Hermann Hendrich

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Hermann Hendrich after the painting by Georg Meyn
Hendrich bust by Heinrich Splieth

Hermann Hendrich (born October 31, 1854 in Heringen , † July 18, 1931 in Schreiberhau ) was a German painter who co-founded the Volkischer Werdandi Bund in 1907 .

Life

Hermann Hendrich: Freya's garden

Hendrich first completed an apprenticeship with the lithographer Theodor Müller in Nordhausen , then worked briefly as an actor in Detmold , Düsseldorf and Münster .

He then went on several study trips as a painter to Norway , Berlin , Amsterdam and America . In America he had success with a small art exhibition where he was able to sell all of his works to a patron . This enabled him to study art with Joseph Wenglein in Munich and Eugen Bracht in Berlin from 1886 to 1889 .

Inspired above all by the musical dramas of the composer Richard Wagner and Goethe's Faust , Hendrich created colorful and monumental pictures in the spirit of neo-romanticism , in which he processed materials and motifs from Germanic mythology and German legends .

Hendrich lived in Berlin and from 1899 stayed from May to October in a villa designed by the Berlin architect Paul Engler in the artists' colony of Mittel-Schreiberhau in the Giant Mountains. An unusual exhibition building was built there in 1903, also based on Engler's design: the Sagenhalle , a wooden building richly decorated with imaginative carvings, in which u. a. an eight-part picture cycle by Hendrichs on the legendary figure Rübezahl was exhibited. The titles were "Rübezahl's Garden", "The Spring Goddess", "The Giant Castle", "The Cloud Shadow" ( High Wheel ), "The Thunder God" ( Snow Pit ), "The Sleeping Giant" ( Small Pond ), "The Fog Women" ( Zackelfall) and "Der Wolkenwanderer" (mountain ridge). The guide to the “Sagenhalle”, which had to be reprinted in 1904 after 10,000 copies had been sold, was written by the writer and philosopher Bruno Wille , who also belongs to the Schreiberhauer artists' colony .

Advertisement Sagenhalle 1912

The saga hall in the Riesengebirge Schreiberhau from 1903, to which the "Parsifal Temple" was added in May 1926 in the manner of an apse , was the second "Art Temple" designed by Hendrich: Already in 1901 he had the " Hexentanzplatz" near Thale in the Harz Mountains Create Walpurgishalle . Two more such “art halls” were to follow: in 1913 the Nibelungen Hall in Königswinter and finally in 1929 the Hall Deutscher Sagenring in Burg an der Wupper .

Hendrich was hit by a train on the afternoon of July 18, 1931 near his home in Schreiberhau and died at the scene of the accident. The funeral service took place in the crematorium in Hirschberg . According to a more recent account, Hendrich's death is suspected to be a suicide .

Hermann Hendrich was married to Clara named Cläre Hendrich nee Becker since 1882, she died in 1938.

Henrich was a member of the Association of Berlin Artists .

Exhibition locations and works

Hermann Hendrich: Parsifal
Former home of Hermann Hendrich in Schreiberhau (ul.Muzealna 5)

Hendrich's work includes several monumental painting cycles, for which he had his own exhibition buildings designed:

  • Walpurgishalle in Thale, built in 1901 according to plans by the architect Bernhard Sehring , with a cycle of paintings for Walpurgis Night in Goethe's Faust
  • Legend hall in Schreiberhau, built in 1903 according to plans by the architect Paul Engler, expanded in 1926 by the Parzival apse, destroyed in 1945, with painting cycles on Wotan , Rübezahl and Parzival
  • Nibelungenhalle in Königswinter, 1913 based on plans by the architects Hans Meier and Werner Behrendt , supplemented in 1933 by the "Drachenhöhle", with a cycle of paintings on the Ring of the Nibelung , today supplemented by holdings from the "Deutscher Sagenring" hall
  • Hall Deutscher Sagenring in Burg an der Wupper, built in 1929 according to plans by A. Blasberg, destroyed in 1945, with painting cycles on "Nordic prehistory", "Christian legend" and "Heldenepen, older and more recent folk tales"

The Hendrichsaal in the villa of the Kiel art collector Paul Wassily, with numerous individual works, was destroyed in the Second World War, only a few paintings have survived. In the Richard Wagner memorial in the New Palace in Bayreuth, a Hermann Hendrich memorial hall was temporarily set up; the preserved holdings are now on loan in the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth.

