Eugen Segewitz

Karl Eugen Segewitz (born February 22, 1885 in Pforzheim , † March 22, 1952 in Wangen ) was a German painter .

Life

Karl Eugen Segewitz was a son of the goldsmith Probus Segewitz (1857–1921) and his wife Luise Wilhelmine Segewitz nee. Wenz (1862-1897). Following his father's wishes, he learned the profession of enamel painter . During his apprenticeship he attended the Pforzheim School of Applied Arts and was a student of Julius Müller-Salem . In 1907 Segewitz began studying art at the Karlsruhe Art Academy . Here he learned first from Ludwig Schmid-Reutte (1863-1909), later from Friedrich Fehr (1862-1927) and Wilhelm Trübner (1851-1917).

After completing his studies, Segewitz worked as a freelance artist from 1919. In the same year he married the Danish photographer Kamilla Birch (1885–1969). The couple initially lived in Burbach , later in Karlsruhe. In the marriage a son and four daughters were born. After serving as a soldier during the First World War (1916–1917), from which he was released early for health reasons, Segewitz turned temporarily to Expressionism .

Around 1921 he came to Lake Constance while on holiday - an area that from then on held a strong attraction for him. Segewitz kept coming back to the Höri and the Untersee . Around 1930 he finally settled in Wangen . Eugen Segewitz preferred oil painting , his favorite and most frequent painting was the landscape of the Schienerberg and the Untersee, especially in autumn and winter, sunsets and thunderstorm moods. He belonged to the group of Höri artists (also Höri painters ), visual artists who settled on the Höri peninsula on Lake Constance in the 1920s to 1940s. Their best-known representatives were Erich Heckel and Otto Dix . After 1930 Segewitz largely withdrew from public art life. After a hospital stay in Singen , he died on March 22, 1952 in his hometown of Wangen.

Works (selection)

• 1912: Evening on Lake Constance
• 1912: self-portrait with hat   [1]
• 1914: Portrait of the daughter Lilli as a child   [2]
• 1914: cacti on a white background
• 1916: Still life with blooming cacti
• 1918: Christ on the Mount of Olives
• 1919: violence
• 1919: Rest on the run
• 1926: Portrait Paula Sagehorn , oil on canvas, 26 cm × 40 cm
• 1929: self-portrait , oil, 76 cm × 67 cm
• 1931: Wangen on Lake Constance   [3]
• 1936: View of Wangen with Untersee and Swiss banks , oil on canvas, 40 cm × 50 cm
• 1956: Thunderstorm at the lake , oil, 120 cm × 108 cm

literature

• Herbert Berner: Eugen Segewitz in memory. In: Hegau, magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance , Volume 34/44 (1986/1987), p. 249 ff.