Rudolf Hellgrewe
Rudolf Hellgrewe (born October 6, 1860 in Hammerstein in West Prussia , † 1935 in Berlin ) was a landscape painter and illustrator of travel literature. He lived in Berlin, where he taught at the Kunstgewerbemuseum and later became the most famous colonial painter, whose pictures are still traded today.
Life
Hellgrewe first attended the Königstädtische Realschule , then the Andreas Realschule in Berlin and then went to the Berlin Art Academy , where he was a student of Eugen Bracht and Christian Wilberg . Then he devoted himself to painting, especially landscape painting. He found his motifs mainly in the Brandenburg landscape , the beauty of which he was the first to discover. He quickly became a “painter of lakes and sunsets in Brandenburg” and achieved great popularity. This success led him to repeat his motifs almost identically in later years, if only to meet the constant demand.
In the years 1885/1886 he made a trip to East Africa , where numerous other pictures were taken.
He also worked as an illustrator for the books by the African explorers and colonialists Carl Peters and Hermann von Wissmann and numerous African travel works. He created colonial dioramas from all colonies and colonial visual images for schools.
Hellgrewe was one of the founders of the German Colonial Museum and took part in the German Colonial Exhibitions of 1896 and 1907. He was a member of the Berlin Writers' Club.
In 1903 the large German colonial house was built in Berlin . The architecture was based on colonial motifs; the execution goes back to Rudolf Hellgrewe, who also enriched the interior with colonial-inspired ceiling paintings.
Awards
- 1901 Medal for Art and Science from Mecklenburg-Schwerin .
- Medal of Honor of the Geographical Society of Jena.
family
Hellgrewe married Anna Lagatz on April 2, 1887, with whom he had three children
- Joachim, * December 30, 1887, † March 30, 1956, who followed in his father's footsteps and worked as a landscape painter, restorer and graphic artist. His daughter Jutta Hellgrewe became a well-known illustrator of books for children and young people in the GDR.
- Annemarie, * February 23, 1891
- Wolf Dietrich, * July 20, 1894
literature
- Pictures by R. Hellgrewe: From German East Africa . Berlin 1888
- Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? Leipzig 1912 (biographies and bibliographies, information about origin, family, curriculum vitae, works, etc.)
- Arne Schöfert: Rudolf Hellgrewe - life and work . Verlag Reichskolonialamt.de, Wolfsburg 2016
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hellgrewe, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter and illustrator of travel literature |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hammerstein , West Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1935 |
| Place of death | Berlin |