Theo von Brockhusen

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Theo von Brockhusen (born July 16, 1882 in Marggrabowa , † April 20, 1919 in Berlin ; actually Theodor Adolf Hillmann von Brockhusen ) was a German painter , draftsman and etcher . His work, which is somewhere between Impressionism and Expressionism , mainly includes landscape paintings.

Life

Theo von Brockhusen: View of Langen (Brandenburg)
Theo von Brockhusen: From Nieuwpoort
Theo von Brockhusen: Havelsee
tomb

Brockhusen studied painting from 1897/98 to 1903 with Max Schmidt , Ludwig Dettmann and Olof Jernberg (1855–1935) at the Art Academy in Königsberg . In East Prussia, under the influence of Dettmann, the first landscape paintings were created in the wild . In 1904 he moved to Berlin, where he joined the Berlin Secession in 1906 . Until 1913 he was a member of this artists' association, in 1912/13 as a member of the board. His regular exhibitions in the Secession were followed by other presentations in Dresden, Düsseldorf, Bremen and Weimar. The art dealer Paul Cassirer worked with Brockhusen from 1906 and provided financial support to the mostly destitute artist. Brockhusen handed almost all of his production over to Cassirer until he terminated his contract with the gallery owner in 1915.

In 1906 Brockhusen traveled to Paris and London to study, and then to the Belgian seaside resort of Knokke . He also returned here in 1907 and 1908. In 1909 he visited the North Sea resort of Nieuwpoort . Influenced by Max Liebermann , paintings with dune landscapes of the Belgian and Dutch coast and motifs of beach life in the style of impressionism were created during this time. In addition, from 1907 he spent the summer months annually in Baumgartenbrück am Schwielowsee . The landscape pictures created there and later in Seelow vary the motif of the Brandenburg landscape in the change of the day and seasons.

In 1909, the year he married Hildegart Bothe, Brockhusen traveled again to Paris. In the following years he dealt intensively with the work of Vincent van Gogh . Here he took over the bright colors and the expressive brushwork of the Dutchman and transferred them to his own paintings that he created in the Mark Brandenburg. He received recognition in 1910 when he was awarded the City of Berlin Art Prize, followed in 1912 by the Villa Romana Prize , which enabled him to stay in Florence for six months in 1913 . During this time, landscapes with religious themes were created.

After his return to Berlin he was one of the founding members of the Free Secession , of whose board he was part and of which he was president in 1918/19. From 1914 to 1918 he was also a member of the Klein-Kurener Kreis in the Nidden artists' colony in Nida, now in Lithuania . In addition to Brockhusen, this group included the painters Waldemar Rösler , Artur Degner (1888–1972), Alfred Particle (1888–1945) and Franz Domscheit , who created landscape paintings in the great outdoors during their stay on the Baltic Sea.

Theo von Brockhusen died on April 20, 1919 at the age of 36. His grave is in Dept. A, Fam.-St.46 in the Evangelical Cemetery Nikolassee in Berlin. It was dedicated as an honorary grave in Berlin until 2014 . The sculptor Fritz Klimsch created his tomb with a stele stone with a female nude . Brockhusen left a complete oeuvre of around 200 paintings as well as some drawings, lithographs and etchings. Some of his paintings are in public collections, such as the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin , the Sprengel Museum Hannover , the Kunsthalle Kiel and the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg.

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SURNAME Brockhusen, Theo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brockhusen, Theodor Adolf Hillmann from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Marggrabova
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1919
Place of death Berlin