Oswald Petersen

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Oswald Petersen's portrait of Willy Brandt in the Chancellor Gallery of the Federal Chancellery in Berlin as fourth picture from the left

Oswald Petersen (born February 2, 1903 in Düsseldorf ; † June 5, 1992 there ) was a German painter .

Life

In his hometown of Düsseldorf, Petersen, son of the portrait painter Walter Petersen , who was well known at the time and who was part of the Düsseldorf School of Painting , attended secondary school from 1909 to 1921 and then studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Wilhelm Döringer , Willy Spatz and Franz Kiederich . During his time at the Munich Art Academy (1923–1926), where he "strolled" by his own account, he became a member of the Corps Transrhenania in 1924 . Oswald Petersen had two daughters, Sabine, married to the sculptor Lutz Brockhaus , and Katharina (Katrine).

The years in Paris (1927–1933)

André Lhote, photographed by Edmond Boissonnet

From 1927 to 1933 he lived in Paris , where he studied at the Académie Lhote, founded by André Lhote in 1922 in the Rue d'Odessa on Montparnasse . The cubist painter, sculptor and art theorist's students included Tamara de Lempicka , Henri Cartier-Bresson , Alf Bayrle , Hans Hartung , Anna Eva Bergman , Aurélie Nemours , Fred Klein and William Klein .

During this time, study trips first took him to Brittany and Normandy. Regular stays in the south of France and Spain followed. In 1929 he became a member of the Salon des Surindépendants on Place Versailles. Founded by René Jacob Mendès-France (1888–1985), a French painter and poet, it was a group of fifty to sixty young artists, some of them from Spain, who did not necessarily pursue a uniform aesthetic program, but agreed were in rejection of the mainstream art market and mainstream galleries. In 1930 he joined the group in 1940 and from 1931 to 1933 the Rhine group . His first solo exhibition with 70 landscapes and 23 compositions took place in 1932 at the Galerie Jeanne Castel on Avenue Matignon in Paris . At the same time there was an encounter with Henri Matisse , who then went to Petersen's studio and looked through his pictures for an hour and a half. Matisse advised the young artist, as he later told, at the time: "Compose with color sounds" and recommended him paint in nature in the coastal town of Collioure in the south of France .

In 1932, the French poet and surrealist Robert Valençay described Oswald Petersen as “extremely sensitive in playing with colors” in the “Revue d'Allemagne et des pays de langue allemande”. This sensitivity is "more a matter of temperament than school". In addition, he had "developed his emotions to a conscious constructive ability" and so disciplined. He called him one of the main representatives of current young painting in Germany. The French poet and art critic André Salmon , an advocate and pioneer of Cubism, attested him "a rare intelligence in pictorial design".

Oswald Petersen spent the summer of 1934 at the same time as Marc Chagall , Dora Maar , Jean Gérard Matisse, Peter Janssen , Serge Brignoni , Georges Kars , Ari Walter Kampf, Kurt Seligmann , Oscar Zügel , André Masson and Georges Bataille in Tossa de Mar on the Costa Brava . The oil paintings, watercolors and pastel drawings he made during this period were exhibited from October 27 to November 9, 1934 in the Layetanas Gallery in Barcelona . On the occasion of the exhibition, the Catalan painter and art critic Rafael Benet i Vancells writes in his article “Das Babel der Kunst” (meaning the artist's place Tossa) about the “German Fauvist ” Petersen: “The cheerful Iris von Petersen comes into contact with the retina of the Sunlight. An intense and fine palette based on gray, green, pink and blue. "

Return to Germany (1933)

When he returned to Düsseldorf via Saarbrücken due to foreign exchange problems, he exhibited his pictures in 1933 in the Museum Saarbrücken and in the Schulthess art collection in Basel and in 1935 in The Storan Gallery in London . Since the mid-1930s, study trips have taken him to Spain, France, Italy, England, Sweden and Yugoslavia. In 1937 he exhibited his landscapes in the Düsseldorf Reich Exhibition Schaffendes Volk , an externally important propaganda show in Germany during National Socialism . These were exchanged for more pleasing portraits on the occasion of Adolf Hitler's visit . From the late 1930s to 1988, the Alex Vömel gallery in Düsseldorf exhibited his pictures regularly. In 1937 he made his first summer trip to Sweden, in 1938 to Hiddensee and in 1943 several work stays in the Allgäu followed. Petersen experienced the end of the war in Essen.

