Lutz Theen

Lutz Theen (born February 6, 1913 in Tsingtau , Kiautschou protected area ; † February 24, 2001 in Dollerup ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

After a few years of childhood in China, he graduated from the Hermann Lietz School on the North Sea island of Spiekeroog . There he got to know his artistic role model Hans Holtorf as a teacher and followed him to Langballig on the Baltic Sea . He wanted to learn painting in direct life in nature . Here he also met his future wife Hedda Pontoppidan and the painter Heinrich Kutzer . In the winter months he studied with Professor Wehlte at the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin . In 1937 he traveled to China for a study visit, where his father lived as a businessman. After the beginning of the Second World War in 1939 he returned to Germany. He lost all of his work on the ship passage because the ship was sunk.

As a soldier, he married Hedda Theen-Pontoppidan in 1940. After the war, they both lived together as independent painters, graphic artists and restorers for North German folk art . In 1967 they acquired the small old forge in Nordballig . Theen painted the nature of this hilly landscape of fishing on the Flensburg Fjord . As one of his few large-scale projects, he designed a larger-than-life pair of relay runners at the gym in Streichmühle .

literature

• Wolfgang Börnsen : Lutz Theen - an artist portrait , in: Yearbook of the Heimatverein der Landschaft fishing, 1986, volume 50, p. 214 ff
• Claus Hoeck: Hedda Theen-Pontoppidan and Lutz Theen, Nordballig - Two painting ambassadors fishing , in: Yearbook of the Heimatverein der Landschaft fishing, 1999, issue 63, p. 191 ff
• Thomas Gädeke: Away from the modern. Lutz Theen Hedda Pontoppidan, an artist couple, with essays by the artists and contributions by Jasper Barenberg and Frauke Gloyer, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 2016

Web links

• Adelbert von Deyen: Lutz Theen - painter in fishing , December 16, 2006, on: artring.de with four picture references