Heinrich Klingenberg

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Free sculpture of Heinrich Klingenberg in Visbek, made by Albert Bocklage

Heinrich Klingenberg (born May 23, 1868 in Visbek , † December 30, 1935 in Lohne ) was a German painter.

Life dates

The son of the carpenter Ferdinand Gerhard Heinrich Klingenberg and his wife Catharina born. Schillmöller from Visbek began an apprenticeship as a painter in the neighboring town of Goldenstedt in 1882 , which he broke off again due to illness. From 1885 to 1888 he completed an apprenticeship as a decoration and church painter in the Münster , which he supplemented with painting and drawing courses. After a brief activity as a church painter in Visbek, he began to study art in Munich in 1891 , which he had to give up after a year due to financial difficulties. In 1896 he settled in Lohne (Oldenburg) and married Helene Kaimer. In the period that followed, he received numerous commissions for churches in the southern Oldenburg area and also painted portraits. From 1900 he showed his works at exhibitions in Oldenburg, joined the Association of Northwest German Artists in 1904 and was also one of the founders of the Oldenburg Artists' Association. His artistic breakthrough came in 1905 at the Northwest German Art and Industry Exhibition in Oldenburg. He was now funded and in 1909 was able to arrange an exhibition in Oncken's court art dealership in Oldenburg, which was well received. Klingenberg's academically precise way of painting corresponded to the trend of the bourgeois understanding of art and so he became one of the most sought-after portraitists in the Grand Duchy , who also received numerous commissions from the nobility, the clergy and the upper class. After the First World War his orders fell sharply for economic reasons and Klingenberg ran into financial difficulties again. He then went to the Netherlands from 1922 to 1926 , where his painting style was again successful. In the last decade of his life, his Parkinson's disease severely hampered his work. Heinrich Klingenberg died completely impoverished in a hospital in Lohne in 1935 at the age of 67 without a client. In April 2013, a sculpture by Heinrich Klingenberg, made by the Vechta sculptor Albert Bocklage , was erected on the main street of his birthplace Visbek .

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After starting out as a church decoration painter, Klingenberg turned to realistic portrait painting. In doing so, he renounced intense colors and concentrated on the expression of the person portrayed. His portraits are of solid craftsmanship and cool objectivity and were mostly based on photographs.

Klingenberg was a nationally sought-after portraitist and painted a total of over 500 portraits.

Exhibitions and prizes

1905 Participation in the north-west German art and trade exhibition in Oldenburg , 1909 first solo exhibition in the art dealer Oncken im Lappan in Oldenburg, 1958 exhibition on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of his birthday in his place of birth Visbek .

In 1918 Heinrich Klingenberg received the Great Gold Medal for Science and Art from the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.

family

Klingenberg married on January 18, 1896 Helene Margarethe geb. Kaimer from Hattingen . The couple had eleven children.

literature

  • Franz Thedering: Heinrich Klingenberg . Lower Saxony 1913/1914
  • Gerhard Wietek : The painter Heinrich Klingenberg . Home calendar for the Oldenburger Münsterland 1959.
  • Ders .: 200 years of painting in the Oldenburger Land . Oldenburg 1986. ISBN 3-9801191-0-6
  • Barbara Wieland: Heinrich Klingenberg. Portrait painter 1868–1935 . In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 1987 . Vechta 1986, pp. 341-350
  • Ruth Irmgard Dalinghaus: “The soul is in the eyes”. Heinrich Klingenberg (1868 - 1935), portrait painter of the Oldenburg Münsterland . Industrie-Museum Lohne, February 13 to April 18, 2004; (an exhibition of the Freundeskreis Luzie Uptmoor eV) ISBN 3-9808151-8-8
  • Klingenberg, Ernst Heinrich. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 373-374 ( online ).

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personal data
SURNAME Klingenberg, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Visbek
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1935
Place of death Rewards