Hans Olde

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Lovis Corinth : Portrait of the painter Hans Olde , 1904
Hans Olde at the age of 17
My old shack in Kiel - room in which Olde lived during his school days

Hans Olde , actually Johannes Wilhelm Olde , (born April 27, 1855 in Süderau , Holstein, † October 25, 1917 in Kassel ) was an impressionist German painter .

Life

Hans Olde's father was a large farmer in Süderau, Hans Olde his only son. After training as a farmer in 1879, he decided against his father's will to study with Ludwig Löfftz at the Munich Art Academy . Together with his friend, the sculptor Adolf Brütt (1855-1939), he was one of the founding members of the Munich Secession , where he befriended Lovis Corinth .

In the 1880s and 1890s, Olde toured Denmark, Schleswig and Holstein; Numerous realistic pictures of people and animals were created here in partly colorful and expressive, partly factual landscapes, as well as portraits and genre pictures . His work has been compared to that of the somewhat younger Finnish painter Pekka Halonen . Olde painted lively, rich in contrast and repeatedly made new attempts in the direction of modernity. In 1889, Olde was asked to submit a picture to the Paris World's Fair . The fact that he followed this request, like Max Liebermann and around 40 other painters, was seen as an affront to the Reich government, which did not want German artists to take part in the exhibition. After several stays in Paris, he also experimented with pointillism .

The father is said to have made his peace with his son when he found out that one of the Oldes paintings from 1896, at 8,000 marks, brought ten times as much income as the bull depicted by a Schleswig peasant.

Born in Schleswig-Holstein in 1894, Olde was one of the founding members of the Schleswig-Holstein Art Cooperative together with Adolf Brütt . In 1898 he co-founded the Berlin Secession . From 1902 to 1910 he continued the Weimar Art School in collaboration with Brütt ( Weimar Sculpture School ) and Henry van de Velde ( Weimar School of Applied Arts ) in a concept related to the secession movement ( Deutscher Künstlerbund ) and established it as a university. There he obtained the admission of women to study, but without a recognized academic professional qualification.

Olde was in close contact with Alfred Lichtwark in Hamburg, but also with poets such as Klaus Groth and Detlev von Liliencron . He often stayed at Gut Seekamp with his friends . He was a board member of the German Association of Artists. and in 1911 was appointed director of the Royal Art Academy in Kassel, which he modernized until his death in 1917. Here he developed an impasto, almost expressionistic style of painting that is reminiscent of Emil Nolde 's.

Olde laid the foundations for the further development of the universities in Weimar and Kassel to become today's universities.

In 1888 Olde married the daughter of a Bremen manufacturer, Margarethe Schellhass, with whom he had four children. He is buried in Dänischenhagen. His son Hans Olde the Younger also became a painter.

Honors

In Kiel- Friedrichsort a street is named after Hans Olde, as well as in Dänischenhagen and Blankenfelde-Mahlow .

plant

On March 10, 2019, an episode of the NDR's Lieb & Teuer program was broadcast, moderated by Janin Ullmann and filmed in Reinbek Castle . In it, an oil painting from 1905 by Hans Olde with the title Waldinneres bei Tonndorf was discussed with the painting expert Ariane Skora .

Exhibitions

Student (selection)

literature

  • Uta Kuhl:  Olde, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 503 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Gabriele Bremer, Heinz Spielmann : Hans Olde and open-air painting in Northern Germany. Inventory catalog of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum Kloster Cismar. Schleswig 1991.
  • Hildegard Gantner Schlee: The Nietzsche-portrait by Hans Olde , Basel Magazine of History and Archeology, vol 70, 1970, S. 209th - 219
  • Hildegard Gantner-Schlee: Hans Olde: 1855-1917. Life and work. Dissertation, Tübingen 1970.
  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Kiel artist. Volume 2: Artistic Life in the Imperial Era, 1871–1918. Boyens, Heide 2016, ISBN 978-3-8042-1442-2 , pp. 355-425.
  • Kirsten Baumann, Christian Walda (ed.): Hans Olde: Impressionist of the north. Exhibition catalog, Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf Foundation, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Hans Olde  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Fine Arts Munich: 1879, entry in the register book for Johann Wilhelm Olde. Retrieved April 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode: New German Biography , Vol .: 19, Neuwach – Pagel, Berlin, 1999, p. 503, digital library , accessed on February 17, 2020.
  3. ↑ Hans Olde: Impressionist des Nordens , p. 178.
  4. ↑ Tilman Spreckselsen: An image ten bulls value. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 8, 2019.
  5. ↑ Großherzoglich Sächsische Hochschule für bildende Kunst Weimar, 1. Institutional history (No. 22, Bl. 5) , from the Thuringia State Archives, accessed on February 17, 2020
  6. ↑ Members from 1903. on Kuenstlerbund.de , accessed on March 11, 2019
  7. ↑ Hans-G. Hilscher, Dietrich Bleihöfer: Oldestrasse. In: Kiel Street Lexicon. Continued since 2005 by the Office for Building Regulations, Surveying and Geoinformation of the State Capital Kiel, as of February 2017 ( kiel.de ).
  8. ↑ Video painting by Hans Olde on ndr.de
  9. ↑ Impressionist of the North. Retrieved July 10, 2008 .
personal data
SURNAME Olde, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olde, Johannes Wilhelm (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Süderau , Holstein
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1917
Place of death kassel