Hugo Körte

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Hugo Körte (born December 31, 1897 in Stettin ; † February 11, 1974 in Munich ) was a German art teacher and artist who mainly created paintings and glass windows . He is the younger brother of the architect Walter Körte .

Career

Hugo Körte attended the humanistic high school in his hometown . At 20, he enlisted in the First World War as a volunteer to serve as a gunner and was on the Western Front to France used. After the war, Hugo Körte started at the Royal Art Academy and Applied Arts School in Leipzig. In 1919 he moved to the Dresden Art Academy to study painting as a master student with Oskar Kokoschka . Kokoschka supported Körte by getting him a scholarship . This made it possible for Körte to go on study trips to Yugoslavia and Italy in 1923 . Hugo Körte graduated as a graduate engineer at the Bauhaus Dessau . His sponsors here were Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger .

In 1933 Hugo Körte accepted a position as a teacher at the German School in Rome . In Italy, Körte also saw the end of World War II . From the late 1940s he moved to Munich and worked as a freelance artist there until his death.

Works (selection)

  • Portrait of Otto Bernhard Knoblauch (1851–1927)
  • 1947: Sardinian folk dance ; Watercolor . The picture is in the Szczecin Museum. It made approvals for the city of Coburg .
  • 1959: four colored windows of the St. Thomas Church in Freiburg-Zähringen, which was built according to the plans of his brother, the architect Walter Körte.
    It is about the altar window, which shows the Lamb of God and three gallery windows with the motives of the cock , ears of wheat and the wise and the foolish virgins . No other designs were realized ( oil lamps / virgins , pigeon , fish , crown of thorns , grain & wine , holy spirit dove ). All of them are motifs of salvation history .
  • 1962: Colored windows in the Matthias Claudius Chapel in Freiburg-Günterstal, built according to plans by Wilhelm Körte
  • Color windows in a Stuttgart church

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Restitution index card in the central database of the Federal Archives for recording the watercolor , accessed on February 16, 2014
  2. ↑ View of the colored windows in the Thomaskirche; on the right side ( memento from August 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ); accessed on February 16, 2014
  3. ^ Baden-Württemberg. Art monuments and museums . Reclam, Stuttgart 1979, p. 195.
  4. ^ Otto Paul Burghardt: Sun, light, blaze of colors. ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Reutlinger Nachrichten from April 16, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Körte, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art teacher and artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1974
Place of death Munich