Helmuth Liesegang

Helmuth Liesegang, by Max Stern , around 1910

Helmuth Liesegang (born July 18, 1858 in Duisburg , † July 31, 1945 in Leipzig ) was a German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Career

Liesegang was born as the son of the senior high school teacher Dr. phil. Helmuth Karl Albert Liesegang (* 1827) and his wife Agnes born. Jüngel (* 1836) born in Duisburg. His grandfather was Wilhelm Liesegang, superintendent in Perleberg . His brother Erich (* 1860), who was to become director of the state library in Wiesbaden in 1899, stands out among the six siblings of Liesegang . In 1868 the family moved to Kleve , where the father ran the Royal High School for 28 years . Even as a teenager, Liesegang liked to roam around Kleve to draw. After the Klever Gymnasium, he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1877 to 1886 . There Eugen Dücker became one of his most important teachers. He learned to erase from Carl Ernst Forberg . Together with Arthur Kampf , he traveled to Paris in 1885, where he was influenced by French painting, such as the Barbizon School and works by Jean-François Millet and Jules Bastien-Lepage . As an imitator of the Hague School , he felt drawn to the landscapes of Belgium and Holland, which he explored in subsequent years of traveling. In Katwijk he met Max Liebermann . Olof Jernberg was one of his close friends . In 1889 Liesegang founded the “Lucas Club”, a progressive association of landscape painters, inspired by the Hague School and the school , with Jernberg, Eugen Kampf and Heinrich Hermanns - as a reaction to the exhibition policy of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen , which is connected to the art academy von Barbizon sought to combine the achievements of Impressionism . In 1891 the "Lucas Club" was subordinated to the newly founded Free Association of Düsseldorf Artists , from which, however, in 1899 the "St. Lukas Club ”(founded by Liesegang, Hermanns, Jernberg, Arthur Kampf, August Deusser , Otto Heichert and Gustav Wendling , among others ) and the“ Vereinigung von 1899 ”split off. He gave private lessons to Julius Bretz , who had been dismissed from the art academy as untalented . Liesegang was a member of the Malkasten artists' association from 1888 . He was also a member of the German Association of Artists and the Association of Düsseldorf Artists for mutual support and help . He took part in a number of large exhibitions, in particular the exhibitions of the Young Rhineland , the Rhine Group and the Rhenish Secession . In 1943 he was awarded the Goethe Medal and in 1944 the Cornelius Prize . He also received the Prussian Golden State Medal, the Austrian State Medal, an honorary diploma in Paris (1900) and other awards in London and Chicago. In old age he was honored with the title of professor. In 1928/1929 Liesegang wrote his memories under the title From my apprenticeship and traveling years . After air raids on Düsseldorf , at the end of the Second World War, he was admitted to Leipzig, where he died at the age of 87. Liesegang was buried in the Düsseldorf North Cemetery .

Work (selection)

Winter in the Düsseltal

Liesegang's main motif was the Lower Rhine , whose landscapes and vedutas he captured in a naturalistic and impressionistic painting style and often in large picture formats. But there are also views from industrialized cities in his work. Liesegang and Olof Jernberg are among the “pioneers of impressionism” among the painters at the Düsseldorf School.

• Early in the morning
• Netzflicker on the Lower Rhine
• Old town
• Spring on the Lower Rhine
• Winter landscape , 1898
• Altwasser on the Lower Rhine , 1899, Museum Kunstpalast
• Fall foliage
• Last sun
• Winter evening
• Lower Rhine homestead
• Winter in Holland
• Country road after the rain
• Bruges in the snow
• In front of the church
• Haarlem
• Church square in Kleve
• Shepherd with herd
• Village scene in Holland
• Eel fishermen in Holland
• River landscape in Holland
• Winter in the Düsseltal

Publications (selection)

• Pictures from the Flemish coast. In: Westermannsmonthshefte . Volume 118.II, August 1915, pp. 769-779 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Honor

Liesegangstein, 2017

In 1989, a fragment of a column from the demolished New Town Hall was erected on Liesegangstrasse in Düsseldorf . The so-called "Liesegangstein" serves as a reminder of the landscape painter Helmuth Liesegang.

literature

• Liesegang, Hellmuth. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 872 ( archive.org ).
• Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art; especially in the XIX. Century . Verlag des Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 351 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Hellmuth Liesegang is mentioned briefly on p. 244 in connection with the founding of the Lucas Club in 1889).
• Semi-monthly publication Der Niederrhein. Issue 9, 1913.
• Fred Kocks : Helmuth Liesegang. A Düsseldorf master of the present. Graf and Schumacher, Düsseldorf, around 1943.
• Herbert Griebitzsch: The painter Professor Helmut Liesegang. In: Art for All . 59th year, issue 3, February 1944, pp. 49–53 ( digitized version ).
• Liesegang, Helmuth . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 212 .
• New German biography . Volume 14, p. 537.

Web links

Commons : Helmuth Liesegang  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Helmuth Liesegang and Düsseldorf Art , biography (August 2, 2009) on the rambow.de portal
• Helmuth Liesegang , auction results in the van-ham.cam portal
• Helmuth Liesegang artnet.de
• Helmuth Liesegang , auction results in the portal invaluable.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nicole Roth: How modern is the Düsseldorf School of Painting? In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Volume 1, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , pp. 254, 261 (footnote 27), 374.
2. ↑ Inventory list , website in the portal malkasten.org , accessed on August 30, 2014.
3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Liesegang, Helmuth ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 October 31, 2015) 
4. ^ Das Junge Rheinland , website in the portal eifel-und-kunst.de , accessed on August 31, 2014.
5. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Volume 1, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 422.
6. ↑ Nicole Roth: How modern is the Düsseldorf School of Painting? In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Volume 1, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , p. 253.
7. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , volume 2, catalog no. 397, p. 454.
8. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel (ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , volume 2, catalog no. 409, p. 467.