Otto Ubbelohde

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Portrait of Otto Ubbelohde , ca.1910 by Richard Winckel (1870–1941)
Otto and Hanna Ubbelohde 1906
Portrait photo , ca.1915
Self-portrait, pencil 1917
Portrait photo of the 17 year old student
Self-portrayal, pen drawing 1914
"Lusthäuschen" in Amönau as a template for the Rapunzel Tower

Otto Ubbelohde (born January 5, 1867 in Marburg an der Lahn, † May 8, 1922 in Goßfelden ) was a painter , etcher and illustrator . Parts of his work are assigned to Art Nouveau .

Life

Otto Ubbelohde grew up in Marburg. His father August Ubbelohde was a professor of Roman law at the University of Marburg . The house where he was born was in close proximity to the Elisabeth Church in Elisabethstrasse. 9. It was demolished in 1966. Probably by the family of the mother Therese, geb. Unger, inherited artistic talent showed up early on, but the father was reluctant to give his son permission to train as a painter at the Philippinum Marburg grammar school after he had passed the Abitur .

After a short stay at the Art Academy of the Grand Duchy of Saxony Weimar art school (now Weimar Bauhaus University ) was Otto Ubbelohde 1884-1890 at the Munich Academy of Art student of Gabriel von Hackl , Johann Caspar Herterich , Wilhelm von Diez and Ludwig von Löfftz . He lived in Munich for more than a decade and had contact with the Dachau artists' colony . In 1889 he traveled from Munich to Worpswede , where the Worpswede artists' colony was just being formed; In 1894/1895 he worked there again. In the intervening years he spent the summer drawing and painting on the Neckar and on the island of Reichenau .

After marrying Hanna Unger from Bremen in November 1897, a niece of the engraver and etcher William Unger , and following the death of his father the following year, he built a studio and apartment building in Goßfelden near Marburg. In the beginning, the couple only lived there in summer, but after completion in 1900 they lived there permanently. Today the listed building is the seat of the Otto Ubbelohde Foundation and houses the Otto Ubbelohde House Museum . It also serves as a research facility. Ubbelohde and his wife Hanna Ubbelohde began to emerge as a craftsman from around 1900 . They created tapestries that were knotted in the Scherrebeck weaving school, wall screens for the Silesian Museum of Applied Arts in Wroclaw and created designs for embroidery.

Study trips and stays in Munich started from Goßfelden. In 1902 he became a member of the Willingshausen painters' colony . In 1908 he traveled to Lübeck , where he drew the illustrations for a city guide; he also came to work in Gothmund . He had his first own exhibition in Gießen in 1912 with 40 oil paintings, drawings and etchings.

On the occasion of his 50th birthday in 1917, the University of Marburg awarded him the title of professor and on July 6, 1921 made him an honorary senator. On July 24, 1918, the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Gießen appointed him an honorary doctorate, at the same time and together with Alfred Bock ; the honorary doctorate is dated July 29, 1918.

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In addition to painting, Ubbelohde mainly operated drawing, partly because of continuous income. Countless drawn print templates for book illustrations, calendars, postcards, bookplates and the like were created; next to it etchings .

Through works of this kind, especially through his illustrations for a 1909 edition of the children's and house fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm published by the Leipzig Tower, Ubbelohde became known worldwide. He worked on the 448 illustrations in the fairy tale book for three years, from 1906 to 1909.

His inclination and artistic pursuit were primarily for painting. It occupies a broad and very important space in the artist's work. Although he was excellently gifted for portraiture , Ubbelohde mainly created landscapes and still lifes . The landscapes of Hesse, especially those in the wider Marburg area, have found their unsurpassed portrayal in him.

Martin Heidegger had Ubbelohde design a loden suit with knee breeches with which he drew student attention as an “existential suit”.

In the Marburg University Museum of Fine Arts, an entire hall is dedicated to Ubbelohde's paintings.

reception

After his death, Ubbelohde was almost forgotten. In 1943 a first monograph by Hans Laut was published, who tried to assign Ubbelohde's life and work to National Socialist ideology. It was not until 1984 that Bernd Küster paid tribute to him in an extensive scientific monograph, which was revised in 1997 and is considered a reference work.

