Gothmund artists' colony

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The Gothmund artists' colony existed from the end of the 19th century in the fishing village of Gothmund on the banks of the Trave between Lübeck and Travemünde .

history

At the end of the 19th century, in connection with the Europe-wide turn to open-air painting, numerous artist colonies emerged in Germany . This includes the fishing village of Gothmund an der Trave , first mentioned in 1502 , where students from the art colleges of Weimar , Karlsruhe and Düsseldorf as well as the Lübeck art school stayed. They lived with Gothmund fishermen or with landlords in the neighboring Israelsdorf .

Gustav Wendling: Fishing Village Gothmund (1884)

The painters Gustav Wendling , who painted there as early as 1884, Ernst Eitner , Max Wieczorek and Andreas Dirks can be regarded as the first to settle in Gothmund and work there . They first came to Gothmund gradually together in the summer of 1889. For this Jan Zimmermann : By visiting the four painters June 1889 began the brief flowering of the artists' colony. Nothing more is known about them than Eitner's description. The investigation Heiko Jäcksteins are therefore all the more important, they provide always new and surprising findings.

A major fire four years later destroyed over a third of the village, and the initial idea of ​​creating a second Worpswede could not be realized. It remained for short stays. The painters also came to Gothmund in the following years to inspire each other. For example, Ernst Eitner's sketchbooks dated to 1938 prove. Gothmund had been discovered as a place of artistic work and thus joined "in the chain of places visited by painters from the Netherlands to the Baltic Sea".

The painters were drawn to the idyllic charm of the fishing village on the Trave. A painter's colony lived there around the same time that the Worpsweders caused a sensation with their works ...

Johann Wilhelm Jürgens returned to his homeland again and again and during one summer he came to paint in the cozy fishing village of Gothmund with a whole group of colleagues ...

After breaking off a study trip to Norway in 1889, Ernst Eitner reported: ... the people of Karlsruhe drove home sadly, and in the end only Wendling and I were left. "What do you want to do now?" W. asked me "I have to be a lithographer again in Hamburg," was my answer. "That would be a shame," said W. "Come with me to Gothmund, there I know a host who pumps, there we both paint studies!" - So we 4th grade to Lübeck and settled in Gothmund with Mother Schnoor. It was still possible then. We crouched boldly, didn't worry and painted. I learned a lot of good things from Wendling. That made a big difference, this quiet life among the fishermen on the Trave against the Norwegian unrest. I made watercolors and I still love them today. In Karlsruhe they caused a stir among colleagues and teachers ... Little by little another 2 or 3 colleagues from Weimar (note: Andreas Dirks , among others ), so that all sorts of things were going on ... In between we made excursions in the heavy fishing boats the Trave, sometimes only in morning shoes!

When Eitner was preparing again in Hamburg in the summer of 1889 ... his fellow student Gustav Wendling from Braunschweig persuaded him to accompany him to the remote fishing village of Gothmund near Lübeck, which had been discovered for art in the mid-1880s ...

Gustav Wendling wrote to Ernst Eitner from Gothmund on February 1, 1890 : The latest thing is that Kalckreuth is coming to Gothmund with 2 to 3 of his pupils covered in snow. The painter Sophus Hansen is said to have been one of the students.

In the spring of 1891 Sophus Hansen wrote to his parents: Nissen and Haeckel are going to study in the fishing villages near Lübeck ... the others want me too ... on the contrary, life is much cheaper in the village and people work even more so where there are only four of us and have no shutdown at all .

In October 1892, Arp traveled to the remote fishing village of Gothmund near Lübeck, where artists from Karlsruhe and Weimar met and united to form a small artist colony ...

19th century artist

Anton Nissen : Old fisherman mending a net in front of his house in Gothmund (1895)

20th century artist

In the 20th century it was mostly students from the Lübeck art school under the direction of Professor Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg (1856–1937) who came to Gothmund and the surrounding area to paint and draw.

reception

The Lübeck-based artist Heiko Jäckstein (* 1968) has been painting in Gothmund since 2013 . Stimulated by his work and the stories of the fishermen, he researched intensively the origins and further history of the artist colony.

literature

  • Johann Wilhelm Juergens †. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter, No. 12, 1906
  • Pictures from Gothmund. In: Von Lübeck's Towers, 1917, entertainment sheet of the Lübecker Generalanzeiger, No. 28
  • Conrad Neckels: Israelsdorfer pictures by Karl Gatermann. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter, Illustrated entertainment supplement to the Lübeck advertisements, 1920, no. 11, with 3 illustrations; Reference to the same motifs by Heinrich Eickmann
  • From Treibelfest and Spickaal - new and old from Lübeck's fishing village Gothmund. In: 2nd supplement to the Lübecker Generalanzeiger, January 23, 1938, No. 19
  • Karl Wilhelm Struve: Fritz Witt - Catalog raisonné 1925–1981 , 1981
  • Jan Zimmermann: Ernst Eitner, a Hamburg painter in Lübeck . In: Der Wagen 2006 ISBN 978-3-87302-110-5 , pp. 289–301
  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, The man deserves attention . The rediscovery of the painter Sophus Hansen, 2009, Boyens Verlag, ISBN 3804212964
  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer u. a .: Ernst Eitner - Hamburg painter of light , 2011, publisher: Atelier im Bauernhaus, ISBN 978-3-88132-340-6
  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Telse Wolf-Timm: The Kiel painter Carl Arp (1867-1913) , 2016, publisher: Ludwig, ISBN 978-3-86935-282-4
  • Heiko Jäckstein: Gothmund artists' colony. In: Lübeck contributions to family history and heraldry, Volume 69 - Gothmund - 2019, pp. 209–260
  • Marlis Zahn, Heiko Jäckstein: Silent Beauty near Lübeck - On Malchin's footsteps in Israelsdorf and Gothmund. In: Das Malchin Magazin, ed. State Palaces, Gardens and Art Collections Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, 2019, pp. 46–51

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jan Zimmermann : Ernst Eitner, a Hamburg painter in Lübeck . In: Der Wagen 2006 ISBN 978-3-87302-110-5 , pp. 289–301, here p. 293
  2. ^ So Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg : Lübeck at the time of our grandparents. Volume 2, Lübeck 1933, p. 101; critical of this characterization Jan Zimmerman (Lit.), p. 293
  3. ↑ Zimmermann (lit.), p. 293
  4. ↑ Pictures from Gothmund. In: From Lübeck's Towers, 1917
  5. ^ Johann Wilhelm Jürgens †. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter, No. 12, 1906
  6. ↑ From the personal notes of Ernst Eitner 1901
  7. ↑ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer et al. (Lit .: Ernst Eitner - Hamburg painter of light)
  8. ↑ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer (Lit .: Sophus Hansen - The man deserves attention)
  9. ↑ Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer, Telse Wolf-Timm (lit .: The Kiel painter Carl Arp 1867 - 1913)
  10. ^ Picturesque Gothmund
  11. ^ Exhibition on the Gothmund artists' colony
  12. ↑ Gothmund: Fishing Village and Artists Colony - painting by Heiko Jäckstein