Hugo Friedrich Hartmann

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Hugo Friedrich Hartmann (born December 26, 1870 in Rosenberg i. Westpr. , † April 15, 1960 in Bardowick ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Hartmann was born in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 in Rosenberg in West Prussia (today Susz in Poland ). When his father died in 1875 as a result of a serious war injury, his mother moved with him to relatives in Berlin . Because of a protracted illness of his mother, he grew up there in the family of his uncle, his father's brother. Hartmann attended elementary school in Berlin and, until 1886, high school.

He made the decision to become a painter early on, and in 1890 was admitted to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden . Hartmann studied there until 1896, initially with Friedrich Preller the Younger , and finally in Gotthardt Kuehl's master class . He then settled in the Lower Saxony town of Bardowick , which he had met on a study trip to the academy. From 1900 he was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 ; after 1903 also in the German Association of Artists .

Until his death, Hartmann lived and worked secluded in Bardowick, where he initially lived with a friend for a long time and had his studio. In 1934 he moved into his own house with a studio. In 1940 he married Hilde Molsen; In 1942 the daughter Gudrun was born.

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Hartmann painted oil paintings and watercolors , created graphics , woodcuts and linocuts . He was also known for his book illustrations ; so "since 1910, with his graphic redesign of the 'Primer for Lower Saxony' ', he accompanied generations of schoolchildren up to the time of World War II" .

In addition, he created large-format murals in the Lüneburg and Stade stations , in the Lüneburg Ratskeller and in the former Lüneburg Schlieffen barracks .

As a North German Impressionist, Hartmann was widely recognized during his lifetime, while his work is little known today.

The Hamburger Kunsthalle , the Bomann Museum in Celle , the Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg and the Albert König Museum in Unterlüß have works by the artist.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hugo Friedrich Hartmann - painter and graphic artist ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Short biography on the website www.hugo-friedrich-hartmann.de; accessed on August 15, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hugo-friedrich-hartmann.de
  2. ^ Kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since 1903 / Hartmann, Hugo Friedr. ( 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. (accessed on August 15, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ^ "Summit Festival" in Buthmanns Hof. Kunstverein Fischerhude celebrates the painter Hugo Friedrich Hartmann today . Report by Hans-Dieter Mahlstedt in the Weser-Kurier of January 25, 2009, p. 11.
  4. ^ "Primer for Lower Saxony from 1910" , excerpts on the website www.hugo-friedrich-hartmann.de; accessed on January 29, 2015 ( Memento from January 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Hartmann and the Heidjer. Traveling exhibition in Bremervörde and Fischerhude . Report in the Rotenburger Rundschau from June 22, 2008; accessed on January 29, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Hugo Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenberg in West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1960
Place of death Bardowick