Gustav Koken
Gustav Koken (full name: Gustav Heinrich Julius Koken , born August 8, 1850 in Hanover ; † July 6, 1910 ibid) was a German painter and etcher .
Life
Gustav Koken was the nephew of Edmund Koken and the father of Änne Koken .
Born in Hanover, the royal seat of what was then the Kingdom of Hanover , Gustav initially received painting lessons from his uncle Edmund Koken. After he had left Hanover for some time to take longer trips, he studied from January 1872 at the art school in Weimar with Theodor Hagen . In addition to painting, he also worked as an eraser . Until 1878 he had his own studio in Weimar .
From 1878 Gustav Koken lived again in his native Hanover, where he became a member of the Hanover Art Association . There, Koken campaigned “for the establishment of new galleries as well as for a reorganization of the exhibition system and for a reorganization of the [then] Kunstgewerbemuseum ” in the Leibnizhaus . Koken was also involved in setting up the Leibnizhaus as an art museum. In order to develop new motifs, Koken went on trips again and again. He painted in the Emsland , in the Oldenburg (Oldenburg) area , in the Teutoburg Forest , in the Lüneburg Heath near Bispingen and in the Südheide near Hermannsburg . The artist was offered a professorship at the Königsberg Art Academy . But he refused this because he did not want to leave his home. He founded a private painting school in Hanover. Koken was probably the first artist to paint the kieselguhr pits in the Südheide area. In addition to landscape painting , one of his focuses was portrait painting .
Koken was friends with the opera singer Georg Nollet , for whom he painted the so-called Salle Nollet in his house - together with the artists Hermann Schaper , Oscar Wichtendahl and Ernst Pasqual Jordan . The room opposite the New Town Hall of Hanover is used by today's Hotel Mercure for festivities.
One month before his 60th birthday, Koken suddenly died of a heart attack in early July 1910 . In the year of death, an exhibition of the painter's artistic estate took place. In 2004 the Hanover Historical Museum presented an extensive retrospective of the Hanover family of painters Edmund, Paul and Gustav Koken.
Awards
- In 1876 Koken received a gold medal for a winter landscape,
- In 1880/81 he also got a gold medal and an award with a second place at the world exhibition in Melbourne .
Works
Many well-known museums own Koken's works. Among other things, the Hanover Historical Museum , the Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover , the Herrenhausen Museum Hanover , the Bomann Museum in Celle , the Emsland Museum in Lingen, the Weimar art collections and the Zwickau Municipal Museum .
His picture Hof bei Lutterloh , which he painted during his frequent stays in the Südheide , was given to Princess Maria-Luise of Hanover-Cumberland on her wedding to Prince Maximilian of Baden .
literature
- Klaus Homann: Painters see the Lüneburg Heath. Albert-König-Museum, Unterlüß 2008, ISBN 978-3-927399-39-6 .
- Koken, Gustav . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 214 .
- Wilhelm Rothert : General Hanoverian biography. Volume 1: Hanoverian men and women since 1866. Sponholtz, Hanover 1912, p. 351.
- Dirck Töllner: Gustav Koken. In: Kathrin Umbach (Red.): Edmund, Gustav & Paul Koken. Of the longing and success of a family of painters (= writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover. Volume 23), catalog for the exhibition of the same name from May 16 to August 1, 2004 in the Hannover History Museum, Hannover: Historisches Museum, 2004, ISBN 3-910073-25- 5 , pp. 72-127
- Hugo Thielen : Koken, (4) Gustav. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 207 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Kathrin Umbach, Ulrike Weiß (Red.): Gustav Koken (1850-1910) , in this: Edmund, Gustav & Paul Koken. About longing and success of a family of painters (= writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover , Volume 23), accompanying publication for the exhibition at the Historisches Museum Hannover from May 16 to August 1, 2004, Hannover: Historisches Museum, 2004, ISBN 978-3-910073-25 -8 and ISBN 3-910073-25-5
- Hugo Thielen: Koken, (4) Gustav. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 362 (reading sample, books.google.de ).
Web links
- Koken in the New German Biography
References and comments
- ↑ The Hannoversche Biographische Lexikon as well as the Stadtlexikon Hannover accidentally indicated the number 3 instead of 4 in the abbreviations by digits for the family .
- ↑ a b c Hugo Thielen: Koken, (4) Gustav. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon. P. 207.
- ↑ a b Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Museum of Applied Arts in the Leibnizhaus. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 377.
- ↑ Alheidis von Rohr : The royal room of Georg Nollet in Hanover - a birthday present. In: Thomas Schwark, Kathleen Biercamp (Red.), Andreas Urban: Interpretations, meanings. Contributions to Hanover's urban and regional history. Festschrift for Waldemar R. Röhrbein on the occasion of his 75th birthday (= writings from the Historisches Museum Hannover. Volume 38), Hannover: Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-910073-39-5 , pp. 201-217.
- ^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen: 2004. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon . P. 45.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Koken, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Koken, Gustav Heinrich Julius (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1910 |
| Place of death | Hanover |