Karl Sondermann

Wilhelm Hermann Karl Sondermann (born August 29, 1862 in Düsseldorf , † January 1926 in Lübeck ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Karl (also Carl ) Sondermann grew up as the son of the painter Hermann Sondermann in Düsseldorf. From 1880/1881 to 1886/1887 he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Hugo Crola , Heinrich Lauenstein , Peter Janssen the Elder and Eduard von Gebhardt his teachers. In 1885/86 he did his military service as a one-year volunteer in Düsseldorf. He also attended the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar under Albert Brendel . Sondermann worked as a drawing teacher at the Erfurt School of Applied Arts , and from Easter 1891 to Michaelis 1893 at the Erfurt grammar school and then at the Erfurt secondary school. Like his father, he was a member of the Willingshausen painters' colony . He is also recorded as a visitor to the Schwalenberg painters' colony in their guest books, and he also worked in Gothmund

In 1895 he passed the state drawing teacher examination in Berlin. In early 1904 he moved to the Katharineum in Lübeck . In April 1904 he became a citizen of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck as a drawing teacher and painter . He donated his butterfly collection in Erfurt to the Lübeck Museum am Dom . He guided the Lübeck painter Erich Dummer in his first steps as a painter. Sondermann was a member of the "Association of Lübeck Artists" and in 1925 became its secretary.

Awards

Landwehr - service award . II Class (1898)

literature

Sondermann, Karl (Wilh. Herm. K.) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 275 .

Web links

Karl Sondermann's personnel sheet in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

Individual evidence

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
↑ Schwalenberg painters' colony "Overview of persons"
↑ WL v. Lütgendorff : Lübeck art and artists . In: Lübeck since the middle of the 18th century . An anniversary contribution to the 700th anniversary of the freedom of the Reich in Lübeck. Published by Gebr. Borchers, 1926, Ss. 197 and 210.
^ Directory of those admitted to the Lübeck State Association, 1903 (May) –1919.
^ Annual report of the Natural History Museum in Lübeck. 1905, p. 8.
↑ Abram B. Enns : Art and Citizenship. The controversial twenties in Lübeck. Christians / Weiland, Hamburg / Lübeck 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0571-8 , p. 277.

personal data
SURNAME	Sondermann, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sondermann, Wilhelm Hermann Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 29, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	January 1926
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )

[2] Schwalenberg painters' colony "Overview of persons"

[3] WL v. Lütgendorff : Lübeck art and artists . In: Lübeck since the middle of the 18th century . An anniversary contribution to the 700th anniversary of the freedom of the Reich in Lübeck. Published by Gebr. Borchers, 1926, Ss. 197 and 210.

[4] Directory of those admitted to the Lübeck State Association, 1903 (May) –1919.

[5] Annual report of the Natural History Museum in Lübeck. 1905, p. 8.

[6] Abram B. Enns : Art and Citizenship. The controversial twenties in Lübeck. Christians / Weiland, Hamburg / Lübeck 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0571-8 , p. 277.