Eugen Hamm (painter)

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Still life with cherries, around 1920

Eugen Hamm (born May 12, 1885 in Apolda ; † July 3, 1930 in Berlin-Schöneberg ) was a German - Jewish painter and graphic artist , a student of Lovis Corinth and Henri Matisse .

Live and act

Hamm was born in the family of the Braunschweig- based textile manufacturer Semmy Hamm from Apolda and his wife Eleonore née Jawrower from Leipzig . The parents were of the Israelite religion. He had a brother Arthur a year older than him.

After attending school (place and time unknown), he completed a two and a half year commercial training in Leipzig. Then began his artistic activity with humorous drawings, supported by Thomas Theodor Heine , the editor of Simplicissimus . He also worked on the magazine Jugend .

In 1904 he went to the private painting school of Lovis Corinth in Berlin . He was mainly based in Berlin between 1907 and 1909/10 and had his first exhibition here in the Secession . In 1909 Hamm stayed in Paris and studied at the Académie Matisse . It was a private painting school for up to 100 students from home and abroad and a forum for artists who saw their artistic inspiration primarily in Matisse .

From 1910 Hamm stayed mainly in Leipzig, interrupted by stays in Paris between 1911 and 1913, where he kept in contact with the artistic circles in the Café du Dôme . In Leipzig he became a member of the German Association of Artists , the Leipzig Artists Association and later also of the Reich Association of German Artists .

When the First World War broke out , he volunteered for military service . After the war, after brief stays in Italy and Munich, he returned to Leipzig. Here he worked, among other things, as a portraitist for the Neue Leipziger Zeitung. Together with Will Howard and Rüdiger Berlit, he worked in the Leipzig Expressionist group in the field of printmaking. Hamm's best-known result in this area is the “Vorstadt-Bordell” folder, which was created in collaboration with Joachim Ringelnatz .

At the end of the 1920s, a lack of orders put him in financial distress. In 1928 he moved to Berlin, where he committed suicide in 1930 in Berlin-Schöneberg . As part of the Degenerate Art of National Socialism campaign , three of his works were removed from the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts.

Today, many of his works can be found in renowned museums such as the Neue Meister gallery in Dresden, the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts and the Lindenau Museum Altenburg .

In addition to oil paintings, Eugen Hamm's oeuvre includes etchings, drawings (pencil, ink pen, ink brush, ballpoint pen), lithographs and pastels. His subjects are still lifes, landscapes, cityscapes, portraits and nudes. Hamm's style of painting is influenced by his teachers Corinth and Matisse, but also strongly based on Auguste Renoir .

Exhibitions

Works (selection)

  • 1907 red poppy , 11.4 × 17.7 inch, oil on cardboard
  • 1913 Female nude from behind
  • 1913 Portrait of a lady in blue , Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig,
  • 1914 Siesta at the gun , firing position near St. Hilaire October 2nd, 1914, pencil on paper 20.8 × 16.5 cm, Leipzig City History Museum, inv. No. H 302
  • 1916 Portrait of a seated girl in traditional costume - oil / canvas. 110 × 76 cm
  • 1919 Still Life , Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
  • 1920 still life with cherries, lemon and orange in front of a flower pot , thin, glazed impressionist painting, oil / cardboard, left. sign below Hamm
  • 1921 Elsterbrücke , etching, paper 12.5 × 14.2 cm, City History Museum Leipzig, inv. No. H 38
  • 1922 At The Brothel , 18.3 × 15.2 inch, oil
  • 1923 Houses on the lake (Provence) , 27.6 × 21.7 inch, oil / canvas.
  • 1923 suburban brothel . Eight orig. Lithographs by Eugen Hamm, with an introductory poem by Joachim Ringelnatz. Menès Publishing House
  • 1925 Summer landscape , oil on canvas, Dresden State Art Collections, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, inventory no. 3634
  • 1927 Portrait of Lord Mayor Dr. Karl Rothe , Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
  • Still life. Bouquet of roses in a glass vase, brass candlestick, 25 × 19 cm, oil / cardboard
  • Young Woman with a Hood , 14.8 × 12.4 inch, lithograph

  • Still life

  • Portrait of a seated girl in costume

  • Houses by the lake (Provence)

  • Female nude from the back

  • Still life with a bouquet of roses in a glass vase

  • Portrait of a lady in blue

  • In the brothel

  • Elster Bridge in Leipzig

  • Young woman with a hood

  • Cover sheet for the suburban brothel folder

  • Siesta at the gun, pencil drawing

literature

  • Günter Meißner (Ed.): General artist lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 1991 ff., ISBN 3-598-22740-X . Volume 68, pp. 502/3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth certificate in the Apolda city archive
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Hamm, Eugen ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 14, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ artprice
  4. ↑ Hauk Medien Archiv  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / rb-media.net  
  5. ↑ lot-tissimo
  6. ↑ http://www.findartinfo.com/german/search/listprices.asp?keyword=24066
  7. ↑ Drouot.com
  8. ↑ Bildindex.de

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personal data
SURNAME Hamm, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Apolda
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1930
Place of death Berlin-Schöneberg