The original illustrations of the children's and house fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm were first shown in the old district office in Marburg and from 1972 in the district building in Marburg-Cappel. In 1987 they were replaced by copies. Since then, the originals have rarely been exhibited. Part of it was shown in 1987 in Tokyo- Oumida, in 1988 in Osaka and in 1990 in the theme park Guryukku Ōkoku ("Kingdom of Fortune") in Obihiro ( Hokkaidō ), since the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm with the illustrations by Ubbelohde are relatively popular in Japan .

In 2002, the poet Ludwig Harig dealt with Grimm's fairy tales and Ubbelohde's illustrations in Da suddenly fell from the sky . Harig explored the landscape models for the artist's drawings.

Exemplary works

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  • Study from the Academy period, ca.1886

  • Landscape study, ca.1889

  • Hinterland costume, mother with children from Bottenhorn , ca.1910

  • Frau Holle (landscape template : Rimberg )

  • Woman in White ( Model : Hanna Ubbelohde)

  • Rapunzel Tower

  • Kochs Hof, Lübeck

  • Advertising poster for the 1918 war loan

  • Bookplate for Karl Andres , Burning of the Witches, 1920

Appreciations

The Marburg-Biedenkopf district founded the Otto Ubbelohde Prize in 1987 and has awarded it annually since then.

The Ubbelohde-Weg was named in his honor in Giessen , the Ubbelohdestrasse in Marburg and the Otto-Ubbelohde-Weg in the municipality of Lahntal . In Lahntal-Goßfelden the elementary school "Otto-Ubbelohde-Schule Goßfelden" was named after him and in Marburg the six-year elementary school "Otto-Ubbelohde-Schule Marburg".

In 2010, a circular trail “In the footsteps of Otto Ubbelohde through Goßfelden” was inaugurated in Goßfelden, which leads to striking places that Otto Ubbelohde recorded in his work or that served as a template.

A section of the German Fairy Tale Route leads from Hanau to Goßfelden, Otto Ubbelohde's place of work.

Exhibitions

  • 1912: Collective exhibition, Giessen
  • 1922: Estate exhibition, Giessen
  • 1925: Kunstverein Kassel , Kassel
  • 2017: NaturBilder. The painter Otto Ubbelohde , Upper Hessian Museum , Giessen. Booklet.

Otto Ubbelohde House Museum

The artist's former home and studio in the Lahnwiesen near Lahntal-Goßfelden is now a museum.

Ubbelohde's house in Goßfelden

Ubbelohde had the house built in half-timbered and scratched plaster by local builders based on the ideas of English country house construction and according to their own designs . In 1900 he was able to move into it together with his wife Hanna. The house was expanded in 1905 and 1914. The Otto Ubbelohde Foundation repaired the property at the end of the 20th century. It was opened as a museum in November 1999. Since then, changing exhibitions have taken place there, presenting Ubbelohde's work. The museum was declared monument of the month by the State Office for Monument Preservation in Hesse in December 2001 .

Today Brigitte Ubbelohde-Doering, a great niece of Otto Ubbelohde, lives in the painter's old home and studio.

In 2010 the museum showed the exhibition Otto Ubbelohde - Decorative Designs .

In 2016, a working group "Future of the Otto Ubbelohde House" was set up in the Lahntal municipal council to support the foundation. The working group of parliamentarians and citizens has set itself the goal, among other things, of intensifying tourism advertising, gaining sponsors for special projects and making suggestions to the board of trustees of the Ubbelohde Foundation. The first implemented projects are the assumption of voluntary museum services during the opening hours by the members of the working group and the creation of a website, which went online in February 2017.

Otto Ubbelohde Foundation

By a will from Else Ubbelohde-Doering, a niece of the artist and daughter of Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering and the last owner of the estate, the artist house and the artistic estate were transferred to the Otto Ubbelohde Foundation in 1991 . The estate includes around 3,000 sketches, drawings and paintings. The foundation arranged for the home and studio to be repaired. The foundation's chairman, Ludwig Rinn, looks after the museum.

