Rolf Koolman

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Rolf Koolman (born June 27, 1900 in Osnabrück , † April 21, 1954 in Lübeck ) was a German silversmith and metal designer.

Life

Koolmans insert bowl in the baptismal font of Lübeck Cathedral by Lorenz Grove (1455)

Koolman, who comes from a Frisian family, briefly attended the arts and crafts school in Magdeburg after the First World War and was a student in the design class of the painter Franz Fiebiger . After initial work in his workshop in his parents' house, he moved to the north, where he found his work environment in Lübeck and opened his workshop on April 14, 1926 in Augustenstrasse. His work was shaped by the ideals of the youth movement , the New Objectivity and what he called the work ethic . From 1928 he belonged together with Alen Müller-Hellwig and other "progressive" Lübeck craftsmen to the group of works of the Lübeck Arts and Crafts Association founded on the initiative of Carl Georg Heise . In the same year Heise acquired Koolman's first works for the Behnhaus Museum , as well as a silver-plated brass jug in 1930. In 1929/30 he was represented at the traveling exhibition Cult and Form - New Evangelical, Catholic and Jewish Applied Art organized by the Evangelical Church's Art Service . The exhibition was shown first in February 1929 in Magdeburg and then in Hamburg and Berlin, where it was opened with a day before Paul Tillich . In 1931 he furnished the newly built Kreuzkapelle in Lübeck-St. Jürgen with altar utensils and a cross.

In 1933, his works were shown as part of an exhibition of the "best and most mature works" of new German church art at the world exhibition A Century of Progress in Chicago . In addition to church art, Koolmann created numerous workpieces in collaboration with Lübeck architects: “In addition to driven bowls, jars, cans and cans of various kinds, he designed lighting fixtures, chimney protection, fittings, wall clocks” and cutlery. Koolmann remained an interdisciplinary self-made man for a long time . Only with the tighter regulation of the handicraft during the National Socialist era with the introduction of the large certificate of proficiency and the handicraft card in 1935 did he pass a master's examination as a silversmith. 1938/39 he is in the report of the Director of the Museum Hans Schröder were responsible and Asmus Jessen -led "school workshops of the St. Annen Museum called" as a teacher, among other well-known Lübeck representatives of the craft.

Fleischhauerstraße 56 (2016)

His workshop was later located at Fleischhauerstraße 56. After his death, the workshop was sold to the gold and silversmith master Walter Jarck and was relocated to Hamburg-Blankenese , Vörloh 9. Koolman was buried in the castle gate cemetery.

Werner Oehlschlaeger , who carried on Koolman's tradition in Lübeck, was one of his master students.

The biochemist Jan Koolman (* 1943) is a son of Rolf Koolmann. Another son, Michael Koolman (1945–2018), produced water features in Bubenreuth in the early 2010s that were based on his father's designs from the early 1950s and were sold by Manufactum .

literature

  • Abram B. Enns : Craftsmanship. On new work by Rolf Koolman. In: Der Wagen 1932, pp. 82–84
  • Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg : Metal. Forms of work and working methods. A specialist book for many professions in craft and industrial metalwork. Ravensburg: O. Maier 1950
  • Abram B. Enns: Rolf Koolman - personality and designer. In: Der Wagen 1955, pp. 149–154
  • Abram B. Enns: Art and Bourgeoisie. The controversial twenties in Lübeck. Christians / Weiland, Hamburg / Lübeck 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0571-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enns (1955, lit.), p. 153
  2. ↑ Enns (Lit.), p. 88
  3. ↑ Enns (Lit.), p. 112
  4. ↑ Enns (Lit.), p. 140; Wulf Schadendorf : Museum Behnhaus . The house and its rooms. Painting, sculpture, handicrafts (= Lübeck museum catalogs 3). 2nd expanded and changed edition. Museum for Art a. Cultural history d. Hanseatic City, Lübeck 1976, p. 163/164
  5. ^ Poster by Walter Dexel , MoMA
  6. ↑ Paul Tillich: Cult and Form. In: Die Form 5 (1930), pp. 578-583; Collected Works Volume IX, pp. 324–327
  7. ↑ See Enns (1932, lit.) with illus .; the Kreuzkapelle in Plönniesstraße (today used as a kindergarten) was the predecessor of the Kreuzkirche from 1971 in Billrothstraße, cf. Konrad Dittrich: 850 years of the church in Lübeck. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1993 ISBN 978-3-7950-3210-4 , p. 116
  8. ↑ See Uwe Gleßmer, Emmerich Jäger, Manuel Hopp: On the biography of the church builder Bernhard Hopp (1893–1962): A life as a Hamburg artist and architect. Part 1: The time up to the Second World War. (= Contribution to the Hopp-und-Jäger project. No. 5). Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-7386-1201-1 , p. 115
  9. ↑ Enns (1955, lit.), p. 153
  10. ↑ Enns (1955, lit.), p. 152
  11. ↑ Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, p. 547
  12. ^ Deutsche Goldschmiede-Zeitung 52 (1954), p. 303
  13. ^ Greetings from Bubenreuth , Handelsblatt dated July 8, 2014, accessed on May 5, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Koolman, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German silversmith and metal designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1954
Place of death Lübeck