Hugo Zieger

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Hugo Zieger , full name Hugo Louis Julius August Zieger , (born July 5, 1864 in Koblenz , † March 27, 1932 in Oldenburg ) was a German painter . His best-known work is the fresco The Kiss of Brother , a representation of the execution of the Frisian “folk heroes” Dude and Gerold Lubben.

Life

The Brother's Kiss (1893)

Zieger was the second child of the postal expedition Hermann August Zieger (* 1831) and his wife Karolina Katharina, née Brauch (* 1830). He started painting and drawing as a child. In 1883 he moved from the upper prima of the Oberrealschule Koblenz to the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he first studied in the preparatory classes with Heinrich Lauenstein , Georg Heinrich Crola and Adolf Schill and trained from 1886/87 to 1888/89 in the specialist class of the history painter Peter Janssen , whose master class he was from 1889/90 to 1894/95. In addition to history painting, Zieger dealt with nude and portrait painting, including with Eduard von Gebhardt .

Since the mid-1880s, Zieger carried out independent commissions, including wall paintings for the Poensgen house in Düsseldorf with depictions of the opening and closing scenes from Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre and in 1886/87 the mural The Anabaptists on the Prinzipalmarkt for the Ludgerhof in Münster . Zieger initially painted mythological and historical depictions, but also portrayed politicians, administrative officials and industrialists. He provided the portraits of the German Emperors Wilhelm I and Friedrich III for the town hall of Gelsenkirchen . which were exhibited in the Düsseldorf Kunsthalle in 1890.

In 1893 Zieger participated in a competition to promote large-format fresco painting. The local poet Hermann Allmers suggested him a mural in the entrance hall of the house of the Lübben family in Schmalenfletherwurp. Zieger then created the fresco The Kiss of Brother or Lever dod as Slav . The fresco shows the execution of the brothers Dude and Gerold Lubben (Lübben), the sons of the Stadland chief Dide Lubben , by the Bremen council in 1419 after they had unsuccessfully tried to conquer the Bremen Friedeburg . The younger Gerold kisses the already severed head of his brother Dude. The fresco is now on loan from the Lübben family in the Nordenham Museum .

In addition, Zieger created illustrations for children's books and portraits of numerous celebrities, such as those of the Düsseldorf industrialists Adolf and Emil Kirdorf . After a trip to Italy in 1897, Zieger dealt with industrial motifs primarily from coal mining in the Ruhr area and in 1901 painted the dome hall of the mining department at the Düsseldorf exhibition and in 1902 created four depictions of the main coal mining operations on behalf of the Essen mining association. In the same year he also painted the Rothe Erde steelworks near Aachen . His works were represented at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1893, 1898 and 1899, and he exhibited at the Berlin International Art Exhibition in 1896 and at the Berlin Academic Art Exhibition in 1892. As a result of a study trip with Christian Kröner to the Hunsrück in 1903, hunting pictures were taken.

Zieger was a member of the Lätitia artists 'association in Düsseldorf and of the Malkasten artists' association from 1894 to 1906 . In 1892/93 he designed a program poster for the theater production Die Afrikanerin in Kalau for the latter . The reason for this was the inauguration of a new curtain for the Malkasten stage.

At the suggestion of his friend, the local poet Georg Ruseler , Zieger returned to Oldenburg, where he initially taught at the city boys' school from 1911 onwards. In 1912 he took a permanent position as a drawing teacher and also taught three of the Grand Duke's children. Apart from a stay at the art academy in Munich (1920/21), he stayed in the city until his death. Artistically, he turned primarily to landscape painting characterized by light and weather moods. He rejected the emerging expressionism and turned against the painting of the early " Brücke " artists in Dangast in 1920 . From 1908 to 1932 he belonged to the Oldenburger Künstlerbund , was elected secretary in 1919 and a member of the board in 1920.

A street in the Kreyenbrück district has been named after Zieger since 1957. The city ​​museum's holdings include the oil painting Der Stau zu Oldenburg .

Works (selection)

  • Portrait of the painter Gustav Zick , 1896; Oil / canvas, 36 × 25.5 cm: Koblenz, Middle Rhine Museum
  • Evening mood (together with Carl Becker), 1893; The Shawm , 1893: Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast Foundation
  • Mermaid with lyre , sea ​​and bird , red chalk drawings 1898: Düsseldorf, KVM

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. The brotherly kiss. Radio Bremen, September 9, 2014.
  2. Acknowledgment by business card. In: Nordwest-Zeitung . October 28, 2008 ( nwzonline.de ).
  3. Friedrich Scho Husen: Oldenburg street names - Supplement 1983 . Holzberg, Oldenburg 1983, ISBN 3-87358-178-7 .