Sophus Hansen (painter)

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Ernst Friedrich Sophus Hansen (born November 2, 1871 in Glücksburg ; † December 26, 1959 ) was a German painter of impressionism , neo-romanticism and the new objectivity .

Life

Hansen attended the art school in Weimar from 1889 on the recommendation of his compatriot Momme Nissen (pupil of Leopold von Kalckreuth and Max Thedy ). In 1890 he became a member of the artists' association in Weimar and took an active part in the social goings-on. Under the influence of Christian Rohlfs , he undertook study trips to the area around Weimar and to the Ekensund artists' colony on the north bank of the Flensburg Fjord . The traveregion around the Gothmund artists' colony was also a destination, as can be seen from his correspondence and the painting An der Trave . From 1892 to around 1895 Hansen was in Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian (student of the portrait and nude painter Lucien Doucet). A visit to Claude Monet in Giverny led to a brief occupation with impressionism and pointillism . In 1895 Hansen followed his teacher Kalckreuth to the Karlsruhe Art Academy . In 1896 he returned to Weimar, where he married Margarethe Brehme in 1897. In the same year he first appeared as a freelance artist at several exhibitions.

Since 1890 Hansen was sponsored by the Hamburg collector Ernst Kalkmann, who owned works by Kalckreuth, Hans Olde, Momme Nissen, Ernst Eitner and Arthur Illies. Kalkmann gradually acquired 12 paintings by Hansen and enabled him to move to Hamburg with his family around 1900. In Hamburg, Hansen was mostly in culturally conservative circles and through Momme Nissen he made contact with a group of young publicists who had been publishing the magazine “Der Lotse” since 1900. Hansen took part in the exhibitions of the Hamburger Kunstverein and had a solo exhibition in the Commeter Gallery in 1905, and he also regularly sent the representative exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace and the Lehrter Bahnhof in Berlin.

Hansen belonged to the expanded circle of the Hamburg artist club from 1897, which ranged around the director of the Hamburg art gallery Alfred Lichtwark . The encounter with the important graphic collector Gustav Schiefler led to an intensive preoccupation with lithography. In 1906/07 and in 1911 the Hamburger Kunstverein organized a solo exhibition of his works. He was also a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . Around 1913 Hansen moved with his family to Rissen and mainly painted portraits (including: Ernst Henke , Director of REW and Erwin Bumke , President of the Reichsgericht), and at times also the Hamburg house of his cousin Harald Hansen, who lived in Leipzig, on Süllberg . After separating from his wife, Hansen spent his old age in Glücksburg.

Artistic development

After Impressionist and Pointillist beginnings, Hansen turned to a neo-romantic thought painting under the influence of the painter and art writer Momme Nissen. His role models were now Hans Thoma and Moritz von Schwind . The turn to the world of fairy tales led to the fact that he emerged as the winner in a competition for a “city picture book” in Hamburg in 1907, which was published in 1909 by Voigtländer Verlag in Leipzig. The original designs, which are reminiscent of the Swede Carl Larsson , acquired the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg. From the First World War until the end of his life, Hansen painted in the “New Objectivity” style.

Art politics

Hansen was a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association and chairman of the Hamburg section of the General German Art Cooperative. He acted as a mediator in a failed merger of the art cooperative with the German Association of Artists and campaigned in Hamburg for a reform of the art association and the construction of an exhibition hall.

Works

  • Portrait of the painter Anton Nissen. 1900/01. Museumsberg Flensburg
  • Landscape on the Flensburg Fjord. 1903. Kiel art gallery
  • Adele Doré as Marianne. Around 1909. Hamburg Museum
  • Self-portrait. 1910. Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • The painter's family. 1911. Museumsberg Flensburg
  • At Alsensund near Sonderburg. Around 1920. Flensburg Museum Mountain
  • Church in Nieblum / Föhr. 1911. Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • Dining room in the Kalkmann house. 1912. Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • Portrait of the actress Sieglinde Weichert. 1936. Museumsberg Flensburg
  • The Flensburg Fjord near Meierwik. 1947. Museumsberg Flensburg

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothmund artists' colony, Sophus Hansen
personal data
SURNAME Hansen, Sophus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hansen, Ernst Friedrich Sophus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Glücksburg
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1959
Place of death Glücksburg