Ginger Paulsen

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Ingwer Paulsen (born April 3, 1883 in Ellerbek near Kiel , † November 25, 1943 in Halebüll near Husum ) was a German graphic artist and painter .

Life

Ingwer Paulsen was the third of four sons of the doctor Ingwer Paulsen sen. born. The family came from North Frisia on both the father's and mother's side . His maternal grandfather was a pastor in Hattstedt . Paulsen attended the Kiel School of Academics and the Flensburg High School . With the intention of studying architecture like his older brother Friedrich, he moved to Munich after graduating from school , where he discovered painting for himself.

Grave of Ginger Paulsen in Hattstedt

From 1904 on he studied with Hermann Groeber , Peter Halm and Hugo von Habermann . In 1907 he entered the Munich Academy . In 1908 and 1909 he also studied with the Schleswig-Holstein painter Hans Olde at the Weimar art school . In 1909 he married Else Kranz in Eupen (Belgium) and in 1911 they moved to Weimar . Up until the beginning of the First World War he made several trips (Paris 1909), the Netherlands (1911/12), Belgium (1913/14) and Italy. During the First World War he was used as a balloon observer in France, Russia and Italy.

At the beginning of the twenties he had to give up commercial art for a short period of time for economic reasons and ran his own farm. From 1923 he lived with his second wife Elfriede von Rohden permanently in the residential and studio building in Halebüll, which the architect Ernst Prinz had built according to his own ideas ten years earlier . Study trips took him to Mecklenburg (1922) and Mainfranken (1923). He traveled to Provence with the sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies (1927). In 1928/29 he traveled to Greece and Albania (1928/29), where he visited the archaeologist Wilhelm Dörpfeld .

Ingwer Paulsen was a member of the German Association of Artists . Since the mid-1920s he was active in cultural politics in the national sense and initially campaigned for the interests of Schleswig-Holstein artists. Paulsen joined the NSDAP on February 1, 1930 . His activities as a cell warden and district culture warden (of the Husum district ) are documented for 1934 . In addition, Paulsen led the national and anti-Semitic fighting association for German culture , local group Husum. In March he founded a “North Sea School” based on the model of the “Loheland” women's training center in Halbüll. As a member of the board of the “Schleswig-Holstein Art Cooperative” and a National Socialist cultural functionary, he sought to close ranks with the initiators of the “Degenerate Art Action”, Wolfgang Willrich and Walter Hansen. Despite his tireless commitment to the goals of National Socialism, Ingwer Paulsen did not make a career in the Third Reich either as an artist or as a cultural functionary, complaints in this regard were rejected by Joseph Goebbels .

During the Second World War , Paulsen initially joined the Air Force in Schleswig in 1940 . Later he was u. a. stationed as city commander in Gorinchem, the Netherlands . In 1943 the Wehrmacht fired him for reasons of age.

A few months later, Ginger Paulsen died in November 1943 in his home in Halebüll. He was buried in the Hattstedt cemetery. At the memorial service, the local group leader and the district leader of the NSDAP, Johann Peperkorn , paid tribute to his life.

In his last place of residence, Halebüll, a district of Husum, a path is named after the artist.

plant

Ginger Paulsen was primarily an eraser . His subjects were predominantly landscapes of the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein ( North Friesland , Eiderstedt and Dithmarschen ). After the end of the First World War, he temporarily strived for the totality of all means of expression, from graphics, painting and sculpture. In addition to sculptures, designs for large colored murals were created. In 1925 he illustrated the book Einsame Ufer. Hallignovellen by Elfriede Rotermund . From the mid-twenties onwards, he increasingly devoted himself to painting and experimented with impressionist and expressionist styles. A thematic approach to the Nazi ideology remained without any significant response.

Literature and Sources

  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Paulsen ginger. In: Ders., Kieler Künstler Volume 3: In the Weimar Republic and in National Socialism 1918–1945, Heide 2019, pp. 266–284. ISBN 978-3-8042-1493-4 .
  • Adolf Möller: Ginger Paulsen. The eraser of North Frisia. Husum 1984, ISBN 3-88042-217-6 .
  • Claudia Bertling Biaggini : Paulsen ginger in Italy. Sketches and etchings between 1906 and 1902 Husum 1997, ISBN 3-88042-838-7 .
  • Claudia Bertling-Biaggini: Light and colors of Greece: Ginger Paulsen on a journey with the archaeologist Wilhelm Dörpfeld 1928/29. Husum 2004, ISBN 3-89876-181-9 .
  • Claudia Bertling-Biaggini: Ingwer Paulsen: Nude - Figure - Movement. Husum 2007, ISBN 3-89876-341-2 .
  • Schobüll - a chronicle in reports and stories. Husum 2014.
  • Personnel card of the Reich Training Office of the NSDAP and the DAF, BArch VB51 / 1090001211

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by Ingwer Paulsen, Matriculation Book 1884–1920, October 30, 1907. (Entry in the Academy's online archive)
  2. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Husum # Paulsen Atelierhaus
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Paulsen, Ingwer ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 4, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  4. ↑ Kieler Zeitung March 24, 1930.
  5. ↑ Paulsen Ingwer to Kapellmeister Brandmauer, Hilversum October 13, 1941. Paulsen Ingwer estate, Halebüll.
  6. ^ Letter from Paulsen to Goebbels, Halebüll, August 4, 1937 and the answer, August 4, 1937, Berlin in the Ingwer Paulsen estate, Halebüll.
  7. ^ Hans W. Singer, The graphic work of the painter-etcher Ingwer Paulsen. A descriptive and chronologically ordered directory, Berlin 1922.
  8. ↑ Schulte-Wülwer, p. 276ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Paulsen, ginger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Ellerbek
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1943
Place of death Halebüll