Johannes Hartmann (sculptor)

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Johannes Hartmann

Johannes Hartmann (born December 6, 1869 in Leipzig , † March 29, 1952 in Naumburg ) was a German sculptor. He also worked as a caretaker for the estate of the painter and sculptor Max Klinger .

Life

Grave slab for Johannes Hartmann at Max Klinger's resting place in Großjena

Hartmann studied from 1885 to 1890 at the Dresden Art Academy under Ernst Hähnel . He became known through numerous personal monuments in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt . His main work is the Robert Schumann Monument in Zwickau , which he created in 1901. After it was founded in 1903, Hartmann became a member of the German Association of Artists .

Hartmann's further life took a bizarre course after his friend Max Klinger died on July 4, 1920 on his vineyard in Großjena . At the express request of the deceased, Klinger was buried on July 8 in the immediate vicinity of the Weinberghaus. Johannes Hartmann was responsible for the design of the tomb. Two herms with the portraits of Max Klinger and Gertrud Bock, his long-standing model, whom he married eight months before his death, form the entrance to the tomb. Behind the tomb, Hartmann placed the bronze figure "The Athlete" created by Klinger, just as the late artist had wished.

Shortly after the funeral, Hartmann Klinger's widow offered to help organize the estate. In his will, Max Klinger had appointed his wife Gertrud the sole heir. Only Klinger's daughter , Desirée Klinger (1900–1973), Elsa Asenijeff , was to receive annual interest income of 7,000 marks as a legacy , and some servants and winegrowers were given small sums of money from the estate. Gertrud Klinger and Johannes Hartmann married on May 18, 1922 - less than two months after the death of Hartmann's first wife. In 1926 their daughter Waltraute was born. Because Klinger's siblings had doubts about the legality of the will, they wanted to contest it. However, since it could be proven by several statements that Klinger was legally competent when he wrote his last will, they gave up. Klinger's daughter then filed several lawsuits against the Hartmann couple, which dragged on for almost 20 years. Due to the inflation that has now set in, the Hartmanns were able to set the value of the inheritance extremely low, although this included the residential and studio building at Karl-Heine-Straße 6 as well as other properties in Leipzig, the Großjena vineyard site and the entire artistic estate of Klinger.

Gertrud Hartmann fell ill with pulmonary tuberculosis in 1927 and developed a serious eye disease in 1930. Large sums of money had to be raised to treat these diseases. Therefore, in 1931, at Gertrud's request, the vineyard with the buildings on it was sold to the city of Naumburg, but Gertrud and Johannes Hartmann had a right of residence guaranteed until October 1, 1946. After Gertrud Hartmann returned from a cure in Davos in April 1932 , her sister Ella took care of the seriously ill. Ella von Wunsch, b. Bock, who had divorced her husband, also looked after her niece Waltraute. Gertrud Hartmann died in May 1932. Her urn was buried in Klinger's grave. In December 1932 Johannes Hartmann married his sister-in-law Ella von Wunsch.

In 1945, after the destruction of his house in Leipzig at Karl-Heine-Straße 6, Hartmann negotiated a right of residence for Ella and himself “for life” with the city of Naumburg in return for part of the Klinger estate that was still in existence.

Johannes Hartmann died in 1952. His urn - like that of his wife Ella, who died on April 25, 1955 - was buried in Klinger's grave in Großjena.

Hartmann was a member of the Leipzig Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palms .

Work (selection)

Leipzig, Zentralstrasse: Portal of the Künstlerhaus (1900)
Leipzig: Schiller Monument (1914)
Zwickau: Robert Schumann Monument (1901)
Marble bust Max Klinger , Klinger tomb Großjena (1921)
Marble bust Gertrud Hartmann, vw. Klinger, Klinger tomb Großjena (1932)

In Leipzig

  • 1896: two caryatids at the portal of the University's Augusteum
  • 1900: Relief in the dining room and the Zentralstrasse portal of the Künstlerhaus
  • 1902: Standing figures of Moses, John the Baptist and Paul above the three west portals of St. John's Church
  • 1903: allegorical figure “Justice” on the balcony parapet of the south-west facade and personification “The Official Secret” on the gable of the west side of the New Town Hall
  • 1904: Marble relief "Farewell" for the Löffler tomb in the south cemetery
  • 1905: Wedding room with wood carvings in Schönefeld Town Hall (presented in 1906 at the Dresden arts and crafts exhibition)
  • 1909: Gröppler-Döring monument
  • 1909: Fountain "Bathing Girl" under the arcades of the Old Town Hall
  • 1911: Tomb for the brewery owner Friedrich August Ulrich (1846–1911) in the south cemetery
  • 1914: Schiller monument in the promenade on Schillerstrasse
  • 1916: Coats-of-arms holder figures to the left and right of the statues above the main entrance of the German library
  • 1916: Fedor Flinzer monument on the New Johannisfriedhof
  • 1919: Memorial for the fallen of the Landsmannschaft Cheruscia Leipzig
  • 1921: Tomb for the banker and head of the Israelite religious community Friedrich Nachod (1853–1911) in the southern cemetery based on a design by Max Klinger
  • 1924: Redesign of the base for the Richard Wagner monument by Max Klinger
  • 1926: Seated figures of Peter and Paul in the west facade of the Apostle Church
  • 1930: Replicas of the female figures created by Christian Döring in 1737 on the portal of Jöcher's house (today at the house at Katharinenstrasse 8)
  • Museum of Fine Arts :
    • Robert Schumann bust (1903)
    • Semele (bronze, 1912)
    • female torso (1917)

