Rudolf Hellwag

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Rudolf Hellwag, Hyde Park (1910)

Rudolf Hellwag (born September 14, 1867 in Innsbruck , † February 24, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German naval and landscape painter .

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As the son of the engineer Wilhelm Hellwag , he enjoyed training at the art academies in Munich and Karlsruhe , where he was a master student under Ferdinand Keller and Gustav Schönleber from 1890 to 1895. He made numerous study trips to the North and Baltic Sea coasts, to Sweden and Norway, to New York and Italy. In 1900 he spent longer studies in Cornwall (St. Yves) and London, where he lived from 1903 and was considered a representative of German art in England. There he was interned during the First World War . Artistically he preferred beach motifs, as well as English landscape motifs, parks and gardens, and in the last years of his life motifs from Lake Constance .

In terms of art history, Hellwag is generally assigned to impressionism at the height of his work . However, many of his works already show expressionist elements to varying degrees , and this is not surprising in view of his creative period spanning so many decades, although a linear stylistic development cannot be proven due to the lack of a meaningful date of most of the works.

He was represented at exhibitions in the Glaspalast in Munich (1894–1914), at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition (1894–1914), in the Berlin Secession (1921/22), as well as in Darmstadt, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and other cities. Rudolf Hellwag was a full member of the German Association of Artists as early as 1906 . Works by him can be found among others. a. in the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe ( The White Sail 1910), in the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg ( evening in the fishing port 1896), in the Kunsthalle Mannheim ( morning on the Thames 1907), in the Augusteum (Oldenburg) . He also designed wall paintings in the art gallery, the district office, the grand ducal palace, the Technical University in Karlsruhe and in the Heidelberg University Library. The Munich illustrator Hans Hellwag was his brother.

His grave is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hellwag, Rudolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 343 .
  2. ↑ HeidelbergFineArt March 2019: Rudolf Hellwag Impressionist.
  3. ↑ s. List of members in the catalog of the 3rd German Artists Association Weimar 1906 p. 44 online (accessed April 17, 2016)
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SURNAME Hellwag, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German marine and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1942
Place of death Berlin