Theodor von Hötzendorff

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Theodor von Hötzendorff (born September 12, 1898 in Markdorf , Baden, † March 30, 1974 in Hindling ) was a German painter.

Life

Theodor Werner Sigmund Hötzendorff was the illegitimate son of the teacher Auguste von Hötzendorff and therefore not entitled to use the title of nobility. The father is unknown. The maternal grandparents were Theodor von Hötzendorff (1833–1898), royal Bavarian forester in Schliersee , and Franziska, née Sturm (1839–1899).

Hötzendorff attended primary school in Munich and moved to Munich's Maximiliansgymnasium in 1909 , from which he left in 1913 after repeating 3rd grade. He then attended the private country school home in Schondorf am Ammersee, a grammar school with boarding school that still exists today. In the last year of the war, 1918, the eighteen-year-old was called up for one year of military service, after he had already enrolled in the Munich Art Academy in October of that year. It was only after the end of the war that he first worked in the drawing and etching class with Peter Halm , among others with the later landscape and portrait painter Arnold Kitz (1895–1965) from Oldenburg, who had come to the class in April 1920 and in 1923 - how later also von Hötzendorff - settled in Grassau in Upper Bavaria . Hötzendorff switched to the composition class of the painter and graphic artist Adolf Schinnerer , who had been teaching at the academy since 1923, and continued his education there until 1924.

At the end of 1923 Theodor Hötzendorff had been adopted by his aunt, Margarethe von Hötzendorff, so that he was now entitled to use the title of nobility. After completing his studies, he married Elisabeth Hauenstein in October 1924, who also came from a forester family. In 1927 von Hötzendorff received a travel grant, on the basis of which he stayed in Holland for three months in 1928/29. He returned with a large number of oil sketches and drawings and was then able to open his first solo exhibition in Munich. In 1939 the couple moved from their Munich apartment on Ainmillerstraße to Grassau, a market town not far from the southern bank of the Chiemsee . In 1943 the painter was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner in Northern Italy, from which he was released in 1946.

Hötzendorff was a member and exhibitor of the Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft (MKG) and served on its board from 1946 to 1950. He was also a committed member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists (BBK) in Munich and, immediately after the Second World War, co-founder of the annual Prien art exhibitions. Studies took him around the Chiemsee, including Ruhpolding, Obing and Westerbuchberg, as well as the Upper Palatinate, the Bavarian Alpine foothills and Tyrol. In 1954 he undertook a long, from 1965 annual painting trip to Upper and Central Italy, especially to Tuscany, Elba and Lake Garda, to South Tyrol, Switzerland and neighboring Austria.

On January 28, 1961, his wife Elisabeth died. From now on he lived with his sister-in-law Julie Hauenstein. Numerous solo and group exhibitions document the growth of a great artist who shaped his own style, who documented the nature of his homeland in an inimitable way and captured the colors of the landscapes in his southern motifs. Many of his works are in public and private collections. For his 75th birthday in 1973, a catalog was published that presents the creative period of the last twenty years. In 1974 the artist died in his house in Grassau-Hindling and was buried in the Grassau cemetery.

Julie Hauenstein, who administered his estate after his death, gave a selection of his best works to the Prien am Chiemsee local history museum as the “Theodor von Hötzendorff Foundation Julie Hauenstein” . In 1994 a catalog documented the painting collection of the market town of Grassau, which was donated to the estate administrators Julie Hauenstein and Dr. Hartmut Buchner is based. In 2005 the book Theodor von Hötzendorff - A Life for Art was published, in which Guido Wichmann paid tribute to life and artistic achievement.

Works (selection)

  • Fichtelgebirge in March , oil on canvas, 55 × 112 cm: Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, inv. 10058
  • Spring in the moor , oil on canvas, 68.8 × 109.2 cm: Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, inv. 11195.
  • Late autumn in the mountains; Breitenstein , oil on pressed plate, 80.1 × 21 cm: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Inv.No. 12051.
  • Self-portrait : Prien, art collection of the Prien market, local history museum (with approx. 55 other works by Hötzendorffs).
  • Fruit trees near Stöftham : Rosenheim, Municipal Museum.

