Wolf Bergenroth

Wolfgang "Wolf" Leopold Hermann Heinrich Bergenroth (born May 9, 1893 in Parchim ; † December 24, 1942 in Ludwigslust ) was a German painter and illustrator.

Life

Wolfgang Bergenroth was the son of the theologian and educator Paul Bergenroth (1854–1923). He grew up in Dömitz and Spornitz , where his father worked as a pastor. From 1905 to 1911 he attended the Fridericianum grammar school in Schwerin . Then he had lessons from his previous drawing teacher Ludwig Dettmann (1856–1937) in preparation for the academy. From October 1911 he completed his one-year military service with the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg (Guard) Grenadier Regiment No. 89 in Schwerin.

From November 1912 he studied at the royal academy for fine arts in Charlottenburg with Adolf Schlabitz, among others . In 1913/14 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar with Fritz Mackensen and Gari Melchers . In 1918 he became a soldier in the First World War and did not return from French captivity until 1920. This was followed by an apprenticeship as a painter in Gnoien and Schwerin and from 1922 to 1924 years of wandering that took him via Berlin, Magdeburg and Dresden to Silesia.

In 1924 he settled in Rostock and made the acquaintance of Richard Wossidlo and the folk dance researcher Marie Peters (1878–1947). He worked as an illustrator for the Mecklenburgische Monatshefte and became a member of the Rostock Artists Association . In addition, he made numerous woodcuts with depictions of Mecklenburg folk dance and worked on the publication of a costume factory for Mecklenburg. For this purpose he traveled the country and sketched the corresponding pieces in museums and parlors, such as traditional costumes, embroidery, chests or bridal chairs . In connection with Wossidlo's folklore collection, a folder with over 100 woodcuts on the customs is created. A collection of traditional costume drawings is in the Rostock City Museum .

In 1939 he was drafted again for military service, he died on December 24, 1942 in a military hospital in Ludwigslust. In September 1943 the Kunstverein Rostock organized a commemorative exhibition "Wolfgang Bergenroth (painting / graphics)" in the Rostock City Museum.

Works (selection)

• The amber cutter , 1928
• Johannes Gillhoff , 1930
• In a summer dress , 1932 (each shown in the Mecklenburg monthly magazine )
• 12 Mecklenburg peasant dances , 1926 (woodcuts)
• Johannes Gosselck & Friedrich Siems (eds.): Folk songs from the two Mecklenburg. 1933, pictures by W. Bergenroth
• Ludwig Karnatz: Pi-scha! En multicolored blue structure , 1936 (cover drawing )

literature

• Bergenroth, Wolfgang . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 178 .
• Bergenroth, Wolfgang . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , p. 339.
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 840 .

Web links

• Literature about Wolf Bergenroth in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Wolf Bergenroth in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Bergenroth, Wolf in the index of the German biography
• Biography in the painter's lexicon of the Insula Rugia e. V.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mecklenburg-Schwerin, census 1900 - Dömitz - counting cards, people present / housekeeping. ( Digitized at familysearch.org )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Bergenroth 1913–1914. In: Pupils at the Grand Ducal Saxon University of Fine Arts and the State Bauhaus Weimar , term: 1909–1924, Thuringia State Archive - Weimar State Archive , State Bauhaus Weimar, No. 139
3. ↑ Bergenroth, Wolfgang, Kunstmaler, Balecke-Straße 9. In: Address book of Rostock , 1939, p. 82 (online at genealogy.net)
4. ↑ Wolfgang Bergenroth (painting / graphics) , commemorative exhibition at the Kunstverein Rostock, 1943