Friedrich Peter Drömmer

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Friedrich Peter Drömmer (* 16th January 1889 in Kiel ; † 22. January 1968 in Gräfelfing ) was a German expressionist painter and advertising - graphic .

Life

“The flying man” , the logo of Junkers-Flugzeugwerk AG designed by Drömmer in 1924
Magirus logo

The son of a master carpenter completed an apprenticeship as a painter after primary school, which he finished in 1908. From the winter semester 1907/08 he attended the municipal craft and applied arts school in Kiel until 1912 , where he became friends with Werner Lange , Karl Peter Röhl and Heinrich Ehmsen . From 1912 to 1913 Drömmer studied at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar with the help of a scholarship from the Kiel banker Wilhelm Ahlmann . He was a student of Albin Egger-Lienz . He then continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel with Hans Olde until 1914.

During the First World War , Friedrich Peter Drömmer served as a soldier on the Eastern and Western Fronts from 1915 to 1918. His solidarity portraits were created in 1919 after the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht . Together with Karl Peter Röhl and Werner Lange, Drömmer was active in the Expressionist Working Group in Kiel , where he met the writer Richard Blunck and the political scientist and theoretician of the Communist Workers' Party of Germany, Adolf Dethmann .

Drommel's specialty was paintings and drawings with visionary architecture as well as the colored design of interiors (1922 Kunstgewerbehaus Wichmann, Kiel; Gartenhaus Richard Sorge , Frankfurt 1922; Villa Junkers, Dessau, 1923). After getting to know Herta Junkers, the daughter of the legendary pioneer of modern aviation Hugo Junkers , he was head of the advertising department of the Junkers factories in Dessau from 1923 to 1933 . Drömmer helped the company to achieve a uniform external image with recognition value - known today as corporate identity . In 1924, for example, he created the abstract signet The Flying Man , which was created as a figurative trademark as early as 1916 . He drew a. a. also responsible for the interior of the Junkers aircraft. As a supporter of the New Objectivity , he came to work with artists from the Dessau Bauhaus in the 1920s . Drömmer, who married Junkers' daughter Anneliese, had such great confidence in his father-in-law that he gave his former companion in Kiel leading positions in the Junkers Group, which rose to the top of the group: Richard Blunck became Drömmer's personal employee in 1927. Adolf Dethmann first became Junkers' private secretary in 1929 and later became director of the entire group, Heinrich Ehmsen worked in the research department of the Junkers factories in 1933 in the field of metal house construction. In order to put pressure on Junkers to transfer the Junkers works to the National Socialists, Drömmer and his friends were temporarily imprisoned in 1933. After Junkers' death, Drömmer worked as a freelance commercial artist from 1935 to 1938 and designed a. a. for the Ulmer Magirus AG (later Magirus-Deutz ) also the well-known "M" logo from a stylized Ulm minster .

Exhibitions

  • 1920: Kunsthalle Kiel, group exhibition with Werner Lange and Karl Peter Röhl
  • 1980: Brunswiker Pavilion, Kiel, solo exhibition FP Drömmer - Kiel painters of the twenties.
  • 2005: Menschheitsdämmerung , Heinrich Ehmsen Foundation, City Gallery Kiel

literature

  • Knut Nievers (Ed.): Kunstwende. The Kiel impulse of Expressionism 1915–1922 . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1992, ISBN 3-529-02728-6 .
  • Detlef Siegfried : The aviator's look. Intellectuals, radicalism and aircraft production at Junkers 1914 to 1934 . JHW Dietz, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-8012-4118-1 .
  • Stephanie Barron (ed.): Expressionism. The second generation 1915–1925 . Exhibition catalog / 1988 + 1989. Prestel, Munich, ISBN 3-7913-0916-1 .
  • State capital Kiel (Ed.): FP Drömmer - Kiel painter of the twenties. Catalog for the exhibition in June and July 1980 in the Brunswiker Pavilion, Kiel.
  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Friedrich Peter Drömmer, in: Ders., Kieler Künstler Vol. 3: In the Weimar Republic and National Socialism 1918–1945, Heide 2019, pp. 151–166.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knut Nievers (Ed.): Kunstwende, Der Kieler Impuls des Expressionismus 1915–1922 . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1992, p. 203.
  2. ↑ Knut Nievers (Ed.): Kunstwende. The Kiel impulse of Expressionism 1915–1922 . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1992, p. 203.
  3. ↑ The flying man: Junkers' trademark. Junkers, accessed March 26, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Company logo. Jakob Drömmer, accessed on May 20, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Knut Nievers (Ed.): Kunstwende. The Kiel impulse of Expressionism 1915–1922 . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1992, p. 203.

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personal data
SURNAME Drömmer, Friedrich Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and commercial artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1968
Place of death Graefelfing