Nils Graf Stenbock-Fermor

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Nils Graf Stenbock-Fermor (signed and Nils Stenbock , August 21 * jul. / 3. September  1904 greg. Castle Nitau in Riga ; † 15. October 1969 in Hamburg ) was a Baltic German draftsman, painter and stage designer.

life and work

He comes from the Swedish-German-Baltic-Russian noble family Stenbock . Alexander Graf Stenbock-Fermor was his brother two years older. He grew up in Riga, where he received his first drawing lessons. After the Russian Revolution he came to Hamburg and learned at the Otto Meissner publishing house . He then went to Berlin and studied with Emil Orlik at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Art ; the magazine Jugend printed his first works.

Around 1930 he worked as a set designer for Erwin Piscator ; he became a sought-after portrait artist for actors. Most of his portraits and caricatures appeared in the Green Post . For the cabaret Tatzelwurm , founded in 1935 as the successor to the cabaret Die Katakombe by Bruno Fritz , Günter Neumann and Tatjana Sais , he created a number of sets.

When Schwerin Cathedral received an intermediate altar in 1936 , he painted an altarpiece for it. It shows Christ in the midst of a historical costume group of five, which includes priests, knights, peasants, councilors and the king as representatives of the estates . Christ turns with an outstretched hand to a figure standing outside the row on the left edge of the picture, who can be interpreted as a young laborer or farm worker. The picture can be seen as the program picture of Religious Socialism , but also has references to the theology of the National Socialist German Christians . According to tradition, two of the figures are modeled after pastors and religious socialists who were active at the time: the knight shows the features of the Schwerin cathedral preacher Karl Kleinschmidt , the kneeling king that of pastor Aurel von Jüchen . The picture, which lost its function as an altarpiece again in 1938, but remained in various locations in the Schwerin Cathedral and can be seen today in the northern ambulatory opposite the Thomaskapelle, was then and is still controversial.

After 1945 he lived in Hamburg and illustrated books for the Christian-Wolff-Verlag in Flensburg . In particular, his illustrations for Grimm's fairy tales were repeatedly published. He died after a long illness that severely affected his mobility and speech.

In 1930 Nils Graf Stenbock-Fermor's first marriage was the draftsman Lenore Marie, b. Brennert (born June 14, 1906 in Berlin; † December 23, 1990) married. She later emigrated to the USA with their son and lived in Oregon.

Works

painting

Fonts

  • The chest of Mr. Sinzelius. Hamburg: Ellermann 1952

Illustrations

  • Hans Erman: Profile: German guest book in the war year 1939/40. With a foreword by Hermann Esser. Text drawings: Nils Stenbock and Friedrich Gaebel, Berlin: Curtius 1940
  • The little joker. Overheard by Hans Reimann ; Nils Stenbock; Kurt Flemig , Berlin: Curtius 1940
  • Movie stars in cartoon and anecdote. Drawings by Nils Graf Stenbock. Anecdotes collected and retold by FG ​​Genzel. Berlin: Frommhagen 1941
  • Pogge van Ranken: Noted on the side. Cheerful verses, illustrated by Nils Graf Stenbock, Flensburg / Hamburg: Chr. Wolff 1946
  • Fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. With colorful pictures by Nils Graf Stenbock, Flensburg / Hamburg: Wolff 1948 (several new editions until 1973)
  • Siegfried von Vegesack : The small medicine cabinet. With drawings by Nils Stenbock, Flensburg: Wolff 1948
  • Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland. Transferred from RGL Barrett. Illustrations by Nils Graf Stenbock-Fermor, Wedel in Holstein: Alster-Verlag 1948
  • Pogge van Ranken: The Idol of a Night: Story. With 6 colored pictures by Nils Graf Stenbock. [Flensburg]: Wolff [1958]
  • The most beautiful fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by Nils Stenbock, Flensburg: Wolff [1961]

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Hebert (Lit.), p. 11
  2. ↑ When the picture 1999 as the cover picture of a text collection published by Friedrich-Martin Balzer and Çhristian Stappenbeck in the Pahl-Rugenstein-Verlag affirmed the right to revolution. was used, one reviewer found this to be a not entirely insignificant error on the part of the editors ... an aesthetically really terrible and theologically extremely repugnant cover picture, a painting by Niels Stenbock-Fermor from 1936 - with Karl Kleinschmidt in the role of a noble Christ sword-bearer . (Quoted from [1] , accessed on May 23, 2010)
  3. ↑ Lenore Maria Loesekann Stenbock in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved August 26, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Stenbock-Fermor, Nils Graf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stenbock, Nils
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, illustrator and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Nitau Castle
DATE OF DEATH 15th October 1969
Place of death Hamburg