Hermann Osthoff (painter)

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Hermann Osthoff (born February 20, 1879 in Heidelberg , † December 13, 1918 in Seelbach , Baden , Central Black Forest ) was a German landscape and animal painter .

Life

Osthoff, son of the Heidelberg linguist Hermann Osthoff from his second marriage to Emilie, née Weeren (* 1857), began an apprenticeship as a technical draftsman after finishing secondary school in 1895. He then trained to be a drawing teacher at the Kunstgewerbeschule Kassel . Then he moved to Düsseldorf , where he continued his artistic training in the studios of the landscape, hunting and animal painters Carl Friedrich Deiker and Christian Kröner , important contemporary painters in their field and the Düsseldorf School . Then he went to Karlsruhe and took private lessons from Julius Bergmann , professor of animal painting at the Karlsruhe Academy .

Summer mountain landscape with goats , 1904

In 1903 Osthoff opened his own studio in Karlsruhe. He became a member of the Karlsruhe Artists 'Association and the Free Artists' Association of Baden . After his marriage to Charlotte, née von Holleben (1882–1972), he moved to Augustenburg Castle in Grötzingen near Karlsruhe in 1905 and was one of the first members of the Grötzingen painters' colony . Artist friends Otto Fikentscher and Gustav Kampmann also lived there . In 1906 he lost his right eye in a hunting accident and moved to Berghausen near Pfinztal , where he temporarily rented the former villa of Carl Heinrich Hoff the Younger . In 1907 he bought a plot of land in Seelbach. In 1909 he moved there. In the following years he often stayed in Herrenwies , Moosbronn and Kaltenbronn during the summer . In 1915 he was drafted into community service in Constance .

Osthoff's painting is characterized by a solid education in Kassel, Düsseldorf and Karlsruhe as well as by the influence of the artist friends in the Grötzinger painter colony, in particular by the paintings of Karl Biese and Gustav Kampmann. In doing so, he made an effort not only to paint a lifelike image of the landscape, but also to capture his inner moods and the poetry of a landscape he perceived on the canvas. His powerful compositions dealt with light, air and the atmosphere of a landscape. Without a lot of accessories, he often arranged them in staggered sloping spaces.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Wietek: German artist colonies and artist locations . Theimig, Munich 1986, ISBN 978-3-52104-061-8 , p. 121
personal data
SURNAME Osthoff, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1918
Place of death Seelbach , Baden, Central Black Forest