Honors

literature

  • Ernst Geyer: The myth of Wotan-Rübezahl in pictures by Hermann Hendrich . Leipelt, Warmbrunn 1921.
  • Ernst Geyer: Hermann Hendrich . Bonavoluntas Verlag, Krummhübel 1924.
  • Hermann Hendrich: My life and work . In: Wilhelm Kolbe (Ed.): Our landscape in German art. The painters of the southern Harz and its foreland . Heimatland-Verlag, Bleicherode 1923, pp. 7-12.
  • Alfred Koeppen: Hermann Hendrich and his temple art . In: Westermannsmonthshefte 52nd year 1908, issue 617, pp. 651–662.
  • Alfred Koeppen: Hermann Hendrich. For his 70th birthday on October 31st . In: Der Wanderer im Riesengebirge , Volume 44, 1924, No. 494, pp. 298–300.
  • Agata Rome-Dzida: Hermann Hendrichs' “saga hall”. Material expression of the aesthetic and ideal demands of the first artist colony in the Giant Mountains . In: Malgorzata Omilanowska, Beate Störtkuhl (Ed.): Stadtfluchten. The common world cultural heritage. (Ucieczki z miasta. Wspólne Dziedzictwo.) Volume 7, Warsaw 2011, pp. 187-200.
  • Martin Rohling (Ed.): Hermann Hendrich. The work of a late romantic painter . Skuld, Billerbeck 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-047135-3 .
  • Hermann Hendrich had a fatal accident. In: Vossische Zeitung , No. 337 of July 20, 1931, evening edition, p. 8, column 2 f. ( online )

Web links

Commons : Hermann Hendrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Holstein: Hermann Hendrich and his art. Special issue of Heimatland magazine , 17th year, p. 8.
  2. ^ Hermann Hendrich, painter . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1919, Part I, p. 1007. "W 15, Düsseldorfer Strasse 74 (from May to October Schreiberhau i. R.)".
  3. ^ Architect Paul Engler (1875–1954), cf. Engler, Paul, architect . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1904, Part I, p. 372. “Karlshorst, Stühlingerstraße 21”.
  4. ↑ Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? Our contemporaries . 4th edition 1909, p. 339.
  5. ^ The artists in Schreiberhau. The history of the artist colonies in the 19th and 20th centuries Century. (Museum guide of the Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann House) Jelenia Góra 2007.
  6. ↑ Bruno Wille: The legend hall of the giant mountains (Schreiberhau). The myth of Wotan-Rübezahl in works of fine art . JJ Weber, Leipzig 1903.
  7. ↑ General encyclopedia of visual artists from antiquity to the present ... (see literature)
  8. ↑ Agata Rome-Dzida: The "Say Hall" Hermann Hendrichs. Material expression of the aesthetic and ideal demands of the first artist colony in the Giant Mountains. In: Malgorzata Omilanowska, Beate Störtkuhl (Ed.): Stadtfluchten. The common world cultural heritage. (Ucieczki z miasta. Wspólne Dziedzictwo.) Volume 7, Warsaw 2011, p. 190.
  9. ^ Vossische Zeitung , No. 337 of July 20, 1931, evening edition
  10. ↑ Schreiberhauer Wochenblatt, Official List of Cures for Schreiberhau , July 28, 1931. ( online )
  11. ^ The artists in Schreiberhau. The history of the artist colonies in the 19th and 20th centuries. (Museum guide of the Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann House) Jelenia Góra 2007, ISBN 978-83-87732-62-2 , p. 88. (Short biography Hermann Hendrich)
  12. ↑ Neue Nordhäuser Zeitung of October 17, 2014 ( nnz-online )
  13. ↑ Hermann AL Degener: Who is it? Our contemporaries. 9th edition, Berlin 1928, p. 626.
  14. ↑ Local office in Schreiberhau of the catering and accommodation business group in cooperation with the Schreiberhau spa administration. (Ed.): Climatic health resort and winter sports area Schreiberhau in the Giant Mountains. Housing Directory. Summer 1942.
    The "Hermann-Hendrich-Weg" was 660 meters above sea level in Mittel-Schreiberhau and 560 meters above sea level in Nieder-Schreiberhau.
personal data
SURNAME Hendrich, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Herring , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1931
Place of death Schreiberhau , Lower Silesia