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Heinrich Nauen
Heinrich Nauen (1 June 1880, in Krefeld – 26 November 1940, in Kalkar) was a German Expressionist artist. He created oils, watercolors, and prints; as well as murals and mosaics. A large part of his output consists of landscapes and floral still-lifes. Biography He was born to a family of bakers, but expressed an interest in art at an early age. In 1898, he was accepted at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, then attended a private art school in Munich. He completed his studies at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart from 1900 to 1902. Soon after, he joined the circle of artists that formed around the sculptor George Minne in the Flemish village of Sint-Martens-Latem. In 1905, he married the artist, and accompanied her to Paris. There, he came under the influence of Fauvism and the works of Van Gogh. In 1906, they moved to Berlin, where he became a member of the Berlin Secession and was elected to the board of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. He and Max Beckmann d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brüggen, Germany
Brüggen is a municipality in the district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated near the border with the Netherlands, on the river Schwalm, approx. 15 km south of Venlo and 20 km north-west of Mönchengladbach. Division of the town Brüggen consists of 3 subdivisions * Brüggen * Born * Bracht Mayors * Frank Gellen (CDU): since 2014 * Gerhard Gottwald: 1989–2014 Sights * Brüggen Castle * Natural History Museum (''Naturkundemuseum''): since 1979 Brüggen Castle has been home to a regional hunting and natural history museum with a nature park information point. * ''Schwalmpforte'', a former town gate * St. Nicholas' Church * Old Abbey of the Knights of the Cross (''Kreuzherrenkloster'') * Born Mill ''(Borner Mühle'') * Brüggen Mill (''Brüggener Mühle'') * Schloss Dilborn * Old toll house with ''Rentei'' (~treasury) * Nature and Wildlife Park (''Natur und Tierpark Brüggen'') * New Jewish Cemetery * Old Jewish Cemetery Climate Clim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany. During Hitler's rise to power in 1930s Europe, it was frequently referred to as Hitlerism (german: Hitlerfaschismus). The later related term " neo-Nazism" is applied to other far-right groups with similar ideas which formed after the Second World War. Nazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates a dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, scientific racism, and the use of eugenics into its creed. Its extreme nationalism originated in pan-Germanism and the ethno-nationalist '' Völkisch'' movement which had been a prominent aspect of German nationalism since the late 19th century, and it was strongly influenced by the paramilitary groups that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Degenerate Art
Degenerate art (german: Entartete Kunst was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums and banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an "insult to German feeling", un-German, Freemasonic, Jewish, or Communist in nature. Those identified as degenerate artists were subjected to sanctions that included being dismissed from teaching positions, being forbidden to exhibit or to sell their art, and in some cases being forbidden to produce art. ''Degenerate Art'' also was the title of an exhibition, held by the Nazis in Munich in 1937, consisting of 650 modernist artworks chaotically hung and accompanied by text labels deriding the art. Designed to inflame public opinion against modernism, the exhibition subsequently traveled to several other cities in Germany and Austria. While m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Monjau
Franz Monjau (30 January 1903, Cologne - 28 February 1945, KZ Buchenwald) was a German Expressionist painter and art teacher. Biography His father, Max Monjau, was a manufacturer from Barmen. His mother Paula, née Meyer, was the daughter of a Jewish wine merchant in Mainz. Both parents were practicing Catholics. Around 1910, the family moved to Düsseldorf where his father became chief representative for the cigarette maker, A. M. Eckstein Söhne. After completing his primary education, he enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied from 1922 to 1926; originally with Willy Spatz, then as a Master Student of Heinrich Nauen. As a free-lance painter, he became a member of Young Rhineland and later, the "Rheinischen Sezession". Both associations brought him into contact with members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). A major commission at GeSoLei was followed by two paintings for the Department of the History of Science, depicting Albertus Magnus and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julo Levin
