Hermann Sandkuhl
Hermann Sandkuhl (born April 14, 1872 in Bremen , † September 19, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German painter and art professor. Actually Hermann Joseph Sandkuhl; the first name often appears later as Herman, thus only written with an "n".
Life
Sandkuhl was born in Bremen as the second eldest son of the businessman Heinrich Sandkuhl and his wife Anita Meyer. Around 1892 he trained as a room painter; further training stations followed on his way to becoming a painter, u. a. He studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts with Otto Brausewetter , in Stuttgart with Count Leopold von Kalckreuth , at the Académie Julian in Paris and was a student of Carl Bantzer at the Dresden Academy. In 1911 he founded the Jury-Free Art Exhibition in Berlin (JKB) and made it the Forum of Modernism in Berlin since 1921. In 1923 appointed professor at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin, he later also became head of the department for religious art. In 1930 Sandkuhl was commissioned to paint the Confessing Church in Admont (Styria) built by his son-in-law Otto-Oskar Graeßner .
On September 19, 1936, Herman Sandkuhl died of a heart attack in Berlin at the age of 64. He was buried in the Zehlendorf cemetery . By resolution of the Berlin Senate , the last resting place of Hermann Sandkuhl (field 001 No. 94) has been dedicated as an honorary grave of the State of Berlin since 1956 . The dedication was extended in 2016 by the usual period of twenty years.
Sandkuhl was a member of the German Association of Artists . He is represented with three paintings and two color lithographs in the Kunsthalle Bremen .
literature
- Sandkuhl, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 395 .
- Sandkuhl, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 155 .
Web links
- Kunsthalle Bremen : Hermann Sandkuhl. Biography. (PDF) Retrieved November 27, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst-Christian Gerhold, Johann G. Haditsch (Ed.): Evangelical art and culture in Styria. Leykam, Graz 1996, ISBN 3-7011-7340-0 , p. 75 f.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 678.
- ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) . (PDF, 413 kB) Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, p. 74; accessed on March 17, 2019. Recognition and further preservation of graves as honorary graves of the State of Berlin . (PDF, 205 kB) Berlin House of Representatives, printed matter 17/3105 of July 13, 2016, p. 1 and Annex 2, p. 13; accessed on March 17, 2019.
- ^ Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Sandkuhl, Hermann . ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. kuenstlerbund.de; accessed on January 2, 2016
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SURNAME | Sandkuhl, Hermann |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sandkuhl, Herman |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and art professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1872 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 1936 |
Place of death | Berlin |