Poppe Folkerts

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Poppe Folkerts in the 1930s
Emder Segelloger in the stormy North Sea (1934)

Poppe Folkerts (born April 9, 1875 in Norderney ; † December 31, 1949 there ) was one of the most important German marine painters , draftsmen and graphic artists .

Life

Poppe Folkerts was born on April 9, 1875, the second oldest of six children of the builder Folkert Janssen Folkerts (1848–1890) and his wife Johanna Reemdina Meyer (1851–1889) on the East Frisian island of Norderney. On his mother's side he was related to the East Frisian painter Willy ter Hell , with whom he was on friendly terms throughout his life.

After his parents died within a short time, Folkerts, just 14 years old, began a three-year apprenticeship in painting and glazing, after which he went up the Rhine in 1894 as a journeyman on a journey that took him to Cologne and Frankfurt am Main and later to Hamburg and Berlin led, where he discovered his interest and enthusiasm for art painting in the large picture galleries. Poppe Folkerts was friends with the sculptor Wilhelm Krieger and the aircraft pioneer and painter Wilhelm Focke .

In 1896 Folkerts presented himself to Carl Saltzmann at the Berlin Academy of the Arts and was accepted into Hermann Eschke's private studio in Berlin on his recommendation . He received a scholarship at the Berlin Academy and was a student with Carl Saltzmann until 1900, with Friedrich Kallmorgen from 1902 to 1903 and finally in 1903 with Ludwig Dettmann in Königsberg as a master student . The recommendations of his teachers, and in particular Anton von Werners , the director of the Royal University of Fine Arts with the personal approval of Emperor Wilhelm II , enabled him to undertake study trips on board imperial naval ships from 1900 to 1903, on which he traveled the North and Baltic Seas, traveled the European Atlantic coast and the Mediterranean to Istanbul and Jerusalem . At the request of the emperor, he gave drawing lessons to his son Prince Adalbert of Prussia . In between, Folkerts lived in Italy on Capri for a few months.

In 1906 he moved to Kiel, became a member of the Kieler Kunstverein and the Schleswig-Holstein Art Cooperative, and in the same year presented to the artist group "Schleswig-Holstein" together with other painters such as Emil Nolde , Hans Arp and Hans Peter Feddersen in the Kieler Kunsthalle from.

In 1907 and 1908 he studied figure and portrait painting with Eduard von Gebhardt in Düsseldorf and went to Paris in 1909, where he was accepted at the Académie Julian . Here he studied the great impressionists Édouard Manet , Claude Monet , Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Jean-François Millet .

In 1910 Poppe Folkerts returned to his East Frisian homeland and settled on Norderney. There he planned and built a tower studio, the so-called “Malerturm”, in 1911 on the south-west Hörn. He traveled the coast, the Wadden Sea with the islands and the sea many times with his sailing boat Senta to record his impressions in nature studies.

The First World War took him to the western front in France and Flanders as a war painter and the impressions he captured served as illustrations for the Leipziger Illustrirte Zeitung .

In 1917 Poppe Folkerts married the captain's daughter Frida Wilken (1893–1982) from the East Frisian coastal town of Westeraccumersiel on the island of Juist . The marriage had four children: 1919 the daughter Hanna; she was married to the garden architect and Alwin Seifert employee Friedrich Schaub , in 1921 the painter and portraitist Frauke Moroni and in 1927 the daughter Almut. In 1930 the youngest child, Heiko Folkert, was born in the Malerturm; He was an architect, painter and professor at the Technical University of Munich and is considered a pioneer of ecological building in Europe.

From then on, Poppe Folkerts worked as a freelance painter at Norderney. He exchanged ideas with other East Frisian artists, such as his friends, the poets Arend Dreesen and Berend de Vries , and in the 1920s and 1930s he traveled with his family on his sailing boat through Friesland, Holland and Belgium to France, which he visited inspired numerous works. Folkerts also designed the cover picture of the novel The Journey to Last Sand , which was created in Luserke's floating poet's workshop Krake , with which he sailed as a freelance writer through the North and Baltic Seas for the important reform pedagogue Martin Luserke ( School by the Sea ) .

After the First World War, he designed six motifs for the emergency money on his home island Norderney. One of them, the Cape of Norderney, the city of Norderney chose for its coat of arms, for which he then designed the black, blue and white city flag.

In 1925 he initiated the founding of the Norderneyer sailing club, of which he became the first chairman.

At the beginning of the Second World War , his "painters tower" was confiscated by the Wehrmacht and torn down for reasons of war in December 1940, so that he and his family were forced to move and only returned to the heavily damaged building in 1949, of which only the basement remained. could return.

In 1943 Poppe Folkerts was appointed as a member of the East Frisian cultural parliament, the East Frisian landscape .

Poppe Folkerts' memorial grave at the Norderneyer Inselfriedhof

He died on New Year's Eve 1949 in his house on Norderney. His burial at sea took place on January 4, 1950, with great sympathy from the Norderneyer population; On the 60th anniversary of his death, the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum in Emden exhibited some of Folkert's works in a retrospective.

Artistic work

Coat of arms of the city of Norderney, based on a design by Poppe Folkert
Flag of the city of Norderney, also based on a design by Poppe Folkert

Poppe Folkerts is one of the most important painters on the Frisian coast. As an enthusiastic sailor, he knew how to capture the characteristics of this landscape, the struggle of people with the forces of nature and the fascination of the sea with its constantly changing weather conditions and moods in a unique liveliness and intensity. Its pastose application of paint, the special lighting and the clear colors create the spatial depth and radiance inherent in the pictures.

How the sea, light and moods of the North Sea differ from those of the Mediterranean is shown by numerous paintings that Poppe Folkerts painted during his study trips with imperial sailing school ships along the Mediterranean coast and later stays on the Riviera.

Folkert's work includes more than 1000 oil paintings, as well as numerous temperas, watercolors, drawings, lithographs and etchings.

estate

Poppe Folkerts' estate with over 500 works was carefully preserved and cared for by his descendants.

In 2004 a non-profit foundation was established from this. The task of the Poppe Folkerts Foundation is to preserve the painter's well-preserved artistic work, to make it accessible to the general public in all its diversity, and to highlight it and work on it scientifically. At the place where Poppe Folkerts lived and worked, the west beach of Norderney, his “Malerturm-Atelier”, which was demolished by the Wehrmacht in December 1940, is to be rebuilt as a Poppe Folkerts Museum.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Poppe Folkerts  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c d Poppe Folkerts . Friends of the Museum Nordseeheilbad Norderney eV. October 4th, 2009. Archived from the original on July 25th, 2010. 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. Retrieved November 10, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-norderney.de
  2. ↑ Verena Leidig: The sailing club is 85 years old . In: Norderneyer morning . No. 180 , August 13, 2010, p. 1 ( online edition PDF; 1.6 MB).
  3. ^ Seglerverein Norderney - The first quarter of a century . Sailing Club Norderney eV. November 11, 2010. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011. 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. Retrieved October 5, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.norderney-hafen.de
  4. ↑ a b Norderney in World War II: The heavy flak . Bernd Röben. March 29, 2007. Retrieved November 10, 2009.
  5. ↑ Under the spell of the North Sea . East Frisian State Museum Emden. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Folkerts, Poppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marine painter, draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH on Norderney
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1949
Place of death on Norderney