Otto Tarnogrocki
Otto Tarnogrocki (born June 6, 1875 in Lobsens / Province of Posen , † December 17, 1946 in Nienhagen near Rostock ) was a German painter and illustrator.
Life
Otto Tarnogrocki was born in 1875 as the son of the rector of the same name of the Protestant school Lobsens, today's Łobżenica in the Polish voivodeship of Greater Poland . He grew up in Strasburg , Ulm and Dessau . After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter , he began studying at the Royal Art School in Berlin in 1893 . In 1894 he switched to Franz Bunke at the Weimar Art School . For studies under Bunkes direction he was together with other students, u. a. Alfred Heinsohn , several times in Schwaan in Mecklenburg . In the hometown of Bunkes, at the end of the 19th century, these visitors and the painters from Schwaan such as Peter Paul Draewing and Rudolf Bartels (both of whom had also received their training in Weimar) formed an artist colony .
At the end of his training Tarnogrocki was at the Art Academy in Stuttgart with Carlos Grethe . Study trips took him through Europe, for example to Paris, where he copied in the Louvre and worked in the Académie Colarossi . In 1905 he took up residence in Stettin, but was still in contact with the Schwaan painters. In 1923 he married Elisabeth Holste, who was 13 years his junior.
In his adopted home, Szczecin, numerous impressionistically designed harbor motifs as well as Pomeranian cityscapes and landscapes were created using various techniques such as watercolor, oil painting or ink drawing . He also made drawings using shoe polish and a brush, in black on white and with shades of gray, showing winter landscapes or depictions of ships. He also worked as an illustrator. He supplied both drawings and book decorations for some books. A large number of his works were destroyed in a bomb attack in August 1944, and more have been missing since then.
After the war, Tarnogrocki and his wife came to Nienhagen near Rostock, only a few pictures survived the period of resettlement. Otto Tarnogrocki died in 1946 at the age of 72.
Works (selection)
painter
- Harbor scene , oil / canvas
- City harbor , oil / canvas
- March day , oil / canvas
- Birch trees in winter , mixed media
- Ships in the roadstead , mixed media
- Village on Usedom , mixed media, all Schwaan art museum
illustrator
- Martin Reepel: From the ridge to the shifting dune: trips through Pomerania . Bielefeldt, Stettin 1920, - original drawings
- Stettiner Verkehrsverein (Hrsg.): Stettin: an advertising book . Bauchwitz, Stettin 1919, - book decoration
- Ferdinand Hirt's German reading book for Pomerania . Hirt, Breslau 1925, - drawings
literature
- Tarnogrocki, Otto . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 447 .
- Lisa Jürß: Otto Tarnogrocki . In: Kunstmuseum Schwaan: inventory catalog 2012 . Hinstorff, Rostock 2012, ISBN 978-3-356-01557-7 . Pp. 100-105.
- Lisa Jürß, Heiko Brunner: Otto Tarnogrocki: a painter's life in Mecklenburg and Pomerania. Kunstmuseum Schwaan 2015, ISBN 978-3-88132-972-9 .
Web links
- Literature about Otto Tarnogrocki in the state bibliography MV
- The painter Otto Tarnogrocki at the Schwaan Art Museum
- Works by Otto Tarnogrocki on artnet
- SAHE: Rediscovery of an artist: Otto Tarnogrocki's first catalog raisonné appears 70 years after his death. In: North German Latest News - Bützower Zeitung. nnn.de, January 15, 2016, accessed April 19, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ahnenforschung.Net: 1872: Government district Bromberg: Otto Tarnogrocki - candidate for preaching office, after taking the exam pro rectoratu at the evangel. School in Lobsens, Wirsitz district, employed as principal .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tarnogrocki, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and illustrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Praise |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 17, 1946 |
| Place of death | Nienhagen |