Robert Naumann (painter)

Robert Wilhelm Naumann (born May 12, 1890 in Schandelah near Braunschweig , † July 22, 1979 in Braunschweig) was a German painter , restorer and etcher .

life and work

Naumann initially trained as a decorative painter at the Braunschweig School of Applied Arts (today's University of Fine Arts ), where his teachers included Hans Herse and Hans Pahlmann . From 1908 to 1910 followed by studies at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich . On the advice of Alfred Lichtwark , Naumann switched to the art school Weimar in 1910, where his teachers Ludwig von Hofmann , Hans Olde , Theodor Hagen and Fritz Mackensen (co-founders of the Worpswede artists' colony) were. Naumann was trained there primarily in figure and head drawing as well as in oil and watercolor painting.

From 1914 he was a soldier in the First World War , was seriously wounded and was taken prisoner by Russia , from which he was only released in 1917. In 1920 he settled in Braunschweig as a freelance artist. From 1924 to 1933 Naumann was a member of the Reich Association of Fine Artists and the Lower Saxony Artists Association , on whose board he was from 1927. During this time he created various portraits of well-known Brunswick personalities. His works show an independent further development of Impressionism Worpsweder Art and Expressionism . Naumann's main works, however , were landscapes influenced by the French artists' colony Barbizon .

During the time of National Socialism he was in the Braunschweiger Künstlerbund from 1935 to 1945 , of which he was deputy chairman. In 1938 and 1941 Naumann took part in the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich. Hermann Esser , who later became State Secretary in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , acquired the painting North German Landscape exhibited there for 2400 RM . From 1940 to 1945 Naumann was a soldier in World War II . 1941 Naumann was the first artist to just by the Nazis newly established the city of Braunschweig Art Prize was awarded.

From 1954 to 1965 he was finally managing director of the Braunschweig regional group of the Association of Visual Artists (BBK). Many of his works are now in the Braunschweig Municipal Museum and are privately owned. The picture Winter am Strom (Elbe, 1958) is in the Art Museum Thun .

Exhibitions (selection)

• December 12, 1943 to January 22, 1944: Six paintings were exhibited at the Braunschweig art exhibition in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum ( Gaukunstausstellung ). In addition to Naumann, works by Käthe Bewig and Herman Flesche could be seen here.
• At the third traveling exhibition of the German Art Society in 1943 , his oil paintings Winter Evening with Hunters , Italian Mountain Town in a Thunderstorm , Winter on the Lower Rhine and a portrait of Professor AA were on view.
• October 12 to November 9, 1958 and October 3 to 31, 1965: Robert Naumann. Paintings, watercolors, drawings, Braunschweig Municipal Museum.

literature

• Peter Lufft : Memory of Robert Naumann. In: The Friends of the Great Orphanage Braunschweig. Issue 85, Braunschweig 1979, pp. 2-5.
• Norman-Mathias Pingel: Naumann, Robert. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 165 .
• Norman-Mathias Pingel: Naumann, Robert Wilhelm. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 435 .
• Braunschweig Municipal Museum and University of Fine Arts (ed.): German Art 1933–1945 in Braunschweig. Art under National Socialism. Catalog of the exhibition from April 16, 2000 to July 2, 2000, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2000, ISBN 3-487-10914-X .
• Naumann, Robert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 362 .
• Naumann, Robert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 463 .

Web links

• Illustration of a painting by Robert Naumann: Riddagshausen near Braunschweig in the winter of 1940–1950 braunschweiger-zeitung.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Norman-Mathias Pingel: Naumann, Robert Wilhelm. In: Jarck, Scheel (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries. P. 435.
2. ^ ^{A b c d e} Braunschweig City Museum, University of Fine Arts (ed.): German Art 1933–1945 in Braunschweig. Art under National Socialism. P. 281.
3. ↑ GDK Research - Image-based research platform on the Great German Art Exhibitions 1937–1944 in Munich on gdk-research.de
4. ^ Archives for regional and folklore of Lower Saxony. Stalling Verlag, Oldenburg 1941 p. 256.
5. ^ Norman-Mathias Pingel: Naumann, Robert. In: Luitgard Camerer, Manfred Garzmann, Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. P. 165.
6. ^ Paintings in Museums - Germany, Austria, Switzerland Online.
7. ↑ Braunschweig Art Exhibition 1943 . 1943, p. 13 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
8. ↑ Julia M. Nauhaus , Justus Lange: The municipal picture gallery in Braunschweig: An example of bourgeois collecting culture from the 19th century to today. Olms 2009, ISBN 978-3-487-14233-3 , p. 290.
9. ^ Deutsche Kunstgesellschaft (Ed.): 3rd traveling exhibition of the German Art Society 1943 . CF Müller, Karlsruhe 1943, p. 14 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).