Otto von Wätjen

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Otto Christian Heinrich von Wätjen (different spelling: Waetjen ; * July 17, 1881 in Düsseldorf ; † February 4, 1942 in Munich ) was a German painter and graphic artist who devoted his work to landscape painting , among other things .

life and work

Otto von Wätjen, Scène de Cabaret , oil on cardboard, 81 × 70 cm
Portrait of Wätjen's mother Clara, painted by Kaulbach , around 1880

Von Wätjen (also Waetjen) was born as the son of the Düsseldorf government councilor Hermann von Wätjen (1851-1911) and Clara Antonia Vautier (1862-1944). His grandfather was the German-Swiss farmer and genre painter Benjamin Vautier . After briefly studying engineering, he registered in 1901 at Heinrich Knirr's private painting and drawing school in Munich. He then continued his education from 1902 to 1903 with his uncle, the painter Otto Vautier , in Switzerland. In January 1905 Wätjen moved to Paris and attended the École Humbert . He became a regular at the Café du Dôme , where he joined the circle of German artists in Paris. In 1909 he became a member of the Sonderbund , in whose exhibitions he participated up to the last, which took place in 1912 in the municipal exhibition hall at Aachener Tor in Cologne. Between 1907 and 1910 he lived at 65 rue de Douai, near Place de Clichy , and from 1912 at Montparnasse , 31 rue Campagne Premiere.

In autumn 1913 he met the French painter Marie Laurencin know that in a circle around Pablo Picasso , Georges Braque and Gertrude Stein wrong and that until 1912 Muse of Guillaume Apollinaire had been. The couple married in Paris on June 22, 1914, and Laurencin became a German citizen . In order to avoid expulsion, both moved to Spain at the beginning of the First World War and to Düsseldorf in 1918. In 1919 Wätjen exhibited with the artists of the Café du Dôme in the Kestner Society in Hanover and in 1920 in the exhibition Der Dôme in the Alfred Flechtheim gallery in Düsseldorf. Laurencin left him in 1921 and returned to Paris. Von Wätjen also moved back to Paris, where he mainly lived and worked until his death.

Otto von Wätjen was a member of the German Association of Artists . His name can still be found in the DKB membership directory from 1936 until the forced dissolution by the National Socialist Reich Chamber of Art.

Quote

“Otto von Waetjen - is an old Parisian and is known as such in Germany. In his colored lithographs there is still something of the Paris before the war. Boulevards, coffee terraces and bars, girls with delight in dancing - all of this unproblematic in terms of shape and color, but with its own touch, these are the topics that particularly attract these Germans in Paris ”.

literature

  • Otto von Waetjen, Paul Goesch, Renée Sintenis , Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf, exhibition catalog. Tietz, Düsseldorf 1920
  • Waetjen, Otto von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 35 : Libra-Wilhelmson . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 21 .
  • Author: Waetjen, Otto von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 63 .
  • Annette Gautherie-Kampka: Café du Dôme: German painters in Paris, 1903-1914 , Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Donat, 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ archive.org: Waetjen, Otto von, Paris , in the catalog of the International Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne 1912, p. 65 cat. No. 507 Im Garten online (accessed November 24, 2016).
  2. ↑ Annette Gautherie-Kampka: Café du Dôme: German painter in Paris, 1903-1914 Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Donat, 1996, p 106th
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Waetjen, Otto von ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (accessed November 24, 2016). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  4. ↑ s. Otto v. Waetjen in the membership directory 1936, in: 1936 forbidden pictures , exhibition catalog for the 34th annual exhibition of the DKB in Bonn, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin 1986, p. 99.
  5. ↑ Berliner Tageblatt (evening edition), March 6, 1929, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Wätjen, Otto von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waetjen, Otto von; Wätjen, Otto Christian Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1942
Place of death Munich