Franz Noken

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Self-portrait in the studio , 1904

Franz Nölken (born May 5, 1884 in Hamburg , † November 4, 1918 in La Capelle , Aisne , France ) was a German expressionist painter and at times a member of the Brücke artists' association .

Life

education

At the fountain , 1904
Children's group in the park , around 1912

Franz Nölken dropped out of school at the Johanneum in 1900 at the age of sixteen and, on the advice of Alfred Lichtwark , the director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle , attended Arthur Siebelist's painting school , who, in contrast to the academic training of the time, led his students to paint in the great outdoors. In 1903 he was accepted into the "Hamburg Artist Club of 1897" . In 1904 the Siebelist students Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann , Fritz Friedrichs , Walter Alfred Rosam and Walter Voltmer had a first exhibition in the Commeter Gallery in Hamburg, including his works. In the same year he completed his painting Am Brunnen , which can be viewed in the Hamburger Kunsthalle today.

In 1905 he stayed in Borgeln near Soest for study purposes . He got to know Edvard Munch , Karl Ernst Osthaus , Christian Rohlfs and Emil Nolde , as well as his sponsor and collector Ernst Rump , who would later support him financially. In 1907 he traveled to Paris with Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann and Walter Rosam , where he joined the international group of artists at the Café du Dôme .

Member of the "bridge"

In 1908, at the suggestion of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, he became a member of the Dresden artists' association Brücke and that year was listed by name in the list of active members. In 1909/10 he took part in the bridge's traveling exhibitions, but retired in 1912.

Further training at the Académie Matisse

In March 1909 he undertook a second trip to Paris for further training and joined the Académie Matisse with Walter Rosam, Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann and Gretchen Wohlwill , which in the winter of 1907/1908 at the suggestion of Sarah Stein, sister-in-law of the art collector Gertrude Stein , and the German painter Hans Purrmann and which existed until 1911. During that time she had more than a hundred students.

Acquaintance with Anita Rée and Max Reger

Max Reger at work, 1913
Portrait of Oscar Troplowitz (detail), 1916
Girl writing , 1916

On his return from Paris in 1910 he made friends with Anita Rée , who became his student and with whom he formed a studio community, which Ahlers-Hestermann also belonged to. The friendship broke up due to Rée's unrequited love for Nölken.

In 1912 he taught at Gerda Koppel's painting school in Hamburg . The following year he met the composer Max Reger , of whom he created numerous portraits. One of the Reger portraits hung in the billiard room of the entrepreneur Oscar Troplowitz , who promoted the Siebelist students as a patron and had himself portrayed by Nölken in 1916. In 1916 he also became a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

Last years

In May 1914 he traveled a third time to Paris in search of artistic inspiration. A self-portrait commissioned by Lichtwark in 1914 was acquired by the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 1915 .

During the First World War he was drafted into military service in 1917; shortly before the end of the war, Franz Nölken fell in La Capelle in France.

The Nölkensweg in Hamburg-Barmbek is named after him, as is the Franz-Nölken-Weg in Soest .

Work (selection)

Self-portrait , 1915

Nölken strove to simplify the pictorial means. He had a great talent for drawing and therefore mainly painted people, but also still lifes and landscapes. Works by Franz Nölken are exhibited in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Brücke Museum Berlin and the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum at Gottorf Castle .

  • At the fountain , 1904
  • Portrait Ernst Rump , 1905
  • Tailor's room , watercolor, 1905
  • Flower still life , oil on canvas, 1906
  • Heathland , oil on cardboard, 1906
  • Two girls getting dressed , pastel on canvas, 1907
  • Self-portrait , oil on canvas, 1908
  • Children's group in the park , oil on canvas, around 1912
  • Max Reger at work , oil on canvas, 1913
  • View from Nolken's studio , Wallstrasse in Hamburg, oil on canvas, 1914
  • Self-portrait , 1915
  • Girl writing , 1916
  • Self-portrait , watercolor, 1916
  • Sitting female nude , watercolor, 1916

Exhibitions

Literature and Sources

  • Peter Kropmanns, Carina Schäfer: Private academies and studios in Paris at the turn of the century . In: The great inspiration. German artists in the Académie Matisse, vol. 3 . Art Museum Ahlen / Westf. 2004, ISBN 3-89946-041-3 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, February 27 to May 1, 2000).
  • Franz Nölken 1884–1918. With a catalog raisonné of paintings and graphics , ed. from the Herold gallery on the occasion of the commemorative exhibition for the 100th birthday. Westfälische Verlagsbuchhandlung Mocker & Jahn, Soest 1984, ISBN 3-87902-550-9
  • Franz Nölken, Letters 1906–1918 , ed. from the Herold Gallery, Hamburg 1996
  • Carsten Meyer-Tönnesmann : The Hamburg artist club from 1897 . Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1997. ISBN 3-881-32255-8 .
  • Gerd Presler : The bridge . Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-50642-0
  • Friederike Weimar: Folded Dreams: Works by Young Artists - Victims of the First World War. Benno Berneis, Hans Fuglsang, Franz Henseler, Wilhelm Morgner, Franz Nölken, Otto Soltau, Hermann Stenner and Albert Weisgerber. Edited by Helga Gutbrod. Gebr. Mann Verlag / Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-7861-2712-3

Web links

Commons : Franz Nölken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adriane von Hoop: Anita Rée , accessed October 8, 2011
  2. ↑ Marie Fürste: Between happiness and desperation, accessed on June 26, 2017 Archived copy ( Memento from June 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Nölken, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1918
Place of death La Capelle