Hans Bunge-Ottensen

Hans Bunge-Ottensen (born June 3, 1899 in Altona , Ottensen district ; † August 21, 1983 in Ratzeburg ; actually Hans Willi Theodor Bunge ) was a German painter , watercolorist , book artist , draftsman and carver

Life

Hans Bunge-Ottensen was the eldest of three sons of the imperial post office clerk Georg Bunge from Mölln and his wife Maria, born on a farm near Rendsburg . Heeschen. The family moved to Ratzeburg in 1909. In childhood he lost his eyesight in his left eye due to illness, and that of the right eye became weaker with increasing age. During the last years of his life he was totally blind. As a participant in the last year of the war, he suffered hearing damage from grenade explosions in 1918, which gradually led to complete deafness. After the end of the war he worked for a short time as a clerk at the district administration in Ratzeburg. He was unable to catch up on his Abitur due to the physical impairments and confusion in the post-war period.

1918–1920 he attended the art school in Lübeck under the direction of Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg . According to the very good certificates, Bunge-Ottensen acquired skills in drawing and painting based on the living model, landscape and still life . Other subjects were perspective and anatomy . Erich Dummer and Wilhelm Neckel were among his classmates . 1920–1921 followed by studies at the Royal Academy for graphic arts and book trade in Leipzig . His teachers included Hermann Delitsch (handwriting), Hugo Steiner-Prag (decorative form drawing ) and Hans Soltmann (drawing from life). 1921–1922 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . His teachers there in the subject of natural drawing were Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl and Franz von Stuck . In the following years he worked as a freelancer and called himself Bunge-Ottensen from 1924 to avoid confusion. 1929–1930 he studied again for three semesters in Leipzig, where he met the graphic student Ilse Goldammer (1910–2007), whom he married in 1930.

1931–1947 Bunge-Ottensen lived as a freelancer in Hamburg with a studio in the Hafenhaus am Kajen . In 1937 he had to train at the Technical University of the Wehrmacht to take part in building barracks as a technical draftsman . In 1943 his studio was destroyed by bombs, and a move to Ratzeburg followed. Here he met occasionally with Karl Gatermann the Elder. Ä. who had lost all his belongings to the bombs in Lübeck a year earlier and had moved to Ratzeburg to live with his sister. Hans Bunge-Ottensen died on August 21, 1983 in Ratzeburg.

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Bunge-Ottensen found the motifs of his drawings, colorful watercolors and oil paintings mainly in the urban and natural landscapes that surround him; numerous still lifes and portraits are also known. His colleague Curt Stoermer wrote in 1968: “Bunge-Ottensen is not a pleasant local artist, but rather passionately addressing the problems of the new art development. The picture on the easel is not a repetition in the sense of the previous one, but always a beginning that forces him to recapture form and design. The style of painting is often closer to Cubism , surfaces become spatial structures. "In 1974, Hans-Georg Kaack, district archivist of the Duchy of Lauenburg and head of the Ratzeburg district museum , described his work on the occasion of an exhibition opening:" Hans Bunge-Ottensen transforms external reality and creates a new artistic reality for itself from its own forms, according to self-found laws. Form and statement are in a direct relationship to one another, so that the form can have impressionistic , expressionistic or cubist style peculiarities, even surreal ones, depending on the will to express . "

For the hiking trails suggested by Lothar Roeßler in the Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park , Bunge-Ottensen carved over 150 signposts and information boards on flora and fauna out of oak over the course of a good ten years from 1959 . Some of the signs were stolen because of their artistic value.

literature

• Hans Bunge-Ottensen . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. Bunge, Hans Willi Theodor .
• Berend Harke Feddersen among others: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerlexikon. Verlag Nordfriisk Instituut, Bredstedt 1984, ISBN 3-88007-124-1 .
• Peter-Alexander Hanke: Hans Bunge-Ottensen, the artist and his work. Self-published, Ratzeburg 1986.
• S. Geese: Bunge-Ottensen, Hans Willi Theodor. In: AKL , Volume 15, 1997, p. 141.
• Peter-Alexander Hanke: Hans Bunge-Ottensen, watercolors and paintings. Exhibition in 1999 in the district museum Ratzeburg for the 100th birthday. Self-published summary, Ratzeburg.
• Peter-Alexander Hanke, Bernd Gatermann: The painter Karl Gatermann d. Ä. , 2nd edition 2011, self-published, Wuppertal, Bunge-Ottensen et al. On pp. 151f, 187, 217, 222.

Web links

• City of Ratzeburg Annual Chronicle 1983
• German biography
• MAGEDA, painters and paintings database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 0006 Hans Bunge, register book 1919-1931
2. ↑ The Angler's Dream , Hans-Bunge-Ottensen exhibition in the social parish office. In: Lübecker Morgen , January 30, 1968
3. ↑ The Kreissparkasse shows Bunge Ottensen watercolors . Lauenburgische Nachrichten in: Lübecker Nachrichten, June 8th 1974.
4. ↑ 1962 came 1.5 million visitors - oak signposts show the symbols (osprey, kingfisher, gray goose, raven and fox in the Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park). In: Lübecker Nachrichten , February 3, 1963.
5. ↑ Carved signs point the way through the nature park and the island town - Hans Bunge-Ottensen's motifs from sea eagles to garden spiders. In: Lübecker Nachrichten, March 12, 1964.
6. ↑ Created by the hand of an artist. Hans Bunge-Ottensen creates small works of art with a carving knife. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , Pentecost 1964, No. 113, p. 18.
7. ↑ Carved bird shields for the nature park. Set up on the Gudow - Lehmrade educational trail . In: Lübecker Nachrichten, June 3, 1967.