Hermann Linde (painter)

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Self portrait
Lübeck City Garden, Johannisstrasse 64
Weimar Schlossallee, 1887
Girl in sari

Hermann Linde (born August 26, 1863 in Lübeck , † June 26, 1923 in Arlesheim ) was a German painter who turned in particular to oriental painting and symbolism .

Origin and family

Hermann Linde grew up in Lübeck as the son of the pharmacist and respected photographer Hermann Linde senior. up and visited the Katharineum there . His brothers were the ophthalmologist and art collector Max Linde and the painter Heinrich Eduard Linde-Walther . He received his first drawing lessons from his grandfather Christian Peter Wilhelm Stolle .

Artistic career

Linde studied at the academies in Dresden and Weimar until 1889. In 1890 he went on a study trip to Sicily, Egypt and Tunisia. From 1892 to 1895 he worked as a freelance painter in India. For the large painting "The Langar Procession" ( Überseemuseum Bremen ) he was awarded the gold medal of the Viceroy of India. During a stay in Paris and Tunis in 1896, he received further prizes. From 1896 to 1898 he spent in the Dachau artists' colony .

In 1910 Linde joined the anthroposophical movement after meeting Rudolf Steiner . Steiner commissioned him to paint the interior of the first Goetheanum . Hermann Linde made sketches for his cycle about Goethe's fairy tales of the green snake and the beautiful lily . Steiner, who followed Hermann Linde's work with keen interest and discussed some of the details with him, was particularly motivated by the suggestion that the fairy tale should be designed in a synopsis with the motifs of the mystery drama The Gate of Initiation .

Six months after the Goetheanum was destroyed in a fire in 1922, Hermann Linde died. According to Rudolf Steiner, he died of a broken heart as Linde had linked his entire existence to the building and its paintings inside.

Today Linde is one of the most important oriental painters. His image of a girl on a porch in Sari achieved in September 2007, Sotheby's in New York with 133,000 US $ (estimate 40-60000) an auction record for Linde images. In 1995 it was auctioned from a Danish private collection for DKK 17,000 (US $ 3,315).

On November 12, 2017, an episode of the NDR's Lieb & Teuer program was broadcast, moderated by Janin Ullmann and filmed in Reinbek Castle . In it, a gouache by Hermann Linde with a crane on a river landscape was discussed with the painting expert Ariane Skora. In the broadcast of April 8, 2018, a painting by him was shown, on which, among other things, a goatherd is shown with his flock.

literature

  • Wulf Schadendorf: Museum Behnhaus . The house and its rooms. Painting, sculpture, handicrafts (= Lübeck museum catalogs 3). 2nd expanded and changed edition. Museum for Art a. Cultural history d. Hanseatic City, Lübeck 1976, pp. 85/85
  • Elisabeth Bessau: Linde, Hermann in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck, Volume 11, Neumünster 2000, pp. 228-230, ISBN 3-529-02640-9

Works

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The fairy tale of the green snake and the beautiful lily. In 12 pictures by Hermann Linde. Interwoven with the mystery drama The Gate of Initiation by Rudolf Steiner. Basel: Zbinden [in Komm.] 1972

Web links

Commons : Hermann Linde  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2007/indian-art-n08341/lot.106.html
  2. ↑ Video with the painting on ndr.de
personal data
SURNAME Linde, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1923
Place of death Arlesheim