Otto Ackermann (painter)

Otto Ackermann (born February 14, 1872 in Berlin , † May 31, 1953 in Düsseldorf ) was a German landscape , marine and portrait painter .

Life

Ackermann received private painting lessons in the studio of the marine painter Hermann Eschke in Berlin. He went on study trips to Italy, Belgium and Holland (1905/1906 in Katwijk ). From 1897 he lived in Düsseldorf, where he belonged to the officers' association of the Landwehr district of Düsseldorf and became a "Niederrhein painter". On August 5, 1897, he married Gertrud, née Steven, from Cologne and with her had their son Carl-Josef (1898–1938), the architect and government master builder who later became famous. In June 1915 he lost his 14 years younger brother Kurt, who was bombed by Reginald Alexander John Warneford under Otto van der Haegen as 2nd Commander (First Officer) of the airship LZ 37 in flight over Ghent .

Ackermann was an early member of the German Association of Artists . In Düsseldorf he was a member of the association from 1899 , from 1898 to 1953 also of the artists' association Malkasten , from 1932 its chairman. In the course of the period of National Socialism made DC circuit of the paintbox Ackermann has 1,934 new after a change in the control statutes club chairman. As such, he struck nine " non-Aryan " members from the membership list in 1935 . He had to give up the function in 1938 under pressure from the NSDAP. Ackermann's estate is administered by the Rhenish Archive for Artists' Estates, Bonn. He died in his apartment at Hünefeldstrasse 8 as a result of a domestic accident in which he suffered a fractured skull base.

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For his paintings, Ackermann preferred motifs from the Lower Rhine, the Belgian, Dutch and German North Sea coasts, from Mecklenburg and the North German lowlands. Until the 1920s he sent the exhibitions in Düsseldorf, Berlin and Munich. At the 3rd annual DKB exhibition in the Grand Ducal Museum in Weimar, he was represented with the oil painting Platz im Schnee . In 1904 and 1906 he exhibited in Dresden , Berlin, Munich and his adopted home in Düsseldorf. He was awarded in 1907 and 1911 in Barcelona, ​​1912 in Klagenfurt (Austrian State Medal) and 1914 in Salzburg.

• Pine trees on Lake Carwitzer See, Mecklenburg , around 1908: Düsseldorf, Art Museum
• On the North Sea beach near Katwijk , around 1910: Düsseldorf, art museum
• Runkel near Limburg , pencil drawing 1926: Düsseldorf, artists' association Malkasten (KVM)
• Village street , chalk drawing: Düsseldorf, KVM
• Sylt , chalk and pencil drawing: Düsseldorf, KVM
• Graf-Adolf-Platz in Düsseldorf : Düsseldorf, city museum
• Malkasten-Jakobihaus , pencil drawing: Düsseldorf, Stadtmuseum
• Runkel Castle on the Lahn , oil painting
• Winter landscape , oil painting

Portraits

• Franz Kiederich (oil painting): Düsseldorf, KVM
• Hans Kohlschein (caricature): Düsseldorf, KVM
• Fritz Reusing (oil painting): Düsseldorf, KVM
• Wilhelm Schneider-Didam (oil painting 1895): Düsseldorf, Städtisches Museum

literature

• Hermann Board : Ackermann, Otto . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 50 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Dressler's art manual 1907–1930
• Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century . Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 8
• Emanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays , Vol. I, 1976
• Sabine Schroyen, in: Hans Paffrath (ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 1: Abbema – Gurlitt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7654-3009-9 , pp. 53–54 (2 illustrations; further literature).
• Ackermann, Otto . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 1 (2nd edition), Munich 2005, p. 31 ( Google Books )

Web links

• Otto Ackermann , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
• Otto Ackermann , auction results on the portal artnet .de
• Otto Ackermann , auction results on the van-ham.com portal

Individual evidence

1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016) , PDF
2. ^ Officers 'association of the Landwehr district of Düsseldorf: List of names of the officers' association of the Landwehr district of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf 1898, p. 19 ( digitized version )
3. ↑ Günter Dick: From heaven, through hell to the monastery bed. The “given life” of Alfred Mühler, altitude helmsman on the army airship LZ 37, 1915 . Sankt Augustin 2015, p. 7 ff. ( PDF )
4. ↑ Julia Lohmann (editor), Klaus Rinke, Katharina Oesterreicher, Bazon Brock, Werner Hofmann, Bernd Kortländer, Dawn M. Leach, Sabine Schroyen, Andreas Schroyen, Stephan von Wiese: One hundred and fifty years of the artist association Malkasten. 1848-1998 . Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 978-3-92876-289-2 , p. 74
5. ↑ Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): A non-Aryan German. Albert Herzfeld's diaries 1935–1939 . Düsseldorf 1982
6. ↑ Wolf Gruner (adaptation): The persecution and murder of European Jews 1933–1945 . Volume 1: German Empire 1933–1937 . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58480-6 , p. 524 ( Google Books )
7. ↑ Inventory list , website in the portal rak-bonn.de (Rhenish archive for artists' bequests )
8. ↑ Death certificate No. 231 (registry office Kaiserwerth)
9. ↑ s. Membership directory u. Entry in the catalog of the 3rd German Artist Association Exhibition , Weimar 1906. (p. 9) online (accessed April 13, 2017)
10. ↑ 53.7 × 60 cm (Fig .: Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule, Vol. 1, p. 53; Variants: 45.5 × 61 cm, or 45.5 × 60.5 cm: Kunsthandel 2001 and 2013)
11. ↑ 60 × 70 cm (Fig .: Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule, Vol. 1, p. 54)