Ludwig ten Hompel

Ludwig ten Hompel, Landscape , 1925,
pastel chalk, 39.5 × 28 cm

Ludwig ten Hompel, Brücke , 1929,
oil on canvas, 80 × 95 cm

Ludwig ten Hompel (born July 31, 1887 in Duisburg , † October 15, 1932 in Düsseldorf ; full name: Ludwig Franz Joseph ten Hompel ) was a German graphic artist and painter .

Life

Ludwig ten Hompel was born on July 31, 1887 as the son of the bookseller Carl Ludwig Wilhelm ten Hompel and his wife Caroline in Duisburg. He grew up in Duisburg and began training at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts in 1903 , which was headed by Peter Behrens at the time . His teachers included u. a. Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke , whom he was allowed to support in various projects. In 1906 he was able to participate in the “3. German Arts and Crafts Exhibition “in Dresden own works a. a. Present decorative paintings, book covers and leatherwork. After completing his arts and crafts training, ten Hompel changed his artistic direction and turned to painting.

From 1908 he completed a three-year apprenticeship as a private student with Lovis Corinth in Berlin. There he devoted himself to “studying the figure and studying color”. Ten Hompel was always open to new ideas and kept changing styles in his painting.

In 1913 he returned to Düsseldorf. In 1914, shortly before the First World War, he took part in an exhibition of the “Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia”, but was then drafted as a soldier in early 1915. In 1916 he was injured, spent some time in the hospital and was released as a soldier that same year.

In 1916 he was given the opportunity to have another exhibition in Wilhelmshaven, Prussia . In the “spring exhibition” of the “Verein der Kunstfreunde” in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Kunsthalle, his paintings received a particularly appreciative evaluation in the press. In this context he was able to establish contacts with those responsible in the neighboring town of Rüstringen in Wilhelmshaven , who subsequently gave him a number of orders, including a. Commissions to design three letters of honor from the city of Rüstringen. In 1916 he designed the letters of honor for the admirals in charge of the Skagerrak Battle , Admiral Reinhard Scheer and Vice-Admiral Franz von Hipper . In 1920 the letter of honorary citizenship for the mayor of Rüstringen, Emil Lueken, was designed .

After the First World War ten Hompel resumed his artistic activities in the Düsseldorf art scene. He became a founding member of the young Rhineland artist group founded on February 24, 1919 . In November 1923 some artists left the Young Rhineland , among them Ludwig ten Hompel, and founded the “Rheingruppe”. As a member of both groups, he actively participated in exhibitions, especially in Düsseldorf, but also in Frankfurt and Berlin.

In 1924 he married Elisabeth Roesner and their daughter Emma was born on October 25, 1925 in Düsseldorf.

In 1926 the GeSoLei , the big exhibition Düsseldorf 1926 for health care, social welfare and physical exercises took place in Düsseldorf. Ludwig ten Hompel took part in this exhibition in two ways. On the one hand, he took part in the art exhibition organized as part of the GeSoLei and was able to present three of his works to around 200,000 visitors over the exhibition period of six months. On the other hand, in the run-up to the GeSoLei , he took part in a poster competition to select the official advertising poster for the GeSoLei exhibition . Ludwig ten Hompel won the competition with his artistic design, but had to watch how the responsible press office preferred the poster of Richard Schwarzkopf, who came second, as the official advertising poster. The reason given was the allegedly low advertising effectiveness of Hompel's draft.

In 1927 he went abroad with his family for several months and visited a. a. Paris and the south of France. From 1929 onwards he took part in exhibitions in and around Düsseldorf, which received positive comments in the local press.

In 1928, as a member of the “Rhine Group”, he also became a member of the “Rhenish Secession” interest group.

Ludwig ten Hoppel fell ill with a neurological disorder in mid-1929 and subsequently had to be treated in the Provincial Sanatorium and Nursing Home in Düsseldorf-Grafenberg. Few works were created between 1930 and 1932, but due to the illness there were no more exhibition activities. He died on October 15, 1932 at the age of only 45 in Düsseldorf.

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In 1937 four of his works, which were in the art collection of the city of Düsseldorf, were confiscated by the National Socialists as degenerate art .

Ludwig ten Hompel never achieved the fame of his contemporary artist colleagues Gert Wollheim or Otto Pankok despite his extensive work and many exhibition participations outside the Rhineland . It was almost forgotten. The Wolfgang Offelder gallery in Neuss has only been making the artist's work accessible since 1990 . In autumn 2010 Ludwig ten Hompel was honored in Wilhelmshaven with the independent exhibition “A Rhinelander in the North”.

literature

• Kniphausen Castle Foundation (ed.): Ludwig ten Hompel (1887–1932). Brune-Mettcker Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbh, Wilhelmshaven 2010, ISBN 978-3-930510-40-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anna-Lisa Langhoff: Ludwig ten Hompel (1887-1932) In: Foundation Burg Kniphausen (ed.): Ludwig ten Hompel (1887-1932). Brune-Mettcker Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbh, Wilhelmshaven 2010, ISBN 978-3-930510-40-5 , page 11 ff.
2. ↑ Anna-Lisa Langhoff: Ludwig ten Hompel (1887-1932) In: Foundation Burg Kniphausen (ed.): Ludwig ten Hompel (1887-1932). Brune-Mettcker Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbh, Wilhelmshaven 2010, ISBN 978-3-930510-40-5 , page 29 ff.
3. ^ GeSoLei advertising poster, color lithograph by Ludwig ten Hompel, 1926: "a woman holding up the palm of her hand on the left and holding the staff of Aesculapius on the right, with water in the background". on wellcomecollection.org
4. ↑ A Poet Who Paints Pictures , accessed October 31, 2010
5. ^ Exhibition "A Rhinelander in the North" , accessed on October 31, 2010

Web links

• Image selection Galerie Offelder, Neuss , accessed on November 1, 2010
• Kniphausen Castle Foundation - Cultural Autumn 2010: Exhibition Ludwig ten Hompel , accessed on November 1, 2010