Post-war period (from 1945)

Henri Matisse on May 20, 1933

From 1945 the art dealer Hella Nebelung exhibited its works in the ruins of a patrician house bombed by the war in Düsseldorf's Hofgartenstrasse 10 and from 1955 in the southern Ratinger Tor . In 1946 Oswald Petersen joined the Rhenish Secession , in 1949 the New Rhenish Secession and in 1950 the German Artists Association , in whose first annual exhibitions he took part until 1954. His works have their own character between abstract and classical forms and occupy an important position especially in painting after 1945. In 1952 he was awarded the Cornelius Prize of the city of Düsseldorf. In 1948 he exhibited his works in the Suermondt Museum in Aachen. In 1953 he made five large-format silk prints on the history of the princely abbesses for the Yellow Hall in the Essen hall building . Supported by gallery owner Hella Nebelung, he had exhibitions in 1957, 1968 ( watercolors ) and 1977 ( portraits ) in the municipal art collection in Düsseldorf, in 1960 at the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia and in 1967 in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) . From the 1960s onwards, Petersen devoted himself to watercolor painting, in addition to portrait painting. This is how light-flooded watercolors with informal color flows from gorges on Ischia and in Spain were created. The Kunsthalle Düsseldorf showed them from November 29, 1968 to January 1, 1969 in the solo exhibition "Oswald Petersen - New Aquarelle". Since the 1980s, Bad Gastein has been producing large-format “forest” watercolors and “forest clearings” painted in oil with an abstract effect. In 1988 he was made an honorary member of the Düsseldorf Art Academy.

Artist friendships

He cultivated artist friendships a. a. to Peter Janssen , Konrad Klapheck , Meret Oppenheim , Wolfgang Paalen , Gotthard Graupner, Serge Brignoni , Otto Abt , Walter Kurt Wiemken , Helfried Hagenberg , Lutz Brockhaus , Richard Gessner , Helmut Hentrich , Carl Barth as well as Kay Lorentz and Lore Lorentz . He was also friends with the sculptor Jean Gérard Matisse (1899–1976), one of Henri Matisse's two sons. Oswald Petersen was a member of the Malkasten artists' association in the Malkasten House in Düsseldorf .

Portrait painting

Like his father Walter, he was “lucky enough to portray Otto von Bismarck ” a portrait painter ; his best-known picture is that of Willy Brandt . The Cologne painter Georg Meistermann first portrayed the outgoing Chancellor for the Chancellor Gallery in the Federal Chancellery. The picture was considered controversial, and Brandt was referred to as an "apocalyptic horseman". In 1982, at the insistence of Helmut Kohl , he had himself portrayed again, this time by Oswald Petersen in 1985. The picture is in the Federal Chancellery.

From the late 1930s until his death he turned to portrait painting to a greater extent because he had to look after his family with two daughters. Petersen was generally known for portraits of industrialists and public figures. He also portrayed members of the Bernadotte von Wisborg family of counts, who lived on the island of Mainau .

The last few years

Düsseldorf - Art Museum in the Ehrenhof

On the occasion of his 85th birthday in 1988, Galerie Vömel showed his works from the past fifty years in the exhibition “Hommage à Oswald Petersen”. Shortly before his death, on March 6, 1992, he witnessed the opening of his retrospective “Oswald Petersen. The painter ”with works of landscape painting from the years 1923 to 1991 in the Düsseldorf Art Museum in the courtyard and attended the subsequent reception in the Rheinterrassen. In the year before his death, he completed a large-format portrait of Werner Schmalenbach , the former director of the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection in Düsseldorf. The almost finished portrait of Leo Brandt was completed after Petersen's death by the Düsseldorf painter Walter Ritzenhofen (1920–2002).

