Friedrich Wachenhusen

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Adolf Julius Ludwig Friedrich Wachenhusen (born May 27, 1859 in Schwerin , † May 2, 1925 in Schwerin -Görries) was a German landscape painter , draftsman and etcher who mainly painted rural Mecklenburg motifs.

Live and act

At the urging of his father, a Schwerin ministerial secretary, Wachenhusen began studying architecture at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic in 1880 after attending grammar school in Schwerin . In 1881 he moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe to study painting. After moving to the Weimar Art Academy in 1884 , he continued studying under the professor of landscape painting Theodor Hagen . He moved to Berlin in 1889, attended the art academy and painted for a year with Professor Eugen Bracht . He then worked as the head of a painting and drawing school in Berlin. Since 1889 he was also a member of the Association of Berlin Artists . In the years 1892 to 1895 Wachenhusen had several stays in Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea , where he ran a summer painting school in " Haus Lukas " together with Paul Müller-Kaempff , who had lived here since 1892 . Study trips took Wachenhusen to northern Italy in 1892 and to Holland in 1894 , where he stayed in Volendam and the Katwijk artists' colony . In 1902 he painted for his lithograph - portfolio work Heimat - Lübeck and the surrounding area in Gothmund .

On March 1, 1897, Wachenhusen married the Dresden opera singer Eva Freiin von Gillern, daughter of the opera singer Hugo Freiherr von Gillern, known under the stage name Hugo Krüger . In the same year Wachenhusen in Ahrenshoop had the house at Schifferberg 10 built according to their own plans. In front of him were here beside Paul Mueller Kaempff already Anna Gerresheim , Elisabeth von Eicken and Friedrich Grebe established. The Ahrenshooper artists' colony was created , and Wachenhusen is one of the founders. Wachenhusen, along with the painters Theobald Schorn and Paul Müller-Kaempff, was one of the founders of the Ahrenshooper Kunstkatens , which opened in 1909. In the meantime, from around 1903, Wachenhusen also had a residence in Hamburg, where he also ran a painting school. After the death of his wife in 1910, he married Lucie Schindowski, who was 20 years his junior and a former painting student, in 1912.

At the end of the First World War in 1918, Wachenhusen left Ahrenshoop. His house and the adjacent “Dune House”, which also belongs to him, were sold in 1920, and he now lived mostly in his house in Schwerin -Görries. After his death in 1925, the urn burial took place in the Schifferfriedhof von Ahrenshoop.

In addition to the main landscapes, Wachenhusen's works, which were laid out in an impressionistic style, also included forest and animal motifs, which can certainly be explained by his passion for hunting. In addition to his membership in the Berlin Artists' Association, Wachenhusen was a member of the General German Art Cooperative , the Association of German Illustrators, the Original Etching Association in Berlin, the Hamburg Art Association from 1817 , the Hamburg Artists Association from 1832 and the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology .

Exhibitions (selection)

Friedrich Wachenhusen - On the Darss.

From 1884 to 1914, Wachenhusen was regularly represented with his landscapes at the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin , the Great Berlin Art Exhibitions and the Mecklenburg Art Exhibition in 1911. The exhibition of a picture in the Munich Glass Palace is documented for 1891. He had his first solo exhibition in 1902 at the Hamburger Kunstverein .

  • 1926: Memorial exhibition in the Landesmuseum Schwerin
  • 2016: Colors of the North - Friedrich Wachenhusen 1859–1925. Mecklenburg Foundation , Schleswig-Holstein House Schwerin, Dec. 2016 - March 2017
  • 2017: Friedrich Wachenhusen (1859–1925) painting. Kunstkaten Ahrenshoop, Oct. 2017 - Dec. 2017

Works (selection)

  • Moon over the bay.
  • Hof in Mecklenburg.
  • Steep coast near Ahrenshoop.
  • Mecklenburg winter landscape. (1887)
  • At Lake Schwerin. (1890)
  • View of the Ahrenshooper mill. (around 1900)
  • From Ahrenshoop. (1902)
  • Village street in the snow. (1910)
  • Rügen coast. (1911)
  • Couple at the port of Volendam. (around 1894)
  • Picturesque from Hamburg.
  • From Lübeck and the surrounding area.
  • From Cuxhaven to Helgoland. - three portfolio works: Verlag Kähler, Hamburg 1902.

The Schwerin State Museum owns six paintings by Wachenhusen.

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Wachenhusen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Wachenhusen on the Gothmund artists' colony
  2. ^ Hamburg address book 1904, part II, p. 651 - Wachenhusen, Fritz, landscape painter; kl. Johannisstrasse 9; Residential: Isestraße 143. SUB Hamburg, State Library of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, accessed on August 6, 2015 .
  3. ^ Friedrich Schulz: Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-292-2 .
  4. ^ Directory of the works of living artists at the exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin. Common Library Network (GBV), accessed on October 18, 2014 .
  5. ^ Catalog, Great Berlin Art Exhibition. (No longer available online.) Common Library Network (GBV), archived from the original on October 22, 2014 ; Retrieved October 18, 2014 .
  6. ^ Great Berlin Art Exhibition (Ed.) Catalog. University of Heidelberg, accessed on October 18, 2014 .
  7. ^ Catalogs of the art exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace 1869-1931. bavarikon, accessed on January 28, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 10447 .
  9. ↑ Ruth Negendanck: Ahrenshoop artists' colony. Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-294-9 , p. 44.
personal data
SURNAME Wachenhusen, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wachenhusen, Adolf Julius Ludwig Friedrich (full name); Wachenhusen, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter, draftsman and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1925
Place of death Schwerin