Theodor Schultze-Jasmer

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Theodor Schultze-Jasmer (born July 7, 1888 in Oschatz , Saxony , † October 30, 1975 in Prerow ) was a German painter , graphic artist and photographer .

The author Uwe Rieger wrote in his biography about Jasmer:

"There is no comparable artistic work that is so directly connected with the beauty and unspoilt nature of the harsh landscape of the Darß as that of the Prerow painter and graphic artist Theodor Schultze-Jasmer."

Life

The Eschenhaus, the long-time home of Theodor and Käthe Schultze-Jasmer on Grünen Strasse in Prerow - on the left is the eponymous ash tree.
Grave of Theodor Schultze-Jasmer and his wife Käthe in the churchyard of the Seemannskirche .

Theodor Schultze-Jasmer's father was a textile merchant, his mother (née Jasmer) gave him painting and drawing lessons after her husband's early death and he moved to Leipzig . He attended secondary school in Leipzig. From 1904 to 1913 he went on summer study trips to Zingst .

In 1907 he was accepted at the Royal Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig. After successfully completing his studies in 1911, he worked as a freelance graphic designer in Leipzig. Among other things, he made the cover designs for Theodor Storm's works in individual editions. In 1914 a study trip to Estonia followed . With the outbreak of World War I , he was taken into civilian captivity in Vologda .

In 1915 he married Elli Lehbert in Wologda. His son Jens was born on July 19, 1918. In 1918 he returned from the First World War after serving on the Western Front in Verdun . He resumed his freelance graphic design trade in Leipzig. In 1920 he moved to Heidebrink-Wollin in Pomerania . Just a year later he moved to Prerow on the Darß and bought what would later become the Eschenhaus on Grünen Strasse. He initially opened the Darßer Kunsthütte with E. Th. Holtz. In 1921 he married Käthe Baake.

In 1929, the "Darßer Kunsthütte" moved to the former Warmbad of the Prerow community across from the dune house. In 1945 he was later called up as a land rifleman in World War II . He returned to his village from Holland via Hamburg on foot.

After the Second World War he continued his freelance work as a painter and graphic artist in Prerow, he also continued to run the “Darßer Kunsthütte”. Artistically, he devoted himself to photography and held more than 50 slide shows a year, in which he showed vacationers and guests the beauty of the Darss landscape clearly and with great enthusiasm. But he also documented the sinking of the legendary beeches on Darß's west beach, the wind fleeing . He was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and the Kulturbund , and was involved as a community representative and district council member for the Ribnitz-Damgarten district . His artistic activity remained unbroken into old age. Again and again he was open to new forms and techniques, such as lithography and work in enamel.

Theodor Schultze-Jasmer died on October 30, 1975 in Prerow and was buried in the local cemetery.

Quotes from and about Schultze-Jasmer

“When I was sitting in my art shop on the beach twenty meters above sea level in the summer and the ships and little boats glided by on the horizon, the thought occurred to me that one had to have these toy-small ships in their silhouette effect in wood, brightly painted, for large ones and recreate small children so that people can take home memories of the sun, sea and beach. Of course it shouldn't be trinkets, but it looks really funny, such a small model on a bookshelf or in a display case. The seagulls that float up and down, which Morgenstern has so beautifully christened, stimulate imitation, this is how the ships were created and so 'Emma the seagull'. [...] "

- Theodor Schultze-Jasmer, 1939

“You have to walk through the wind-churned dunes yourself, have roamed the flat country in all directions, in order to understand your love for this country. You have to have experienced a sunny day on this peninsula yourself, to have walked through a haze of fog in the ghostly moonlight in order to understand what this country represents for the artist Theodor Schultze-Jasmer. In order to fully appreciate the uniqueness of his art, you have to let the wind blow around your head yourself on the wind-churned coast of Fischland, where the storm has whipped every tree and bush into ghostly shapes and made the area a romantic place on earth . "

- Hermann Ulbrich-Hannibal, 1929

“He sketched the region that he has become home with in oil on paper, drew it on stone, painted it on canvas or hardboard, cut it in wood and photographed it. The cane roofs and dark junipers crouched on the ground, the dunes carried by the wind with the trees whipped into strange, ghostly shapes, called 'windsurfers', giant trees felled on the beach that were peeled by the eternal salt wind and the persistently gnawing sea water, the dark line of forest behind The bright beach, the high, wide sky that connects with the sea and the rays of the sun breaking through the clouds - these are all his themes. 'It must be storm motifs; West beach and sun - that's just a holiday idyll, 'he says firmly. "

- from: The Democrat May 26, 1971

literature

Web links

Commons : Theodor Schultze-Jasmer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buchmacher-autorenverlag.de
  2. ↑ Darßer toys: Theodor Schultze-Jasmer, Prerow - With three photos by Fritz Wegscheider , in: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte Vol. 11 (1935), pp. 512-513 (PDF; 1.4MB) ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Schultze-Jasmer, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Oschatz , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1975
Place of death Prerow