Ludwig Fahrenkrog

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Ludwig Fahrenkrog (born October 20, 1867 in Rendsburg , † October 27, 1952 in Biberach an der Riss ) was a German painter and poet. He was a representative of the nationalist movement and founded the neo-pagan Germanic religious community .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, he first attended the Altona School of Applied Arts and from 1887 studied at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, where he was a student of Woldemar Friedrich , Hugo Vogel and a master student of Anton von Werner . In 1898 he was appointed to teach figurative painting and composition at the Barmer School of Applied Arts and in 1913 he was appointed professor. Finally, in 1925, he was appointed External Professor of Art by the University of Dakota, USA.

His work sprang from the life reform movement and Art Nouveau . He was first known through sacred, Christian art, especially images of Jesus. Awarded the Grand State Prize in 1893 for the painting Crucifixion of Christ , after a year of scholarships in Rome at the Villa Strohl-Fern, he did not return to Germany with the expected historical copies of old masters and ancient forms, but with pictures painted in the open countryside.

From then on, he devoted himself to Christian tradition with deep skepticism. In 1901 he frightened the public at a major exhibition in the Barmer Kunsthalle - three years after being appointed to the Barmer Kunstgewerbeschule - with the depiction of a beardless Jesus of Nazareth . The innovator of art against historicism , however, rejected the modern directions of the international avant-garde, Cubism and Expressionism , and remained committed to a representational, symbolist style. His picture content revolved around nature, Germanic mythology and inner-soul conflicts. Fahrenkrog's illustrated book Lucifer was published in 1913, followed by Ludwig Fahrenkrog's illustrated book in 1922 . His creations and their meaning for our people .

In 1900 Fahrenkrog left the church and in 1907 called for the establishment of a Germanic religious community. In 1913 the Germanic Faith Community was founded, whose Hochwart was Fahrenkrog from 1914 to 1952.

In 1912 his drama Baldur , in 1913 Wölsund , in 1920 Nornegast and in 1921 The Godent Daughter were performed in the Harz mountain theater . From 1922 he published the magazine Der Weihwart together with Holger Dom . In 1931 he resigned from school and moved to Biberach an der Riss, where he portrayed many local personalities.

Fahrenkrog saw Christianity, which was based on Judaism, as alien to the Germanic peoples. The Nazi system kept its distance from the religious enthusiast, who created neither party nor war-glorifying paintings. After 1945 Fahrenkrog was commissioned to paint the murdered resistance fighters Hans and Sophie Scholl from photographs.

His written estate is in the German Art Archive in the Germanic National Museum .

literature

  • Hellmuth Mielke: Ludwig Fahrenkrog. A painter and a poet. With seven text illustrations and two art supplements based on paintings by the master. In: Reclam's universe. Modern illustrated weekly. Vol. 29, H. 2, 1913, pp. 995-999.
  • Stefanie von Schnurbein : Ludwig Fahrenkrog. In: Uwe Puschner , Walter Schmitz , Justus H. Ulbricht (eds.): Handbook on the “Völkische Movement” 1871–1918. KG Saur, Munich et al. 1996, ISBN 3-598-11241-6 , p. 904.
  • Winfried Mogge: Ludwig Fahrenkrog and the Germanic Faith Community. In: Kai Buchholz, Rita Latocha, Hilke Peckmann, Klaus Wolbert (eds.): Die Lebensreform. Drafts for the redesign of life and art around 1900. Volume 1. Häusser, Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3-89552-077-2 , pp. 429–432.
  • Daniel Junker: God in us! The Germanic Faith Community. A contribution to the history of ethnic religiosity in the Weimar Republic. Daniel Junker, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3380-8 .
  • Christiane Maibach: The estate of Ludwig Fahrenkrog. In: month indicator. Museums and exhibitions in Nuremberg. H. 269, August 2003, ZDB -ID 580646-x , pp. 6-7.
  • Gisela Schmoeckel: Between stomach ache and admiration. The painter-poet and teacher Ludwig Fahrenkrog. In: Bergische Blätter. No. 13-14, 1994, ZDB -ID 402713-9 , pp. 8-11.
  • Claus Wolfschlag : Ludwig Fahrenkrog. The golden gate. A German painter between Art Nouveau and German beliefs. Verlag Zeitwende, Dresden 2006, ISBN 3-934291-39-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prussian Academy of the Arts (PrAdK 0729). Studio rental in Rome for scholarship holders of the Academy (Villa Strohl-Fern) - reports on the work, rent payment, etc. The following scholarship holders or guests in Rome: Ludwig Fahrenkrog 1893/94
  2. ↑ Stefanie von Schnurbein: The search for a “specific” religion in “Germanic” and “German-believing” groups. In: Uwe Puschner, Walter Schmitz, Justus H. Ulbricht (eds.): Handbook on the “Völkische Movement” 1871–1918. KG Saur, Munich et al. 1996, ISBN 3-598-11241-6 , pp. 172-185, here p. 180.
personal data
SURNAME Fahrenkrog, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Rendsburg
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1952
Place of death Biberach an der Riss