Ernst Zehle
Hermann Wilhelm Ernst Zehle (born February 28, 1876 in Hamburg , † January 14, 1940 in Berlin ) was a German painter, sculptor, medalist and a committed animal rights activist ( Elbe beaver ).
Life
Zehle's artistic interest and talent had a family background: his father Otto August Emil Zehle and his older brother Walter Zehle (1865–1940) were sculptors. Ernst Zehle studied at the Berlin Art Academy with Paul Friedrich Meyerheim and Woldemar Friedrich . With participation in the great Berlin art exhibitions of 1909, 1913, 1915–1918 and 1925 he stepped into the wider public. The motifs showed his closeness to nature.
The interest in the Elbe beaver resulted from repeated study visits to the floodplain forests of the middle Elbe, which a memorial in Lödderitz reminds of today . The Elbe beaver appears as a subject in paintings, sculptures and on a medal. In 1924, Zehle published a call to rescue the endangered animal in a specialist journal. Ernst Zehle was praised in 1922 for his detailed representations by the then Berlin zoo director Ludwig Heck . Paintings prove that Ernst Zehle was also a good portraitist.
After his death in Berlin, his urn was buried in the Lödderitz forester cemetery.
Plaster copy of the Beaver Medal from 1916
literature
- Kurt Floericke : Dying animals (beaver / mink / lynx / eagle owl) , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1927, p. 12 and p. 29.
- Count, Ernst . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 431 .
- Frank Zornow: Ernst Zehle - Streiflichter from the life of a Berlin artist and nature lover , magazine Naturschutz- und Naturparke, issue 138 [1990], pp. 19-23.
Web links
- Ernst Zehle: Beaver on the cut trunk , Salzland Museum , Schönebeck (Elbe)
- Ernst Zehle on artnet
- Biography Zehle, Hermann Wilhelm Ernst by Hans-Joachim Geffert
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Zehle: Save the beaver! , Der Heger magazine, year 1924, issue 18, pp. 969–971
- ↑ Ludwig Heck: Deutsche Tierbildner - Ernst Zehle , JJ Weber's Illustrirte Zeitung, 1922
- ↑ Heidi Thiemann: Last rest for Förster and «beaver painter» Ernst Zehle . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Dessau-Roßlau, December 30, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Count, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zehle, Hermann Wilhelm Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German visual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1940 |
| Place of death | Berlin |