Hermann Prüßmann

Hermann Prüßmann (born November 26, 1899 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † July 15, 1980 in Wamel am Möhnesee ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Live and act

After attending school in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Hermann Prüßmann began a commercial apprenticeship in 1916, but was then drafted as a soldier in 1917. After returning from the war, he continued his apprenticeship in 1919 and at the same time attended the arts and crafts school in Essen. In 1922 he made the acquaintance of the graphic artist Hermann Kätelhön , who introduced him to graphic techniques.

The Mülheim museum director Werner Kruse arranged for Prüßmann a scholarship from the Leonhard Stinnes Foundation in 1927 , which enabled him to study at the Dresden Art Academy . There he was Otto Dix's master student . In 1928 he married Luise Burkart. In 1930 Prüßmann returned to Mülheim and lived there as a freelance artist until 1939. During this time he drove regularly to the Emsland , especially to the Hümmling , where he made some drawings, etchings, watercolors and oil paintings. While he was a soldier in the war, his wife moved to Wamel am Möhnesee. After the end of the war, Prüßmann followed his wife. However, through regular exhibitions he kept in contact with his hometown Mülheim throughout his life.

With views of Mülheim houses and streets as well as landscapes of the Ruhr valley, Prüßmann made a name for himself in the professional world as early as the 1930s. He also recorded his Westphalian adopted home on the Möhnesee in drawings, etchings, watercolors and oil paintings.

Honors

Ruhr Prize for Art and Science of the City of Mülheim an der Ruhr (1979)

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1929: Annual exhibition of Mülheim artists in the Mülheim an der Ruhr Municipal Museum , December 1929
• 1946: Arnsberg, 1st major art exhibition Rhine-Ruhr. Painting, graphics, plastic Special show: Religious Art , October 19 - November 30, 1946
• 1971: Münster, art since 1900 collected in the Münster State Museum , April 28 - May 19, 1971, Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster
• 1977: Hermann Prüssmann, paintings, drawings, prints, June 19 - August 14, 1977, Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster
• 1978: Sögel: The painter Hermann Prüßmann, July 16 - September 24, 1978, Clemenswerth Castle
• 2011: Exhibition by the Möhnesee cultural association in the old Stockebrand half-timbered house in Körbecke, April 2 - May 8, 2011
• 2011/12: Dresden, New Objectivity in Dresden. Painting of the twenties from Dix ​​to Querner , October 1, 2011 - January 8, 2012, Kunsthalle im Lipsius-Bau
• 2016: Exhibition of the Möhnesee cultural association in the old half-timbered house Stockebrand in Körbecke, April 8th to June 6th, 2016
• 2016: Special exhibition at the Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth , April 14th - October 30th, 2016

literature

• Hermann Prüßmann . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 280 .
• Paul Pieper : The painter HERMANN PRÜSSMANN . Westfälische Verlagsbuchhandlung Mocker u. Jahn, Soest 1979.
• Mülheimer Jahrbuch 1975, pp. 109–118.
• Mülheimer Jahrbuch 1982, pp. 117–122.
• Mülheimer Jahrbuch 2001, pp. 61–63.
• Mülheimer Stadtspiegel 1970, issue 9, p. 23.
• Mülheimer Stadtspiegel 1975, issue 5, pp. 41–47.
• Mülheimer Stadtspiegel 1980, No. 6, p. 21 and Book 8, p. 20.
• Yearbook of the Emsländischen Heimatverein 1957, Volume 4, S. 114ff.
• Eckard Wagner (ed.): The painter Hermann Prüßmann (artist encounters with the Emsland, part 2), Sögel 1978