Hermann Stenner

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Self-Portrait with a Red Jacket (1911)

Hermann Stenner (born March 12, 1891 in Bielefeld , † December 5, 1914 on the Eastern Front in Iłów (German: Enlau)) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Stenner is one of the outstanding artists of the early 20th century, although his early death in the First World War allowed him only a short creative phase of five years. During this time, the young artist created an extensive oeuvre: almost 300 paintings and well over 1500 works on paper are known. After Impressionist beginnings around 1909, Stenner's style of painting became increasingly expressive from 1911 with hard contours and strong colors. This turn to Expressionism came under the influence of Kandinsky , but from 1912/13 mainly through his teacher Adolf Hölzel .

life and work

The son of the Bielefeld master painter Hugo Stenner was already making copies of old paintings during his secondary school days. From 1908 he then attended the craft and arts and crafts school in Bielefeld . In April 1909 he was admitted to the entrance examination for the art academy in Munich and entered Heinrich Knirr's drawing class . Stenner spent the summer of 1909 with Hans von Hayek at his painting school in Dachau , where he made considerable progress in his painting. Von Hayek and Knirr then no longer recommended Hugo von Habermann, who taught in Munich, as a suitable painting professor, as before , but rather Christian Landenberger, who taught in Stuttgart .

Coffee garden at Ammersee - 1911

At the end of March 1910, Hermann Stenner moved to Stuttgart , where he was accepted into Landenberger's painting class at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts . In October 1911 he switched to Adolf Hölzel's composing class, whose lectures deviated completely from those of Landenberger and Hayek's. At first, Stenner followed them with great enthusiasm, as they opened up a new world for him and introduced painting as a kind of science. Later he broke away from the too strong influence of the lectures and further developed his own style. After just one semester, Hölzel offered Hermann Stenner the opportunity to move into one of the coveted master class ateliers in the Untere Anlagen , which he did with great pleasure in March 1912. During the summer semester, Stenner took part in a longer excursion to Monschau (Montjoie) with Hölzel, during which he created some paintings with an increased degree of futuristic synapsis and a large number of drawings.

In August 1912 he spent four weeks in Paris with his friend Hans Hildebrandt , an art historian, and his wife Lily .

Hermann Stenner "Kreuztragung I" oil on cardboard, 1913

In 1913 he was invited to the First German Expressionist Exhibition in Dresden . In the same year Adolf Hölzel commissioned Stenner, Oskar Schlemmer and Willi Baumeister to carry out the wall paintings for the vestibule of the main building of the Cologne Werkbund exhibition in 1914 . The wall frieze caused a sensation and evoked a wide variety of reactions, from enthusiastic enthusiasm to categorical rejection. In the same year he was also represented at the large Stuttgart exhibition of the Association of Art Friends in the countries on the Rhine with two works in the so-called "Expressionist Hall", which Hölzel had set up on behalf of the Association.

On August 7, 1914 Stenner reported together with Oskar Schlemmer as a volunteer and joined the Grenadier Regiment. 119 a. After two months on the western front , he was relocated to the eastern front with his regiment "Queen Olga" at the end of November , where he was in the early morning hours of December 5, 1914 in Poland during an attack on the city of Iłów in what is now the Powiat Sochaczewski in the Masovian Voivodeship fell.

Art forum Hermann Stenner

The Hermann Stenner Art Forum in Bielefeld will be given space in the two listed building parts of the Ortwin Goldbeck Forum that are to be preserved . The basis of the exhibition activities in the Hermann Stenner Art Forum will be the Hermann-Josef Bunte collection, which comprises around 1300 works, including over 200 oil paintings and 800 pastels, watercolors, gouaches and drawings.

In November 2018 the building of the Hermann Stenner Art Forum was officially put into operation. On January 20, 2019, the Art Forum Hermann Stenner opened its first exhibition " Hermann Stenner and his time" , which was dedicated to the life and work of the namesake and artist Hermann Stenner among his contemporaries.

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In five years he created around 300 paintings and more than 1,500 watercolors and drawings.

