Hugo Kätze
Hugo Kätze (born April 16, 1874 in Berlin ; † March 3, 1956 in Westerland / Sylt ) was a German painter and graphic artist .
life and work
Köck was born the son of a train driver and was the older brother of Max KOCK-Wichmann . He was a student at the teaching institute of the Kunstgewerbemuseum and the University of Fine Arts in Berlin . Since 1893 he regularly charged the Great Berlin Art Exhibition with landscapes , portraits and genre paintings . After the First World War he came to Sylt in 1918 , where he found numerous motifs. In 1921 he married Cornelia Claasen from Sylt and finally settled on the island, but remained a member of the Berlin Artists' Association .
Köck is best known for his Sylt landscapes , which he preferred to do in oil . His motifs show Sylt, which was still sparsely populated, before it was opened up for tourism through the construction of the Hindenburgdamm . But his works also include plays.
He also became known as a lithographer through designs for the Hamburg-Amerikanische Paketfahrt-Aktiengesellschaft (Hapag), for which he worked from around 1920 to 1930.
His grave is still cared for today in the cemetery of St. Niels Church on Sylt. The Hugo-Kätze-Weg in Westerland / Sylt is named after him. Occasionally, works by the artist are offered in auction shops.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2003: New acquisitions and pictures from the Söl'ring Foriining collection , with Albert Aereboe , Andreas Dirks , Otto Eglau , Carl Christian Feddersen , CP Hansen , Richard Kaiser, Franz Korwan , Ingo Kühl , Walther Kunau, Dieter Röttger , Siegward Sprotte , Helene Varges , Magnus Weidemann et al. a., Sylter Heimatmuseum, Keitum / Sylt
- 1980: Memorial exhibition in Westerland / Sylt
- 1931: Solo exhibition in Schleswig
- 1930: Great Berlin art exhibition in Bellevue Palace
- 1919: Art exhibition in Berlin in the state exhibition building
- 1914: Munich annual exhibition of the Munich artists' cooperative in the Royal Glass Palace
- 1893: Great Berlin Art Exhibition, Berlin, Düsseldorf
literature
- Hans Vollmer , Ulrich Thieme : General lexicon of the visual artists from antiquity to the present . Seemann Verlag 1953, Volume 3, Page 53
- Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Hugo Kätze . In: Künstlerinsel Sylt , pp. 198–199, Boyens, Heide 2005, ISBN 3-8042-1171-2 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Deppe: Street names on Sylt . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 3-8334-4516-5 (147 pages, limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ Hugo Kätze, Sunday church attendance , at auction Dorotheum, Vienna
- ^ Hugo Kätze, dance band and society in Braunsberg , at Bergmann auctions
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kocken, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1956 |
| Place of death | Westerland on Sylt |