In other places

  • 1901: Robert Schumann monument on the main market in Zwickau
  • 1910: Tomb for Robert Tümmler in the Niederfriedhof in Döbeln
  • 1910: Tomb for Carl Gotthilf Schlegel in the Niederfriedhof in Döbeln
  • 1912: Cemetery chapel in Art Nouveau forms including an altar with ceramic relief in Waldheim
  • 1912: Taubenbrunnen in front of the Döbelner town hall on the Obermarkt
  • 1915: Well “Jesus. The Good Shepherd ”at the Niederfriedhof in Döbeln
  • 1921: Tomb for Max Klinger on Klinger's vineyard in Großjena
  • 1925: War memorial in Großjena
  • 1948: VVN monument in Naumburg
  • Crucifixion relief on the cemetery chapel in Loschwitz
  • Fountain "Mermaid with Seal" in Geislingen
  • Well in Taucha

literature

Web links

Commons : Johannes Hartmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutscher Künstlerbund: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903. ( 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 on September 27, 2016). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ^ Siegfried Wagner: Max Klinger's vineyard. In: Leipziger Blätter. Special issue Max Klinger, p. 47 ff.
  3. ↑ Discover Leipzig: New Town Hall
  4. ↑ Sidonie Gröppler, b. Thieme (born August 15, 1820 in Torgau; † March 30, 1904 in Leipzig) and her sister Ottilie Döring (born April 7, 1823 in Torgau; † March 6, 1903 in Leipzig) handed over the proceeds of the city of Leipzig in 1890 600,000 marks from the sale of Schwägrichen's garden for "granting and support within the educated classes". See Gina Klank; Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 56 and 90.
  5. ↑ In 2000, the sculpture stolen in 1992 was replaced by a free replica by Klaus Schwabe (1939–2017).
  6. ↑ Hartmann created the figures for the tomb designed together with the Weidenbach & Tschammer office . See Katrin Löffler; Iris Schöpa; Heidrun Sprinz: The Leipzig South Cemetery. History, gravesites, grave monuments. Edition Leipzig, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-361-00526-4 , p. 47.
  7. ^ Felix Becker : Monuments. The inauguration of the Fedor Flinzer monument in Leipzig. In: Art Chronicle, New Series, Volume 27, No. 20 of February 11, 1916, EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, Col. 199.
  8. ↑ The grave site (VI. Section, option 35) with the tomb erected in 1921 was withdrawn in 1974 and the grave stele was moved to the grave field for anonymous urn burial (VIII. Section).
  9. ↑ Katrin Löffler; Iris Schöpa; Heidrun Sprinz: The Leipzig South Cemetery. History, gravesites, grave monuments. Edition Leipzig, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-361-00526-4 , p. 113.
  10. ^ Alfred E. Otto Paul: The tomb of the banker Friedrich Nachod. In: Art in silence. Art treasures in Leipzig cemeteries. Vol. 1, Leipzig 2009, pp. 78-81. The letter signatures of Klinger and Hartmann are also visible.
  11. ↑ Johannes Hartmann transferred the memorial plinth begun by Klinger in 1924 from Laas to Leipzig, where he further revised it and installed it in the Klingerhain of the Palmengarten near the Elsterwehr. In November 2010, the restored plinth was placed on the stairs at the former Matthäikirchhof, which had been removed in 1970, believed to have been lost until 1990 and was rebuilt in 2010. Cf. Sylvia Hüggelmeier: Wagner to the light. A Richard Wagner memorial for Leipzig on its 200th birthday. In: TABULA RASA, No. 52/2010 and Max Klinger stairs and plinth combined for the first time. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from 27./28. November 2010, p. 20
  12. ^ Christoph Kaufmann: Hermann Walter photo studio. Leipzig 1918–1935. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-936508-61-1 , p. 186.
  13. ^ Peggy Zill: Bottlenose dolphin tomb in the Niederfriedhof restored. In: Döbelner Anzeiger from November 14, 2009.
  14. ↑ a b The merchant Johann Carl Gotthilf Schlegel (born June 14, 1827 in Döbeln; † August 25, 1910 in Döbeln) donated the "Taubenbrunnen" (also called "Schlegelbrunnen" after the inscription on the town hall), which was inaugurated on October 14, 1912 ) on the Döbelner Obermarkt. Cf. C. Schwender: Döbelner Heimatschatz , Volume 6, 1927 ( Döbeln in old views: Schlegelbrunnen on the Obermarkt. )
  15. ^ Andreas Tümmler: Responsibility for society. Robert Tümmler sets up foundations for the workforce and the Niederfriedhof. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from September 16, 2009.
  16. ↑ Naumburger Heimat: Supplement to the Naumburger Tageblatt of March 14, 1928 No. 7.
  17. ↑ s. Hartmann, Johannes in: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Second volume (EJ) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 381).
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1952
Place of death Naumburg