Hans Trimborn

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Hans Trimborn (born August 2, 1891 in Plittersdorf ; † October 10, 1979 in Norden ) was a German painter and musician who worked in East Frisia .

Life

Hans Trimborn (left) in conversation with Bernhard Grotzeck (around 1970)

Hans Trimborn was born in 1891 as the son of Jean Trimborn (draftsman in the land registry ) and Margarethe Trimborn. Koeb, a native of Sweden, was born in Plittersdorf near Bonn . When his mother died in 1898, his grandparents (Hermann and Anna Maria Trimborn) and his younger sister took him in. Hans Trimborn did his Abitur in 1913 at the State Beethoven High School in Bonn. His musical talent was evident early on during his school days, so he entertained the guests at the piano in his grandparents' inn.

From 1913 to 1916 he studied medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Together with his former classmate Paul Adolf Seehaus, who was friends with August Macke , he did nature studies. Hans Trimborn never received art or painting lessons, he never attended an art academy. In the years 1915 to 1918, works were created under the influence of Rhenish Expressionism , which show the joy of color of this style. His preference for August Macke, Paul Klee and Christian Rohlfs are unmistakable in individual paintings.

In the First World War Hans Trimbornstraße was still under study as a field surgeon in various hospitals drafted in the Rhineland. During this time, musical compositions based on texts by Stefan George were created . Hans Trimborn continued his medical studies after the end of the war in Heidelberg , but dropped out in 1919. On August 16, 1919, he married the pianist Marta Trapp and went to Norderney as a freelance painter and musician .

At Norderney he performed as a pianist together with his wife Marta in the framework program of the bathing establishment . He also worked as a choir director and gave a concert in 1922 with his own compositions based on texts by Meister Eckhart . Hans Trimborn occasionally performed with his own dance orchestra. He took part in concerts by the Norderneyer Kurorchester and received engagements from the Bremer Rundfunk. He worked as a piano accompanist in silent film performances, making a name for himself with unusual jazz improvisations and occasionally provoking the audience by incorporating passages of classical music from Johann Sebastian Bach to Paul Hindemith .

Hans Trimborn had been in friendly contact with the sculptor Bernhard Hoetger and other Worpswede artists since 1920 . In Hoetger's studio he had the opportunity to get to know the work of Paula Modersohn-Becker . She became his great role model. Hans Trimborn was one of the first artists to incorporate the Worpswederin message into their own artistic work. His pictures showed mudflat landscapes and views of Norderneyer. With this work he kept himself afloat financially. The birth of his son Johannes in 1922 inspired him to paint pictures on the subject of “mother and child”, which was followed by self-portraits in an intensive examination of his own self. Images of Christ, masked beings and other topics rounded off the work at that time. In 1924 Hans Trimborn and Bernhard Hoetger founded the “Kaffee Worpswede” on Norderney.

During this time Trimborn was also involved in the free economy movement founded by Silvio Gesell . Together with the Norderneyer spa doctor Dr. Anton Nordwall , he initiated an outdoor experiment on the island , the so-called Wära project. This project had a certain resemblance to today's exchange circles .

Hans Trimborn was a vagabond, “a vagant artist”, as Emanuel Eckardt wrote in the 1988 catalog for the Emden exhibition. He was reluctant to carry out commissioned work and permanent engagements, often failing to keep appointments or canceling them. He staggered from one financial crisis to another. His friends like Bernhard Hoetger and the Bremen patron Ludwig Roselius did everything in their power to support him and secure his existence. The unsteady Hans Trimborn resisted as soon as their help became concrete.

In 1928 he made a trip to Copenhagen , where he studied piano with Alexander Stoffregen. He had the plan to re-establish himself as a musician on Norderney with the personal support of Otto Klemperer and Professor Joseph Frischen, but on the other hand did not want to be limited to music.

According to Ruth Irmgard Dalinghaus, Hans Trimborn's tendency towards depression made him receptive to the fringes of human life such as pathopsychology. His friendly contacts with the Jena professor for neurology and psychiatry , Rudolf Lemke , led him to the decision to resume the aborted medical studies. In 1931 Hans Trimborn enrolled at the medical faculty of the University of Jena . In 1932 he moved to the University of Hamburg . The unsteady Hans Trimborn broke off this project after a semester, switched to the University of Hamburg and returned to Norderney in the summer of 1932.

