Hugo Gugg

Oskar Hugo Gugg (born August 21, 1878 in Leipzig , † April 25, 1956 in Weimar ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Hugo Gugg was born as the son of the "room painter" Otto Gugg and Henriette Gugg, nee. Scheiding. 1900 or 1901 marriage with Milda, daughter of the mill owner and master baker Wilhelm Thum in Zwönitz (Ore Mountains) and his wife Auguste, born. Meischner. Hugo and Milda Gugg had seven children.

Gugg initially completed an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Leipzig and attended drawing courses at the Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig. He also attended drawing courses at the academy and took private drawing lessons from the animal painter Fedor Flinzer . In 1898, during a study trip to Zwönitz in the Erzgebirge, he met Milda Thum, whom he married in 1900 and with whom he had seven children. From 1914 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War. In 1901 he had his first exhibition at the Leipziger Kunstverein . The director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig , Theodor Schreiber , discovered the young painter.

In the time of National Socialism

In addition to his many years of work within the " Saalecker workshops " of him architect friend and later Nazi propagandists Paul Schultze-Naumburg , first as a student, then as a teacher, he was from 1921 to 1945 professor of landscape painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar. During this time, a large-format oil portrait of the Thuringian Nazi Gauleiter Fritz Sauckel as well as portraits of well-known contemporaries, including the pianist Joseph Pembaur and Gugg's patron, Justizrat Paul Axhausen, was created. Gugg, portrayed as rather apolitical, had already joined the NSDAP in 1930, as the art movement preferred by the National Socialists suited his own conventional production. From 1938 he was the Nazi lecturer union leader at the university. In the same year Gauleiter Sauckel got him the contract for the artistic design of the newly opened hotel "Elephant" designed by Hermann Giesler , which he filled with large landscapes that symbolize the seasons.

In 1942 he created the oil painting Castel del Monte for the private residence of Adolf Hitler, who thought he was in a historical series with Emperor Friedrich II. The preliminary drawings were made on one of his many trips to Italy. (According to earlier literature, this picture, oil on wood 100 × 157 cm, signed and dated 1944, was only painted in 1944 and was in 2001 in the collection of Nazi art in the custody of the Oberfinanzdirektion München, today probably in the German Historical Museum Berlin). In the same year Gugg exhibited two paintings at the National Socialist Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. In 1943, on his 65th birthday, he was awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science and was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition with the picture Ordensburg Sonthofen . In 1944, a special exhibition with 21 objects was dedicated to Gugg within the art exhibition. A lifelong friendship connected him with his former student and later head of the photography class at the art college, Walter Hege , who also taught him how to use the camera.

After 1945

In 1945 Gugg was released and briefly imprisoned. After his denazification , he was primarily commissioned to do restoration work on the Weimar classical cultural sites, with regard to the Goethe year 1949. His innumerable - thousands - letterhead drawings, which he prefixed his letter texts, deserve special mention. These represent a very individual art form. In a letter dated December 24, 1945, he writes: “... I can no longer give a large picture - hardly as much. I would be sorry if my letters got lost ... "

Gugg was a member of the German Association of Artists . He is buried with his wife Milda Gugg in the Oberweimar cemetery, the grave site is still preserved.

literature

• Paul Schultze-Naumburg: The painter Hugo Gugg. In: Art in the German Empire. Issue A, 5, 1941, pp. 144-151.
• Thomas Holz (Ed.): The painter Hugo Gugg: his pictures, his thoughts, his work. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, 1997, ISBN 3-924489-84-X .
• Wolfgang Gugg (Ed.): Letterheads and excerpts from Hugo Gugg: In memory of the revered teacher. compiled by his students. Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-7672-0934-9 .
• W. Gugg: Excerpts from letters. Self-published, 1971.
• Adolf Müller (Gugg student): Hugo Gugg: Thoughts, sayings, remarks. Self-published, 1972.
• W. Gugg: Memories of Hugo Gugg: From the life of my father. Self-published, 1988.
• Th. Holz: Hugo Gugg: Excerpts from letters. Self-published, 2006.

Web links

• hugogugg.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Holz (Ed.): The painter Hugo Gugg, Schönebürg 1997, p. 114
2. ↑ http://www.hugogugg.de
3. ^ Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Degeners Wer ist's, X. Edition, Berlin 1935, p. 558
4. ^ Uwe Hossfeld: Combative Science: Studies at Jena University in National Socialism. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar, 2003, ISBN 3-412-04102-5 , p. 197.
5. ^ Rolf Bothe, Thomas Föhl: Rise and Fall of Modernity. Hatje Cantz, 1999, ISBN 3-7757-0815-4 , p. 10.
6. ↑ Heike B. Görtemaker: Eva Braun: Life with Hitler. CH Beck, Munich, 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-58514-2 , p. 218
7. ↑ Alexander Knaak: Prolegomena to a Corpuswek of the architecture of Frederick II. Hohenstaufen in the Kingdom of Sicily (1220-1250), Marburg 2001 (= studies on art and cultural history, vol. 16), p. 149 and p. 344, note 10.
8. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 185.
9. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Gugg, Hugo ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 February 26, 2016)