Hermann Linde (painter)
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
- Biographical summary of Hermann Linde
- Guache by Hermann Linde in an episode of Lieb & Teuer from November 12, 2017, video
- Painting by Hermann Linde , excerpt from the program Lieb & Teuer , NDR , April 8, 2018, with Janin Ullmann and the painting expert Ariane Skora, Reinbek Castle
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2007/indian-art-n08341/lot.106.html
- ↑ Video with the painting on ndr.de
personal data | |
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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 |