Richard Seiffert-Wattenberg

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Self-portrait, circa 1916
The Walk, 1903
Portrait of a girl

Richard Seiffert-Wattenberg (born January 23, 1874 in Immendorf ; † August 1, 1945 in Einbeck ) was a German painter, book author, chairman of the “ Hanover Secession ” and curator of the Hanover Art Association .

Life

Ludwig Wilhelm Richard Seiffert attended grammar school in Braunschweig and then completed art studies in Hamburg and Munich . 1898–1906 he continued his education in Paris, where he was interested in Claude Monet , Édouard Manet , Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas , but where he was mainly concerned with Paul Cézanne . In Germany he then studied the collections in Kassel and Braunschweig in particular.

In 1909 Seiffert settled in Hanover, married the widow of his friend Wattenberg and called himself Seiffert-Wattenberg ever since. The First World War brought changes in the perception of art, and so it came to a split from the Kunstverein Hannover in 1917, which was called " Hannoversche Sezession ". Seiffert-Wattenberg, an early member of the Kestner Society , was elected chairman. It was he who brought the Secession back to the Kunstverein in 1924.

Seiffert-Wattenberg became curator of the art association and organizer of the traditional exhibitions in spring and autumn. After 1933, the painters Seiffert-Wattenberg and Bernhard Dörries knew how to at least indirectly point out the questionable nature of racial contemporary art through exhibitions and annual editions on topics of older European art. Seiffert-Wattenberg took part in an exhibition in 1943, which deviated from the official line of Hitler and Goebbels and took place in Vienna under the (not entirely applicable) title " Young Art in the German Reich ".

The Hanoverian press made an article on the occasion of the 70th birthday. Because of the increasing air raids on Hanover, Seiffert-Wattenberg moved to Einbeck. He was able to save his work, survived the war, but died there in 1945. His tombstone was designed by Gerhard Marcks . One year after his death, on August 3, 1946, an extensive memorial exhibition was opened at the Kunstverein with a ceremony in the Hodler Hall of the New Town Hall .

Richard Seiffert-Wattenberg was a member of the German Association of Artists .

To the work

In 1908 Seiffert-Wattenberg exhibited for the first time in a spring exhibition of the Kunstverein Hannover. In 1915 the magazine " Die Kunst für Alle " showed a self-portrait of him at the review of the 83rd annual exhibition of the Kunstverein and honored him in the text.

Henri Nannen wrote on the occasion of the commemorative exhibition in 1946: “So he stuck to everything he [...] learned from the French, but did not imitate them. As a North German he belonged to a class of people whose senses are particularly focused on the invisible, the profound and the profound. "

Individual exhibitions

  • 1922 Hanover, Kestner Society
  • 1926 Hanover, Kestner Society
  • 1946 Hanover, commemorative exhibition of the art association in the state museum
  • 1949 Bremen, Kunsthalle
  • 1954 Braunschweig, Municipal Museum
  • 1971 Einbeck

Annual gifts of the Kunstverein Hannover

Selection and arrangement of the images in:

  • Holtje, G .: Beautiful Sculpture (1931)

as author:

  • German painters to Holbein (1933)
  • German painters from Runge to Menzel (1934)
  • From the Oscar Reinhart Collection (1935)
  • Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1936)
  • Van Eyck and Breughel (1937)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rasche, F .: Memorial sheet for the painter Richard Seiffert-Wattenberg. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter. New series Volume 11-Issue 172 (1957), pages 146-159
  2. ^ Frerking, J .: On the history of the art association in Hanover . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter. New series Volume 11, Issue 1/2 (1957), pp. 163-184
  3. ^ Lohr, Stephan: Notes on the years 1933-1943 in the Kunstverein Hannover. In: Citizens & Pictures. Kunstverein Hannover 1832-1982. P. 103
  4. ^ Frerking, J .: Richard Seiffert-Wattenberg on his 70th birthday. In: "Hannoverschen Kurier", No. 21 of January 22, 1944, p. 3.
  5. ^ Hannoversche Latest News, No. 10, August 3, 1946
  6. ^ "Art for All". F. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1916. p. 364.
  7. ↑ Nannen, H .: Mandatory Legacy. For the memorial exhibition of the art association for Richard Seiffert-Wattenberg in the state museum. Hannoversche Latest News, No. 15, August 21, 1946, p. 4.
  8. ↑ Flyer of the exhibition (103 paintings)
  9. ↑ Dr. HA: Painting exhibition in the foyer on Hubeweg. In: Hannoversche Presse, March 30, 1972.
personal data
SURNAME Seiffert-Wattenberg, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seiffert, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, book author, chairman of the "Hanover Secession" and curator of the Hanover Art Association
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Immendorf
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1945
Place of death Einbeck