Ivo Hauptmann

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Ivo Hauptmann (born February 9, 1886 in Erkner near Berlin ; † September 28, 1973 in Hamburg ), Gerhart Hauptmann's eldest son , was a German painter. He was a co-founder of the artist groups Freie Secession (Berlin 1914) and Hamburgische Sezession (1919).

Life

Ivo Hauptmann announced early on that he wanted to become a painter. Raised in Scheiberhau and Dresden with his mother, he moved in 1900 at the age of 14 after a trip to the Riviera to see his father in Agnetendorf in Silesia, who set up his first studio for him. In 1903 he traveled to Paris for the first time and became a student of the Académie Julian . In 1903 and 1904 he learned from Lovis Corinth in Berlin . Between 1904 and 1909 he studied at the Weimar Art Academy under Hans Olde , where he met Edvard Munch and Henry van de Velde . He was a master student of Ludwig von Hofmann .

From 1909 to 1912 he was again in Paris and studied at the Académie Ranson . He cultivated friendships with Rainer Maria Rilke , Auguste Rodin and Paul Signac . With his fiancée Erica von Scheel (1881-1966) he stayed in 1911 in St. Tropez. In 1912 he married the general daughter and designer from the area of ​​van de Velde in Dresden. From 1913 to 1919, after an invitation from Otto Illies, he had a studio in Dockenhuden near Hamburg, where his mother Marie died unexpectedly on October 6, 1914 during a visit. His son Harre was born on October 14th while Ivo suffered a circulatory collapse. In 1915 he was drafted into military service, initially in Teufelsbrück for air defense, and fought in World War I until 1918 , including on the Somme in 1916. After the war, he also made a living from sets for performances of his father's plays. The contact remained close, also during joint stays on the island of Hiddensee . In 1920 he joined the Hamburg Art Association .

In 1925 Hauptmann moved from Dresden back to Hamburg, where he co-founded the Secession . In addition to his artistic activity, he was employed as a businessman. When the Nazis demanded the expulsion of the Jewish members of the secession in 1933, he instead enforced the self-dissolution of the association.

Grave site Ivo Hauptmann ,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

After the Second World War he re-founded the Hamburg Secession, this time as its chairman. In 1950 he was one of the founding members of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg. From 1955 to 1965 he was vice-president of the Free Academy of Arts and lecturer at the Landeskunstschule am Lerchenfeld. He was also a lecturer at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (also from 1955 to 1965) . In 1965 he became honorary president.

In his second marriage, Ivo Hauptmann was married to the opera singer Erna Kruse-Jahn , with whom he had had a relationship for decades. After the death of her husband, Erna Hauptmann ensured further recognition of his art through exhibitions and brought about the inclusion of one of his main works (portrait of his mother Marie Hauptmann 1907) in the Paris Musée d'Orsay , where it is still on display today.

Ivo Hauptmann lived in Hamburg-Eppendorf until his death . He was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg in grid square T 26 (south of Kapellenstrasse ).

Honors

literature

  • In a hurry in Berlin: Gerhart Hauptmann - Ivo Hauptmann: Correspondence , ed. Harriet Hauptmann and Stefan Rohlfs, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942476-32-4
  • Harriet Hauptmann: Ivo Hauptmann , in: Carl-und-Gerhart-Hauptmann-Jahrbuch, vol. 5 (2010), pp. 195–224.
  • Rainer Herold (ed.): Ivo Hauptmann - The Poet of Color , Fischerhude 2007
  • Eberhard Hilscher: So far, I have not been showered with recognition: Gerhart Hauptmann and his son Ivo , in: Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, vol. 118 (1999), no. 2, pp. 286–296.
  • Elisabeth Südkamp: Ivo Hauptmann's early and neo-impressionist works 1903–1928 , Phil. Diss. University of Kiel 1994, 2 vols.
  • Ivo Hauptmann: Pictures and memories . Seehafen-Verlag Blumenfeld, Hamburg 1976.
  • Rolf Italiaander (ed.): Ivo Hauptmann , Hamburg 1957 [contains an autobiographical sketch and letters to Ivo Hauptmann from Ludwig von Hofmann, Rainer Maria Rilke and others].

Web links

Commons : Ivo Hauptmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Excerpt from the catalog of the first exhibition at the Free Secession Berlin in 1914
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Captain, Ivo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Erkner
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1973
Place of death Hamburg