Hermann Haase (painter)

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Hermann Haase (born August 21, 1862 in Hamburg , † July 31, 1934 in Marktzeuln ) was a German painter , draftsman and publicist .

Early years

An interior view of St. John's Church in Curslack painted by Haase

Hermann Haase began training as a mechanical engineer at the JF Richter newspaper and publishing company. He followed a recommendation from the trade school and switched to training as a commercial draftsman within the company. In 1882 he got a job as an illustrator with Hans Speckter .

From 1883, Haase drew for a fee to document the collection of the Museum of Art and Industry . He also created decorative patterns that could be used for various painting techniques. His designs for blue paintings on faience were particularly well received . The AH Wessely ceramics factory was one of his customers. The templates were also used for the tiled stoves in Hamburg's town hall and Bergedorf Castle , whose wall tiles he also designed. For the carpenter's workshop of the Rauhen Haus he created furniture with notch cut decoration, for which he received a prize at an exhibition in 1889. He also designed embroidery patterns and leather cuts.

Before 1900, Haase painted many views of Hamburg with black or sepia ink. He worked extremely precisely. Publishers published portfolios of images created using collotype printing .

Haase and the painter and publicist Oskar Schwindrazheim (1865–1952) took part in discussions that were held at the time to reform the arts and crafts. In 1888 they brought the group of "Hamburg plant artists" into being. The participating artists created decors based on drawings from nature. This resulted in the “Folk Art” association in 1891. In its own magazine, the association made motifs available showing rural craftsmen of the recent past, who preferably came from the Hamburg area.

Works for the Museum of Arts and Crafts

In 1896 Haase received an order from Justus Brinckmann , the director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, which shaped his further artistic work: Brinckmann was very interested in the artistic representation of rural craftsmen, especially in the Vierlanden . So he asked Haase to create watercolors and drawings on site. The first works were on display in the Museum of Art and Industry in 1898.

In the following years, Haase painted extensively. In 1905 he had created 700 watercolors, which were exhibited with comments in Hamburg and other cities such as Flensburg . In 1910 he published the catalog “Tracht, Haus und Hof der Vierländer”. It comprised 1165 plates and only had six color illustrations. At that time, the pictures were in the possession of the Sieveking family , who had bought them. Haase's book is considered to be of lasting importance because it extensively documented the life of the rural population and their culture. He went into different functions and customs and left the residents space for self-expression. He named the works in Low German. He probably got help with the records from his wife Lu Ragnfrid, who often traveled with her husband.

The Museum of Arts and Crafts created a collection that contained duplicate versions of the panels, the list of which did not match that of the catalog. The paintings with the houses of the Vierlande and their interiors were taken over by the outsourced Hamburg monument archive under the direction of Richard Stettiner . Since 1921 the collection has been in the Museum of Hamburg History , which has kept the pictures to this day. The Museum of Arts and Crafts kept the works on clothing, equipment and working methods.

In 1926, Haase added a further 107 pictures with printed descriptions of “Vierland botany” to the collection. He later added a series of panels showing children's toys made from plants. In 1930 he and his wife published the anthology “Children's Souls”, which contained written contributions from school children from the Vierlanden between 1867 and around 1905.

Other work

Haase not only dealt with the Vierlanden, but also created many drawings and watercolors for the monument archive that show buildings and facilities in Hamburg's city center, the suburbs and the surrounding area. He also worked for the cultural history museums in Flensburg and Kiel , for which he mostly captured carvings and textile designs.

death

Hermann Haase died in 1934 during a long journey he had undertaken to study painting. His grave was initially in Upper Franconia . Members of the association for four-country art and local history founded by Brinckmann, Schwindrazheim and Haase later found a group of friends with Georg Herman Sieveking who organized a coffin transfer. The National Socialists also took part in the solemn burial two years after the death of Hermann Haase in the Neuengamme cemetery . On the occasion of the funeral, the Museum of Arts and Crafts organized a large exhibition of the artist's works for the last time.

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SURNAME Haase, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1934
Place of death Marketers