odefey, Ernst David Julius Christopher (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1964 |
| Place of death | Hamburg-Blankenese |