Heinrich Steinhagen

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Heinrich Steinhagen (born September 10, 1880 in Wismar , † July 19, 1948 in Rahlstedt , Hamburg ; full name: Heinrich August Friedrich Johannes Steinhagen ) was a German graphic artist , sculptor and painter of Expressionism .

education

Heinrich Steinhagen, born in 1880 as the son of a Wismar shoemaker, was self-taught as an artist. After working as a painter's assistant in Lübeck, he settled in Hamburg after 1900. The art collector Ernst Rump promoted him, but he always lived in financially precarious circumstances.

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His early work includes delicate impressionist etchings of the northern German landscape, some of which are reminiscent of the painters of the former Worpswede artists' colony . Through such work he achieved international recognition. However, the traumatic experiences in World War I prompted him to change the content and style. He began to occupy himself more and more with religious motifs and to implement them painterly and graphically. A second group of motifs represented fighting and death scenes as he had probably experienced them himself. The depictions of suffering military horses dominated .

In terms of style, there was now a change from the Impressionist method of representation to the recourse to the old German masters, but also to stylistic elements of Expressionism .

Steinhagen was a co-founder of the Hamburg Secession and a member of the Hamburg Art Association . From 1909 he worked in a state studio in the Hamburger Kunsthalle , which he gave up again in 1919 . In 1920 he sold his work to the art dealer Sommer. During this time he began building his house in Hamburg Neu-Rahlstedt (Wiesenredder 14) as a total work of art. The large house served as the family home and as the artist's studio and was called "Rahlstedter Schloss" by the residents. The house was built by the artist himself and was decorated with numerous sculptures and works of art. The house was partially destroyed by fire in 1937 and rebuilt by the artist. After the war, the house fell into disrepair and was finally demolished in 1963 with all the artistic inventory in order to be used as a kindergarten. Today a lovingly designed memorial plaque reminds of Heinrich Steinhagen's "Rahlstedter Schloß". During the Nazi propaganda campaign Degenerate Art in 1937 , a self-portrait from 1917 was removed from the Hamburger Kunsthalle by the Nazi regime . On May 9, 2012, a street in Hamburg-Rahlstedt was named "Steinhagenweg" in honor of the artist.

In 1944 he spent four months in a concentration camp because he had publicly insulted the dictator Hitler in mourning for his fallen son .

Heinrich Steinhagen died of lung cancer .

Public collections with Steinhagen's works

literature

  • Friederike Weimar: The Hamburg Secession 1919–1933. History and dictionary of artists. Fischerhude 2003. ISBN 3-88132258-2 . Pp. 152-153.
  • Karin von Behr: Heinrich Steinhagen 1880–1948. A German expressionist. Fischerhude 2003. ISBN 3-88132259-0 .
  • Karin von Behr: color, shape and clay. Heinrich Steinhagen's dream of a total work of art. Catalog and catalog raisonné. With memories from Lothar Stolte. Jesteburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-938594-03-2 .
  • Maike Bruhns : Steinhagen, Heinrich . in: The new rump. Lexicon of fine artists in Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2005, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 . P. 447.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9687 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt on the work of Heinrich Steinhagen accessed November 27, 2009
  2. ↑ Counting card from the census of December 1, 1890 in Mecklenburg-Schwerin at: familysearch.org, accessed July 5, 2015
  3. ^ Heinrich Steinhagen at: deutsche-biographie.de
  4. ↑ Counting card of the census of December 1, 1900 in Mecklenburg-Schwerin at: familysearch.org, accessed July 5, 2015

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personal data
SURNAME Steinhagen, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinhagen, Heinrich August Friedrich Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist, sculptor and expressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1948
Place of death Rahlstedt , Hamburg