In 1939 he left the island when the war broke, with his family at the invitation of Princess Theda to Innhausen and Knyphausen, widow of Dodo Prince of Innhausen and Knyphausen , to lock Lütetsburg to go in the north (Ostfriesland). Despite the National Socialist restrictions in the field of art, around 1941 he painted pictures such as War - Death in the Mass Grave , which comments on his 1920 composition for a speaker, two trombones and small drum voices from the mass grave based on the text of the same name by Erich Kästner . He had been a pacifist since the First World War . His traumatic experiences at that time while digging mass graves as a field doctor and the war injury of his son Johannes shook him deeply. A now lost Christ on the cross with a gas mask and pictures such as gas mask , war - death in the mass grave and the setting of voices from the mass grave were the artist's passionate responses to the war. In 1945 he had to take part in the Second World War as a member of the Volkssturm . In 1940, Hans Trimborn met his later second wife, the much younger organist Maria Immer, at Lütetsburg Castle . In 1948 the marriage with Marta Trapp was divorced. In 1950, Hans Trimborn and Maria Immer married, despite all family and social resistance. In 1952 the son Jan was born. In the rural seclusion of the new place of residence Arle and under the impression of the young family, colorful, bright pictures were created. The figurative images are increasingly moving away from a realistic representation, up to the dissolution of the representational.

The paintings of the 1950s are characterized by the engagement with Max Beckmann , Pablo Picasso , Henri Matisse and again with Paula Modersohn-Becker. Hans Trimborn took part in public tenders for applied arts. Even before the Second World War and again in 1947, he had painted the ceiling of the “Marienhöhe” café on Norderney. For the Kreissparkasse Norden and for schools in Aurich and Norden he led a. a. Murals from. In 1960 he was reluctant to leave the dilapidated home in Arle to move north to a new house. At his new home in the north, he painted landscapes, cityscapes and drew caricature-like portraits. In the last years of his life, music became his most important means of expression. Hans Trimborn died in Norden on October 10, 1979 at the age of 88.

Appreciations

On May 10, 1963, the East Frisian landscape appointed Hans Trimborn, a native of the Rhineland, an honorary East Frisian by awarding the indigenous class .

The city of Norden and the Großheid district of Arle each dedicated a street to Hans Trimborn. There is also a day nursery named after him in Arle . On Norderney, the Hans Trimborn gallery has been looking after the artist's memory with a permanent exhibition since 2012.

Publicly owned work

Solo exhibitions

  • 1955: Society for Fine Arts, Emden
  • 1982: Marienhafer Mühle, Marienhafe
  • 1983: Nassachmühle workshop gallery, Uhingen; Hans Trimborn retrospective, Kunstkreis Norden
  • 1991: Kulturring Moormerland, Warsingsfehn
  • 1992: Gallery S in the building of the Sparkasse, Schleswig
  • 1993: Hans Trimborn: Never again war , Ludgerikirche north
  • 1994: Hans Trimborn (1891–1979), painter and musician , Landesmuseum Oldenburg
  • 1995: Art gallery in the coastal museum Juist
  • 1995: The graphics by Hans Trimborn, Warsingsfehn
  • 2011/2012: Hans Trimborn - painter and draftsman , East Frisian State Museum Emden
  • Since 2012: bade ~ museum norderney , permanent position with paintings and graphics by Hans Trimborn

literature

  • Ruth Irmgard Dalinghaus, Peter Reindl (editor): Hans Trimborn. 1891-1979. Painter and musician (exhibition catalog Landesmuseum Oldenburg, February 27 - April 10, 1994). Landesmuseum, Oldenburg / Munich 1994, ISBN 3-930537-00-1 .
  • Johannes CB Janssen: Hans Trimborn (1891–1979). Catalog raisonné of the paintings. East Frisian Landscape, Aurich 2001.
  • Johannes CB Janssen: Hans Trimborn - Life and Work in the Rhineland (1891-1918) and his creative period between the world wars in Heidelberg and on Norderney (1918-1939). Bonn 2002, DNB 967673283 (Dissertation University of Bonn 2001 two volumes full text online PDF, volume 1: text, pp. 1–190 [1.5 MB]; volume 2: catalog of images, pp. 193–249 [9.5 MB ]).
  • Anette Kanzenbach, Carsten Jöhnk (eds.): Hans Trimborn 1891–1979. Painter and draftsman. Isensee, Oldenburg / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89995-812-6 .
  • Sebastian Lemke (Ed.): Painting brings me over the crisis of the present time. Letters between Hans Trimborn and Rudolf Lemke 1931 to 1957. Städtische Museen, Jena 2004, ISBN 978-3-930128-61-7 .
  • Auguste Rulffes: Hans Trimborn - a life in pictures. Soltau-Kurier, Norden 1993, ISBN 978-3-922365-06-8 .

