Hermann Seeger (painter)

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Girl portrait

Hermann Seeger (born October 15, 1857 in Halberstadt , † February 23, 1945 in Krössinsee near Dramburg ) was a German painter.

Life

Seeger was born the son of a master tailor. After the Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871, a prisoner French officer lived with his parents. This became aware of the boy's talent and gave him an ink box.

In 1875 Hermann Seeger graduated from high school, then he studied philology in Halle . During his studies he became a member of the Fridericiana Halle singers in 1878/79 . After completing his studies, he worked as a teacher in Halberstadt and did his doctorate on Old French.

His activity as a teacher did not satisfy him. For this reason, he studied further at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin with Paul Thurmann and Gussow, which he completed in 1885. He could only finance this course with the help of his siblings. Here he also met his future wife Marie Cramer von Clausbruch (sister of Rudolf Cramer von Clausbruch ). She studied at the University of Music and Singing. In 1895 Hermann Seeger got a management assistant position and so they could finally get married. They had two sons and two daughters together.

He worked as a painter and graphic artist in Berlin . Seeger painted in oil on canvas and on other substrates such as B. hard fiber. His many pictures of girls (especially his daughters Hildegard (1899–1983) and Ilse (1904–1994) married to Wolfgang Pohl ) in the dunes on the Baltic coast are particularly well known .

Works

  • Family in the garden
  • Dancer with tambourine on the sea beach
  • Girl picking flowers
  • Smoking street boys
  • Young man reading to his bride in the forest
  • Entrance hall in a Dutch farmhouse
  • Field
  • It will be evening again / summer solar study
  • A hungry soul
  • Goethe and Friederike in Sesenhaim (Fig. In "Gartenlaube" -1899)
  • The cherry pickers
  • Girl in the dunes on the North Sea beach on Sylt
  • Beach with dunes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 84.
personal data
SURNAME Seeger, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1945
Place of death Krössinsee near Dramburg