Hans Völcker

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Völckers and his wife resting in Wiesbaden on the Südfriedhof

Hans Völcker (born October 21, 1865 in Pyritz in Pomerania , † January 16, 1944 in Wiesbaden ) was a Wiesbaden painter .

life and work

Artistic beginnings

Völcker was the son of a pastor. Orphaned at an early age, he was raised by his grandfather and attended the humanistic grammar school in Pyritz. Of the approximately 30 kilometers from Szczecin from he learned at an early age the lake know and love what incited him later, in addition to the landscape and still life painting the marine painting to maintain.

academy

In 1885 Völcker began studying with the Norwegian realistic landscape painter Hans Fredrik Gude at the Berlin Academy . Gude encouraged him to travel to Scandinavia , through which Völcker developed a particular preference for Nordic mountain and lake landscapes. He brought back paintings from his study trips there, which earned him great recognition.

Freelance painter

As early as 1891 he ran his own painting school for plein air painting , where Margarethe Haeffner , who later became Oskar Moll's wife , was his best-known student. With his Berlin friend Walter Leistikow - also a student of Gude - he shared an admiration for Max Liebermann . The encounter with pictures by Liebermann encouraged his stylistic development to become an impressionist . In 1894 he came to Munich, where in 1896 he was one of the co-founders of the Luitpold Group .

Wiesbaden

In 1899 he moved with his wife Hanna, b. Hindersin, from Stettin, whom he had known since his student days in Berlin, to Wiesbaden. On January 8, 1901, he was a co-founder of the Wiesbaden Society for Fine Arts . Hans Völcker was one of the first artists who exhibited in 1904 as members of the newly founded German Association of Artists in Munich's Royal Art Exhibition Building on Königsplatz .

He had a significant influence on the exhibition activities of the association and was particularly committed to contemporary art, u. a. he presented Max Liebermann , Fritz Overbeck and Lovis Corinth . The exhibition “Dutch Secession”, in which paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Jan Toorop were on view, is of particular importance today . In 1912 the association showed pictures by Alexej Jawlensky for the first time . When the merger with the Nassauischer Kunstverein came about in 1917 , Völcker was given the position of artistic exhibition director.

After the cataloging of the picture gallery of the Wiesbaden Museum by the Nassauischer Kunstverein, he was entrusted with the reorganization of the collection together with the art historian Mela Escherich in 1911/12.

In the summer months he liked to visit the Eifel and Lüneburg Heath for landscape studies . From Friesland he brought great dunes with Windflüchter with the entrance to the art collection of Heinrich Kirchhoff found. In 1905/6 he traveled to southern Africa, where he a. a. visited the Victoria Falls of the Zambezi (between Zimbabwe and Zambia ) to paint and draw landscape motifs there too.

Völcker's wall paintings in Wiesbaden

Völcker received his first major commission as a decorative painter and interior designer in 1910 to furnish the crematorium in the south cemetery with frescoes. Some of the work was carried out by Hans Völcker himself with the assistance of his wife Hanna, who was also an artist.

In 1912 Völcker was given the complete equipment of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Bad . His wife Hanna was involved in the execution of the large figure frieze.

The decorative painting inside the 1915 inaugurated by the architect Theodor Fischer built "New Museum" created Volcker. He had his studio in the museum until the 1930s, as did Alo Altripp later .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nadja Luft: Hans Völkers contribution to Art Nouveau in Wiesbaden. On the 50th anniversary of the painter's death on January 16 . In: Wiesbadener Leben vol. 43, p. 10.
  2. ^ Exhibition catalog X. Exhibition of the Munich Secession: The German Association of Artists (in connection with an exhibition of exquisite products of the arts in the craft) . Publishing house F. Bruckmann, Munich 1904, p. 32: Völcker, Hans, Wiesbaden. Catalog number 166: sunrise , 167: evening sun, watercolor .
  3. ↑ Birgit Funk: The Nassau Art Association in the first half of the 20th century . In: Fine arts in Wiesbaden. From the bourgeois revolution to the present day - The Nassau Art Association . Wiesbaden 1997, p. 53 f.
  4. ↑ Stephanie Zibell, Escherich, Mela, Stadtlexikon Wiesbaden, https://www.wiesbaden.de/microsite/stadtlexikon/az/Escherich__Mela.php
  5. ↑ Sabine Mertens: His great love was always the sea, Hans Völcker: From marine painter to impressionism to interior decorator . In: Wiesbadener Tagblatt , January 1, 1994.
  6. ^ Walter G. Busse: A gentleman of the old school. To the painter Hans Völker on his 120th birthday . In: Wiesbadener Leben vol. 34, 11/1985, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Völcker, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Pyritz , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1944
Place of death Wiesbaden