Oil painting

  • 1922/23: In the garden
  • 1926: Street in St. Germain
  • 1926: market in Brittany ( Concarneau )
  • 1926: Fishing boats in Brittany (Concarneau), Andreas and Ralph Thenhaus collection
  • 1926: Seaside near Blanes , private property, Düsseldorf
  • 1927: Inside the forest near Mirmande in the Rhône Valley
  • 1927: Mirmande in the Rhône Valley
  • 1927: Landscape from the Drôme
  • 1928: still life
  • 1929: St. Tropez I , private property, Neuss
  • 1929: Landscape in Normandy
  • 1931: Collioure
  • 1931: Collioure vineyard
  • 1931: Coastal road near Collioure , Düsseldorf Art Museum in the courtyard
  • 1931: Small Bridge (Parc Mont-Souri)
  • 1931: Parc Mont-Souri
  • 1931: In the park , private property, Düsseldorf
  • 1931: Crouching women
  • 1931: girl on the balcony
  • 1931: girl at the easel
  • 1931: Atelier , Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
  • 1932: Still life in the studio , Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1932: torso at the window
  • 1932: Südlicher Park , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the courtyard
  • 1932: Cork oaks near Collioure
  • 1932: Banlieue de Paris
  • 1932: Landscape near Collioure
  • 1933: Park on the Côte d'Azur
  • 1933: Park , private property, Darmstadt
  • 1933: Landscape near Tossa de Mar
  • 1933: Landscape by the sea near Collioure , private property Darmstadt
  • 1934: Spanish village
  • 1934: Mountains on Ischia
  • 1935: grassy landscape
  • 1935: Red Mountains near Malaga , private property
  • 1935: Southern landscape
  • 1935: Landscape near Almuñécar , Andreas and Ralph Thenhaus collection
  • 1935: Landscape in Blossom (Southern England), Andreas and Ralph Thenhaus Collection
  • 1936: Mountain landscape in the French Alps, Andreas and Ralph Thenhaus collection
  • 1937: pines
  • 1937: Midsummer Night , Stockholm
  • 1941: North German homestead
  • 1944: Handicraft , private property, Zurich
  • 1947: Autumn Street
  • 1949: Path in the vineyards
  • 1949: Ripe poppy field , private property in Neuss
  • 1949: Untitled (Summer Seascape)
  • 1950: Autumn evening , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the courtyard of honor
  • 1950: Höri landscape (on Lake Constance)
  • 1952: Southern landscape , private ownership, Cologne
  • 1952: Nursery , Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1952: pines
  • 1957: mountain landscape

Portrait painting

Portrait of a man with cigarette.
Portrait of the Düsseldorf City Director Gilbert Just. Oswald Petersen, 1976.

