Heinrich Stegemann

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Dance of Death , self-portrait, 1945

Heinrich Stegemann (born September 15, 1888 in Hamburg ; † September 2, 1945 there ) was a German painter and sculptor .

Life

Girl at the Window , 1908

In parallel to his painting apprenticeship between 1904 and 1906, Heinrich Stegemann participated in Franz Breest's courses at the Altona School of Applied Arts. Then he was able to take up a scholarship in 1906 and 1907 to study at the arts and crafts school. From 1909 to 1913 he continued his studies at the Weimar Art Academy.

In Heinrich Stegemann's great oeuvre, war is a focus. As a 26-year-old, returning from his studies in Italy in 1915, he was sent to the Western Front of the First World War . Until 1918 Stegemann fought partly on heavy sections of the front, was wounded and buried, and was deployed again at the front after a stay in a hospital. The experiences at the front were among the bitterest of his life and haunted him traumatically until the end of his life. From 1918 he worked as a freelance artist in Hamburg. He belonged to the November group , from 1927 to the German Association of Artists , and in 1920 to the Hamburg Art Association . He has made work available to the Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg .

43 of his works were confiscated during the Nazi era in 1937 because they were classified as degenerate art . A year earlier, the Reichskunstkammer ordered the closure of the last DKB annual exhibition painting and sculpture in Germany at the Hamburger Kunstverein, of which he was the exhibition director. Stegemann's own contribution to this exhibition is now in the Hamburger Kunsthalle . After all, after a bomb attack on Hamburg in 1943, almost all of his life's work was destroyed by the fire that this triggered. The Flensburg Municipal Museum houses the estate of Heinrich Stegemann . The private collection of Wilhelm Werner (art collector) contains 22 paintings and 100 works on paper by Heinrich Stegemann.

Heinrich Stegemann died of cancer on September 2, 1945 in Hamburg and was buried in the grave of his parents in the Stellingen cemetery in Hamburg-Stellingen , where there is a gravestone he designed with a relief of a mason scene at the entrance near the cemetery office (his father was a bricklayer).

Lithographs from the fighting in the First World War

  • View over a battlefield , 1937 ( Maike Bruhns Collection )

  • Marching soldiers in two trains , 1937 (Maike Bruhns Collection)

  • Heerstrasse , 1937 (Maike Bruhns Collection)

Heinrich Stegemann Art Foundation

Annegret Moderegger and Burchard Bösche founded the Heinrich Stegemann Art Foundation in December 2007, both of which are on the board. The foundation is dedicated to art in public spaces, early music with a Hamburg connection, especially to the Gänsemarkt Opera and generally to art with a democratic claim. Funded were u. a. Murals about the brawn riots in 1919, about the founders of the “Produktion” cooperative , about the judicial murder of the young resister Helmuth Hübener and the strike in the Lauensteinschen wagon factory (1869) (mural at the Hamburg union building ). The foundation has initiated various exhibitions, including a. together with the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS : Heinrich Stegemann 1888–1945, Pictures from War (2015) and with the Hamburg State and University Library : Painting and Sculpture in Germany 1936. The story of a prohibited exhibition. (2016).

Literature / sources

  • Hamburg views - painters see the city, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Wienand Verlag, p. 194
  • Heinrich Stegemann 1880–1945, pictures from the war. Exhibition catalog, publisher: Kunststiftung Heinrich Stegemann, 2015, ISBN 978-3-738-65611-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Stegemann 1880–1945, Pictures from the War. Exhibition catalog, publisher: Kunststiftung Heinrich Stegemann, 2015, ISBN 978-3-738-65611-4
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Stegemann, Heinrich ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 on January 2, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ Forward and not forgotten , Workers' Culture in Hamburg around 1930, pp. 256-257, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-88725-110-5
  4. ^ "Painting and sculpture in Germany 1936" - The history of a forbidden exhibition, writings of the Heinrich Stegemann Art Foundation No. 3, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 9783741210365
  5. ^ Exhibition catalog 34th Annual Exhibition in Bonn. Pictures banned in 1936 , Deutscher Künstlerbund eV, Berlin 1986. (p. 88/89)
  6. ↑ Ulrich Luckhardt: Heinrich Stegemann , in: ders .: The collection of caretaker Wilhelm Werner (= catalog for the exhibition from September 18, 2011 to January 15, 2012 in the Hamburger Kunsthalle). Mare Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-936543-72-8 , p. 45
  7. ↑ illustration grave stone at stegemann-stiftung.de
  8. ^ Cemetery plan
  9. ^ Website Stellinger Friedhof
personal data
SURNAME Stegemann, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1945
Place of death Hamburg