Hermann Kätelhön

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Hermann Kätelhön, self-portrait (etching, 1915)
Hermann Kätelhön, Farmer Dörr (etching, 1913)
Hermann Kätelhön, Little Summer's Day (etching)

Hermann Kätelhön (born September 22, 1884 in Hofgeismar , † November 24, 1940 in Munich ) was a German realistic draftsman , etcher , lithographer , wood cutter and ceramicist .

Life

Shortly after the birth of Hermann Kätelhön, his parents moved to Marburg . He spent his childhood and youth in Marburg. Encouraged by Carl Bantzer's friend Klingelhöfer , he turned to art in Marburg. Hermann Kätelhön then attended the art academy in Karlsruhe from 1903 to 1905 and was a master student in the pottery class. He developed a style based on the Marburg vases and achieved artistic recognition for the first time. Museums increasingly bought his ceramic works, which were marked by a shiny gold aventurine . He achieved this golden sheen through a specialty fire of clay.

From 1906 to 1907 he studied at the Munich Academy with Peter Halm and learned the technique of etching. In 1908 he returned to Marburg and joined the Willingshausen painters' colony . Hermann Kätelhön came back to Willingshausen again and again in the following years to paint and draw there. He continued to operate his pottery in Marburg. In 1910 he first rented a permanent apartment in the Haaseschen Gasthaus and later moved into the newly built Hückersche hostel with his friend, painter Wilhelm Thielmann . The close friendship with Carl Bantzer , Heinrich Giebel , Paul Baum , Otto Ubbelohde and others shaped his early work.

He began not only to accompany himself to the plucked violin hansel with his lute , but also played jazz and accompanied himself with the lute to pieces he composed himself.

Until 1919 Hermann Käthelhön created numerous drawings, etchings and woodcuts of people and landscapes from the Schwalm in Willingshausen . He portrayed farmers with great care, was fascinated by the Willingshausen landscape and captivated by the motifs of field work. He portrayed the people at work; he was particularly impressed by the traces that the heavy physical work left on people.

In 1917 he met the Dresden painter Toni Plettner in Willingshausen , who studied with Carl Bantzer ; they married in the same year. Then he moved to Essen on the advice of the director Ernst Gosebruch of the Essen museum . There he portrayed the philosopher Ernst Marcus .

Ernst Marcus (1856-1928); Etching by Hermann Kätelhön .

He was enthusiastic about the Folkwang concept by Karl Ernst Osthaus and moved into a new studio on the Margarethenhöhe in Essen . Hermann Kätelhön set up a new pottery there. In Essen he also created his important work, the portfolio Die Arbeit . This portfolio consisted of etchings about the everyday life of miners and underground mining. His work on the subject of mining leaders is impressive . He was an important "mining painter" in the 1930s. Then he returned to the motif of realistic nature. Hermann Kätelhön then dealt with the topic of water . He created works with motifs of springs in ice and snow, rivers and estuaries. Despite his fragile constitution, he worked with tireless strength of will underground, on glaciers and by the sea. In 1938 the artist had a copper printing workshop built in Wamel am Möhnesee . In 1938, 1939 and 1940 he took part in the "Great German Art Exhibitions" in Munich.

Hermann Kätelhön died in Munich at the age of 56. His estate was looked after by his wife, son and daughter-in-law. In North Rhine-Westphalia , street names in the communities of Möhnesee (district of Soest) and in the district town of Soest are reminiscent of Hermann Kätelhön's work.

Signature & monogram

Willingshausen painter's colony, photo from 1913; From left to right: Heinrich Giebel , Marlies Dörr, Hermann Kätelhön, Hermann Metz , Wilhelm Thielmann , Adolf Lins , Heinrich Otto , Carl Bantzer
Hermann Kätelhön, At Harvest Time (woodcut)
  • H. Kätelhön
  • HK
  • Hermann Kätelhön

Exhibitions

  • 1913 Kassel and Berlin (participation)
  • 1914 Berlin (participation): Large art exhibition
  • 1919 Düsseldorf (participation): "The young Rhineland"; Munich, Munich Glass Palace
  • 1922 Large art exhibition in Kassel (participation): Orangery
  • 1928 Essen (participation): “Art and Technology” in the Folkwang Museum
  • 1933 Essen (participation): "Western Front"
  • 1935 Marburg (solo exhibition): University Museum
  • 1936 Essen (participation): "Western Front"
  • 1937 dates; Kassel: Art Association; Münster: Westphalian Art Association
  • 1938 Dortmund (solo exhibition): House of Art; Munich (participation): House of German Art
  • 1939 Munich (participation): House of German Art
  • 1940 Munich (participation): House of German Art
  • 1987 Salzgitter (solo exhibition): Hermann Kätelhön: Untertage. Graphic work
  • 1997 Bochum: Westphalian Industrial Museum
  • 2003 Arnsberg: Sauerland Museum
  • 2009 Aichwald: Kunstkreis Aichwald ; Willingshausen: Retrospective of the Malerstübchens Willingshausen
  • 2018 ideal landscape: industrial area . Folkwang Museum , Essen
  • 2019/20 The graphic artist Hermann Kätelhön. Small studio building on Margarethenhöhe, Ruhr Museum Essen

Museum reception

literature

  • Hermann Kätelhön, From graphic art. Wamel 1936.
  • Wilhelm Schäfer (Hrsg.): Monthly for German art and art. Düsseldorf 1913.
  • Folkwang: Der Tempel (o. O./O. J .; probably Essen, approx. 1926).
  • Oskar Willy Dressler: Art Guide. Berlin 1936.
  • Hans Vollmer: General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Volume 3, Seemann, Leipzig 1956.
  • Alfred Höck: Hermann Kätelhön, Kassel 1979.
  • Olge Dommer: Michael Dückershoff: Art for the Ruhr area, Hermann Kätelhön, Dortmund 1997.
  • Hans Wille: Hermann Kätelhön, Essen 1982.
  • District of Kassel: Yearbook 1985.
  • Exhibitions Kniestedter Church : Hermann Kätelhön. Salzgitter 1987 (catalog).
  • Jürgen Wollmann: The Willingshausen painters 'colony and the Kleinsassen painters' colony. Schwalmstadt-Treysa 1992.
  • Paul Schmaling: Artist Lexicon Hessen-Kassel. 1777-2000. With the painters' colonies Willingshausen and Kleinsassen. Kassel 2001.
  • Eva-M. Pasche: Above days - underground. The world of the draftsman and graphic artist Hermann Kätelhön. In: Der Anschnitt 58, 2006, no. 6, pp. 315–322.
  • Eva-M. Pasche: Hermann Kätelhön on his 125th birthday. Willingshausen 2009 (catalog). ISBN 978-3-9813274-0-3
  • Frieder Gadesmann : Christian Mischke is reminiscent of Hermann Kätelhön. Aichwald 2009 (catalog).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Ernst Marcus, Selected Writings ; ed. v. Gottfried Martin u. Gerd Hergen Lübben with e. Nachw .; Volume II; 1981; ISBN 3-416-01385-9 .
  2. ^ Max Biller: Hohenpeißenberger Heimat-Lexikon , page 417
  3. ↑ cf. Catalogs of the "Great German Art Exhibition". Munich, 1938, 1939 and 1940

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personal data
SURNAME Kätelhön, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Hofgeismar
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1940
Place of death Munich