Ekensund artists' colony

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The Ekensund artists' colony , photo by Wilhelm Dreesen , 1882

The Ekensund artists 'colony was an artists' colony in Egernsund Sogn (then Ekensund , Province of Schleswig-Holstein , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire ) in southern Jutland on the north bank of the Flensburg Fjord .

Foundation of the artist colony

Heinrich Rasch is considered the founder of the Ekensund artists' colony , who, like Gustav Schönleber, made his first studies here in 1875.

Artist in Ekensund

The first generation of artists included the painters who came mainly from Berlin and Düsseldorf in 1882: Theodor Sander , Jacob Nöbbe , Heinrich Petersen -Angling , Johann Knutz , Erich Kubierschky as well as German Grobe and Heinrich Petersen-Flensburg . Also Eugen Dücker , who was then leading the Düsseldorf landscape teachers joined this circle. In 1884 Fritz Stoltenberg moved from Munich to the North Sea and from here to the artist colonies of Skagen and Ekensund. Other artists such as Wilhelm Dreesen , Alexander Eckener , Otto Heinrich Engel , Heinrich Petersen -Angling, Johann Sander and Fritz Stoltenberg joined forces to form the Ekensund artists' colony . The then still unknown 24-year-old Berliner Walter Leistikow came to Ekensund in 1889. Here he painted the preliminary studies for his painting "Brickworks by the Water", which secured his artistic breakthrough in Berlin. Most of the second generation of painters from the Ekensund artists' colony came from Munich. Otto Heinrich Engel had seen the landscapes by the Skagen painters there and assumed that the landscape around Ekensund was similar. The initial disappointment in 1892 turned into enthusiasm during a second stay and in the following years he regularly visited the Flensburg Fjord over the summer. His first picture, "At Sunset", caused a sensation in the Munich Secession in 1893 . Also the painter Alexander Eckener , he studied at the Munich Art Academy, and Anton Nissen was drawn to the Flensburg Fjord. Anton Nissen and his future wife Maria Schlaikier had previously worked in the Dachau artists' colony . The Munich landscape painter Franz Wilhelm Maecker traveled to the Flensburg Fjord in 1902. Other painters who worked in Ekensund were Ascan Lutteroth , Franz Hoffmann von Fallersleben , Gottfried von Hoven , Otto Feld and Carlos Grethe .

Painters in Ekensund

In 1903 the male-dominated artist colony was visited by Gertrud Wurmb and Emmy Gotzmann , two talented budding Berlin artists. Emmy Gotzmann came back to Ekensund the following year and became a recognized comrade through her skills. She stood out from her male artists through the more consistent implementation of French open-air painting. In 1905 she moved to Flensburg for a few years in order to professionally turn to oil painting. Your exhibition in 1908 in the Flensburg Museum of Applied Arts was a great success that is still attracting attention today.

The end of the artist colony

With the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the decline of open-air painting, the time of the artist colonies came to an end. When Nordschleswig was given back to Denmark after a referendum in 1920 , Ekensund was long forgotten.

  • Ekensundmaler, 1885, photo by Wilhelm Dreesen

  • Self-portrait by Wilhelm Dreesen

  • Ekensund - beach photo by Wilhelm Dreesen

  • Heinrich Petersen-fishing: bathing jetty in the Flensburgfjord

  • Alexander Eckener : Sister Toni Eckener on the beach in Rinkenæs

  • Heinrich Petersen-fishing : Egernsund (1900)

literature

  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Ekensund artists' colony on the north bank of the Flensburg Fjord . 2nd Edition. Boyens & Co., Heide 2001, ISBN 978-3-8042-0867-4 (200 pages).
  • Ferdinand Ruigrok van de Werve: Emmy Gotzmann. Colorful power in difficult times. Verlag Ludwig, Kiel, ISBN 978-3-86935-256-5 . (200 pages)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information on the exhibition: Ekensund among the artists' colonies on the Baltic Sea in the Gemäldegalerie Dachau, Nov. 18, 2016 to March 5, 2017
  2. ↑ Sætter focus på Egernsund-kunstnere. dr.dk, May 29, 2008, archived from the original on July 29, 2012 ; Retrieved October 26, 2009 (Danish).
  3. ^ Ekensund artists' colony. vimu.info, accessed December 23, 2016 .