Götz von Seckendorff

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Photo from 1914
Self-portrait from 1910

Götz Bernhard Freiherr von Seckendorff (born October 3, 1889 in Braunschweig , † August 25, 1914 at Saint-Hilaire-lez-Cambrai in France ) was a German painter , draftsman and sculptor.

Life

Seckendorff attended the Herzogliche Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Braunschweig. He then applied to the art academy in Munich , was rejected and moved to Paris, the then stronghold of painting. The impressions of his travels to Tunis were reflected in his drawings, gouaches and oil paintings. Shortly after marrying Alice Winzer, sister of the British painter Charles Freegrove Winzer , he was drafted and died in France in the first days of the First World War at the age of 24. Most of his extensive oeuvre was lost. Most of the wall paintings have been destroyed or painted over. During the reign of the National Socialists more pictures disappeared. The sculptures were thought to be lost until a sculpture reappeared in 2008.

Julius Meier-Graefe wrote about him:

"One of the most talented people who might have been able to continue Slevogt's special line, Götz von Seckendorff, died in the war"

- History of the development of modern art. Fourth book: comrades of reality

The State Museum Schwerin will be exhibiting works by Seckendorffs from July 1, 2016.

His estate is from the descendants of his sister Therese, married. von Wolff. The catalog raisonné is also kept there.

Exhibitions

  • 1918: Memorial exhibition for Wilhelm Trübner and Götz Freiherr von Seckendorff, exhibition Free Secession .
  • 1919: XXVI. Memorial exhibition for Götz von Seckendorff and Otto Schulze, Kestner Society Hanover
  • 1919: Seckendorff exhibition, Lessing Bund Braunschweig
  • 1919: Exhibition Götz v. Seckendorff, art hall of the Saxon Art Association Dresden
  • 1919: Exhibition Götz v. Seckendorff and Sepp Frank , Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster
  • 1919: Christmas exhibition with works by Götz v. Seckendorff, Kunsthaus Schaller Stuttgart
  • 1956: Götz von Seckendorff memorial exhibition, Kunstverein Braunschweig in the Villa Salve Hospes
  • 1989: Exhibition for the 100th birthday of Götz von Seckendorff, Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
  • 2014–15: Stars fall . Joint exhibition in the Kunsthalle zu Kiel , including 3 oil paintings and 6 graphics by Seckendorffs.
  • from July 1, 2016: Permanent exhibition Gallery Old & New Masters Schwerin, State Museum Schwerin

Works

Play

  • Seckendorff quoted Goethe as saying "What a madness" about the war. In March 2009 the documentary drama by Gilbert Holzgang "What a madness - The Braunschweig painter Götz von Seckendorff (1889 to 1914)" was performed in Braunschweig. The play is based on 250 letters from the painter and an account of his life. Large parts of the work were presented in the form of video projections. The play was performed again in June 2010 by the theater period in Braunschweig.

