Hermann Dick (painter)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hermann Dick (born February 27, 1875 in Düsseldorf , † August 25, 1958 in Ahrhütte ) was a German painter .

Self portrait

Life

education

Hermann Dick studied in Munich, Berlin and Paris. He received his training as a landscape painter from Otto Strützel (1855–1930) and as a portrait painter from Hugo Freiherr von Habermann (1849–1925) in Munich. There is evidence that Hermann Dick was a student of von Habermann at the Munich Art Academy in 1906. This was followed by an apprenticeship with Lovis Corinth , who had run a private painting school in Berlin since 1901 and with whom Hermann Dick had a long-standing, close friendship, even after his death. On the 10th anniversary of Lovis Corinth's death on July 17, 1935, Hermann Dick wrote the following beginning of a report about him in the Cologne newspaper Der Tag :

“I saw the first Corinth in Venice, the second, 'Ansorges Freilichtportrait', in Munich, a work that was so successful that I moved away from Isar-Athens (a joke name for Munich). I didn't get to know Master personally until years later. - I had imagined the brilliant draftsman, the bold colourist, to be so completely different! "

Study trips

Oil mill

In order to train himself further in his painting technique and to gain new impressions, Hermann Dick traveled to Worpswede between 1908 and 1914, several times to the Eifel , Normandy , Brittany , Paris , southern France, Corsica , Portugal and the artists' village of Dötlingen . In the first decades of the twentieth century, the artists' colony Dötlingen was located in the Lower Saxon village of Dötlingen, located in the Oldenburg district a few kilometers northwest of the Wildeshausen district on the north side of the small Hunt Valley of the Wildeshauser Geest. This artist colony is still known today for landscape painting. In the artists' village of Dötlingen - one of the three artists' places near Bremen in addition to Worpswede and Dangast  - from 1900 artists such as Georg Müller vom Siel , August Kaufhold , Carl Lohse and members of the “ Young Rhineland ” artists' association such as Otto Pankok , Richard Gessner , lived and worked Werner Gilles , Hermann Hundt and Gert Heinrich Wollheim . Hermann Dick first arrived at the Dötlingen artists' colony on June 1, 1911 with his Russian friend Lubow Letnikof. It was there that he mainly created his expressive and colorful landscape paintings. Then Hermann Dick went to Worpswede via Moscow and Paris. These data can be found in a diary by Edwin Könemann, who was a friend of Hermann Dick . Edwin Könemann was the builder of the so-called " Worpsweder cheese bell ".

Work stays

Corsica 1
Corsica 2

On August 6, 1913, Hermann Dick arrived in Paris with his mother Helene Stockhausen. A document from the police chief of Paris testifies that Hermann Dick had registered here for identification on September 28, 1913 in order to practice the profession of painter. After the outbreak of World War I , Hermann Dick was bombed out in Paris. For the resulting loss, he was awarded severance pay on September 17, 1923 in Cologne due to war damage abroad. In the form of a settlement, Hermann Dick receives compensation in the amount of 42,830,670,000 marks . Due to inflation , this seemingly huge sum would have a value of approx. 1,200 euros today . After this loss of his belongings and because his residence permit in France was not extended, Hermann Dick then had to return to Germany. He became a soldier in the 29th Infantry Regiment in Angermünde . In 1926 and 1927, Hermann Dick stayed in Paris again. France became a second home for him. What drew him back to the French capital is not known. From Paris, Hermann Dick went further south: the Riviera, Corsica, Portugal and Italy. Here he mainly painted landscapes in oil and in watercolor. His pictures became quieter, the colors darker. Blue seemed to be his favorite color: blue like the water that he knew how to create so well. The German painter then moved back to Germany. He went to Berlin. Here he painted Berlin landscapes - Berlin motifs, predominantly with rivers and lakes - and industrial watercolors. The office of the Ministry of Science and Art acquired from him u. a. some of his Berlin landscape and industrial paintings. Since Hermann Dick was attached to every one of his works of art, he did not like to sell and certainly not at any price. Just enough that it was enough to lead a modest lifestyle and to purchase his painting utensils: paints, paper, brushes, canvas and frames. At the same time he drew illustrations for the Kölner Zeitung . From 1932 and 1933 he lived mainly in Ahrhütte / Eifel. Many of his landscape paintings of the Rhine, Moselle and Ahr were created during these years. Then Hermann Dick moved to Cologne, Bonner Str. 500, to Atelierhaus 2 III. In addition to landscape painting, objectivity paintings were also created here in Cologne. His works of art have now been presented in many exhibitions of the Kölner Kunstverein, in Hanover and in various cities in the Rhineland. After the outbreak of the Second World War , Hermann Dick was hired as a laboratory assistant for German explosives chemistry until 1943 and was employed in Königsdorf near Wolfratshausen in Upper Bavaria. In 1943, Hermann Dick was bombed out in his apartment in Cologne-Klettenberg during this war . At the age of 68 he lost all his belongings and all his painting utensils for the second time through war. He was only able to recover a few of his paintings from the bombed Cologne apartment. He went back to Königsdorf near Wolfratshausen with a suitcase. Here he lived in a small apartment on the top floor of a farmhouse for a few years. Here, too, he occasionally painted landscape views in a slightly transparent way. When he broke into his apartment, his suitcase, in which he kept his pictures, was stolen and found in a nearby stream. Much of the work had been destroyed by the water entering the suitcase. In 1955 his son Ernst brought him to Ahrhütte , where he died on August 25, 1958.

He described himself as follows in a self-written poem:

Whether there are larvae around me or harlequin facades,
whether I
stand in the solemn harmony of a southern landscape or in the empty gloom of a suburban street in Berlin -
I remain, as fate has committed me to -
a painter

plant

10 drawings by Hermann Dick are in the graphics department of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Furthermore, according to the explanations of the artist lexica, further works by Hermann Dick are to be found in the following museums:

  • Pictures by Hermann Dick

  • Lubow Letnikof portrait 1911

  • Clown 1935

  • avenue

  • foal

  • Reading girl

  • Burgpützen

  • Castle Valley (1)

  • Castle Valley (2)

  • Way to the Ahrhütte

literature

  • Dick, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 559 .
  • Ute Haug: Dick, Hermann . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 27, Saur, Munich a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-598-22767-1 , p. 163.
  • Dieter Schröder, Friends of Eifel painters V. in Hermann Dick “The Unknown Eifel Painter” on the occasion of the exhibition on the 50th anniversary of his death from August 25 to September 19, 2008 in Blankenheim

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Dick, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1958
Place of death Ahrhütte