Heinrich Maria Davringhausen

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Memorial stone for Davringhausen in Aachen's Adalbertstrasse

Heinrich Maria Davringhausen (born October 21, 1894 in Aachen ; † December 13, 1970 in Nice ) was a German painter of New Objectivity and Magical Realism .

life and work

After studying at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1913/1914 and taking private lessons with the painter Wilhelm Eckstein , Davringhausen took part in a group exhibition at the Flechtheim Gallery in 1914 . During this time he lived in the studio house of the sculptor Albert Pehle in Oberkassel on Drakeplatz, in which the Walter Ophey studio was also located. In the same year he stayed in Ascona together with his friend Carlo Mense . In 1915 he moved to Berlin , where he made friends with George Grosz and the Herzfelde brothers .

In 1919 he exhibited for the first time at the Hans Goltz gallery in Munich , where he met Alexander Kanoldt . In Düsseldorf he joined the Young Rhineland . He was a member of the Berlin November Group and took part in the style and conceptual exhibition Neue Sachlichkeit in Mannheim in 1925 . In Munich he founded the group Neue Sachlichkeit with Carlo Mense, Alexander Kanoldt and Georg Schrimpf . In 1929 he took part in the annual exhibition of the German Association of Artists in the Cologne State House with the oil painting Negress Mädchen .

In 1932 he founded the avant-garde group 32 with Seiwert, Hoerle, Räderscheidt and Ludwig Egidius Ronig , which was disbanded a year later . In 1933 Davringhausen fled into exile with his wife, the Jewish entrepreneur's daughter Lore Auerbach, first to Cala Rajada on Mallorca , in 1936 to Ascona, in 1939 to Paris and finally to southern France. In Germany around 200 of his works were removed from public museums as degenerate art ; Davringhausen was banned from painting and exhibiting. In 1939/1940 he was interned together with other painters such as Max Ernst , Anton Räderscheidt and numerous writers such as Lion Feuchtwanger , Walter Hasenclever and Golo Mann in the camp of Les Milles near Aix-en-Provence, but was able to flee to Auvergne. After the war he lived in Cagnes-sur-Mer until his death in 1970 .

Since his emigration, his work was increasingly shaped by abstraction. From 1989 to 2009 the painter's estate was in the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren . At that time, she organized several exhibitions of his pictures, especially those from his later creative periods, and in 1995 a retrospective of the works of the New Objectivity that were still preserved. From February to June 2013 the August-Macke-Haus in Bonn showed around 40 exhibits from Davringhausen's earlier work.

literature

  • Davringhausen, Heinrich , in: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. First volume (AD) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 525)
  • Heinrich M. Davringhausen. From Expressionism to New Objectivity. Exhibition book. Edited by August Macke-Haus, Bonn 2013.
  • Dorothea Eimert : Heinrich Maria Davringhausen 1894–1970. Monograph and catalog raisonné. Cologne 1995.
  • Emilio Bertonati: New Objectivity in Germany. Herrsching 1988, ISBN 3881994475 .
  • Joachim Heusinger von Waldegg : HM Davringhausen. Rhineland, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-7927-0290-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ to Heinrich Maria Davringhausen (1894-1970) , in Rudolf Kremer: Stations of a Path: Between Provinciality and Modernity (PDF)
  2. ↑ s. Catalog of the Deutscher Künstlerbund Cologne 1929. May – September 1929 in the State House , M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1929. (P. 16: Davringhausen, HM: Cat.No. 60: Negro girls. )
  3. ^ Sylvia Böhmer and Gabriele Lueg: Ludwig E. Ronig, painting drawing. Exhibition catalog, guide of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, commissioned by the Rhineland Regional Association 1984. Rhineland-Verlag Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-7927-0833-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Davringhausen, Heinrich Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the New Objectivity
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1970
Place of death Cagnes-sur-Mer near Nice