Web links

Sources and Notes

  1. ↑ a b Ruth Irmgard Dalinghaus: Trimbornstraße, Hans . In: Martin Tielke (ed.): Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland , Volume 2. Ostfriesische Landschaftliche Verlags- und Vertriebsgesellschaft, Aurich 1997, ISBN 3-932206-00-2 , p. 368 ff. Digital library (PDF; 65.6 kB ), accessed January 18, 2019.
  2. ↑ Anette Kanzenbach, Carsten Jöhnk (ed.): Hans Trimborn 1891–1979. Painter and draftsman. Isensee, Oldenburg / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89995-812-6 , p. 73.
  3. ↑ Ruth Irmgard Dalinghaus, Peter Reindl (editorial): Hans Trimbornstraße. 1891-1979. Painter and musician (exhibition catalog Landesmuseum Oldenburg, February 27 - April 10, 1994). Landesmuseum, Oldenburg / Munich 1994, ISBN 3-930537-00-1 , p. 21.
  4. ↑ a b Meeting point art: biography of Hans Trimborn , accessed on December 3, 2017.
  5. ^ Johannes CB Janssen: Hans Trimborn - Life and Work in the Rhineland (1891-1918) and his creative period between the world wars in Heidelberg and on Norderney (1918-1939). Dissertation. Bonn 2002, pp. 101-102.
  6. ^ Johannes CB Janssen: Hans Trimborn - Life and Work in the Rhineland (1891-1918) and his creative period between the world wars in Heidelberg and on Norderney (1918-1939). Dissertation. Bonn 2002, pp. 94-94, 122, 139.
  7. ^ Johannes CB Janssen: Hans Trimborn - Life and Work in the Rhineland (1891-1918) and his creative period between the world wars in Heidelberg and on Norderney (1918-1939). Dissertation. Bonn 2002, DNB 967673283 , p. 128 ff.
  8. ↑ a b c d Ruth Irmgard Dalinghaus: Article: Hans Trimborn , p. 2. In: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland , accessed on December 3, 2017 (PDF).
  9. ↑ Auguste Rulffes: Hans Trimborn - a life in pictures. Soltau-Kurier, Norden 1993, ISBN 978-3-922365-06-8 , p. 32.
  10. ^ Johannes CB Janssen: Hans Trimborn - Life and Work in the Rhineland (1891-1918) and his creative period between the world wars in Heidelberg and on Norderney (1918-1939). Dissertation. Bonn 2002, p. 134.
  11. ^ The "Künstlerhaus" in Arle , accessed on January 24, 2019.
  12. ↑ Anette Kanzenbach, Carsten Jöhnk (ed.): Hans Trimborn 1891–1979. Painter and draftsman. Isensee, Oldenburg / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89995-812-6 , pp. 47-48.
  13. ↑ Ruth Irmgard Dalinghaus: Article: Hans Trimborn , p. 3. In: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland , accessed on December 3, 2017 (PDF).
  14. ↑ Hans Trimborn in the Nordwest culture portal , accessed on December 3, 2017.
  15. ^ Streets in Germany , accessed on January 24, 2019.
  16. ↑ Trimborn-Padd in the Großheid district of Arle , accessed on January 24, 2019.
  17. ↑ Großheide.de: Trimborn day care center ; accessed on January 18, 2019
  18. ^ Museum Norderney.de: Galerie Hans Trimborn ; accessed on January 18, 2019
  19. ^ Galerie Hans Trimborn , accessed on November 14, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Trimborn, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Plittersdorf
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1979
Place of death North (East Frisia)