Heinrich Schelhasse

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Heinrich Franz Alex Schelhasse (born October 3, 1896 in Bad Lippspringe , † September 3, 1977 in Paderborn ) was a German expressionist painter who mainly worked in Berlin as a mosaic and glass painter and is known for his religious representations in churches.

Life

Schelhasse appeared as a painter and graphic artist from 1911. He received his training at the Kassel Art Academy and was a member of the Kassel Secession around Arnold Bode . In the 1920s and 1930s he worked in the Berlin area. During this time he lived on Mindener Strasse in Berlin-Charlottenburg and taught at the Prussian Academy of the Arts . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he lost his job at the academy. In addition, his works were defamed as Degenerate Art .

In collaboration with the architect Wilhelm Fahlbusch , he designed several Catholic churches. For the church of St. Michael in Berlin-Wannsee he created mosaics with depictions of angels for the high altar, carpet designs and a monumental adaptation of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper . For the St. Antonius Church in Potsdam-Babelsberg, consecrated in 1934, he painted triptychs for the two original side altars. For the St. Bonifatius Church in Berlinchen in the Neumark he created glass windows and a Way of the Cross, other works were created for the Catholic Church in Zossen and the Magdeburg Sankt Sebastian Church .

Works for the Archdiocese of Paderborn , where he lived since 1945, date from the time after the Second World War . So graced his performance as the diocese's patron Liborius as a frontispiece the new edition of the Paderborn hymnbook Sursum Corda in 1948. In the early 1950s produced designs for stained glass windows in several churches of the Archdiocese.

Schelhate Expressionist art was largely ignored in the autumn of 2012 after decades of neglect in the exhibition Enjoyment, Sensation, Rebellion. new attention in the Hammer Gustav Lübcke Museum .

  • Carpet design, St. Michael Berlin-Wannsee

  • St. Michael Berlin-Wannsee altar room with carpet, picture of the Last Supper and angel mosaics on the tabernacle

  • Angel mosaics on the tabernacle, St. Michael Berlin-Wannsee

  • Triptych of the Virgin Mary, middle section on the former side altar in St. Antonius Potsdam-Babelsberg

  • Marient triptych, left wing on the former side altar in St. Antonius Potsdam-Babelsberg

  • Herz Jesu triptych, middle section on the former side altar in St. Antonius Potsdam-Babelsberg

Works (selection)

  • Cabaret scene (1920), watercolor, Gustav Lübcke-Museum Hamm
  • Christ monogram with evangelist symbols (approx. 1927), carpet design, St. Michael, Berlin-Wannsee
  • Engel (ca.1927), mosaic, St. Michael, Berlin-Wannsee
  • Last Supper (ca.1927), mural, St. Michael, Berlin-Wannsee
  • Herz Jesu triptych (1934), painting, St. Antonius Potsdam-Babelsberg
  • Marien Triptych (1934), painting, St. Antonius Potsdam-Babelsberg
  • Paderborn. On the Börnepader (before 1940), artist postcard
  • St. Michael fighting the dragon (1951), Arnsberg-Neheim , Catholic Church St. Michael, glass windows on the organ gallery
  • Blessing Christ, surrounded by the four evangelist symbols and angels. (1953), Neuhaus Castle , Catholic Church of St. Josef, glass window on the organ gallery

From 1932 to 1942 he worked as a draftsman of construction plans for the series of Volckmann's blueprints of airworthy aircraft models , Volckmann's blueprints for ship models and German ships in model construction, which were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out after the Second World War.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Schelhasse, Heinrich FA In: Dreßler's art manual volume: Fine art. Berlin 1930.
  2. ↑ a b Expressionism show in the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum. In: online edition. Westfälischer Anzeiger , September 13, 2012, accessed March 8, 2016 .
  3. ^ Expressionism: Today »Enjoyment. Sensation. Revolt ”in Hamm. (No longer available online.) Sonntags-Rundblick.de, archived from the original on March 9, 2016 ; accessed on March 8, 2016 .
  4. ^ Oscar Gehrig : Schelhasse, Heinrich . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 18 .
  5. ↑ Barbara Stambolis: Libori. The church and folk festival in Paderborn. Waxmann, Münster / New York 1996, ISBN 3-89325-433-1 , p. 166.
  6. ↑ Schelhasse, Heinrich Franz Alex . In: Procription list - literature to be sorted out . 1945 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - No. 24686 to 24700). Schelhasse, Heinrich Franz Alex . In: Allied censorship in post-war Germany . 1945, p.
     543-544 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - Nos. 24376 to 24390).
personal data
SURNAME Schelhasse, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schelhasse, Heinrich FA; Schelhasse, Heinrich Franz Alex (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Lippspringe
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1977
Place of death Paderborn