Otto Heinrich Engel
Otto Heinrich Engel (born December 27, 1866 in Erbach (Odenwald) , † January 30, 1949 in Glücksburg ) was a German painter .
Life
Engel is considered one of the pioneers of avant-garde, modern painting in Germany. In 1898, alongside Walter Leistikow , Ludwig Dettmann , Oskar Frenzel , Curt Herrmann , Fritz Klimsch and Max Liebermann, he was one of the founding members of the Berlin Secession , which propagated the abandonment of academic painting. Engel's commitment to this artistic emancipation movement was largely limited to the early years. Between 1901 and 1914 he was characterized in particular by his numerous summer stays on the North Sea island of Föhr , which were accompanied by a lively painting activity. The Föhr pictures focus mainly on girls dressed in local costumes in the context of landscape sections. By directly applying impasto paint, Engel succeeded in quickly capturing the moods of a moment and documenting them in their fleetingness using the means of painting. In 1902 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and a large one in 1908.
Engel (3rd from left) 1900 in the second Secession exhibition
Engel (3rd from left) prepares a secession exhibition in 1904
Works (selection)
- 1889 old willows
- 1890 boy in the boat
- 1892 fishermen's houses in the setting sun
- 1892 Frisian mother and son
- 1893 In the fisherman's house
- 1894 1. Sketch for "Sea Lights"
- 1894 fisherman in the nets
- 1894 cable car
- 1895 girl with lampion (study)
- 1895 stairs to Fiesole monastery
- 1898 Pilkende boys
- 1900 fishermen from Lagmai (Ekensund)
- 1900 Overcast day in the harbor (Ekensund)
- 1901 Friesian in the shade (Collection of West Coast Art, Föhr)
- 1902 Friesin in the cornfield (Museumsberg Flensburg)
- 1902 Study for the picture "Festtagsmorgen"
- 1902 The ship broker Jürgensen
- 1903 At the ship broker
- 1904 funeral service in Friesland / burial on Föhr
- 1904 On holiday morning
- 1906 Three Frisians under the linden tree
- 1907 Frisian room
- 1921 After the wedding / Nieblum on Föhr
- 1922 At the ship broker
- 1929 The blue room / Alkersum on Föhr
- 1929 On the edge of the march "The Water Carrier"
- 1930 June evening in the village / Nieblum on Föhr
- Portrait of a farmer
- Two girls in the traditional costumes of the Flensburg Fjord
- Midday glow
- River at the edge of the forest near Berlin
- Evening at Ekensund Harbor (German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven)
Exhibitions
- Museum of Art of the West Coast : Otto Heinrich Engel - The painter of Föhr. March 2 to June 29, 2014
literature
- Willy Kurth : Engel, Otto Heinrich . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 10 : Dubolon – Erlwein . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 531 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Christoph Wodicka: Otto H. Engel letters and notes by a painter. 1866-1949 . Boyens Buchverlag, Heide 2009, ISBN 978-3-8042-1267-1 .
- Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Föhr, Amrum and the Halligen in art . Boyens Buchverlag, Heide 2003, ISBN 3-8042-1118-6 .
- Jutta Müller: Otto H. Engel - An artist's life around 1900 between Berlin and Schleswig-Holstein . Boyens Medien, Heide 1996, ISBN 3-8042-0501-1 .
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| SURNAME | Engel, Otto Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Engel, Otto H. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erbach (Odenwald) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1949 |
| Place of death | Glücksburg |