Rudolf Franz Hartogh

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Rudolf Franz Hartogh (born May 31, 1889 in Hamburg ; died January 20, 1960 in Fischerhude ) was a German landscape painter.

Life

Deaf from birth, Hartogh grew up in Hamburg and studied painting in Berlin , Kassel and Weimar . From 1911 he lived and worked in Fischerhude around August Haake , Helmuth Westhoff and Wilhelm Heinrich Rohmeyer . In 1931 he married Eva Pfitzner.

On the recommendation of Alfred Lichtwark and Max Liebermann , Hartogh went to Lovis Corinth in Berlin from 1906 to 1910 and was his student for four years. He then went on to study with Max Thedy and Hans Olde from 1910 to 1919 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar and at the Art Academy in Kassel and finally went to the Bauhaus in Weimar. He belonged to the circle around Walter Gropius and Lyonel Feininger . Due to his Jewish descent, he had to leave the Bremen Artists' Union in 1938 and was banned from practicing his profession in 1942. In 1944 he was first deported to the Farge concentration camp and then to the Theresienstadt concentration camp . After the liberation in 1945 by US troops, he returned to Fischerhude in 1953 .

literature

  • Klaus Zeller: Worpsweder impressions, seen by Rudolf Franz Hartogh, a student of Lovis Corinths . Schulte, Samerberg Obb. 1982.
  • Fischerhuder Kunstkreis eV (Ed.): Rudolf Franz Hartogh 1889–1960 . Galerie-Verlag, Fischerhude 1991, ISBN 3-88132-099-7 .
  • Cornelia Schertler: Rudolf Franz Hartogh. 1889-1960. North German painter and graphic artist. Monograph and catalog raisonné . Atelier in the farmhouse, Ottersberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88132-127-3 .

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