Hugo Oehmichen

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Hugo Oehmichen (born March 10, 1843 in Borsdorf near Leipzig , † December 1932 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter .

Life

Oehmichen was born as the son of a business owner in Borsdorf. He lost his mother at an early age, and the family soon moved to Brockwitz (now part of Coswig ) near Meißen. As a child he is said to have shown keen interest in puppet theater and manual skills, and visits to the training workshop of his brother, an art locksmith, made him want to become a locksmith too. He received his first drawing lessons when he and his brother were taking drawing lessons at Sunday School. The drawing teacher Koehler soon offered him private lessons because of his obvious talent.

Köhler recommended Oehmichen to the drawing and painting school of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory Meißen , whose director Carl Scheinert quickly arranged for the fourteen-year-old talent to study at the Royal Academy in Dresden . Oehmichen studied there from 1857 to 1864, especially with Julius Hübner and Adolf Ehrhardt . In 1862 he won the little silver medal of the academy, in 1864 the little gold medal for the picture Blessing of grandfather , which was bought by the Saxon king. 1866-1867 made a trip to Rome, where he painted some typical motifs of the Campagna. In 1867 he returned to Dresden. His painting The First Church Attendance After Convalescence caused his teacher Julius Huebner to advise Oehmichen to move to Düsseldorf, because there the " moral painting ", for which Oehmichen seemed particularly talented, was more popular than in Dresden and Oehmichen stayed in Düsseldorf Ludwig Knaus and Benjamin Vautier, among others , could find a variety of suggestions.

Around 1870 Oehmichen settled in Düsseldorf, where, under Vautier's influence, he preferred to paint genre pictures from popular life. His picture of death message , created under the influence of the Franco-Prussian War , depicting the delivery of news of the death of a soldier to his wife, was recognized by art critics and sold to England, a second version to the Wiesbaden Municipal Gallery.

In 1871 he married his cousin Emma Dietrich, the daughter of a landowner from Böhlitz (now in Mutzschen ). One of his children, Hans Oehmichen († 1952), studied mining and became mine director. Family life and the world of his children in the house and school offered Oehmichen a variety of motifs for genre paintings. He also often depicted rural and small-town life in Germany in paintings, for which he sought inspiration while traveling on the Moselle, Swabia, the Upper Rhine, in Hesse and Westphalia. For example, his painting The Tax Payday, which he bought from the Dresden gallery, was inspired by a scene he saw himself in the Rheinfelden town hall .

Many of his pictures were reproduced as engravings and thus found a larger audience.

Oehmichen was a member of the artists' association “ Malkasten ” in Düsseldorf.

On January 15, 2017, an episode of the NDR's Lieb & Teuer program was broadcast, moderated by Janin Ullmann . A genre painting with card players by Hugo Oehmichen was discussed with the painting expert Ariane Skora.

Works

Sewing lesson
My cat favorites
Portrait of a girl in costume
Fair scene

(Selection)

  • Portrait of the village teacher, 1861 (for the church in Brockwitz)
  • Portrait of a Woman, 1862
  • Cinderella, 1862
  • Snow White, around 1862/1863
  • Grandfather Blessing His Own (The Grandfather's Blessing), 1864
  • Exit from school, 1865
  • Happy Mother, 1866
  • First going to church after recovery, 1867
  • Village school, 1869
  • School exam, 1870
  • In the village church, 1870
  • Death Message, 1872
  • The Reconvalescent, 1872
  • Church decorations before the wedding, 1874
  • From the Black Forest, 1874
  • The ancients, 1874
  • The first step, 1875
  • The first tooth, 1875
  • Fleeting acquaintance, 1875
  • Martin's evening in Düsseldorf, 1876
  • House Devotion, 1876
  • Rejected, 1876
  • The Tax Payday, 1877
  • In the sewing lesson, 1877
  • The Little Artists, 1877
  • The Veteran's Jubilee, 1878
  • At my sick school friend, 1878
  • Chess player, 1878
  • In the knitting school, 1879
  • Artist's toilet behind a show booth, 1879
  • Kindergarten, 1879
  • House Devotion, 1880
  • Children in the Snow, 1880
  • On the way to school, 1880
  • A funeral day in Westphalia, 1881
  • Children feeding sparrows, 1881
  • Good night, 1881
  • In the church, 1881
  • Retirement Day, 1881
  • Father's admonition, 1881
  • Westphalian churchgoer, 1881
  • After the Christmas presents, 1882
  • Peasants going to court in the waiting room, 1882
  • Religious Education, 1883
  • The Country Cousin, 1883
  • At the village mayor, 1885
  • Where is Cameroon ?, 1885 (a teacher shows farmers the new colony on a wall map)
  • Singing Lesson, 1886
  • Happy Home, 1886
  • The widow's only consolation, 1887
  • The siblings, 1888
  • At the grandfather's, 1893
  • NBC shooters, 1896
  • Sunday, 1896
  • Old drawing school, 1897
  • Silent contemplations
  • Fell asleep
  • Well-wishers
  • School remnants
  • School sentence
  • Writing lesson
  • Before going to school (spreading bread and butter)
  • Unruly students
  • At the column of shame
  • Portrait of a girl in costume
  • Fair scene

literature

  • Wilhelm Loose: Biographies of Meissen artists . In: Communications of the Association for the History of the City of Meißen , ISSN  1615-1801 , Vol. 2 (1891), pp. 200–295.
  • Oehmichen, Hugo . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume 2, Dresden 1898, p. 177.
  • Wilhelm Körs: Hugo Oehmichen "Life and Creation" .

Web links

Commons : Hugo Oehmichen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Video with the painting on ndr.de
personal data
SURNAME Oehmichen, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Borsdorf near Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 1932
Place of death Dusseldorf