Hermann Schaper (painter)

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Hermann Schaper

Hermann Schaper (born October 13, 1853 in Hanover ; † June 12, 1911 there ) was a German painter, cardboard draftsman and interior designer.

Live and act

Cover picture of the Illustrirten Zeitung from April 20, 1911 with a herald painted by Schaper in Art Nouveau style with the coat of arms of the city of Hanover, the Sachsenross and the imperial eagle .
"The Market Church in Hanover".
Illustrated newspaper, No. 3538, 1911, p. 1

Hermann Schaper was the son of the Hanoverian court decoration painter Christian Schaper . After training with his father, he studied art history and medieval architecture with Conrad Wilhelm Hase from 1871 to 1873 at the Technical University of Hanover . This was followed by studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1873 to 1875 , where he studied as a painting student with Ludwig von Löfftz and Wilhelm von Diez . In 1874 he also worked temporarily in Georg Hauberrisser's construction office in Munich.

After completing his studies, Schaper went back to his native Hanover in 1875 to take over his father's business. In the same year he joined the Hanover Art Association and completed his military service until 1876. From 1876 to 1879, Hermann Schaper painted various buildings in Hanover, including the Old Town Hall on behalf of Conrad Wilhelm Hase . From 1879 he worked as a freelance painter. In 1889 Schaper was appointed professor and in the same year went on a study trip to Ravenna . In 1900 he became a member of the Hannoversche Bauhütte and in 1905 was awarded the "Small Gold Medal" at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .

On April 20, 1911, the Leipziger Illustrirte Zeitung published the title Kulturbilder aus Deutschland IV: Hanover and Border Areas with the number 3538 in volume 136, mostly with full-page four-color illustrated advertising graphics . The publisher A. Madsack & Co. also sold the number individually, provided with an additional booklet cover and a four-color title graphic by Hermann Schaper, "only through the Hannoversche Anzeiger " and with additional, mostly full-page advertising graphics , mostly multi-colored and often with the signatures or Monograms of the respective artist provided. The booklet also contains a full-page black-and-white reproduction of a painting created by Schaper in 1904 with a view through the lively Köbelingerstraße to the Marktkirche . According to the subtitle “In the possession of your Kgl. Highness of the Princess Max von Baden ”.

Schaper mainly devoted himself to the picturesque decoration of church buildings and historical buildings. His best-known works include the decoration of the Aachen Cathedral and the wall paintings in the Old Göttingen Town Hall and in the West Prussian Ordensburg Marienburg . He also made numerous cardboard boxes for mosaics, such as the depiction of members from the Hohenzollern family in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin . In the period between 1900 and 1911 his workshop was busy with large orders for mosaics, often implemented by the Berlin company Puhl & Wagner . Due to the death of the younger employees in the First World War and the artistic upheavals that followed, the workshop dissolved. Many of his works of art were destroyed in World War II.

Works (selection)

Aachen Cathedral: Detail of the dome mosaic
  • Old Town Hall Hanover: wall paintings in the Ratsweinkeller 1879 and in the ballroom 1882
  • Erfurt Town Hall : ornamental ceiling painting in the Great Hall, 1881
  • Aachen City Hall : Draft for the ceiling painting in the Kaisersaal, executed by Franz Wirth , 1881
  • Market fountain Hanover: Draft for the fountain figures, executed by Wilhelm Engelhard , 1881
  • Old Town Hall Göttingen : Wall painting in the town hall hall with coats of arms of Hanseatic cities and scenes from the history of Göttingen, 1884–1886; Equipment of the old conference room, 1903
  • "German Booksellers House" Leipzig: stained glass after cartons by Schaper, 1888
  • Marienkirche Pirna: “Last Judgment” stained glass, 1890
  • Lehnin monastery church : wall painting, 1890
  • Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church Berlin: ceiling mosaic in the Memorial Hall, including procession of the Hohenzollern princes and princesses to the Agnus Dei , from 1891
  • Johanneskirche Gießen : stained glass, 1893
  • Garrison church on Goetheplatz in Hanover: wall painting and stained glass "The three great festivals of Christianity", 1893 (the church was demolished in 1959)
  • Marktkirche Hannover: mural painting in the chancel "Archangel Gabriel", 1893
  • Michaeliskirche Hildesheim: wall painting in the west crypt, 1893 (replaced by mosaics in 1911)
  • Design of the Aachen Cathedral: mosaics after boxes by Schaper in the octagon and in the imperial box, incrustation of the walls and floors with colored marble, ceiling paintings, colored window glazing, bronze drifting work on the end grilles and doors, 1893–1901; Mosaic and marble decorations on the walkways, 1907–1911
  • Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche Hildesheim: wall painting, 1898–1899
  • Marienburg Ordensburg in Marienburg / Poland : Grand Master pictures in the chapter house, Madonna, cardboard for a painting in the St. Anna Chapel, Last Supper and three historical scenes in the large remter , 1898–1911
  • Bremen Cathedral : wall paintings and mosaics in the choir and on the tower facade, 1899–1901
  • Fischbeck Collegiate Church : wall painting, 1899–1901
  • Gnadenkirche Berlin-Biesdorf : mosaics
  • Erlöserkirche Bad Homburg vor der Höhe : Mosaics, completed in 1908
  • Luther Church Osnabrück: Image of Christ in the choir apse, 1909
  • Church of the Assumption Jerusalem: Mosaics, 1910
  • Stadtfriedhof Engesohde , Hanover: mosaic of an angel on the tomb of the factory owner August Werner, 1916

  • Excerpt from the ceiling mosaic in the memorial hall of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin

  • Excerpt from the ceiling mosaic in the memorial hall of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin

  • Cardboard for the design of the St. Anna Chapel in the Marienburg Ordensburg, Hermann Schaper, 1911

Hermann-Schaper-Platz

Schaperplatz in Hanover-Kleefeld , which was laid out in 1927, was initially named after Heinrich Schaper , the "promoter of cooperative housing construction and chairman of the Kleefelder building cooperative," according to the city of Hanover's address book (from 1954) . In the takeover designated Nazis the place in 1933 in order to Hermann Schaper Square . The square has had its original name since 1951.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hermann Schaper  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hugo Thielen: Schaper, Hermann. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 309.
  2. ↑ Leipziger Illustrirte Zeitung . Number 3538, Volume 136, 1911, special title page, pp. 0 – XXXII and p. 1.
  3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Schaperplatz. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 217.
personal data
SURNAME Schaper, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and interior designer
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1911
Place of death Hanover