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Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Olde (27 April 1855,
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retrieved 4 June 2011 He and his friend, the sculptor
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Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Olde (27 April 1855, Süderau
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– 25 October 1917, Kassel
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) was a German painter and art school administrator.
Life
He originally planned to follow family tradition and become a farmer but, over his father's strong objections, went to study withLudwig von Löfftz
Ludwig von Löfftz (21 June 1845 – 3 December 1910) was a German genre and landscape painter.
Biography
He was born at Darmstadt. He was a pupil of August von Kreling and Karl Raupp at Nuremberg, then of Wilhelm von Diez at the Academy of F ...
at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich
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in 1879.retrieved 4 June 2011 He and his friend, the sculptor
Adolf Brütt
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, moved to Italy in 1883. Three years later, however, he decided to attend the Académie Julian
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in Paris, where he exhibited at the Salon
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and discovered impressionism
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. Upon his return to Germany, he was one of the founders of the Munich Secession
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and, in 1894, helped to create the Schleswig-Holstein
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Art Appreciation Society. He travelled widely over the next few years and this is considered to be his most creative period. In 1898, he also participated in the founding of the Berlin Secession
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
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is one of his most famous portrait subjects.
In 1902, when Olde became director of the Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School
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, he began working on plans to create a university and instituted many reforms, including the admission of women. When Brütt became director of the Weimar Sculpture School in 1905, the schools were joined together as the "Grand Ducal Saxon College of Fine Arts", which would later be joined with the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts to become the "Staatlisches Bauhaus" (today's Bauhaus University
The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is a university located in Weimar, Germany, and specializes in the artistic and technical fields. Established in 1860 as the Great Ducal Saxon Art School, it gained collegiate status on 3 June 1910. In 1919 the sc ...
).
During this time, Olde, Brütt and Henry van de Velde
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acted as advisors for Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst
Wilhelm Ernst (25 August 1905, in Gelsenkirchen – 23 July 1952, in Gelsenkirchen) was a German chess master.
Biography
He was a winner at Weidenau 1937. He played several times in German Chess Championship; took second, behind Kurt Richter, at ...
's renovation of Weimar's city center. Olde became the director of the Royal Academy of Art in Kassel
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in 1911 and began the process of turning that school into a university as well. (Today, it is a division of the University of Kassel
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called the Kunsthochschule Kassel
Kunsthochschule Kassel (German; "Kassel College of Art") is a college of fine arts in Kassel, Germany. Founded in 1777, it is a semi-autonomous department of the University of Kassel .
Notable people
* Daniel Stieglitz
* Peter Angermann
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Three streets are named after him; in Kiel
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, Dänischenhagen (where he is buried) and Blankenfelde-Mahlow
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History
The municipality shared its borders with the former West Berlin, and so during the period 1961-1 ...
. His son, , was also a painter.
References
Further reading
* Gabriele Bremer, Heinz Spielmann: ''Hans Olde und die Freilichtmalerei in Norddeutschland.'' Bestandskatalog des Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landesmuseums Kloster Cismar. Schleswig 1991. * Hildegard Gantner-Schlee: ''Hans Olde : 1855–1917. Leben und Werk.'' Dissertation, Tübingen 1970.External links
*Museen Nord: Works by Hans Olde (and others)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Olde, Hans 1855 births 1917 deaths Impressionism 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists Academic staff of Bauhaus University, Weimar