Hans von Volkmann
Hans Richard von Volkmann (born May 19, 1860 in Halle (Saale) ; † April 29, 1927 there ) was a German illustrator and landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School . He was a board member of the German Association of Artists and a member of the Schwalm Willingshausen painters' colony .
Life
Born as the son of the surgeon Richard von Volkmann in Halle (Rathausstrasse 6) in 1860, he only spent his youth in his hometown, but never lost his ties to Halle. In numerous publications on the city of the Saale from the first decades of the 20th century, you come across illustrations by Volkmann. Among other things, he lovingly illustrated his father's famous book of fairy tales "Dreams of French chimneys". However, his pen drawings from "Alt Halle" are particularly well known. “What has disappeared and preserved from the old salt town of Halle” is what he called these three booklets, which were published in several editions by Gebauer & Schwetschke, in the subtitle. During his multiple visits to Halle and the surrounding area , the graduate of the Düsseldorf Art Academy recorded houses, buildings, streets and other sights with a brush, pencil or pen . In particular, the views of buildings and historical sites that have disappeared or are no longer preserved today, such as the junk, the Würfelwiese , the tanner's hall or the Goldener Pflug inn, are of great value as historical sources for city historians and monument conservators.
Training and study locations
As a 14-year-old von Volkmann had already started to roam Halle and his native regions with pencil and paint box. More than 100 watercolors in the Halle city archive still bear witness to this today . The former city archivist Werner Piechocki published a selection of these in 1992 in the volume “The old hall: From the sketchbooks of Hans von Volkmann”. Volkmann later referred to these first attempts at painting as "amateurish watercolor studies". These are the first artistic steps of one of the later most important German landscape painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After studying with Hugo Crola , Heinrich Lauenstein , Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and Eduard von Gebhardt from 1880 to 1888 in Düsseldorf and becoming a member of the Malkasten artists' association there , Hans von Volkmann was a master student of Gustav Schönleber (1851–1892) who was only a few years older. 1917) in Halle's twin town, Karlsruhe . The city remained his adopted home and place of work until his death. He quickly achieved success as a landscape painter and became the most striking representative of the Karlsruhe landscape school founded by Schönleber. Today his works can be seen in many German museums. At the age of 30, he sold his first painting to Dr. Eduard Hertzberg. In addition to extensive excursions to Hesse , Thuringia , Saxony , Swabia, Upper Bavaria and Mecklenburg as well as to the Riviera (1893), his journey also led him to his hometown Halle, where he died on April 29, 1927 during a brief visit after a three-day illness.
Stays in Willingshausen
In 1883 Volkmann came to Willingshausen for the first time. He worked there for 25 years, often for longer periods. From 1883 to 1895 Volkmann was annually in Willingshausen , with the exception of the years 1888 in which he visited Dachau and in 1892 in which he visited Weßling . In 1900 Volkmann lived with his wife in the Haase Gasthaus. He then visited Willingshausen again in 1907. From spring to late autumn he lived with his family with their own household in Willingshausen from 1907 to 1910. Volkmann visited Willingshausen again in 1912. Finally he came to Willingshausen from 1924 to 1926 and lived in the Hückerschem hostel . Volkmann got by without any accessories when he had mighty hat-beeches watch over the great circle of the horizon or when he lined quiet meadow valleys with forests.
Membership in the German Association of Artists
As an early member of the German Association of Artists, he took part in the first DKB exhibition in Munich's Royal Art Exhibition Building on Königsplatz in 1904 . In the same year he was a member of the art committee and delegate of the international art exhibition in the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf . Since his 60th birthday, an honorary member of the Halle artists' association "Auf dem Pflug", founded in 1905, he has supported and promoted the artistic endeavors of this association as an external member. He actively participated in its annual art exhibitions, as he did before in the exhibitions of the Kunstverein Halle and the Städtisches Museum in Moritzburg , Halle. He showed the last larger collection at the plow exhibition in 1925.
