Ernst Wolfhagen

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The painter Ernst Wolfhagen in 1959
The painter Ernst Wolfhagen in 1960

Ernst Wolfhagen (born August 22, 1907 in Hanover ; † May 6, 1992 in Hanover) was a German painter, graphic artist and art teacher.

Life

From 1923 to 1926, Ernst Wolfhagen took art lessons as a high school student with Otto Gleichmann , with whom he had a lifelong friendship and who was also the godfather of his son Michael, who was born in 1941. From 1926 to 1928 he studied at the Technical University of Hanover, today's Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover and then at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg and at the State Art School in Berlin, today's University of the Arts Berlin ( UdK ) with Rudolf Großmann .

He passed his state examination in biology, philosophy and art and worked from 1933 to 1967 as an art teacher in higher education, most recently until retirement at the Elisabeth Granier School (today: Ricarda Huch School ) in Hanover. In 1935 he married the sculptor Anneliese Lucke .

His teaching activities were interrupted by military service from 1941 and Soviet imprisonment until 1948.

He went on study trips to Italy and France.

  • Nude with a cloth 1932

  • Woman in hat, spring 1932

  • Red House and Street 1939

  • Two horses 1965

painting

In addition to his painting, Ernst Wolfhagen has illustrated and published many portfolio works with texts by various poets, such as Pavese and Trakl.

The focus of Wolfhagen's oeuvre is around 800 woodcuts. In addition to nudes and landscapes, the painter thematizes figures from ancient mythology.

Ernst Wolfhagen received great recognition for his numerous illustrations and etchings, which he designed for texts by Cesare Pavese , Georg Trakl , Wilhelm Lehmann and in particular for French poetry by Charles Baudelaire , Guillaume Apollinaire , Gérard de Nerval and Antonin Artaud , and for those already mentioned above Published portfolios.

  • Portrait of U. Hollensteiner 1953

  • Two girls in bikini 1975

  • In front of the mirror 1978

  • Woman with a Blue Hat and a Red Feather 1949

Exhibitions

selection

Exhibition participations among others

  • 1964 German art of to-day
  • 1963 - 1980 XYLON , soc.int.des graveurs sur bois. Artists' associations in the Grand-Palais Paris
  • 1966 German woodcut Baden-Baden

Awards

  • 1959 I. Prize for religious graphics, Munich
  • 1978 Prize for drawing, Fondation Michel-Ange Poggio

Museums

Ernst Wolfhagen - In Spanish streets 1957

The artist's works can be found in the following locations

literature

  • Hans Adolf Halbey : Ernst Wolfhagen, Edition Monika Beck, Homburg-Schwarzenacker / Saar 1980.
  • Claude Bouret: Le bois gravé, Paris 1983.
  • J. Büchner: The painter Ernst Wolfhagen, Hanover 1982.
  • Heimar Fischer-Gaaden: Ernst Wolfhagen. Pictures and Graphics since 1960, catalog for the exhibition from June 7th to July 9th 1972, Hannoverscher Künstlerverein, Hanover 1972.
  • Heimar Fischer-Gaaden: Ernst Wolfhagen. The painter. Brooch Exhibition catalog, Schäfer, Hanover 1982.
  • Ernst Wolfhagen; Hans Wille: Flame, Thirst and Scream, color woodcuts to expressionist poetry, Werkkunstschule, Hanover 1968.
  • Ernst Wolfhagen - Catalog of works of woodcuts 1957-1990, Einl. Tobien, Felicitas, Verlag Dietrich, Maximilian / Edition Curt Visel, Memmingen 1990, ISBN 978-3-922406-45-7 .
  • Ulrich Ackermann: The senses of lust and sadness. Love poems from the Baroque era with woodcuts by Ernst Wolfhagen. Uetze-Dollbergen 1987.
  • Ernst Wolfhagen. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 .
  • Ernst Wolfhagen . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 163 .
  • Ernst Wolfhagen. In: Axel-Alexander Ziese (Ed.): General lexicon of artists in the visual and creative arts of the late 20th century. Jean Gebser Academy, Bad Schmiedeberg 2005, ISBN 3-923326-75-0 .
  • Hugo Thielen : Wolfhagen, Ernst. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 684.

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personal data
SURNAME Wolfhagen, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1992
Place of death Hanover