Jan Horstmann

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Jan Horstmann (born September 12, 1894 in Finkenwärder as Johann Peter Paul Horstmann ; † November 3, 1982 in Hamburg ) was a German marine painter in Hamburg.

Life

Jan Horstmann was born as the oldest of three brothers. His father, the fish smoker Paul Horstmann, originally came from Hamburg-St. Pauli. Jan grew up in Finkenwärder near the berths of the Finkenwerder fishing fleet. He started drawing early. After attending school, he completed an apprenticeship as a painter in Blankenese . His journeyman time, which he temporarily spent in southern Germany, was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War. Only a few works from this period have survived.

Later he continued his education at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts and became a master of painting. At the beginning of the 1920s, Horstmann opened a painting business in Finkenwerder. Horstmann set up his studio in the company's garden. Horstmann depicted old Hamburg in his paintings and drawings; many of the motifs no longer exist in the form he painted. His home town of Finkenwerder with its painter's angles was also a popular motif of the artist. Sail-fishing vessels and early portraits of fish steamer from Hamburg as well as square sailors were preferred models alongside the HADAG ferries. Pictures by Horstmann are privately owned, but the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven also shows paintings by Horstmann.

literature

  • Hagen Zielke: Hamburg's marine painter Jan Horstmann (1894-1982), Maritime Diversity in the Port of Hamburg, on the Elbe and on the high seas . Oceanum Verlag Wiefelstede 2014.
  • Hagen Zielke: Hamburg harbor shipping in paintings by Jan Horstmann. Calendar 2016. Oceanum Verlag Wiefelstede 2015.
  • Hagen Zielke: Deep water sailor - course Hamburg in paintings by Jan Horstmann. Calendar 2017. Oceanum Verlag Wiefelstede 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Hamburg 10, No. 91/1894
  2. ↑ Death register StA Hamburg-Harburg, No. 2420/1982
personal data
SURNAME Horstmann, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marine painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Finkenwerder
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1982
Place of death Hamburg