literature

  • Fritz Ohse (ed.): The letters of the painter Götz von Seckendorff. Banas & Dette Verlag, Hanover 1919.
  • Otto Grautoff (Ed.): Bernhard von der Marwitz: A youth in poetry and letters to G. von Seckendorff, J. von Winterfeldt and others. Sibyllen-Verlag, Dresden 1924.
  • Harald Oberg : Present and Future. Youth poems. Kulturpolitischer Verlag Berlin-Leipzig-Munich 1934, contains a poem entitled To the painter Götz von Seckendorff.
  • Seckendorff, Götz von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 420 .
  • Seckendorff, Götz von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 249-450 .
  • Homage to Götz von Seckendorff. In: Bulletin de La Société Paul Claudel. No. 115, 3e trimestre 1989, pp. 1-4, JSTOR 45086213 (letter from Karl von Wolff to Paul Claudel ).
  • Peter Lufft: Götz von Seckendorff. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 559 .
  • Jens Fehlauer: Architecture for madness: the “Land-Irren-Anstalt Neustadt-Eberswalde” (1862–1865) by Martin Gropius. be.bra Wissenschaft Verlag Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-937233-22-9 , p. 148 ff.
  • Karl von Wolff: Art in Brandenburg provincial institutions. The painter Götz von Seckendorff and his murals in Eberswalde, Görden and Strausberg. In: Kristina Hübener, Wolfgang Rose (Hrsg.): Hospitals in Brandenburg. From the medieval hospital to the modern hospital. be.bra Wissenschaft Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937233-42-0 , pp. 225–241.
  • J. Trygve Has-Ellison: Nobles, Modernism, and the Culture of fin-de-siècle Munich. University of Texas at Dallas. Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • Stefanie Müller: Ernst Robert Curtius as a journalistic author (1918–1932): Views on Germany and France as reflected in his journalistic activities. Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-03911-435-1 , p. 256.
  • Catherine Krahmer (Ed.): Julius Meier-Graefe, Diary 1903–1917 and other documents. With the participation of Ingrid Grüninger and Jeanne Heisbourg, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0426-0 .
  • Seckendorff, Götz von . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 9 : Schlumberger – Thiersch . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-096502-5 , p. 360 .
  • Ground plan for the history of German poetry from Karl Goedeke's sources. Volume IV / 5/1. Sixth Book: From Seven Years to World War: National Poetry. Goethe bibliography 1912–1950 by Carl Diesch and Paul Schlager, De Gruyter Saur, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005248-9 , pp. 607, 975.
  • City of Braunschweig (Ed.): 1913 - Braunschweig between monarchy and modernity. Braunschweig 2012, p. 5.
  • Ernst Piper : Night over Europe. Cultural history of the First World War. Ullstein Buchverlage, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-549-07373-5 (mentioned in the chapter Breaking the Networks ).
  • General artist lexicon . - International artist database , De Gruyter Saur, Munich, ISSN  1865-0511 . Is continuously updated online.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gerda von Radetzky : Götz von Seckendorff - painter, draftsman and sculptor , on vonradetzky.de , accessed on August 5, 2016.
  2. ^ A b Peter Lufft : Götz von Seckendorff. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 559 .
  3. ^ Karl von Wolff: Art in Brandenburg provincial institutions. The painter Götz von Seckendorff and his murals in Eberswalde, Görden and Strausberg. In: Kristina Hübener, Wolfgang Rose (Hrsg.): Hospitals in Brandenburg. From the medieval hospital to the modern hospital. be.bra Wissenschaft Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937233-42-0 , pp. 225–241
  4. ↑ Julius Meier-Graefe : History of the development of modern art . 4th edition. tape 2 . Piper, Munich 1924, p. 344 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Exhibition 1918. In: Free Secession. Exhibition house on Kurfürstendamm, Berlin 1918. (In addition to the regular exhibition with several special exhibitions: Memorial exhibition for Wilhelm Trübner - Götz Freiherr von Seckendorff).
  6. ^ Kestnergesellschaft (ed.): XXVI. Memorial exhibition. Götz von Seckendorff, Otto Schulze. Hanover 1919. (Memorial exhibition with 76 Seckendorff exhibits).
  7. ↑ Peter Lufft (ed.): Götz von Seckendorff. Catalog for the October 1956 exhibition in the Salve Hospes house. Kunstverein Braunschweig, 1956.
  8. ^ Charles v. Wolff (Ed.): Götz v. Seckendorff 1889-1914. Josef Grütter, Hanover 1989, published for the exhibition in the Braunschweiger Museum.
  9. ↑ Peter Thurmann, Anke Dornbach, Anette Hüsch, Kunsthalle zu Kiel (eds.): Stars fall: From Boccioni to Schiele - Falling Stars: Disrupted Lives From Boccioni To Schiele. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2014, bilingual (German / English). ISBN 978-3-7319-0134-1 , 9 illustrations.
personal data
SURNAME Seckendorff, Götz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seckendorff, Goetz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1914
Place of death near Saint-Hilaire-lez-Cambrai , France