Quotes

Resurrection - 1914

“[…] Stenner was a fresh, cheerful person and artist. His achievements were excellent. [...] I value Hermann's paintings very much, and Oskar Schlemmer was of the same opinion. His art flourished without restraint or interruption. [...] Hermann Stenner would have become one of the best painters in Germany if the senseless, criminal war had not brought its victims. "

- Willi Baumeister

“As a valuable gift, nature gave Stenner the ease of the hand, the early mastery of craftsmanship. She gave his paintings and drawings the freshness of the immediate, the impression of the effortlessly created, to which his temperament and his lust for existence in the vibrant play of colors rich in contrasts contributed. "

- Hans Hildebrandt

" At twenty-three Hermann Stenner was the youngest expressionist painter to die in the war. His development as a painter really only began when he was twenty and became a pupil of Adolf Hölzel in Stuttgart in the autumn of 1911.… Hermann Stenner began to eschew theory and follow his own instincts, taking only what suited him from Hölzel 's teachings , and began to look further afield for his inspiration. "

- Hans-Georg Gmelin

literature

  • Stenner, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 593 .
  • Stenner, Hermann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 357 .
  • Jutta Hülsewig-Johnen, Nicole Peterlein: Hermann Stenner - watercolors and drawings. Ed .: Freundeskreis Hermann Stenner e. V., Prestel Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7913-6149-9 .
  • Hermann Stenner 1891–1914. From Bielefeld to Meersburg - a painter on the threshold of modernity. Exhibition catalog Schloss Achberg 2007, ISBN 3-9809999-5-5 .
  • Karin von Maur , Markus Pöhlmann : The painter Hermann Stenner in the mirror of his correspondence. Letters 1909–1914. Prestel Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7913-3731-9 .
  • Jutta Hülsewig-Johnen, Christiane Reipschläger: Hermann Stenner - Catalog raisonné of the paintings. Published by the Freundeskreis Hermann Stenner e. V. 2nd edition. 2005, ISBN 3-00-015755-7 .
  • Hölzel and his circle. Stuttgart's contribution to 20th century painting. Inaugural exhibition of the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart in the rebuilt art building on Schlossplatz, Stuttgart 1961.
  • Friederike Weimar: Folded Dreams: Works by Young Artists - Victims of the First World War. Benno Berneis, Hans Fuglsang, Franz Henseler, Wilhelm Morgner, Franz Nölken, Otto Soltau, Hermann Stenner and Albert Weisgerber. Edited by Helga Gutbrod. Gebr. Mann Verlag / Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-7861-2712-3 .
  • David Riedel: “Another summer of intense work” - Hermann Stenner's work before the First World War. In: You died young! Artists and poets, ideas and ideals before the First World War. Edited by Friederike Weimar and Burcu Dogramaci, Gebrüder Mann Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-7861-2704-8 .
  • The luck in art. Expressionism and abstraction around 1914. Bunte Collection. Eds. Jutta Hülsewig-Johnen and Henrike Mund, exhib.-cat. Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-86678-965-4 .
  • Hölzel and his circle. In the laboratory of modernity. Eds. Ulrich Röthke, Verena Faber and Christine Litz, exhib.-cat. Municipal museums Freiburg, Augustinermuseum Freiburg i. Br., Calbe 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-0469-4 .
  • Hermann Stenner and his time , exhib.cat. Kunstforum Hermann Stenner (Ed.), Detmold 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-061604-4 .

Web links

Commons : Hermann Stenner  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g life data. hermann-stenner.de, accessed on December 21, 2017 .
  2. ^ Exhibition catalog Art Exhibition Stuttgart 1914 , Kgl. Art building, Schloßplatz, May to October, ed. from the Association of Art Friends in the States on the Rhine, Stuttgart 1914, p. 47, cat.-no. 405 (“coffee concert”, oil painting) and cat.-no. 410 (“Composition”, oil painting).
  3. ↑ Kunstforum Hermann Stenner - Ortwin Goldbeck Forum / Kunstforum Hermann Stenner Ortwin Goldbeck Forum / Kunstforum Hermann Stenner In: ortwin-goldbeck-forum.de , accessed on June 6, 2018.
  4. ^ Hermann Stenner and his time - Art Forum Hermann Stenner. Retrieved September 19, 2019 .
  5. ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. (Ed.): “Don't let my pictures die.” Artist portraits. Kassel 2010, p. 11.
  6. ↑ Hermann Stenner's catalog raisonné.
  7. ↑ His first last masterpiece in FAZ on September 27, 2016, page 11
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer (Ed.): From Willi Baumeister's diaries: Memories of Otto Meyer-Amden, Adolf Hölzel, Paul Klee, Karl Konrad Düssel and Oskar Schlemmer: with additional writings and letters from Willi Baumeister . Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz, 1996 (= contributions to the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart , edited by Wolfgang Kermer; 8) ISBN 3-89322-421-1 , pp. 52–53.
personal data
SURNAME Stenner, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1914
Place of death Iłów , today: Masovian Voivodeship , Poland