In October 1928 the city of Halle organized a commemorative exhibition with the early work of Hans von Volkmann. In the chronicle of the “Künstlerverein auf dem Pflug” there is a letter of thanks on the occasion of the appointment as an honorary member, in which he wrote: “Even though I have lived in southern Germany for more than 30 years, in some respects I am a Baden native but at the same time remained a good and loyal old Halle native at all times; And whether in the course of time, especially due to the severity of the war and its consequences, some threads have been torn, there is still a lot that keeps me tied to the places of my childhood, my parents' house, the paradise of my childhood memories. "
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He mostly painted unspectacular low mountain ranges such as Gänseweide, In den Hainbuchen or Auf Einsamer Heide. Often his landscapes are also associated with genre representations such as woodcutter lighting a fire , snack hour in the forest , on the way to the fair. Although he stayed away from any dramatization, a tendency towards social romanticism cannot be overlooked. His harmless, pleasing manner of representation ensured him social success, also as an illustrator z. B. of children's books. Boetticher lists 62 works that were exhibited between 1889 and 1896. His biographer Heinz Bischof wrote: "Over the years he enriched his artistic means of expression, trained in realism and naturalism, through the influences of Art Nouveau and other modern tendencies, and he knew how to translate objective observation of nature into subjective mood images." Nevertheless, he remained in the tradition of Düsseldorf already arrested a generation earlier developed view.
Exhibitions
- 2006/7: Soul landscapes on stone , Museum Schloss Moyland , Bedburg -Hau
Honors
In Willingshausen a square is named after Hans von Volkmann.
Museum review
- The Schwalm farmer Ditter, 1883, Schwalm Museum, Ziegenhain
- Landscape in the Schwalm with encounter , 1887, Museum of the Schwalm, Ziegenhain
- Hessian village, 1900 State Gallery Moritzburg, Halle
- Farmer with a wagon, 1887, Willingshäuser Malerstübchen, Willingshausen
- Old Schwalm farmer, 1889, Willingshäuser Malerstübchen,
literature
- Carl Langhein : Hans von Volkmann - A German painter. In: Jahrbuch 1918 für Deutschnationale Handlungsgehilfen , Verlag der Deutschnationalen Buchhandlung, Hamburg 1918, pp. 90–94 (The yearbook also includes pictures by Hans von Volkmann; digitized version )
- Hans Nachod : The painter Hans von Volkmann . In: Reclams Universum 43.2 (1927), pp. 1299-1300. With 3 fig.
- Volkmann, Hans Richard von. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/2, sheets 33–67: Saal – Zwengauer. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1901, pp. 944-945 ( archive.org ).
- Volkmann, Hans von. In: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Volume 3: Nabert-Zwecker. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 .
- Bernd Küster : Hans von Volkmann , Donat Verlag, Bremen 1998. ISBN 3-931-73741-1
- Bernd Küster: Willingshausen artists' colony . edition fischerhude art book 2006 ISBN 3-88-132-253-1 pp. 74-75
- Volkmann, Hans Richard von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 522-523 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ s. Full board in the catalog of the 3rd German Artists Association Exhibition , Weimar 1906. p. 39 online (accessed May 30, 2016)
- ^ Carl Bantzer : Hesse in German painting , 1935
- ^ Konrad Kaiser: Painter of the Schwalm . Art cabinet in the Schwalm Museum , Ziegenhain 1974 p. 4
- ↑ s. 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) , Verlaganstalt F. Bruckmann, Munich 1904 (p. 32: Volkmann, Hans von, Karlsruhe i. B. - catalog no. 169: Surging Seeds. )
- ↑ Angelika Storm-Rusche in: The Museum Schloss Moyland shows color lithographs from the period around 1900. Art Nouveau and symbolism are the trends that influence young art in the Generalanzeiger Bonn on December 13, 2006
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans von Volkmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- At a German university . Digitized edition
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Volkmann, Hans von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Volkmann, Hans Richard von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German illustrator and landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1927 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |