Walter Magnussen

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Walter Magnussen (born April 14, 1869 in Hamburg , † March 3, 1946 in Bremen ) was a German landscape painter and ceramist as well as a university lecturer in Bremen.

biography

House Magnussen, Hagenauer Strasse 7

Walter Magnussen was a son of the landscape painter and graphic artist Christian Carl Magnussen . He completed an apprenticeship as a painter and continued his training at the United Private School in Munich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . He worked mainly as a potter with works of Art Nouveau . From 1901 to 1903 he worked as a designer at an earthenware factory. In 1904 he became a teacher of drawing, ornamental design, anatomy, nude and pottery at the Bremen School of Applied Arts . In addition, he designed for various companies a. a. for the North German Lloyd and the United Workshops for Art in Crafts in Bremen. In 1931 he became a professor and head of the design classes at the now Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Bremen and in 1932 he retired.

He was married to the freelance sculptor Anna Magnussen-Petersen , b. Petersen (1871-1940). Since 1909 they have lived at Hagenauer Straße 7, a newly built row house based on a design by the architect Carl Eeg , which himself moved into the neighboring house. The couple had two daughters. A daughter, the biologist and National Socialist Karin Magnussen , was involved in human experiments in the Auschwitz concentration camp through her collaboration with Josef Mengele . One of his brothers was the sculptor Harro Magnussen , a sister the painter and writer Ingeborg Magnussen .

Magnussen's artistic estate has been in the Focke Museum in Bremen since 1998 .

Works

  • Seascape , Museumsberg Flensburg
  • At the Ammer , Museumsberg Flensburg
  • At the Kapuzinerwirt in Hohen-Schäftlarn , Museumsberg Flensburg
  • Snow study , Museumsberg Flensburg

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerald Weßel, “There is still a lot to do in Bremen”: Interview with Hans Hesse, in: Weser-Kurier from December 14, 2017 https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/stadtteile/stadtteile-bremen -mitte_artikel, -da-there-is-still-something-to-do-in-bremen-_arid, 1679705.html # comments
  2. ↑ Hans Hesse, "First rabbits, then people", in: Weser-Kurier of April 18, 2020, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Magnussen, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter, ceramist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1946
Place of death Bremen