Ernst Rump

Franz Nölken: Portrait Ernst Rump , 1905

Ernst August Max Friedrich Rump (born October 13, 1872 in Hamburg ; † January 12, 1921 there ) was a Hamburg merchant, art collector and patron who wrote an encyclopedia in 1912, the encyclopedia of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . It became a classic under the name Der Rump and is still in use today in an expanded form as Der neue Rump .

Live and act

Ernst Rump had learned the art of etching from James Whistler in London and taught artists in it in his hometown Hamburg. When he took over the family business of ship equipment, he retained his artistic preferences and became a collector and sponsor of young artists, especially those of the Hamburg Art Club . He particularly supported Arthur Siebelist's students by buying their pictures and organizing exhibitions. In addition to Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann , Fritz Friedrichs and Friedrich Schaper , it was above all Franz Nölken whom he valued. He acquired his realistic painting Am Brunnen from 1904, which came into the possession of the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1940 .

Franz Nölken: At the fountain , 1904

In 1905 Nölken created a portrait of the merchant, who in turn gave him lessons in the technique of etching. Rump supported the director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle , Alfred Lichtwark , in his endeavors to acquire works by artists from Hamburg and the surrounding area for the Kunsthalle, but criticized him in 1908 for not considering the works of the Siebelist students.

Franz Nölken took Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann, Walter Alfred Rosam and Gretchen Wohlwill on a trip to Paris in March 1909, where they followed classes at the Akadémie Matisse . Like Lichtwark, Rump was appalled by the subsequently changed painting style of the “Young Hamburgers” and wrote regretfully in his diary in 1911 in view of Nolken's new pictures: “It is a shame that this important painter continues on the wrong path of his teacher Matisse.” He left his However, protégés did not fall and continued to encourage them.

In addition to the works of the young Hamburg artists, Rump acquired works by Paula Modersohn-Becker , Edvard Munch and Emil Nolde at an early stage . He is one of Nolde's first collectors, whose works he was able to acquire cheaply in February 1910 in the formerly leading gallery Commeter . Collecting avant-garde art was unusual at the time and drew criticism. The Hamburg-based art collector Gustav Schiefler wrote in the magazine Der Hamburger : “The confession that you like Nolde's color compositions and color weight distributions brings you all too easily into the smell of the unculture of the eye.” Rump maintained his preference for Nolde firmly, but did not appreciate his religious pictures, he only loved the painter of flowers, gardens and landscapes. In 1912 he self-published the Lexicon of Visual Artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area in 500 numbered copies. Rump was a member of the art association in Hamburg .

reception

Like Ernst Rump, the pharmacist Oscar Troplowitz was also a supporter of the Siebelist students in the last decade of his life after he met the young Hamburg painter Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann in 1909.

The exhibition Picasso, Beckmann, Nolde and Modernism. Masterpieces from early private collections in Hamburg from March 23 to June 17, 2001 in the Hamburger Kunsthalle pointed to the importance of private collectors for the development of modern art in Germany. In Hamburg at the beginning of the 20th century, alongside Rump and Troplowitz, personalities such as the judge Gustav Schiefler , the married couple Martha and Paul Rauert , who, like the art historian Rosa Schapire , was a passive member of the artist group " Brücke ", or the businessman Max Leon Flemming . Largely independent of Alfred Lichtwark, the first director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, who acquired Impressionist paintings for the museum, the art collectors gave their collections an independent character.

The Ernst-Barlach-Haus in the Baron-Voght-Straße, Hamburg, showed in the exhibition Nolde, Nölken, Modersohn-Becker in 2005 . The art-loving businessman Ernst Rump around 60 works from his former collection, including paintings and drawings by Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann, Ernst Eitner and Christian Rohlfs . At the same time, the extended version of Rump's standard work for north German painting, the Lexicon of Fine Artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area , published in 1912, was published under the additional title Der neue Rump .

literature

• Ernst Rump: Lexicon of visual artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Otto Bröcker, Hamburg 1912. ( digitized version )
• The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Revised new edition, ed. by Kay Rump, edited by Maike Bruhns , with the assistance of Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 .
• The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns. Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 .
• Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann : The Hamburg artist club from 1897. Publishing house in the farmhouse, Fischerhude 1997, ISBN 3-881-32255-8 .

Web links and sources

• The new rump
• The Rump Collection , Hamburger Abendblatt , September 6, 2005
• Doris Blum: The man who didn't collect any commissions. welt-online, March 28, 2001

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann: The Hamburg Art Club of 1897. P. 64 f., 132 f.
2. ↑ Quoted from the web link Die Sammlung Rump
3. ↑ List of members for the year 1915 in: Annual report of the Kunstverein in Hamburg, 1915 , p. 27 (PDF-p. 16). PDF file from kunstverein.de
4. ↑ Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann: The Hamburg Art Club from 1897 , p. 134
5. ↑ Picasso, Beckmann, Nolde and the modern age. Masterpieces from early private collections in Hamburg ( Memento from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Hamburger Kunsthalle, accessed on April 21, 2011
6. ↑ Quoted from Weblink The man who didn't collect any commissions .