Paul Hans Ohmert

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Lovis Corinth, Portrait of Professor Ohmert, 1923

Paul Hans Ohmert  (PH Ohmert, born October 23, 1890 in Zielenzig , † August 18, 1960 in Oberstdorf , Allgäu ) was a German painter , draftsman and etcher .

life and work

Paul Hans Ohmert grew up as the second son of the large family of Hermann and Berta Ohmert (née Schröter) from 1895 in Drossen ( Ośno Lubuskie ). At a young age he went to the art academy in Berlin . As a pupil of Hans Looschen ,  Karl Hagemeister and  Max Liebermann , who portrayed him, Ohmert, who sold his first etching in 1908 and exhibited with the Dortmund graphic group in 1910, was influenced by the painters of the Berlin Secession and by Impressionism . He made a name for himself as a landscape painter , etcher, portraitist and draftsman and worked a lot in the Mark Brandenburg . His oil paintings of the Alps , which he possibly toured with Hagemeister, were sold as far as the USA . He lived and worked in Güterfelde , in the southwest of Berlin, not far from Liebermann's villa and from Hagemeister's place of residence, also during his time as a professor in the Netherlands . He was a member of the Potsdamer Kunstverein.

Until 1914 Ohmert painted a lot in the Netherlands, presumably at the suggestion of Max Liebermann and as a Berlin catalog from 1921 shows. In 1921, as a member of the commission of the German-Dutch Association, he carried out an exhibition of the Expressionists in the Pulchri Studio in The Hague , in which he himself was represented with a picture that was purchased by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam . At the end of 1920 he adopted the play of light and shadow of the old Dutch in his painting. In the course of the national-socialist cultural policy with the persecution of Max Liebermann as a Jew, Omert was also sidelined and was forgotten. At the end of 1940, after the death of his Berlin teachers, he finally retired to Oberstdorf in the Allgäu, where he built a house and stayed until his death. In 1960 he portrayed Chancellor Konrad Adenauer .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Hüneke: The Potsdam Art Association of the 20th Century Part 2: Painting and graphics. In: Kunst-Potsdam.de. Kunst-Potsdam, accessed on February 21, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ IN MEMORIAM: PAUL HANS OHMERT. In: Der Spiegel. Der Spiegel, August 31, 1960, accessed on February 21, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Ohmert, Paul Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ohmert, PH
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Targeted
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1960
Place of death Oberstdorf , Allgäu