Exhibitions

  • Munich, annual exhibition in the Glaspalast 1929 (2 works).
  • Munich, annual exhibition in the Maximilianeum 1939 (3 works), 1940 (2 works), 1942 (2 works).
  • Munich, The Schwabing “Small Art Exhibition” No. 6, April 10 - May 15, 1946 (3 works).
  • Munich, exhibition of the Munich Art Cooperative, August 1947, Städtische Galerie München (7 works; cat.-ill.); 1948 (8 works; cat.-ill.).
  • Munich, large art exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in 1949 (3 works); 1950 (3 papers; cat.-ill.); 1951 (5 papers; cat.-ill.); 1952 (4 papers; cat.-ill.); 1953 (4 papers); 1954 (3 papers; cat.-ill.); 1955 (3 papers; cat.-ill.); 1957 (3 papers; cat.-ill.); 1958 (3 papers); 1962 (3 papers; cat.-ill.); 1969 (3 papers).
  • Munich, 3rd Alpine Art Exhibition 1954 (2 works).
  • Munich, Christmas exhibition of the State Professional Association of Visual Artists of Bavaria, November 25, 1956 - January 6, 1957 (1 work).
  • Munich, Haus der Kunst, June 21 - October 5, 1958: Munich 1869-1958, departure for modern art , (exhib.-cat. P. 470, ill. P. 494).
  • Prien, Chiemgau art exhibition 1945, 1946, 1947, 1959, 1963–1970, 1973.

literature

  • Hötzendorff, Theodor von . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955.
  • Art for All 52 (1936/37), p. 200.
  • Die Kunst 75 (38.1), 1937, p. 248/49 (Fig .: forest landscape ).
  • Kunst- und Antiquitätenrundschau 43 (1935), p. 160 (ill.).
  • Hubert Wilm: The painter Teodor von Hötzendorff , in: Münchner Latest Nachrichten, No. 270, October 1, 1936: Young Munich Art (2) (Fig .: The Lochenberg near Ruhpolding ).
  • Art and the beautiful home, No. 51 (1952/53), p. 6 (fig.); No. 52 (1953/54), p. 254 (3 figs.).
  • NN: Our Munich artists: Theodor von Hötzendorff , in: 8-Uhr-Blatt, Nuremberg, August 31, 1962 (portrait photo; Fig .: Am Liebesbrunnen ).
  • Theodor von Hötzendorff: Catalog. Munich, Thiemig 1973 (48 figs.).
  • Fritz Aigner: Painter on the Chiemsee. Market Prien am Chiemsee 1983; Fig .: Farms in winter , around 1940; Oil on hardboard, 64 × 92 cm; identical to: At Obing , oil / hard fiber, 62 × 86 cm: 117th Weiner auction, Munich, June 28, 2000, no. 118; Color illustration in the catalog.
  • Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th century. Vol. 5, Munich 1993 (2 figs.).
  • Claus-Dieter Hotz (among others): Theodor von Hötzendorff . Painting collection Markt Grassau im Chiemgau, Grassau, 1994.
  • Walter Lederer: Theodor von Hötzendorff - colleague and friend , in: Catalog for the exhibition Theodor von Hötzendorff (1898-1974) , Hartmut Buchner (Ed.), Grassau, Rathaus, (July 30th - August 7th 1994), Grassau 1994.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria, Vol. XXV, 2004 (with complete register).
  • Hans F. Schweers (ed.): Paintings in German museums, part 1, artists and their works. 4th, updated and expanded edition. Catalog of the exhibited and depot works = Paintings in German museums. Munich 2005. ISBN 3-598-24166-6 .
  • Guido Wichmann: Theodor von Hötzendorff. A life for art. 2005.
  • Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1849 to 1918 . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 280–285 (Fig.).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ * December 1, 1867 in Marquardstein , † January 18, 1907 in Munich ; According to the genealogical manual: * 3. January 1869, † January 23, 1907; she was admitted as a patient to the psychiatric clinic in Munich on December 12, 1906, where she presumably also died
  2. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1912/13
  3. ↑ * 22. July 1894 in Schlichtenberg - Herzogsreut ; Daughter of Eduard Hauenstein, head forester in Ruhpolding, and Emilie, née Fürst; 1916 Abitur as an external student at the Maximiliansgymnasium

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personal data
SURNAME Hötzendorff, Theodor von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hötzendorff, Theodor Werner Sigmund (baptismal name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Markdorf , Baden
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1974
Place of death Hindling