Julo Levin, originally Julius (5 September 1901, Stettin - 1943, KZ Auschwitz) was a German Expressionist painter of Jewish ancestry. Most of his surviving works are watercolors and sketches, however his family have some of his paintings. He was murdered in the Holocaust. Biography He showed an early aptitude for art and, from 1919, was already associated with artistic circles in the Rhineland. He studied at the Essen campus of the Folkwang University of the Arts with the Dutch artist, Johan Thorn Prikker; following him when he went to teach at the Royal Kunstgewerbeschule, Munich, in 1921. He transferred to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1923, where he was a Master Student of Heinrich Campendonk and Heinrich Nauen. Upon completing his studies in 1926, he received his first major commission: a mural for the GeSoLei. His earnings enabled him to make a study trip to Paris. In 1931, he would return to France; spending a summer in Marseille which was especially productive. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Rhineland
Young Rhineland (Das Junge Rheinland) was an association of avant-garde artists formed in Düsseldorf on 24 February 1919. History The poet Herbert Eulenberg was one of the main instigators of the group, along with painter Arthur Kaufmann and the writer and illustrator Adolf Uzarski. The group was formed following the lack of any Rhenish artists in the Great Berlin Exhibition. The art historian, came up with the name in 1918 when he was organising the first exhibition of the group in the Kölnischer Kunstverein. Some earliest members of Young Rhineland included Heinrich Nauen, Adolf Uzarski, Arthur Kaufmann, Carlo Mense, Walter Ophey, Werner Heuser Werner Heuser (1880–1964) was a German painter, engraver, drafter, and professor. He had been a professor of art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Art Academy) from 1926 until 1937, and he was removed from his position by the ..., Ernst te Peerdt and Wilhelm Kreis. References {{Authority control Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron Cross
The Iron Cross (german: link=no, Eisernes Kreuz, , abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945). King Frederick William III of Prussia established it on 17 March 1813 during the Napoleonic Wars (EK 1813). The award was backdated to the birthday (10 March) of his late wife, Queen Louise. Louise was the first person to receive this decoration (posthumously). Recommissioned Iron Cross was also awarded during the Franco-Prussian War (EK 1870), World War I (EK 1914), and World War II (EK 1939). During the 1930s and World War II, the Nazi regime superimposed a swastika on the traditional medal. The Iron Cross was usually a military decoration only, though there were instances awarded to civilians for performing military functions, including Hanna Reitsch, who received the Iron Cross, 2nd class, and Iron Cross, 1st Class, and Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, who received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Flechtheim
Alfred Flechtheim (1 April 1878 – 9 March 1937) was a German Jewish art dealer, art collector, journalist and publisher persecuted by the Nazis. Early years Flechtheim was born into a Jewish merchant family; his father, Emil Flechtheim, was a grain dealer. Alfred became a partner in his father's company after business internships in London and Paris. Art collector Flechtheim appeared in the art world shortly after 1900, with a collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne; French Avant garde early works of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and André Derain; paintings of Wassily Kandinsky, Maurice de Vlaminck, Alexej von Jawlensky, Gabriele Münter, and the Rhein Expressionists Heinrich Campendonk, August Macke, Heinrich Nauen, and . 1912 Sonderbund in Cologne Flechtheim organiseThe ‘Internationale Kunstausstellung des Sonderbunds Westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler€™ that opened in Cologne on 25 May 1912. Known as the Sonderbund, the exhibition brought tog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Macke
August Robert Ludwig Macke (3 January 1887 – 26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly active time for German art: he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. As an artist of his time, Macke knew how to integrate into his painting the elements of the avant-garde which most interested him. Like his friend Franz Marc and Otto Soltau, he was one of the young German artists who died in the First World War. Early life August Robert Ludwig Macke was born in Germany on 3 January 1887, in Meschede, Westphalia. He was the only son of August Friedrich Hermann Macke (1845–1904), a building contractor and amateur artist, and his wife, Maria Florentine, née Adolph, (1848–1922), who came from a farming family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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