Web links

Commons : Oswald Petersen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Date of death according to Archiv Corps Transrhenania
  2. ↑ Stefanie Schäfers: From the Werkbund to the four-year plan. The exhibition Schaffendes Volk, Düsseldorf 1937. , sources and research on the history of the Lower Rhine. Edited by Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein, Volume 4 Droste, Düsseldorf 2001. ISBN 3-7700-3045-1
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 177/320.
  4. ↑ http://www.kettererkunst.de/kunst/kd/details.php?obnr=118001356&anummer=476&detail=1
  5. ↑ Elizabeth Frank and Ellen Russotto: Esteban Vicente , p. 15
  6. ^ Art Museum Düsseldorf in the courtyard of honor : Oswald Petersen. The painter . Catalog book for the exhibition from March 7th to April 26th, 1992
  7. ↑ Yes to the beauties and challenges, obituary by Yvonne Friedrichs, Düsseldorf, Rheinische Post, June 9, 1992
  8. ^ Municipal art gallery Düsseldorf : Oswald Petersen. Painting 1923–1977 . Catalog book for the exhibition from December 2, 1977 to January 22, 1978
  9. ↑ Rafael Benet in ACTUALITAT ARTÍSTICA . November 1, 1934, page 6, published in CRÒNIQUES D'ART A LA VEU DE CATALUNYA , page 135
  10. ^ Valençay, Robert: "Revue d'Allemagne et des pays de langue allemagne" ', 1932
  11. ↑ Lina Camí: Artistas e intelectuales judíos en Tossa de Mar. In: www.tarbutsefarad.com. Retrieved July 24, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Chris Lloyd, The Rough Guide to Costa Brava , p. 135
  13. ↑ Montserrat Duch Plana, La II República espanyola: Perspectives interdisciplinàries en el seu 75è aniversari, Tarragona, 2007, p. 97
  14. ↑ Alejandro Plana, GALERÍAS LAYETANA: Exposiciones de Ángel Cánovas, E. Curiel, R. Mas y Mas, Walter Kampf y Oswald Petersen , article in “La Vanguardia”, Barcelona, ​​November 2, 1934
  15. ↑ Montserrat Navarro, Marta Tort: Repertori d'exposicions individuals d'art a Catalunya (fins a l'any 1938) , Barcelona 1999
  16. ↑ Montserrat Duch Plana, La II República espanyola: Perspectives interdisciplinàries en el seu 75è aniversari , Tarragona, 2007, p. 97
  17. ↑ Rafael Benet in ACTUALITAT ARTÍSTICA . November 1, 1934, page 6, published in CRÒNIQUES D'ART A LA VEU DE CATALUNYA , page 135
  18. ↑ Lina Camí: Artistas e intelectuales judíos en Tossa de Mar. In: www.tarbutsefarad.com. Retrieved July 24, 2016 .
  19. ^ Municipal art gallery Düsseldorf: Oswald Petersen. Painting 1923–1977 . Catalog book for the exhibition from December 2, 1977 to January 22, 1978
  20. ^ Art Museum Düsseldorf in the courtyard of honor: Oswald Petersen. The painter . Catalog book for the exhibition from March 7th to April 26th, 1992
  21. ^ Art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia: Oswald Petersen . Catalog book for the exhibition from July 5 to July 31, 1960 in the Düsseldorf Kunsthalle on Grabbeplatz
  22. ^ Art Museum Düsseldorf in the courtyard of honor: Oswald Petersen. The painter . Catalog book for the exhibition from March 7th to April 26th, 1992
  23. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 1, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  24. ^ Horn, Wolfgang: Cultural Policy in Düsseldorf: Situation and New Beginning after 1945 , Opladen 1981, ISBN 978-3-8100-0396-6
  25. ↑ Teuber, Rainer: An eye-catcher in the Yellow Hall of the Philharmonie Essen: The five silk prints by Oswald Petersen , in: Das Münster am Hellweg 66 (2013), pp. 97-109
  26. ↑ Yes to the beauties and challenges, obituary by Yvonne Friedrichs, Düsseldorf, Rheinische Post, June 9, 1992
  27. ↑ Yes to the beauties and challenges , obituary by Yvonne Friedrichs, Düsseldorf, Rheinische Post, June 9, 1992
  28. ^ Municipal art gallery Düsseldorf: Oswald Petersen. Painting 1923–1977 . Catalog book for the exhibition from December 2, 1977 to January 22, 1978
  29. ↑ Walter Petersen : Before great contemporaries. Memories of a painter . Verlag Karl Siegismund, Berlin, 1937
  30. ^ Hommage à Oswald Petersen, Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf, catalog and invitation to the exhibition opening on February 2, 1988
  31. ↑ Himmelmann, Nikolaus: Antiquity between commerce and science. 25 years of acquisitions for the Academic Art Museum Bonn, Opladen 1994, ISBN 978-3-663-01795-0
  32. ↑ a b c d Prices and estimates of works by Oswald Petersen. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
  33. ^ Oswald Petersen Düsseldorf 1903 - 1992 Düsseldorf Untitled (landscape). Oil on cardboard. 1949. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
  34. ^ Image female nude , auction house Demessieur
  35. ↑ Picture index of art & architecture - homepage picture index. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1992
Place of death Dusseldorf