Jacob Alberts

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Grave of Jacob Alberts in the Westerhever cemetery

Jacob Alberts (born June 30, 1860 in Westerhever ; † November 7, 1941 in Malente -Gremsmühlen) was a German painter .

Life

Blue hall on Hallig Hooge
Blooming Hallig
Floor board from Vierlanden

The son of the Marschhof owner Peter Alberts, after completing his high school education at the cathedral school in Schleswig (he was supposed to be a pastor) from 1880 to 1882, attended lessons from the history painters Andreas Müller , Heinrich Lauenstein and Johann Peter Theodor Janssen at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf , then from Wilhelm von Diez at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts .

From Munich he went on study trips to Hungary and Florence , where he worked in the studio of Francesco Vinea . From 1886 to 1890, Alberts attended the Académie Julian in Paris during the winter months , where he was a. a. Taught by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre . His stay enabled him to meet the impressionist painters Manet , Renoir , Monet and Pissarro . In 1890 he exhibited in the Paris “Salon”. The confrontation with French Impressionism led to a light color, which is particularly evident in the flowering Hallig landscapes, but in the interior depictions in particular, he is concerned with preserving the form and describing the details.

From 1890 the artist lived in Berlin , where he worked as a portrait teacher at the art school of the Association of Berlin Women Artists . Paula Becker-Modersohn was one of his students . In 1892 Alberts was one of the founding members of the Berlin artist group Vereinigung der XI , from which the Berlin Secession emerged in 1898 , of which Alberts was also a founding member.

In the summer he worked regularly in his home in North Frisia. The experience of the until then largely unknown world of the Hallig, which he discovered in 1887, earned him the reputation of "Hallig painter". Since 1895 he also regularly visited the island of Sylt. Through the industry organizer and later Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau , Alberts was introduced to high finance circles, who were mostly well-known art collectors. The dreaded critic Alfred Kerr and the philosopher Friedrich Paulsen wrote hymns on his pictures. In Berlin he was awarded the title of professor by the Prussian minister of education.

In 1913 Alberts settled in Hamburg, in 1932 he bought a house in Malente-Gremsmühlen. He traveled to Norway (1898), Holland (1901), England (1908), Spain (1924) and the island of Tenerife (1911, 1924, 1938). In 1940, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, Alberts was intended to receive the Goethe Medal for Art and Science at the request of the Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein, Hinrich Lohse . The award had already been approved by Hitler and Goebbels, but did not take place when it became known that Alberts had been charged twice with Section 175. Albert is buried in the cemetery of St. Stephanus Church in Westerhever, which he depicted in one of his works exhibited in Paris.

Jacob Alberts was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Works (selection)

  • Confession at Hallig Oland (1891), North Frisian Museum. Nissenhaus Husum
  • Blacksmith Broders, Westerhever (1891), North Frisian Museum. Nissenhaus Husum
  • Sermon on Hallig Gröde (1892), lost
  • Königspesel on Hallig Hooge (1893), Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Gottorf Castle , Schleswig
  • Blooming Hallig (around 1895), Flensburg, Municipal Museum
  • Sylt Dunes (1898), Kiel, Kunsthalle
  • Sunday visit to the Hallig (coffee company) (around 1902), North Frisian Museum. Nissenhaus Husum
  • Halligstube, Nordmarsch Langeness , Museum Art of the West Coast, Alkersum / Föhr
  • Blooming Hallig (1902/03), North Frisian Museum. Nissenhaus Husum
  • Blue hall on Hooge (1905), Museumsberg Flensburg
  • Coffee company (undated), North Frisian Museum. Nissenhaus Husum
  • Blooming elderberry (undated), North Frisian Museum. Nissenhaus Husum
  • Holstein marshland , Hamburg, Altona Museum
  • The captain's widow

literature

  • Friedrich Fuchs: Jakob Alberts. In: Berlin life. Issue 07, 1902, pp. 110-111.
  • Friedrich Jansa (Hrsg.): German visual artists in words and pictures. Leipzig 1912.
  • Alberts, Jacob . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 223–224 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Gustav Frenssen: Jacob Alberts. A German painter. With 4 color tables and 29 monochrome pictures based on paintings and drawings by the artist and 3 illustrations in the text. G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1920.
  • Jacob Alberts. Eight color reproductions after paintings and five illustrations in the text. With an introduction by Hans Vollmer. EA Seemann, Leipzig [1920]. ( archive.org )
  • Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General artist lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists. prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Volume 1, Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1921.
  • Jacob Alberts . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953.
  • Emanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Volume I, 1976.
  • General artist lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 2, Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22742-6 .
  • Carsten Roth, in: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , p. 57 (fig.).
  • Jacob Alberts 1860–1941 retrospective. North Frisian Museum Ludwig-Nissen-Haus, Husum, July 11 to September 19, 1999. North Friesland Museum Association. With a catalog raisonné and a basic text by Hans-Jürgen Krähe. ISBN 3-7793-6908-7 .
  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Föhr, Amrum and the Halligen in art , Heide 2012, pp. 81–94. ISBN 978-3-8042-1346-3
  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Sylt in der Kunst , Heide 2018, ISBN 978-3-8042-1481-1 , pp. 145–147.

Web links

Commons : Jacob Alberts  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
File category Files: Painting by Jacob Alberts  - local collection of images and media files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ no character class ; Janssen led a painting class (!); In 1895 he was appointed director of the academy
  2. ^ Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867 e. V., Club Chronicle: Drawing & Painting School ( Memento from July 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 18, 2015.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer / Jörg Paczkowski (eds.), Max Lieberman and North German members of the Berlin Secession, Heide 2008, pp. 47–55.
  4. ↑ Kieler Zeitung March 8, 1901; Alfred Kerr, Stay a while - Die Welt im Licht I, Berlin 1922, p. 9ff.
  5. ^ Otto Thomas, Die Propaganda-Maschinerie - Fine Arts and Public Relations in the Third Reich, Berlin 1978.
  6. ^ Deutscher Künstlerbund: Ordinary members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Alberts, Jacobs ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 9, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Alberts, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Westerhever
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1941
Place of death Malente -remsmühlen