Heinrich Ernst Kromer

Heinrich Ernst Kromer (born September 26, 1866 in Riedern am Wald , municipality of Ühlingen-Birkendorf , district of Waldshut; † May 5, 1948 in Constance ) was a German writer , painter and sculptor .

Life

Heinrich Ernst Kromer came from the marriage of the Black Forest farmer's son and later gold digger Dorus Kromer and the daughter of the mayor of Riedern am Wald. He had four sisters. After graduating from high school in Konstanz, he studied in Heidelberg and Munich, but never graduated. From 1890 he worked as a writer and painter, inspired by contacts with the Munich art scene and the Gottlieber artist colony around Emanuel von Bodman and artists such as Richard Dehmel , René Schickele , Wilhelm von Scholz , Rainer Maria Rilke , Ludwig Finckh , Ludwig Klages and Hermann Hesse , later also Thomas Mann .

In 1893, Kromer published his first author's work “Looking and Building”. He became known with the novels "Arnold Lohr's Zigeunerfahrt" (1913) and "Gustav Hänfling's Memories of a Porcelain Painter" (1915). He also wrote articles in the newspapers Der Zeitgenosse , Simplicissimus , Wiener Rundschau , Deutsche Heimat , Die Freistatt - magazine for culture and school policy , Über Land und Meer , Die Kunst , Die Rheinlande . He was editor of Stern's literary bulletin of Switzerland in Zurich.

He was also active as a painter, later as a sculptor and potter.

Kromer's artistic estate was kept in the former princely castle of Bonndorf , now in the archives of the Waldshut district; A permanent exhibition is dedicated to him in the provost office of St. Leodegar in Ühlingen-Birkendorf. In 1991 the Heinrich Ernst Kromer Society was founded in Riedern am Wald, which is dedicated to the artist's work. Kromer is the namesake of "Heinrich-Ernst-Kromer-Straße" in his place of birth, Ühlingen-Birkendorf. An edition of the work has been published in eight volumes since 2006, edited by Jürgen Glocker and Klaus Isele, in which one volume is published annually.

Fonts

• Look and Build , 1893
• Die Mittdurcher , Novellensammlung, 1898 (new edition 2007 by Edition Isele)
• Arnold Lohrs Zigeunerfahrt , Roman, Rütten & Loening Frankfurt am Main 1913 (new edition 2006 by Edition Isele)
• Gustav Hänfling: Memories of a porcelain painter , Insel Verlag Leipzig 1915 (new edition 1947 by Thorbecke)
• The runaway , novel, Staackmann Verlag Leipzig 1936
• Alemannic story book , Staackmann Verlag Leipzig 1937
• Of rascals and good people , collection of anecdotes, Staackmann Verlag Leipzig 1942

Editing

• Johann Peter Hebel : The most beautiful stories from Johann Peter Hebels treasure chest of the Rhineland family friend . Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1915
• Dorus Kromer: The America trip. From the gold digging years of a Black Forest farmer's son , Staackmann Verlag Leipzig 1935 (new edition 2008 by Edition Isele)

literature

• Elmar Zimmermann , Heinrich Ernst Kromer: Life and Work , Waldshut 1970
• Years of hunger for a gold digger's son. Bettina Kugler follows in the footsteps of Heinrich Ernst Kromer . in: literaturblatt 4/2004
• Barbara Stark, Esther Bächer: Missed, forgotten: the painter, writer and sculptor Heinrich Ernst Kromer . Huber, Frauenfeld 2004, ISBN 3-7193-1357-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Ernst Kromer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Vita of Heinrich Ernst Kromer on lyrikwelt.de
• "Missed, forgotten: the writer, painter and sculptor Heinrich Ernst Kromer"

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Bonndorf Castle" ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ "Propstei St. Leodegar"
3. ↑ "literaturblatt 4/2004" ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.