Hugo Duphorn

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Hugo Heinrich Wilhelm Duphorn (born June 10, 1876 in Eisenach , † April 20, 1909 in Halland in Sweden ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Education and early years

Duphorn was born as the son of the joiner Otto Duphorn (1848–1900) and his wife Paula geb. Busch (1849–1919) was born. His father, who worked as a theater machine master in Eisenach, got a job as a technical stage manager at the Oldenburg State Theater in 1880 and moved with his family to Oldenburg . Duphorn, who first attended the city boys' school and then the upper secondary school, was instructed here by the drawing teacher Andreas Speißer, who had already taught Bernhard Winter and later Jan Oeltjen . In 1892, however, Duphorn first went to Lübeck to go to sea. He was hired as a cabin boy and sailed on the sailing ship Olga until 1894 . The first trip was to Australia , two more to Norway and Portugal . After 19 months he had to give up sailing due to myopia and from spring 1894 did an apprenticeship with a house painter in Oldenburg. In 1894/95 he worked in the painter's hall of the Oldenburg Theater under Wilhelm Mohrmann and took drawing lessons in the evening at the Oldenburg Museum of Applied Arts. In October 1895 he volunteered for the Oldenburg Infantry Regiment No. 91 , in which he did military service until September 1897 . In the same month he visited the moor painter Gerhard Bakenhus in Kreyenbrück for the first time , who was keen to encourage and encourage young colleagues. In 1897 Duphorn went to Munich , where he spent a short period of study at the Rosenthal painting school. In 1898 he moved to Berlin , where he was employed by the historicist church painter August Oetken from Oldenburg . Oetken's orders took him to Breslau , Magdeburg , the Harz Mountains and Rügen . At the suggestion of Bakenhus, Duphorn made nature studies on Wangerooge and in the heath near Oldenburg from 1899 and now made the decision to devote himself entirely to painting.

Later work

From 1900 Duphorn attended the Grand Ducal Saxon University of Fine Arts in Weimar and worked here as a student of the plein air painter Theodor Hagen . Here he came across the writings of Julius Hart , whom he soon got to know personally, interrupted his studies and joined the free religious New Community , which was founded by Julius Hart, his brother Heinrich Hart and others. As a result, he moved back to Berlin in late autumn 1900 and in November took up a studio in Steglitz above Julius Hart's apartment, with whom he became friends. In the winter semester Duphorn took part in nude courses at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin . Primarily, however, he painted motifs of the Brandenburg landscape (such as The Silence in Autumn ). In 1902 he left the New Community . During a study trip to Bornholm, Duphorn met his future wife Herdis Odderskov, a photographer from Jutland , whom he married on August 11, 1902 in Oldenburg. The couple, who had two sons and two daughters, initially lived in the Neuchâtel Castle . Here Duphorn painted motifs from the Neuchâtel jungle and took part in the Northwest German Art Exhibition in Oldenburg in 1905. A grand ducal scholarship enabled him to continue his interrupted studies at the Weimar Academy in 1904/05. In 1906 he moved to Rastede with his family . Here he made friends with Wilhelm Degode . In 1907, Duphorn bought the Lilla Backa homestead on the rocky shores of Lake Kärnesjö in the Swedish province of Halland. In the spring of 1907 Duphorn moved with his family to Sweden and continued to work here as a painter. In 1909 he had an accident on the brittle ice of the lake and drowned with his eldest son and a friend who was a retired teacher.

Exhibitions

Duphorn was able to present his works at the following exhibitions:

  • Great International Art Exhibition in Amsterdam (1904)
  • Great Berlin art exhibition
  • Northwest German Art Exhibition in Oldenburg (1905)
  • Great art exhibition in Hanover (1907)
  • Northwest German art exhibitions in Bremen (1906–1907 and 1909)
  • Leipzig (1901 and 1903)
  • various exhibitions of the Oldenburger Künstlerbund (1908)
  • annual art exhibitions in Weimar (1903–1906),
  • Wilhelmshaven (1902)

He also organized a first studio exhibition in Neuchâtel (probably 1903) and in autumn 1906 exhibited a large number of his works in his studio in Rastede.

On the occasion of the 100th year of his death, a large Duphorn exhibition was held in the Palais Rastede in 2009.

rating

Duphorn is considered one of the most distinguished and respected Bakenhus students. His lyrical landscapes reveal the influence of Art Nouveau .

As namesake

In a new building area in the south-west of Rastede, a street is named after Duphorn.

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personal data
SURNAME Duphorn, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duphorn, Hugo Heinrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1909
Place of death Halland