Hermann Abeking

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Hermann Erneste Abeking (born August 26, 1882 in Berlin ; † July 4, 1939 there ) was a German painter, graphic artist and illustrator .

Self-portrait (around 1910)

Life

Hermann Abeking was born in 1882 as the second son of the premier lieutenant Hermann George Louis Abeking and his wife Clara Dinglinger, both parents were members of the French colony in Berlin. He studied at the art academies in Dresden and Berlin and then lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg and actually wanted to work as a commercial artist .

At the age of twenty he was commissioned to illustrate the book “Hugdietrichs Brautfahrt” from Rideamus . The great interest in this humorous Art Nouveau work quickly made him a successful caricaturist . Abeking was a book illustrator, worked for Ullstein Verlag , was a caricaturist for the Lustigen Blätter , the social democratic satirical magazines Derrue Jacob and Lachen links , the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung and the satirical magazine Ulk . He was represented with his drawings in 1907 and 1910 at the exhibitions in the Glaspalast in Munich and in 1909 and 1921 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . He was a member of the Association of German Illustrators.

In 1903 Abeking married the painter Elly Grube . In 1904 the family bought Büdnereien 14/15 in Althagen on the Fischland as a summer residence . The daughter Ortrud was born in 1904 and the son Thomas in 1909. In Ahrenshoop , the family had a large circle of friends, including George Grosz . After participating in the First World War , he initially devoted himself to painting, whereby his depressive mood was expressed in gloomy, sometimes surreal images. From the 1920s he was again active as a draftsman of humorous illustrations, for example about the Fischland bathing life. The beginning of National Socialism and the persecution that began led Abeking to retreat, his health deteriorated increasingly, and he died of old age in 1939 . His grave is in Cemetery II of the French Reformed Congregation in Berlin's Liesenstrasse .

His children were also artistically active in their professional lives: their daughter Ortrud Abeking (1904–1977) as an actress and painter, their son Thomas Abeking (1909–1986) as a graphic designer and architect.

Works (selection)

The Child Who Tucks It All In (1939)
The Still Life (1939)

illustrator

  • Rideamus (pseud. Of Fritz Oliven): Hugdietrichs Brautfahrt: a romantic love story in seven songs . 1902
  • Stollwerck collector's album No. 12. "Humor in words and pictures". Published by the Stollwerck brothers, Cologne and Berlin 1911
  • Friedrich Kipp : The blessing of wealth: A verse satire . Berlin 1911
  • Siegfried Herzog: Before the Kadi - Funny Sparks from Orient and Occident . Berlin around 1920
  • The Mampampe book . For Thomas Abeking from his father. Leipzig 1921
  • Wilhelm Cremer : The hangman. Adventurous stories . Berlin 1923
  • Hermann Schoenhoff: Swabian pranks . 1923
  • Fritz Baade : Pig primer or what every farmer has to consider before covering his sows . Reich Research Center for Agricultural Markets, Berlin 1930
  • Käthe Miethe : That's how they ride in Althagen . In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte . 1933
  • CM Köhn (Ed.): Who is smiling with you? A collection of German humor from old, new and recent times as a medicine cabinet always ready . DBG , Berlin 1939

painter

  • Marital dispute; In the coffee house; The sweet secret , drawings, 1907
  • Lendenmain; My house , drawings, 1910 (all Glaspalast Munich)
  • The widower; "What one desires in youth, one has in abundance in old age"; Lockung , drawings, 1909, (Great Berlin Art Exhibition).
  • View of Niedergrunstädt near Weimar , oil on canvas, 81 × 113 cm, 1920.
  • The happy father , oil on canvas, 62 × 100 cm, around 1925.
  • Self-portrait with a lover , oil on canvas, 79 × 98 cm, around 1930.
  • Fish drills boat , oil on canvas.

literature

  • Hermann Abeking . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 4 .
  • Hermann Abeking . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 , p. 111.
  • Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001. ISBN 3-88132-292-2 . P. 21 f.
  • 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. 10 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogy of Hermann Abeking. Portal gedbas.genealogy.net (Association for Computer Genealogy ), accessed on October 18, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Hermann Abeking: The Mampampe book. UniBib. TU Braunschweig , accessed on October 22, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Käthe Miethe: This is how they ride in Althagen . In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte . Vol. 9, 1933, pp. 373-375. (Digital copy - PDF, 250 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Abeking, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abeking, Hermann Erneste (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1939
Place of death Berlin