Gottfried Niemann

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Gottfried Niemann (born January 28, 1882 in Berlin , † 1945 in Picher ) was a German landscape painter, art historian, musicologist and composer.

Life

Gottfried Niemann was a son of the opera singer Albert Niemann (1831-1917) and his second wife, the actress Hedwig Raabe (1844-1905).

Niemann studied art history at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1905. phil. He then studied painting with Gotthardt Kuehl at the Academy in Dresden and with Hermann Groeber in Munich. Niemann initially worked in Berlin, Munich and Garmisch-Partenkirchen. His works, located in the landscapes of Bavaria, earned him the title of alpine painter in literature . Study trips took him to the Engadin and Norway. He was a member of the Reich Association of Fine Artists in Germany and the Munich artists' association Die Independentigen . After military service in World War I, he was then in the early 1920s, Mecklenburg Wustrow in the fish country sedentary. In addition to painting, he worked as an art historian and composer. He wrote suites for violin and piano, piano pieces and songs based on his own texts. At the end of the Second World War, the traces of Gottfried Niemann are lost.

The pediatrician Albert Niemann (1880–1921) was his brother. The singer and painter Oscar Niemann (1860-1893) was his half-brother from his father's first marriage to the actress Marie Seebach .

Works (selection)

painter

Alpine region

  • Sunrise Zugspitze , (1920)
  • Partnach Gorge in winter with an ice curtain , (1922)
  • alpine landscape with mountain range , (1927)
  • View of the Königssee , (1927)
  • Winter day in the Karwendel Mountains , (1927)
  • Hintersee , (1929)
  • Egern am Tegernsee , (1933)
  • From Alt-Partenkirchen , (1938)

Baltic coast

  • Ostseebad Ahrenshoop , (1931)
  • Hoarfrost , (1931)
  • Wustrow on the Fischland , (around 1933)
  • Autumn evening on the Fischland , (1935)

author

  • Richard Wagner and Arnold Böcklin or On the essence of landscape and music. Zeitler, Leipzig 1904
  • The dialogue literature of the Reformation period according to its origin and development. A literary historical study. Voigtländer, Leipzig 1905
  • Catching crickets or chameleon agony. Piersons, Dresden 1907
  • Introduction to Fine Arts: Instructions for Viewing Artworks. Herder, Freiburg i. B. 1928

Essays:

  • Albert Niemann's relationship to music: on the artist's 100th birthday on January 15, 1931. In: Die Musik. Volume 24, 1931, pp. 350-351
  • Save the homeland! (1933), harvest blessing from Mecklenburg soil (1935) and bird stories from my garden (1936) in the Mecklenburg monthly magazine

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marion Brück:  Niemann, Albert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 230 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b Figure and essay: Harvest blessing of Mecklenburg soil . In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte. Volume 11, 1935, No. 125, p. 239 (digital copy, PDF)
  3. ↑ On the year and place of death Gottfried Niemanns write:
    - Grete Grewolls: 1945, Picher
    - Hans Vollmer: no details
    - AKL: before 1956, no location
    - Friedrich Schulz: "is said to have left Wustrow after the Second World War."
  4. ↑ Illustration in: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte. Volume 9, 1933, No. 98, p. 52 (digital version, PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Niemann, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, art historian, musicologist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Picher