Karl Hennemann

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Karl Rudolf Hennemann (born August 24, 1884 in Waren (Müritz) , † March 20, 1972 in Schwerin ) was a German painter , graphic artist and wood cutter .

Life

Karl Hennemann was born in Waren (Müritz) in 1884, the second of six children of a civil engineer. At the beginning of 1890 the family moved to Güstrow due to the professional activity of the father and in 1898 to Schwerin, where the father now worked as an engineer for the state government. Hennemann attended grammar school at the cathedral school in Schwerin. The parental home supported his desire to become a painter at an early age.

His training began in 1901 with studies at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts ; after one semester he went to the Berlin art school in 1901 . He then studied 1903–1905 at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Academy of Fine Arts and from 1905–1907 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts with Karl Raupp . In the years 1908/09 further lessons followed with the landscape painter Hans Licht in Berlin and 1910–1916 the continuation of the studies with Friedrich Kallmorgen in Charlottenburg. From 1912 he worked as a freelancer in Berlin.

Several trips took Hennemann to the various regions of Germany, Scandinavia, Switzerland and Italy. The impressions from the world of the Norwegian fjords as well as the Alps were immortalized by him in several paintings. In 1918 he became a member of the Berlin Artists' Association and, from 1920, the Free Association of Graphic Artists in Berlin. From 1920 onwards he became increasingly self-taught with woodcuts, initially for economic reasons. With a lower cost of materials, better sales prospects were to be expected here. He remained connected to this art form into old age. In September 1943, his studio was destroyed in a bomb attack, with much of his work being burned. In 1944 he was honored with the John Brinckman Prize for his work .

Karl Hennemann moved to Schwerin and shared a house with his brother Hans in the Schelfstadt . In Schwerin he had friendly contact with the writers Hermann Glander and Rudolf Schaller as well as with the visual artists Rudolf Gahlbeck , Erich Venzmer and Vera Kopetz . Hennemann was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . When working with the burin became more difficult with increasing age, he began a new chapter: the watercolor.

Karl Hennemann was married to the painter Helene Hennemann-Bartsch (1885–1964) since 1912. The couple had a daughter and a son. Karl Hennemann died in March 1972 and was buried in the Schwerin old cemetery .

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"[...] His landscapes, permeated with inner life, with blossoming trees, wide fields and gnarled oaks, are in their lovable fine-grainedness, without being naturalistic, captured with great artistic mastery. This is especially true for the graphic work. But he also achieved lasting things in painting. His pictures exude atmospheric seclusion. They are undemanding in their subject and expressive in their artistic implementation. "

- Catalog text

Works (selection)

  • Feldberg village entrance (1908); Farm workers' cottages at Stargard (1909); Old Oaks (1939); Summer Fields (1944); Dorfstrasse (1947); Winter (1952); Forest path in Schelfwerder (1953); Schwerin vom Ziegelsee (1957); Schweriner See (1962);
  • Graphic cycles: Earth life (1925); The Circle (1928);
  • Amrun , six pictures on wood drawn by Otto Heinrich Engel , cut by Karl Hennemann;
  • From the bottom to the peaks (1929, six woodcuts based on Joseph von Eichendorff's poems);
  • Changes of the Earth (1930) and Holy Earth (1935–1937);
  • Silent World , 12 wood engravings (1949).
  • Dunes of Prerow (around 1930)
  • Illustrations for:
    • Gustel Langenstein: From Mauerstraße to Warnow (1950);
    • Edmund Schroeder: Schwerin. Sketches from an Old City (1954);
    • Edmund Schroeder: My Mecklenburg Land: Picture of a German Landscape (1957); (all Petermänken-Verlag, Schwerin)
  • Essay: Drawing: sufficient. And yet become a painter! In: Uns' oll Schaul - messages of the old school students, Gymnasium Schwerin. (1938);
  • Article: painter's journey to Mecklenburg In: Low German monthly books (1939);

His estate, the entire graphic work and 70 paintings are now in the Schwerin State Museum .

Exhibitions

All other exhibitions in the State Museum Schwerin

  • 1955 Karl Hennemann: paintings, studies, woodcuts from the years 1908–1954.
  • 1969 for the 85th birthday
  • 1976 100 years of Mecklenburg painting , represented by three pictures: Village in Winter, Alter Gang in Lübeck (1916), view from the Ziegelsee of the Karlsberg
  • 1984/85 painting and graphics / Karl Hennemann. Exhibition on occasion his 100th birthday

literature

  • Hennemann, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 419 .
  • Hennemann, Karl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 396 .
  • State Museum Schwerin (ed.): Painting and graphics / Karl Hennemann. Exhibition on occasion his 100th birthday. Schwerin, November 1984 - December 1985.
  • Friedrich Schulz : Hennemann, Karl. In: Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001. ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 77. (with self-portrait)
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 4094 f . (with self-portrait)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrollment of Karl Hennemann, matriculation book 1905. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on March 11, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Hennemann, Karl . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1914, Part I, p. 1143. “Landschaftsmaler; Charlottenburg, Friedrich-Karl-Platz 9 III. ”.
  3. ↑ Karl Hennemann. In: 100 Years of Mecklenburg Painting: July – August 1976. State Museum Schwerin, Schwerin 1976, pp. 11–12
  4. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Hennemann, Karl. In: Who was who (see literature)
  5. ↑ Hennemann, Karl. In: Kürschner's graphic artist's manual: Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1959. p. 70
  6. ^ Digitized catalogs of all "Great German Art Exhibitions" 1937-1944. at arthistoricum.net , accessed March 11, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Hennemann, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hennemann, Karl Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter, graphic artist and wood cutter
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Goods (Müritz)
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1972
Place of death Schwerin