Hugo Vogel

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Hugo Vogel, 1905

Hugo Vogel (born February 15, 1855 in Magdeburg , † September 26, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German painter .

Life

Vogel at work in his studio in 1898

Hugo Vogel was the son of a businessman and first graduated from secondary school in Magdeburg before studying at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1874 to 1880 . Wilhelm Sohn and Eduard von Gebhardt were among his teachers there . In 1883 Vogel took part in an exhibition at the Berlin Academy with his pictures of Luther preaching during his imprisonment at the Wartburg, as well as the reception of the refuges by the Great Elector in Potsdam Palace . From 1880 to 1886 he was a member of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten .

After a long stay in Italy, he went to Berlin in 1886. From 1887 he took over a professorship at the Berlin Academy, which he lost in the Munch affair triggered by Anton von Werner in 1892 . He then joined the group of eleven, which opposed the established art business . In addition, from 1888 he was a member of the Berlin Artists Association . Among his students were August von Brandis and Clara Siewert . In 1893 Vogel went to Paris to study with Jules Lefebvre . He then went on extensive study trips that took him to Spain, northern Africa, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands. In 1900 he received a large gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .

Vogel created many large frescoes with predominantly historical themes, for example in the town halls of Berlin and Hamburg and in the Ständehaus in Merseburg . His Merseburg equestrian fresco The German Michael became the subject of a plagiarism debate in 1902 when the magazine Der Kunstwart Vogel proved that he had simply painted a French equestrian statue (Paul Dubois: Johanna von Orléans ) for it.

During the First World War he accompanied Paul von Hindenburg from 1915 to 1917 as his portrait painter at the front.

tomb

Vogel later lived in the Alsen colony . He was buried in a grave of honor in the Wannsee cemetery, Lindenstrasse in the department AT-62.

The city of Magdeburg named a street in his honor ( Hugo-Vogel-Straße ). A street is also named after him in Berlin-Wannsee and in Merseburg.

On August 27, 2017, an episode of the NDR's Lieb & Teuer program was broadcast, moderated by Janin Ullmann . It was discussed with the curator of the Hamburger Kunsthalle Daniel Koep Hugo Vogel's oil painting Faun from 1907, as well as the wall paintings in the ballroom of the Hamburg city hall.

Works

Pictures (selection)

  • Luther preached at the Wartburg while he was imprisoned
  • Reception of the refugies by the Great Elector in Potsdam Palace
  • Kaufmann Burchardt, 1897
  • Wall painting in the Hamburg City Hall , particularly monumental design in the Great Ballroom (1902–1909) and a portrait of the entire Senate when they moved into the new City Hall in 1897 (1900–1904. 4.70 × 2.90 meters) in the Mayor's Hall.
  • Arrival of Emperor Otto the Great and his wife in front of Magdeburg, wall painting, 1897/1899, Merseburg Ständehaus
  • Otto Hubbe, 1906, oil painting, Magdeburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Rudolf Genée , 1914, portrait, Berlin (lost)
  • General Sixt von Armin, 1920, oil painting, Kunsthistorisches Museum Magdeburg
  • Rudolf Virchow , oil painting, Berlin
  • Portrait of Professor Vogel , Great Berlin Art Exhibition in the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf , 1918

  • Reception of the refugies (Huguenots) by the Great Elector

  • Hamburg Senate in 1897 when it moved into the town hall . Monumental oil painting, 1901/1904.

  • Faun, painting, 1907.

  • Port of Hamburg. Wall painting in the Hamburg City Hall. 1901-1909.

  • Wall painting in the ballroom of the Hamburg City Hall. 1901-1909.

  • Industry under the protection of the crown. (Mural, probably destroyed)

  • Hugo Vogel, Cozy newspaper reading in the tavern, 1912

Fonts

  • When I was painting Hindenburg , 1927
  • Experiences and conversations with Hindenburg, memories , 1935

literature

  • Sabine Liebscher: Vogel, Hugo. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 .

Web links

Commons : Hugo Vogel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hamburg views - painters see the city. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Wienand Verlag, p. 195.
  2. ^ Photo of the grave of honor
  3. ↑ The part with the painting from the broadcast as a video on ndr.de
  4. ^ Hugo Vogel: Portrait of Professor Vogel , digitized in the exhibition catalog, at Heidelberg University Library
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1934
Place of death Berlin