Works in books

  • From Alt-Marburg. 20 landscapes by Otto Ubbelohde. NG Elwert'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Marburg 1906.
  • Around Marburg. 20 landscapes by Otto Ubbelohde. NG Elwert'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Marburg 1907.
  • Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Otto Ubbelohde (illustrations): Children and house fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm . With 446 illustrations by Otto Ubbelohde. Ed .: Robert Riemann. 3 volumes. Turm-Verlag, Leipzig, DNB  560524668 (1907-1912).
  • Karl Ernst Knodt, Otto Ubbelohde (illustrations): My forests. Words from Karl Ernst Knodt. Pictures by Otto Ubbelohde. Verlag Hermann A. Wiechmann, Munich 1910.
  • Ernst Piltz, Otto Ubbelohde (illustrations): Guide through Jena. Fromann'sche Hofbuchhandlung Eckard Klostermann, Jena 1912.
  • Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Otto Ubbelohde (illustrations): The Grimm fairy tales in a selection . Drawings by Otto Ubbelohde. Ed .: Robert Riemann. Turm-Verlag, Leipzig 1912, DNB  580896188 .
  • Martin Lang, Otto Ubbelohde (illustrations): Alt-Tübingen. 30 pen drawings by Otto Ubbelohde. Wilhelm Kloeres, Tübingen 1913.
  • Otto Ubbelohde: Cities and castles on the Lahn. 20 drawings by Otto Ubbelohde. NG Elwert'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Marburg 1914.
  • Gustav Könnecke , Otto Ubbelohde (illustrations): From Alt-Marburg: 35 pen drawings by Otto Ubbelohde . NG Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg, DNB  560983670 (approx. 1915).
  • F. Bruns, H. Mahn, Otto Ubbelohde (illustrations), Association for the promotion of tourism in Lübeck (ed.): Lübeck. A guide through the free u. Hanseatic city and its immediate surroundings. Rathgens, Lübeck 1918.
  • Otto Ubbelohde: From good old days. 12 pen drawings by Otto Ubbelohde . NG Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1919, DNB  36178208X .
  • Bernhard Flemes , Otto Ubbelohde (illustrations): Guide through Hameln . Hameln Tourist Office , Hameln 1920, DNB  573365075 .
  • Ernst Koch, Otto Ubbelohde (illustrations): Prince Rosa-Stramin . NG Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1922, DNB  575519665 .
  • Ludwig Harig: Suddenly the stars fell from the sky. Encounters with Sleeping Beauty and Eisenhans - a fairytale journey in Art Nouveau style . With drawings by Otto Ubbelohde. zu Klampen Verlag, Lüneburg 2002, ISBN 3-933156-74-2 .
  • Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Otto Ubbelohde (illustrations): Grimms Märchen - Complete edition . Anaconda, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-86647-421-5 .
  • Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Otto Ubbelohde (illustrations): Grimms Märchen, complete edition with illustrations by Otto Ubbelohde . Ed .: Eckhard Henkel. Subach, Königswinter 2011 (Kindle eBook).
  • Rainer Zuch, Corps Teutonia Marburg (ed.): Otto Ubbelohdes window designs for the corps house of Teutonia Marburg. Otto Ubbelohde Foundation, Goßfelden 2013.

