Friedrich Vordemberge

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Friedrich Vordemberge , called Friedel Vordemberge (born November 28, 1897 in Osnabrück , † April 8, 1981 in Cologne ) was a German painter and university professor . He was the cousin of the graphic artist and painter Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart .

life and work

Growing up in Osnabrück, Friedrich Vordemberge was friends with Erich Maria Remarque and in 1915 belonged to the romantic circle that Remarque portrayed in his youth novel Die Traumbude . Friedrich Vordemberge was born in 1904 in the Ev. Boys started secondary school in Osnabrück . After military service in Russia and France and studies at the Weimar Art Academy , which were interrupted in 1916, he studied from 1919 at the Berlin Art Academy (including with Lovis Corinth ) and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (including with Heinrich Nauen ). In between he stayed in Osnabrück and, after becoming a set designer and deputy director of the Rheinische Landesbühne in Düren in 1921, in Worpswede and Bremen in 1923 . In 1924 he settled in Cologne and founded the "Exhibition Association of Cologne Painters". Friedrich Vordemberge became a member of the German Association of Artists and took part in its large annual exhibition in 1929 in the State House in Cologne with an oil painting of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris .

Vordemberge soon became known for his color-intensive oil paintings, mostly representational or slightly reduced to basic geometric shapes. They are compositions of stable, staggered picture surfaces that are based on cubist design principles. Extended study trips to the south made Vordemberge the "Italophile Maestro" of atmospheric watercolors and drawings. Paint material often mixed with sand now gives his oil paintings a "pastel character". His main artistic themes are city-landscape-sea, still life and “Dolce Vita”.

During the Second World War , Vordemberge 1939–1940 had to serve as a soldier in France. Bombed out in Cologne in 1944, he moved to Honnef . When he returned to Cologne after the war, he organized the Rheinische Künstlergemeinschaft “Cologne 1945”. In 1947 he was appointed to the reopened Cologne factory schools and in 1959 as its director. In 1961 he was appointed professor and founded a studio for students in Vinci (Tuscany) . Even after his retirement in 1965 he worked as a teacher for painting at the University of Applied Sciences for Art and Design in Cologne.

Grave in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

He had been married to Els Vordemberge since 1926 , who, after training as an actor with Louise Dumont and engagements in Düsseldorf, Düren and Osnabrück, was director of WERAG children's radio from 1927 until she was dismissed as a Jew in 1933. In 1946 she became head of children's radio at NWDR Cologne.

From 1948 Friedrich Vordemberge lived in Cologne, Hansaring 17. A few years before his death, he moved into an apartment in the opposite house, Hansaring 18. After a long hospital stay, he died there of cancer. His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (section lit. J); the tombstone was designed from one of his woodcuts.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1947: Cologne Art Association
  • 1952: Stadtisches Kunsthaus Bielefeld
  • 1961: Stadtische Galerie Oberhausen
  • 1974: Osnabrück Museum of Cultural History
  • 1983: Galerie Glöckner, Cologne
  • 1983: Museum Ludwig Cologne

Honors

The city of Cologne annually awards a prize and a scholarship called "Friedrich Vordemberge".

literature

  • Vordemberge, Friedrich in: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Fifth volume (VZ / supplements AG) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 53)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Archives Osnabrück : Students of the Ev. Boys Middle School 1904 - Dep 3 b IV Akz. 2013 | 077 No. 6 - School enrollment number: 30.
  2. ↑ s. Catalog of the Deutscher Künstlerbund Cologne 1929. May – September 1929 in the State House. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1929, p. 33: “ Vordemberge, Friedrich, Cologne. Catalog number 307: Notre Dame ”.
  3. ↑ cf. Friedrich Vordemberge - 1897 to 1981: Biographical data. City Cologne. The French campaign did not begin until June 1940.
  4. ↑ Hansaring 17-1 (50670 Neustadt-Nord). The Provincial House near Bilderbuch Cologne.
  5. ^ House Hansaring 18, 50670 Cologne - Neustadt-Nord. Picture book Cologne.
  6. ^ Obituary by Wilhelm Unger in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , No. 85/32 of April 10, 1981.

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personal data
SURNAME Vordemberge, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vordemberge, Friedel (first name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1981
Place of death Cologne