Theodor Doebner

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Theodor Doebner (* July 29 jul. / 10. August  1875 greg. In Kalsnava ; † 18th March 1942 in Osnabrück ) was a Baltic German painter who lived in Osnabrück and worked.

Life

Doebner was born in Alt-Kalzenau in Livonia (today Kalsnava, Latvia ) as the son of pastor Karl Rudolf Theodor Döbner (1835-1919) and his wife Helene, born. Brenner, born. Doebner attended the State High School Birkenruh (today part of Cēsis ) from 1888 to 1891 . During his school days he devoted himself extensively to painting. From 1891 to 1893 he attended the Riga city high school and finally the humanistic high school in Erlangen. From 1894 to 1896 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg.

In 1897 he switched entirely to art. He continued his studies at the Riga drawing school and from 1897 to 1900 at the arts and crafts school in Munich. From 1900 Doebner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Johann Caspar Herterich in the nature class. Doebner's main subjects were landscape painting and the preoccupation with nature. Throughout his life he was shaped by his love for the vast landscape of Livonia and Courland .

After he was detained by the Bolsheviks in Riga after the First World War until 1919 , he came to Berlin in 1920 and began painting again. Later he settled in Osnabrück. "Theodor Doebner [...] must also be counted among the 'vagabonds' who were uprooted by the turmoil of the times and thrown onto the Osnabrück beach, a lovable figure [...]". In Osnabrück he took part in various exhibitions. From 1931, works by Doebner were also exhibited in the two main halls of the palace in a gallery of contemporary Osnabrück art . Doebner worked for the magazines Jugend and Fliegende Blätter . In 1931 he made the background paintings for twelve dioramas for the natural history collection , in which animals were presented in their "natural environment". In 1932 he was awarded the Silver Medal for his services to nature conservation . Karl Allöder created a bust of Doebner, which is exhibited in the Quakenbrück City Museum .

A register by Theodor Doebner, used as a sketchbook, is preserved in the collection of the University of Latvia .

Works

  • Theodor Doebner: Bautzen in the artist's eye, with eight pen drawings. Eduard Rühl's Buch & Kunsthandlung, ca.1906.
  • Emilie Hunecke : Stories of Flowers, Children, Angels. Schöningh, Osnabrück undated (approx. 1928), illustrated with ink drawings by Theodor Doebner.
  • Fritz Weitkamp : Of dwarfs, giants and fiends: a selection of local legends and fairy tales. illustrated by Theodor Doebner, Verlag Schöningh, Osnabrück, 1936
  • Fritz Weitkamp: Next to the country road: a selection of local legends and fairy tales. illustrated by Theodor Doebner, Verlag Schöningh, Osnabrück, 1936
  • Friedrich Corsdreß : That's how we calculate. For the first year of school, illustrated by Theodor Doebner, Rackhorst, Osnabrück, 1938

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1923: Doebner, Thylmann , Feyerabend , Allöder . Painting, graphics, plastic , Dürerbund, Osnabrück
  • 1933: Theodor Doebner, paintings, drawings , Dürerbund, Museum Osnabrück, skylight hall
  • 1935: Osnabrück Art Show. Responsible artists exhibit, among others with Eva Denecke, Walter Mellmann , Fritz Szalinski , Gerhard Denecke, Theodor Doebner NS-Kulturgemeinde KdF, Osnabrück
  • 1989: Exhibition in the Quakenbrück City Museum April 9 to June 25

literature

  • Karl Wasserzieher: Obituary . Osnabrücker Tageblatt , 1942
  • Heinrich Böning: Theodor Doebner: Aquarelle. Exhibition in the Quakenbrück City Museum from April 9 to June 25, 1989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of the municipality of Kalzenau (Latvian: Kalsnava)
  2. ^ Matthias Rickling: Osnabrück from A to Z: Interesting facts in 1500 key words about history, art and culture. Aschendorff, 2007, p. 89, ISBN 978-3402065549
  3. ^ Register book of the academy
  4. ↑ Osnabrücker Mitteilungen , Association for History and Regional Studies of Osnabrück, 1972, p. 44
  5. ^ K. Allöder: Who was Doebner? (= Heimatjahrbuch Osnabrücker Land ) 1977. p. 194.
  6. ↑ Thorsten Heese: ... a separate local for art and antiquity: the institutionalization of collecting using the example of Osnabrück museum history (dissertation, PDF; 755 kB)
  7. ↑ Aija Taimiņa: Album amicorum: Piemiņas albumu kolekcija (16.-19.gs.) Latvijas Universitātes Akadēmiskajā bibliotēkā: Rokrakstu katalogs. Riga 2013 digitized , No. 28 p. 228ff
personal data
SURNAME Doebner, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalsnava
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1942
Place of death Osnabrück