Wilhelm Ohm

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Wilhelm Ohm , 1965
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Wilhelm Friedrich Hubert Ohm (born January 11, 1905 in Stettin ; † July 5, 1965 in Hamburg ) was a German painter , draftsman , sculptor and architect .

Life

Wilhelm Ohm was born on January 11, 1905 as the son of the teacher Hubert Friedrich Karl Ohm and his wife Antonia Alwine Auguste Ohm née. Rackow was born in their apartment at Lessingstrasse 2 in Stettin. He attended the Ernst Moritz Arndt secondary school in Szczecin and then, until Easter 1923, the Bismarck secondary school in Stettin.

From 1923 to 1929 he studied at the Werkkunstschule Stettin. He then studied architecture at the Technical Universities of Gdansk , Vienna and Berlin . From 1923 he went on numerous study trips to Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, England, Denmark, Italy and Austria. In 1923 he also joined the North German Artists Association and was a member there until it was brought into line in 1933.

From 1927 he worked as an architect in the civil service. In 1931 he passed his state examination to become a government architect. In 1932 he went on to study civil engineering, again at the Technical University of Berlin, where he was awarded the degree of doctoral engineer in 1933 . In 1934/1935 he studied sculpture and wall painting at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 1935 he married in Berlin. In 1940 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Berlin on the redesign of cities in color, whereby he wanted to combine painting and architecture into a symbiosis. On August 1, 1943, his son August Ohm was born in Berlin, who also became an artist.

In addition to his main job as a government master builder in Berlin, municipal building officer in Emden in 1939, and state building maintenance officer in Silesia in 1942, Wilhelm Ohm painted continuously and dealt with plastic , but did not exhibit during the National Socialist era . In 1939/1940 and 1944/1945 he was called up for military service. His early painting was destroyed by the bombing of Berlin.

After the Second World War , Ohm became the City of Hamburg's building officer in 1946. From 1950 to 1963 he was the director of the engineering school for construction in Hamburg. The idea of ​​the colored architecture of the future determined his work decisively for the reconstruction. He also worked as a lecturer in adult education. From 1951 he is recorded in the Hamburg address book and lived at Hannssensweg 11 in the Jarrestadt in Hamburg-Winterhude , from 1953 at street Olendeauf 27 in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel and from 1956 to 1965 in the same street at number 21a. Wilhelm Ohm died on July 5, 1965 in Hamburg.

His estate is administered by the Ohm Foundation , which, together with the Ohm Atelier, has its headquarters at Röntgenstrasse 57 in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel. In addition to the estate, it also manages a costume history collection, a collection of drawings with examples from the Renaissance to the present day, the core holdings of the works of August Ohm and a sculpture garden. The foundation board consists of the art historian Wilhelm Hornbostel , Birgit Ohlen, August Ohm and Heidemarie Reutter.

Other works by Wilhelm Ohm can be found in the collections of the City of Hamburg, the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg and the Pommern Foundation , whose collections have now been transferred to the Pommersches Landesmuseum Foundation in Greifswald .

estate

The estate of the painter, draftsman, sculptor and architect Wilhelm Ohm, managed by the Ohm Foundation , who strived for a “Universitas” of the arts in a classic all-round way, can be divided into three groups of works:

  • The drawings from the 1920s, stylistically categorized between New Objectivity and Surrealism , reflect, like a collage, the attitude towards life of the young generation in Berlin during the Weimar Republic after the end of the First World War .
  • In the paintings and drawings of the period after 1945, in which the artist of the lost generation , the lost of his creative years after the seizure of power of the Nazis tried to catch up in 1933, can be found in artistic expression feelings of departure and unfettered freedom in an expressive color and Design language.
  • In the post-Impressionist late work, the expressive nature of the images changed in the course of the 1950s to an increasingly differentiated palette and to a more atmospheric overall effect.
Große Panthea , Thörls Park, Hamburg-Hamm, state 2018

Works in public space

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1947: Kristeller Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1947: The Hertmann & Co. art cabinet, Hamburg
  • 1948: Kestner Museum , Hanover
  • 1950: Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1951: Kestner Museum, Hanover (with Otto Dix )
  • 1965: Art Office, Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • 1969: Engineering School for Construction, Hamburg
  • 1975: Wilhelm Ohm 1905 - 1965. The artistic estate - paintings and graphics , Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg
  • 1975: Pommern Foundation , Rant Zauberau of Kiel Castle (west wing)
  • 1980: Atelier Ohm, Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel
  • 1985: Atelier Ohm, Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel
  • 1994: Atelier Ohm, Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel
  • 2003: Wilhelm Ohm - pastels , Atelier Ohm, Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel
  • 2005: Wilhelm Ohm - Selected Pastels , exhibition on the occasion of the artist's 100th birthday, Atelier Ohm, Berlin
  • 2005: Wilhelm Ohm - Pictures from the Sea , Atelier Ohm, Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel
  • 2014: Wilhelm Ohm, August Ohm - pictures of father and son , studio and foundation Ohm, Berlin (with August Ohm )
  • 2015: Wilhelm Ohm - August Ohm - pictures of father and son , autumn exhibition on the occasion of the 50th year of death of Wilhelm Ohm, Atelier and Stiftung Ohm, Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel (with August Ohm)
  • 2019: Sylt around 1950 - pictures by Wilhelm Ohm , Kaamp-Hüs , Kampen, Sylt

Group exhibitions

literature

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Ohm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth entry Wilhelm Friedrich Hubert Ohm , No. 80 (January 14) in the Stettin III 1905 birth register, available online at ancestry.de
  2. ↑ CV. In: Wilhelm Ohm: Buildings of community education. Technical University of Berlin, 1934.
  3. ↑ Hamburg address book , the years after the Second World War
  4. ^ Website of the Ohm Foundation
  5. ^ Maike Bruhns : Ohm, Wilhelm. In: The new rump. Lexicon of the visual artists of Hamburg . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary . Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, p. 335 (main source of the sections Life and Exhibitions (selection) )
  6. ↑ Birgit Götting (Götting-Warringsholz): Estate of Wilhelm Ohm on the website of the Ohm Foundation
  7. ↑ Figure in two-tone condition
  8. ↑ Large Panthea on sh-kunst.de
  9. ^ Wilhelm Ohm - Pastels , 2003
  10. ^ Wilhelm Ohm - Selected Pastels , 2005
  11. ^ Wilhelm Ohm - Pictures from the Sea , 2005
  12. ↑ Wilhelm Ohm, August Ohm - Pictures of Father and Son , 2014
  13. ↑ Wilhelm Ohm - August Ohm - Pictures of Father and Son , 2015
  14. ↑ 25th autumn reception in the Atelier and Stiftung Ohm. In: Welt , October 26, 2015
  15. ↑ Sylt around 1950 on sylt-life.de
  16. ↑ Realism in painting in the 1920s , Hamburg on artist-info.com
  17. ↑ Realism in painting in the 1920s , Frankfurt on artist-info.com
  18. ↑ German Realism of the Twenties , Minneapolis on artist-info.com
  19. ↑ German Realism of the Twenties , Chicago on artist-info.com
  20. ↑ Announcement of the exhibition butcher of good conscience - the draftsman Paul Holz 1883–1938
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personal data
SURNAME Ohm, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ohm, Wilhelm Friedrich Hubert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer, painter, graphic artist, sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1965
Place of death Hamburg