Georg Oeder

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Georg Oeder, Art Committee and Delegate of the International Art Exhibition, Düsseldorf 1904
Portrait of Georg Oeder, by Eduard von Gebhardt , 1907

Georg Oeder (born April 12, 1846 in Aachen , † July 4, 1931 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

life and work

Twilight , around 1880
Morning in the country , no date
Atelier with a Japanese collection and an Italian room in Haus Oeder , 1904
Exhibition Oeders altjapanischer Art Exhibition Palace , 1902
Gravesite of the Haniel and Oeder family (field 62), architect Gottfried Wehling

Oeder was the son of the banker Julius Oeder (1810–1861) and his Ghent- born wife Louise Pauli and the grandson of the wool merchant and mayor Johann Christian Oeder . He attended grammar school in Duisburg , then commercial school in Wiesbaden . He then spent three years at Gutseleve in Westphalia. In 1866 he joined the replacement squadron of the 11th Hussar Regiment in Düsseldorf . In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he served as a reserve officer. After the war he turned completely to painting and worked for Emil Hünten .

He had already started painting landscapes in 1868, trying to study nature . Encouraged by the then director of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , Eduard Bendemann , he settled in Düsseldorf in 1869, lived on Jägerhofstrasse , but remained autodidact throughout his life. He perfected his technique on trips to Bavaria, Holland, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, France and England.

Intimate landscapes of the Lower Rhine dominate his pictures , often in a gloomy autumn or winter mood. The influence of Olof Jernberg on his painting is emphasized again and again .

At the age of 47, a headache forced him to give up painting. Shortly before, he was given the title of professor. From then on, Oeder devoted himself to collecting Asian art, including sword ornamentation ( tsuba ) and Japanese prints, including the ukiyo-e . After Oeder's death, the collection was auctioned on October 17, 1943 in Vienna .

In 1872 he built a house in the Düsseldorf Hofgarten , right next to the paint box at Jacobistraße 10, where he lived until his death. The residence, which also functions as a private gallery, was luxuriously converted and expanded in 1894 according to plans by Hubert Jacobs and Gottfried Wehling . Since September 11, 1879, Oeder was married to Thusnelde (1860–1931), daughter of Louis Haniel from the famous Haniel entrepreneurial family and in 1890 co-owner of the “Haniel & Lueg” machine factory on Grafenberger Allee .

In 1898 Georg Oeder, Albert Flamm and Otto Erdmann received the Red Eagle Order 4th class on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the paint box .

Around 1900, Oeder, along with Paul Clemen , Heinrich Lueg and Fritz Roeber, was one of the initiators of the 1902 Industrial and Commercial Exhibition in Düsseldorf . His collection of Japanese art was exhibited in the exhibition palace built for this purpose at the "German National Art Exhibition Düsseldorf 1902". In 1904 Oeder was among others in the art committee and delegate of the international art exhibition for the international art exhibition and large horticultural exhibition in Düsseldorf .

Oeder was the founder of the fountain sculpture "Jröne Jong" by Joseph Hammerschmidt in the middle of the "Round Pond" in the Düsseldorf court garden , the four baroque decorative vases by the same artist and the marble bench made by Rudolf Bosselt in the jewelry plant and the Goltsteinparterre in Goltsteinstrasse .

His wife Thusnelde Oeder, involved in the cultural life of Düsseldorf, was a member of the Rheinische Frauenklub , founded in 1905 and chaired by Minna Blanckertz .

In 1916 he became an honorary member of the Düsseldorf Art Academy on the occasion of a special exhibition of his paintings . On his 80th birthday in 1926, the city of Düsseldorf made him an honorary citizen . She also honored him by naming the Oederallee at the Tonhalle .

Oeder rests in the north cemetery (Düsseldorf) .

Works (selection)

  • Forest landscape with deer (1874)
  • The felling (1876)
  • Late autumn mood (1879)
  • November Day (1880), Berlin National Gallery (from 1930 on loan to Hanover, burned there in 1943)
  • An Autumn Morning (1883)
  • Forest interior (1884)
  • Motive from the Dutch coast (1886)
  • A Land Road (before 1888)

literature

  • P. Vautier: Japanese guard sheets and sword ornaments. Georg Oeder Collection, Düsseldorf. Descriptive Directory. (Ed. by Otto Kümmel) Oesterheid, Berlin 1916. (Catalog to Oeder's collection of Japanese art)
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 1348.
  • Claudia Delank: The imaginary Japan in art. "Images of Japan" from Art Nouveau to Bauhaus. Iudicium, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-89129-310-0 .

Web links

Commons : Georg Oeder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft. Volume 2: L-Z. P. 1348.
  2. ^ Oeder, Georg, painter, Jägerhofstr. 23 , in: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf , compiled on January 1, 1870
  3. ↑ AKL-online
  4. ^ Wend von Kalnein : The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 414
  5. ↑ Personal news : The landscape painter Georg Oeder himself has been awarded the title "Professor". , in the official gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region, 1893
  6. ^ Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft. Volume 2: L-Z. ibid.
  7. ↑ Thusnelde Haniel article in the gedbas.genealogy.net portal  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 1, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / gedbas.genealogy.net  
  8. ↑ Haniel & Lueg, machine factory, iron foundry, hammer mill and pipe foundry, Grafenberger Chaussee 330, owner: 1. Franz Haniel, Königsallee 19; 2. Heinrich Lueg, Sternstr. 18; 3. Hugo Haniel, Jägerhofstrasse. 28; 4. Thusnelda Haniel, wife of the painter Georg Oeder, Jacobistr. 10 , in address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, 1890
  9. ↑ Staff news . In: Kunstchronik: Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe , NF 9, 1898, issue 32, p. 521 (digitized version)
  10. ↑ In March 1900 the group of figures "The Uninvited Guest" was set up. , in Report on the State and Administration of Community Affairs in the City for the Period April 1, 1899 to March 31, 1900. Special Part III. Caring for economic life.
  11. ^ Rheinischer Frauenklub, Rosenstrasse 20, for "educated women and girls", among the assessors: Frau Professor Oeder , in address book for the city of Düsseldorf, 1915, p. 52
  12. ^ Paul Louis Vautier (1865–1930), businessman, art collector, numismatist, son of the painter Benjamin Vautier
personal data
SURNAME Oeder, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1931
Place of death Dusseldorf