Gustav Hagemann

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Memorial to Gustav Hagemann in Salzgitter-Engelnstedt

Gustav Hagemann (born February 17, 1891 in Engelnstedt , † May 24, 1982 ibid) was a German painter , landscape painter , known as an expressionist painter of the far north and Lapland researcher , but less as a sculptor .

As a result of two world wars, almost all of his early work with his sculptural works was destroyed. The few bronzes still preserved from this period include the “worm killer” from 1920 , which was strongly influenced by Lehmbruck , as well as the “seated youth” (1932) and its counterpart, the “squatting female nude” (1933). In 1938 he excavated the northernmost rock drawings in Europe. In 1970 he became a member of the Academy of Art, Science and Literature in Rome.

Education and career

Hagemann attended high school in Wolfenbüttel and studied at the art school in Kassel. After graduating as an art teacher, he became a trainee lawyer in Torgau . In the First World War he fought as a soldier from 1914 to 1918. After the war he studied art, especially sculpture, in Munich from 1920. In 1922 he returned to Torgau, where he was employed as an art teacher and sports teacher. In the Berlin gallery Ferdinand Möller he drew attention to himself from 1927 and up to 1939 with considerable success through the yield of his exploratory trips to the north. Hagemann, who had already roamed East Prussia and Pomerania from Torgau , went on four-month study trips annually to the countries of the north from 1926 onwards. He has roamed Lapland several times by motorcycle. He also served as a soldier in World War II .

Assessment by the critic: The colors appear almost dematerialized, so bright and iridescent do they flow over the paper.

Works (selection)

Oil paintings
  • Whale Fate Oil, 1981
  • Horrors of War, 1982
  • Western Front Oil, 1980
  • Icelandic horses, 1971
  • Volcanic rocks by the sea oil, 1979
  • Skaldensinger - Iceland, 1980
  • Rag family oil, 1979
Sculptures
  • Fountain sculpture human wave, 1978 Salder Castle
Books
  • The life of the rags in their scratches and other evidence . Sauerland-Verlag, Iserlohn 1976

Exhibitions

  • from 1926 Galerie Möller, Berlin
  • Moritzburg Museum, Halle
  • Prinzessinnenschlösschen, Jena
  • Magdeburg
  • Ethnological Museum Leipzig
  • 3rd Biennale in Ancona (Italy)
  • Kupferstichkabinett Berlin-Dahlem, solo exhibition of forty of his works
  • 1965 Corner Gallery, London
  • Kunstverein Salzgitter on the artist's 85th birthday in the atrium of the Salzgitter town hall from October 24th to November 14th, 1976
  • 1977 Römer-Museum Hildesheim "The Midnight Countries", complete exhibition of his works with oil paintings, watercolors, graphics, enamel works and bronzes
  • 2001 Exhibition in Salzgitter Castle Salder

literature

  • Boldt-Stülzebach: Hagemann, Gustav . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck and Günter Schell (eds.): Braunschweigisches biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries . Hahn, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8
  • CF Hagemann: Under the northern lights. From the life of the painter and cloth researcher Gustav Hagemann . CF Hagemann, Iserlohn 1966

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bruchmachtersen, Engelnstedt, Salder, Lebenstedt. "Ortschaft Nord" in old views (= contributions to city history, edited by the archive of the city of Salzgitter, volume 11). Salzgitter 1994, ISBN 3-930292-01-7 , there p. 159 Engelnstedt by Reinhold Försterling, Sigrid Lux ​​with the assistance of Heinrich Hagemann
  2. ↑ Bruchmachtersen, Engelnstedt, Salder, Lebenstedt. "Ortschaft Nord" in old views (= contributions to city history, edited by the archive of the city of Salzgitter, volume 11). Salzgitter 1994, ISBN 3-930292-01-7 , there p. 125 below Engelnstedt by Reinhold Försterling, Sigrid Lux ​​with the assistance of Heinrich Hagemann
personal data
SURNAME Hagemann, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and landscape painter sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Engelnstedt , Lower Saxony
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1982
Place of death Engelnstedt