Georg Hacker (painter)

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Georg Hacker, excerpt from Düsseldorfer Theater-Woche, issue 42, 1911

Georg Hacker (born August 8, 1863 in Dessau , † December 5, 1945 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape painter and set designer .

Life

Georg Hacker was born in Dessau in 1863 as the son of Adolf Hacker (chamber singer / tenor, 1832–1883) and his wife Pauline, née Zschiesche (opera, concert and oratorio singer / soprano, 1830–1867).

Entrance area of ​​the Musée zoologique de Strasbourg with paintings by Georg Hacker

In 1882 he joined the studio for scenic sets of the brothers Gotthold and Max Brückner in Coburg , where he learned the technique of theater painting. He became Max Brückner's favorite student and accompanied him from 1887 to 1890 on his trips abroad with the Meininger Hoftheater . Brückner had been appointed to the court theater by Duke Georg II and accompanied the guest tours. After the last guest performance in July 1890 and the dissolution of this stage, Georg Hacker came to the Städtische Kunstgewerbeschule (1889–1914) in Strasbourg under director Anton Seder as a teacher of decorative painting . In 1893 he was sent to Chicago for the World's Fair on a scholarship from the City of Strasbourg . In Strasbourg, between 1894 and 1896, Hacker produced eight symmetrically arranged wall paintings on plasterboards with seabed and jungle scenes in the Zoological Museum of the City of Strasbourg , which still adorn the entrance hall today.

Düsseldorfer Stadttheater Tannhäuser , decorations by the municipal theater painter Georg Hacker, 1903

In 1896 he was appointed city theater painter to the city ​​theater in Düsseldorf . In the same year he joined the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten . He was a member of the board there for many years and remained loyal to the association until his death. During his time in Düsseldorf, Hacker created numerous furnishings, including for the festival of the Rheinischer Goethe-Verein . In 1905 he designed the elaborate festive decorations for the Prussian crown prince wedding of Wilhelm of Prussia and Cecilie zu Mecklenburg in Berlin . At that time he lived in Oberkassel on Cheruskerstraße (at that time Arminiusstraße 59). From 1907 to 1909 he held the position of head of stage equipment.

In 1919, Hacker took over the newly established stage design class at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf . In the period from 1927 to 1936 he made a second trip to the United States of America , on which he painted the buildings of a large machine factory in Reading , Pennsylvania . Further trips followed with planning and execution of various orders at home and abroad.

In 1936, when the new Düsseldorf main station was built, Georg Hacker started painting waiting room III. Class instructed. This was downstairs to the left of the entrance hall. The plant was destroyed in World War II. In 1938 he designed the entrance hall in the reception building of Duisburg Central Station . In 1940 he made three large dioramas for the Museum für Naturkunde in Dortmund , which had moved to a larger building in 1934. Until shortly before his death in December 1945, Georg Hacker planned to paint the basement of the Malkasten House , which was destroyed in the war, with frescoes .

Honor

  • 1910: Awarded the Golden Medal for Art and Science

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of birth according to Thieme-Becker (Volume 15, p. 410): 1865
  2. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 4, KG Saur, Munich, 2003, p. 1913
  3. ^ Gerd Nauhaus: Robert Schumann Diaries , Volume 2 1836-1854, Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1987, in register of persons: Zschiesche, Pauline, ISBN 3-87877-298-X , p. 693
  4. ↑ Zschiesche, Pauline ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicamigrans.de
  5. ↑ Zoological Museum, History: The entrance hall is still adorned today by eight symmetrically arranged plaster panels with oil paintings. The ensemble was made by Georg Hacker between 1894 and 1896 , on musees.strasbourg.eu, accessed on March 25, 2016
  6. ↑ Rheinische Goethe Games 1911 in Düsseldorf Theater Week, 2nd Vol., No. 42, 1911
  7. ^ Hacker, Georg, theater painter, Obercassel, Arminiusstr. 59 , in address book for the city of Düsseldorf and the mayor offices of Benrath, 5th part, 1905, p. 444
personal data
SURNAME Hacker, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1945
Place of death Dusseldorf