Paul Adolf Seehaus
Paul Adolf Seehaus (pseudonym Barnett, born September 7, 1891 in Bonn , † March 13, 1919 in Hamburg ) was an expressionist painter.
Life
Paul Adolf Seehaus was discovered by August Macke as a high school graduate due to his artistic abilities . Seehaus was the only native Bonn-born and academic who earned a doctorate in the field of art history and joined the Rhenish Expressionists under Macke after Macke had trained and shaped him as the only unpaid master student from 1911 to 1914. During this time, Seehaus familiarized himself with the most varied of current art movements, such as Fauvism , Cubism and Futurism .
As early as the summer of 1913, Seehaus was respected as an independent expressionist artist after he was allowed to present his own works at the "Exhibition of Rhenish Expressionists" organized by Macke in Bonn . In an article in the Frankfurter Zeitung about the exhibition, Seehaus was described as "the real surprise of the exhibition ... which, as the most genuine painter's blood, definitely arouses great expectations". He also exhibited under the name PA Seehaus (Barnett) at the First German Autumn Salon of the Der Sturm gallery in Berlin. There the four pictures of the river bank , harbor , locomotive and landscape were shown by him, the picture river bank also had an image in the exhibition catalog. The picture lighthouse with rotating rays , also from this period, is to be classified in cubism.
The outbreak of the First World War and the death of his teacher and mentor Macke in 1914 led to a realignment of his style in the direction of gloomy, deserted landscapes. Shortly before his untimely death, there was another change in his work towards intense colored pencil drawings and watercolors .
Seehaus died suddenly of pneumonia at the age of 27; his grave in Hamburg was no longer preserved after 1980 and his gravestone was moved to the August Macke House in Bonn . Due to his early death and the relatively small work he left behind, Paul Adolf Seehaus has largely been forgotten as an expressionist.
The small picture lighthouse with rotating beams was first exhibited in 1914 by Alfred Flechtheim , in 1919 it was on loan to the then Bonn City Museum in the Villa Obernier , and in 1932 in an exhibition in the Kronprinzenpalais in Berlin. It was then Aryanized and in 1949 the Bonn Art Museum bought it at auction from unclear ownership. In 2012, the museum compensated Flechtheim's heirs.
Works
- Lighthouse with rotating beams , 1913, Kunstmuseum Bonn
- The red towers , 1917, private property
- Madonna of the Suburbs , 1919, private property
- Landscape pictures and sketches from the Rhineland z. B. View from an elevated position of the Rhine with people and rich ship staffage , 1918
- Great Eifel landscape , 1916
- Bergstadt , 1915, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
- Ships in the harbor , 1914, oil on canvas, 55 × 50 cm. Private ownership, Dering G 36
literature
- Peter Dering: Paul Adolf Seehaus - Life and Work (1891-1919) . Exhibition catalog, monograph, catalog of works with illustrations throughout. August-Macke-Haus, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-929607-46-8
- Josef Niesen : Bonn Personal Lexicon. Bouvier, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-416-03159-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Adolf Seehaus in the catalog of the German National Library
- Paul Adolf Seehaus - retrospective, August Macke Haus, Bonn. Images of the above works
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seehaus, Paul Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barnett (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German expressionist painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1919 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |