Heinrich Kamps

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Heinrich Kamps (born September 29, 1896 in Krefeld , † December 21, 1954 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter, director of the Düsseldorf Art Academy and was one of the artists ostracized under National Socialism .

education

After elementary school, Kamps attended secondary school and, since 1914, the crafts and arts and crafts school in Krefeld . In 1915 he switched to the Hamburg School of Applied Arts in Lerchenfeld, but had to break off this training because he was called up for military service in September. Because of a war injury he was unfit for military service from 1916 and was therefore able to attend the state drawing teacher seminar at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts with Lothar von Kunowski from 1917 , which he completed in 1919 with the state drawing teacher examination.

Act

In the two following years Kamps worked as a freelance artist until he was appointed as a drawing teacher at the Rethelgymnasium in Düsseldorf in 1921 . In 1922 he was presented with his works for the first time to a wider public when he in an exhibition of the artist group The Young Rheinland involved and also to the in connection with this exhibition, led by Gert Heinrich Wollheim first held from May 29 to 31 (and only) Congress of the Union of International Progressive Artists in the Düsseldorf government building . When in 1923 the Rhine group of boys Rheinland split off, to Kamps joined this new group until the group in 1928 again with the boys Rhineland and others on the Rheinische secession united. In 1925 he worked for a short time at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Kassel before he was appointed professor for artistic teaching at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the same year . In 1929 Kamps took over the management of the State Art School in Berlin-Schöneberg . During his time in Berlin he became a senator of the Prussian Academy of the Arts and made acquaintances with the artists Erich Heckel , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Emil Nolde . For Kamps, the years 1930 to 1932 were marked by a creative phase with a strongly expressive painting gesture.

Harassment by the Nazi regime

Due to the denunciation of an assistant, Kamps was removed from his position as director of the art school in 1933. The accusation was that they were protegging communists and cultural Bolshevism . Then he was able to work as a professor at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg until 1937 , where he led the class for glass painting and mosaic . Since he refused to join the NSDAP , he was forced to retire on November 1, 1937 on the basis of the law to restore the civil service . His work Red Flower Pots as Degenerate Art was confiscated from the Franconian Gallery in Nuremberg . It is lost to this day.

In the following years Kamps stayed for a long time on Hiddensee , in the Eifel and on the Lower Rhine , since 1944 he lived in Olpe . During this time he designed glass windows , mosaics and murals for church buildings. In 1943, his Berlin studio was destroyed in a bombing by the Allies , and almost all of his work was lost.

post war period

In 1946 Werner Heuser Kamps was able to win over as professor for the reopened Düsseldorf Art Academy, which he then headed as director from 1949 until his death. In the last years of his life, Kamps took part in various exhibitions, including in 1947 at the West German Artists' Association in Hagen and in 1948 in the "Lower Rhine Painting and Sculpture of the Present" at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld . In 1952 the Duisburg Art Museum, today's Lehmbruck Museum , dedicated a solo exhibition to him.

Known students (selection)

literature

  • Beatrice Thön: Heinrich Kamps 1896-1954 . Monograph with catalog raisonné, dissertation from 1990, Heidelberg 1992.
  • Rolf Jessewitsch and Gerhard Schneider (eds.): Ostracized - Forgotten - Rediscovered. Art of expressive representationalism from the Gerhard Schneider Collection , Wienand, Cologne 1999. ISBN 3-87909-665-1 , p. 447.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other sources cite 1948 as the beginning of his management activity: Munzinger archive.
personal data
SURNAME Kamps, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1954
Place of death Dusseldorf