Josef Meyenberg

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Josef Meyenberg (born February 25, 1891 in Lamspringe , † August 12, 1977 in Bad Essen ) was a German vocational school teacher and painter of northern German landscapes, especially the Dümmersee area.

Josef Meyenberg: Landscape at the Dümmer; 36 cm × 26 cm; Oil on plywood; 1946

Life

Josef Meyenberg was the son of a master carpenter who manufactured Art Nouveau furniture based on his own designs . After attending school in Lamspringe and training as a carpenter in his father's workshop from 1905 to 1908, Josef Meyenberg attended the crafts and arts and crafts school in Hildesheim . From 1910 to 1914 he worked as an interior designer in Hanover , where he also attended drawing courses at the arts and crafts school. From 1915 he was a soldier in the German Alpine Corps . After the end of the war, he first returned to his father's workshop, and then soon afterwards to study again, this time in Berlin , where he graduated as an industrial teacher .

He started his first job in Limburg an der Lahn , and from 1928 he taught as a commercial instructor in Osnabrück. Meyenberg got to know the Osnabrück landscape, especially the Dümmer Lake area, on numerous hikes .

With his friend, the sculptor Fritz Szalinski , he set up a studio in Hüde on Dümmer-See in the so-called Rabbingschen Haus ("Hüde 49") in the early 1930s , which Szalinski had to give up in 1934, but which Meyenberg kept until his death. Meyenberg was a member from 1929 soon after the establishment of the Osnabrück local group of the Reich Association of Fine Artists in Germany until it was dissolved in 1933 and then again after the re-establishment of the Association of Fine Artists (BBK) in 1945. Exhibitions of his oil and watercolor paintings have been held in Breslau , Hildesheim , Bremen , Osnabrück , Braunschweig , Hanover , Oldenburg and Diepholz since the 1930s .

After his retirement in 1958, Meyenberg moved to Bad Essen , where he died in 1977.

A first exhibition of his works at his birthplace Lamspringe takes place on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his death in October 2017 in the figure hall of the old monastery building in Lamspringe.

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Meyenberg's oil paintings and watercolors, which have been created since the 1930s, are mainly dedicated to the moor and heathland landscape of Lower Saxony . They are clearly influenced by the Bremen landscape painter Otto Modersohn and his circle, but remain unaffected by the Expressionism of his time, which also shaped landscape painting of the 1920s and early 30s. Meyenberg was able to continue painting and exhibiting during the Nazi era, especially in Osnabrück, at exhibitions organized by the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts or the Osnabrück Chamber of Crafts.

Museum property

Memorial exhibitions

  • 2007: Josef Meyenberg. Painter of northern German landscapes: Dümmer - Moor - Heide, Dümmer Museum, Lembruch and Syke District Museum
  • 2017: Josef Meyenberg. Memorial exhibition: Lamspringe Monastery (Figure Hall )

Fonts (selection)

  • Josef Meyenberg: Art at the Dümmer . In: Diepholzer Kreisblatt September 30, 1955
  • Josef Meyenberg: On the trail of memory . In: Osnabrück New Daily Mail , February 25, 1961

literature

  • Sabine Hacke: Josef Meyenberg. Painter of northern German landscapes . Wagernfeld 2007
  • Thorsten Heese: "... an own local for art and antiquity". The institutionalization of collecting using the example of Osnabrück museum history. 125 years of the Osnabrück Cultural History Museum / Museums- und Kunstverein Osnabrück eV (= Osnabrück cultural monuments. Contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Osnabrück, vol. 12). Rasch, Bramsche 2004, ISBN 978-3-89946-016-2 .
  • Hanns-Gerd Rabe : Osnabrück Art and Artists 1900–1970. In: Osnabrücker Mitteilungen. Communications from the Society for History and Regional Studies of Osnabrück 81, 1974, pp. 1–127.
  • Fritz Szalinski: Reports and Poems. Osnabrück 1976
  • Wilfried Wolf: The early days. Osnabrück art . Osnabrück 1986

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thorsten Heese: "... an own local for art and antiquity". The institutionalization of collecting using the example of Osnabrück museum history. 125 years of the Osnabrück Cultural History Museum / Museums- und Kunstverein Osnabrück eV (= Osnabrück cultural monuments. Contributions to the art and cultural history of the city of Osnabrück, vol. 12). Rasch, Bramsche 2004, ISBN 978-3-89946-016-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyenberg, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade school teacher and painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Lamspringe
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1977
Place of death Bad food