Felix Hollenberg

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Felix Hollenberg: Self-Portrait
Early spring evening over the Swabian Alb, etching, 1910
Bebenhausen near Tübingen, oil painting

Felix Hollenberg (born December 15, 1868 in Sterkrade , † April 28, 1945 Gomadingen ) was a German painter and etcher . He is one of the important landscape erasers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Century.

Life

From 1887 to 1888 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1888 he studied at the Stuttgart Art School .

From 1916 Felix Hollenberg worked on the handbook for painter erasers . By studying old manuals and based on his own experience, he wanted to convey the technical finesse of the art of etching . Felix Hollenberg found the “ intimate ” beauty of the local landscape. Hollenberg's work is considered to be the link between Liebermann's impressionist graphics and those of the expressionists . He often drew his motifs in the open air directly on the plate from nature .

Honors

Felix Hollenberg Prize

The Art Museum Albstadt (until 2015 Galerie Albstadt ) has been awarding the Felix Hollenberg Prize for Printmaking to contemporary artists since 1992, with a special focus on etching. The award was donated by Dr. Schad-Hollenberg and the city of Albstadt. The Art Museum Albstadt owns over 1,000 works by Hollenberg, which are shown in changing exhibitions. The Felix-Hollenberg-Galerie in the town hall of Gomadingen shows 350 graphics, paintings and watercolors from all creative phases of the artist in a permanent exhibition. The motifs come particularly from the area around Gomadingen, the Lautertal and the Swabian Alb .

  • 1992 - 1st Felix Hollenberg Prize to Jürgen Pal Zusammenarbeit
  • 1994 - 2nd Felix Hollenberg Prize to Dietrich Klinge
  • 1997 - 3rd Felix Hollenberg Prize to Thomas Ruppel
  • 1999 - 4th Felix Hollenberg Prize to Petra Kasten
  • 2001 - 5th Felix Hollenberg Prize to Hanns Schimansky
  • 2004 - 6th Felix Hollenberg Prize to Ulrich Brauchle
  • 2008 - 7th Felix Hollenberg Prize to Thomas Meier-Castel
  • 2012 - 8th Felix Hollenberg Prize to Saskia Schultz
  • 2016 - 9th Felix Hollenberg Prize to Kerstin Franke-Gneuss

literature

  • Karl Hesselbacher: From the fatherland of loyalty - simple life pictures, Stuttgart: Vlg der Evang. Society, 1912, illustrated by Felix Hollenberg
  • Adolf Koelsch: Through heather and moor. Stuttgart, Kosmos, 1910, illustrated by Felix Hollenberg
  • Viktor Bruns (Ed.): Württemberg under the government of King Wilhelm II. Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 1916, with 2 portrait panels and 20 pen drawings by Felix Hollenberg
  • Felix Hollenberg, In Agnes Günther's Footsteps; six landscapes from Langenburg and the surrounding area after watercolors. Stuttgart, JF Steinkopf, 1916
  • Society for duplicating art (ed.) The graphic arts. XXXVII. Vintage. Vienna, 1914, with about 150 b / w. Illustr. (Art and art history) u *. with 10 original etchings / ex-libris (P. Halm, Hans Meid, Alois Kolb, E. Wolfsfeld, R. Lux, v. Kempf, * Felix Hollenberg, S. Lipinsky)
  • Felix Hollenberg: Twelve pictures of the Swabian Alb. With an accompanying word by Hans Reyhing, Stuttgart, JF Steinkopf, undated, approx. 1925
  • Schmidt, Richard: Felix Hollenberg. In: Württemberg. Monthly in the service of people and homeland, 1929, pp. 295–296.
  • Felix Hollenberg, Walter Rabe (arr.): Etching. Ätzkunst and copper gravure - with 40 illustrations in the text and 8 plates Ravensburg: Otto Maier, 1962
  • Adolf Schahl: Felix Hollenberg. The graphic work. With Karl Thiemig, Munich 1968
  • Heide Büttenbender. Ed. By Ralph Jentsch: Felix Hollenberg, the graphic work. Munich ; New York: Art Gallery Esslingen, 1982 ISBN 3-921561-28-0
  • Ralph Jentsch, Friedhelm Röttger (ed.): Felix Hollenberg. Esslingen: Vlg. Art Gallery 1983
  • Friedhelm Röttger: Felix Hollenberg - monograph, Galerie Albstadt (ed.) 1983
  • Friedemann Maurer and Friedhelm Röttger: Felix Hollenberg as a landscape painter, 1988
  • Felix Hollenberg, catalog of Galerie Albstadt, 1990
  • Birgit Pape-Thoma: Felix Hollenberg. Ex Libris, Stuttgart. Cultural Office - City Library, 1991
  • Felix Hollenberg: Handbook for painter erasers - The erasing, the art of etching, the copperplate printing. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich-Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-02148-8

Web links

Commons : Felix Hollenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwäbisches Heimatbuch 26 (1940), p. 133.
personal data
SURNAME Hollenberg, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German etcher and painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Sterkrade
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1945
Place of death Gomadingen