Works in museums

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Bernd Küster: Otto Ubbelohde. Worpsweder Verlag, Worpswede 1984, ISBN 3-922516-40-8
  • Bernd Küster: Otto Ubbelohde and Worpswede. Worpsweder Verlag, Worpswede 1984, ISBN 3-922516-32-7
  • Carl Graepler: Otto Ubbelohde - Catalog of the paintings in the Marburg University Museum. 2nd edition Marburg 1988, ISBN 3-925430-12-1 .
  • Bernd Küster: Otto Ubbelohde . 2nd modified edition, Lilienthal near Bremen 1997, ISBN 978-3-922516-40-8 . (Current scientific monograph )
  • Philip Peter Schmidt: Once upon a time ...: Bibliographical information on life and illustrations by Otto Ubbelohde. 2., ext. and additional ed., Stapp, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-87776-711-7 .
  • Peter Joch (Ed.): Otto Ubbelohde. Art and life reform around 1900. Exhibition catalog Kunsthalle Darmstadt. Häusser, Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3-89552-078-0 .
  • Jürgen Wittstock: Otto Ubbelohde - An artist between tradition and modernity. In: Hessian homeland. Vol. 51 (2001), Issue 1, pp. 3-11.
  • District Committee Marburg-Biedenkopf, Cultural Office (ed.): Otto Ubbelohde's illustrations for the children's and house fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. CD-ROM . Elwert-Verlag, Marburg 2001, ISBN 3-7708-1175-5 .
  • Dieter Woischke: Fairytale walks . With Otto Ubbelohde through the Marburger Land. Burgwald-Verlag, Cölbe-Schönstadt 2002, ISBN 978-3-936291-17-9 .
  • Support group Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark e. V. (Ed.), Wulf-Diether Gassel: Otto Ubbelohde as illustrator with special consideration of the postcards. Hessenpark Open Air Museum, Neu-Anspach 2004, ISBN 3-930095-01-8
  • Welf-Gerrit Otto: Rapt places. On the popularity of the fairy tale illustrations by Otto Ubbelohde in Marburg and the surrounding area. In: Hessian Association for Folklore (Hrsg.): Between identity and image. The popularity of the Brothers Grimm and their fairy tales in Hessen. Hessian papers for folk and cultural research. 44/45. Jonas-Verlag, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89445-414-2 .
  • Burkhard Kling: Otto Ubbelohde - of chickens and heroes. Drawings and illustrations for fairy tales and other books. Exhibition catalog. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2012, ISBN 978-3-88462-324-4 .

Only interesting in terms of the history of science because it was influenced by the National Socialists:

  • Heinz Mahn: Otto Ubbelohde, a herald of Lübeck beauty. In: The car . 1940, pp. 166-173.
  • Hans Laut: Otto Ubbelohde - life and work. Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1943. (First monograph on the life and work of Ubbelohde)

Web links

Commons : Otto Ubbelohde  - Collection of Images

Sources and Notes

  1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 3642, p. 17 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b Bernd Küster: Otto Ubbelohde . Worpsweder Verlag, Worpswede 1984
  3. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marburg-biedenkopf.de
  4. ↑ Influences on the young painter in Otto Ubbelohde as a painter in his time by Andre Manecke
  5. ↑ Kulturportal-hessen.de
  6. ↑ Otto Ubbelohde on kuenstlerkolonie-gothmund.de by Heiko Jäckstein
  7. ^ Lecture Otto Ubbelohde as a painter in his time by Andre Manecke.
  8. ^ Rüdiger Safranski : A master from Germany: Heidegger and his time. Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24659-1 , p. 143.
  9. ↑ Otto Ubbelohde - Art and Life Reform around 1900 ( Memento from July 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in the Museum of Fine Arts in the Ernst-von-Hülsen-Haus .
  10. ↑ Hans Laut: Otto Ubbelohde - Life and Work . Rembrandt-Verlag, Berlin 1943
  11. ↑ CD-ROM Otto Ubbelohde's illustrations for the children's and house fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm
  12. ^ Website of the Otto Ubbelohde School in Goßfelden
  13. ^ Website of the Otto Ubbelohde School in Marburg
  14. ↑ The Ubbelohde circular route through Goßfelden invites you to the opening of the circular route on myheimat.de, with a map
  15. ↑ "Otto Ubbelohde's Atelier" on denkmalpflege-hessen.de .
  16. ^ "Ubbelohde-Haus" working group in the municipal council
  17. ↑ Otto Ubbelohde House in Lahntal on fair-hotels.de
personal data
SURNAME Ubbelohde, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, etcher and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1922
Place of death Goßfelden