Heinrich Count Luckner

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Heinrich Graf Luckner (full name Magnus Heinrich-Alexander Graf von Luckner ; born March 12, 1891 in Kolberg , † August 15, 1970 in Munich ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Heinrich Graf Luckner was a son of Julius Ludwig Ferdinand Nikolaus Graf Luckner and Anna Sophie Magdalene von Kameke . His father died in 1893, his uncle was Felix Graf von Luckner , the "sea devil". He went to school in Stargard and Lauenburg and became a lieutenant in 1909.

From 1919 he studied with Fritz Pfuhle in Danzig and later with Julius Meier-Graefe at the Dresden Academy. As a master student of Ludwig von Hofmann , he finished his studies in 1922 and went to Berlin , where Carl Nicolai organized Luckner's first - and very successful - exhibition. In the beginning Luckner worked primarily as a freelance book illustrator and press illustrator. Between 1924 and 1929 he traveled to Italy, France and England. He exhibited in London, Cologne, Danzig, Essen, Duisburg and Berlin, including in the 1926 watercolor exhibition of the Berlin Secession. Some of his paintings were classified as "degenerate" by the National Socialists, including a portrait of Max Pechstein . That is why after 1933 he mostly worked outside of Berlin, especially in Pomerania, where he designed Stojentin's church windows, e . B. the window "Carrying the Cross". During the Second World War, Luckner did military service again, most recently as a major. In 1942 he was given a six- month leave of absence for a working visit as a student at the Villa Massimo in Rome. Luckner's obviously good relationships with recognized Nazi artists such as Arno Breker or the sculptor Dagmar Countess zu Dohna (who created portrait busts of him and his wife Ingeborg) also enabled him to obtain short-term leave from the front for his friend Hermann Blumenthal .

After the war, Luckner founded the lithographic company Sasso-Presse, which existed until 1949. During this time he focused on topics from ancient Greece. In 1949 he got a call as a professor of education at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. a. the painter and graphic artist Ernst Marow . Heinrich Graf Luckner also joined the newly founded German Association of Artists in 1950 , at whose first exhibition in Berlin he showed the oil paintings Lot's daughters and lovers (both 1951). After his retirement in 1957, he went on study trips to Italy and Western Europe. In 1956 he was elected a full member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, Department of Fine Arts. He was also an honorary member of the professional association "Visual Artists Berlin". In 1961 he moved to Munich. From 1950 to 1970 Luckner developed into one of the great portraitists: He painted Ernst Reuter and Theodor Heuss, among others . He took part in exhibitions in Kassel , Fulda , Munich , Darmstadt , Rheine , Nordhorn and Berlin . As a full member of the DKB , he was also represented at other major annual exhibitions until 1958.

He married Charlotte Lier in his first marriage and Ingeborg Ungerer in his second marriage on September 27, 1934 in Berlin.

literature

  • Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Third volume (KP) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 267)
  • Ernst Schremmer: Memories of the painter Heinrich Graf Luckner . In: Die Pommersche Zeitung , volume 67, episode 50 of December 16, 2017, p. 3, 2 fig.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Kulturportal West-Ost: Luckner, Heinrich Graf.
  2. ↑ s. Jobst Knigge : The Villa Massimo in Rome 1933–1943. Struggle for artistic independence . Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin 2013. ( full text at edoc.hu-berlin.de ), p. 264f.
  3. ^ Catalog of the Deutscher Künstlerbund 1950. First exhibition in Berlin 1951, in the rooms of the Bild University. Arts, Hardenbergstr. 33 , complete production: Brüder Hartmann, Berlin 1951. (cat.no.132, 133. without page numbers)
  4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951 / 1951-1954, 1957, 1958 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (accessed November 4, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  5. ^ Elisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans Mademoiselle d'Alençon
personal data
SURNAME Luckner, Heinrich Graf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luckner, Magnus Heinrich-Alexander Graf von (full name); Luckner, Heinrich-Alexander Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolberg
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 1970
Place of death Munich