Otto Linnemann

Otto Linnemann (born April 26, 1876 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 9, 1961 there ) was a German glass painter as well as wall and decoration painter .

Life

Otto Linnemann was born as the second son of the architect and glass painter Alexander Linnemann . Rudolf Linnemann was his brother two years older. After school, Otto Linnemann worked in his father's studio and learned the craft of glass painting. He then studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he was a student of Artur Kampf , Peter Janssen and Eduard von Gebhardt . 1906–1907 he painted the interior of the Johanniskirche in Mainz on behalf of Friedrich Pützer . From 1908–1909, he and his brother Rudolf Linnemann painted the Bessunger Church, which was redesigned by Friedrich Pützer . In 1923 the TH Darmstadt awarded him the extraordinary professorship for architectural painting under the title The color in architecture , which Linnemann perceived until 1943. Linnemann also designed the interior of the Opel mausoleum built in 1924 in Rüsselsheim am Main .

Linnemann was friends with Joachim Ringelnatz , who was often in Frankfurt.

Works

Stained glass in sacred buildings

Lower back

Plettenberg

• Sacred Heart Church in Luxembourg's train station district
• St. Bartholomew's Cathedral in Frankfurt am Main
• Erfurt Cathedral
• Fritzlar Cathedral
• Koenigsberg Cathedral
• Naumburg Cathedral
• Meissen Cathedral
• Nicholas Church on the Limpertsberg in Luxembourg City
• Kolberg Cathedral
• Church of the Redeemer in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (with Rudolf Linnemann)
• City Church in Friedberg (Hesse)
• St. Heinrich Church in Uerdingen
• Petri Church in Copenhagen
• Kristina-Kyrka in Sweden
• Ev. Armsheim Church (Rheinhessen), former pilgrimage church of the Holy Blood of Christ from 1431
• Lennewitz village church
• Ev. Peace Church Wildau
• Castle church in Weilburg
• Ev. Niederlehme Church
• Evangelical Church of St. Johannis (Luckenwalde)
• 1895: Peterskirche (Frankfurt am Main)-9999
• 1909: New Nicolaikirche (Frankfurt am Main)-9999
• 1923: Christ Church (Plettenberg) choir window-9999
• 1925–1932: St. Johannes (St. Goarshausen) , high window of the nave
• 1929: Evangelical Church (St. Goarshausen) , figural windows in the choir-9999
• Katharinenkirche (Oppenheim)

Paintings in sacred buildings

• Ev. Niederlehme Church
• Ev. Peace Church Wildau
• Ev. Hohenfinow Church
• Ev. Lennewitz Church
• Ev. Tornow Church
• Ev.-luth. St. Jakobi Church in Peine

Stained glass in secular buildings

Groningen

• Knight's Hall in Marburg Castle
• University of Groningen
• Haydarpaşa train station in Istanbul
• German embassy chapel in Istanbul

Paintings in secular buildings

• Hanau Justice Building
• 1909: Landes- und Hypothekenbank in Darmstadt

literature

• Otto Linnemann, Rudolf Linnemann: Directory of some of the glass and wall paintings made by our studio over the past 25 years. Englert & Schlosser. Frankfurt am Main 1914.
• Heinrich Zernin: Linnemann, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 256 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Linnemann Archive: Artistic career of Prof. Otto Linnemann.
2. ^ Friederike Schmidt-Möbus: The game of chess. ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2007 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. 
3. ^ Michel Schmitt: The Herz-Jesu-Kirche and the newer ecclesiastical building culture in Luxembourg
4. ↑ Paul-Georg Custodis, Kurt Frein: St. Goarshausen with Katz Castle and Patersberg (= Rheinische Kunststätten issue 258) Ed. Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz , Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-88094-389-3 , p. 12.
5. ↑ Paul-Georg Custodis, Kurt Frein: St. Goarshausen with Burg Katz and Patersberg (= Rheinische Kunststätten. Issue 258) Ed. Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz , Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-88094-389-3 , p. 11.

Web links

• Linnemann Archive (19th / 20th century)
• sacre-coeur.lu - To the glass windows by Otto Linnemann
• Literature by and about Otto Linnemann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Linnemann, Otto. Hessian biography. (As of April 26, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Linnemann, Otto in the Frankfurt personal dictionary