Eduard Bargheer

Eduard Bargheer ( born December 25, 1901 in Finkenwerder, Hamburg; † 1 July 1979, Blankenese, Hamburg ) was a German painter and graphic artist. In his early period, he was close to Expressionism.

Life and work

Eduard Bargheer was born the son of the popular headmaster Charles Bargheer and grew up with the older brother Ernst Bargheer ( teacher and later folklorist ) and five sisters. 1914 his father died, and in 1919 the mother. Ernst Bargheer, then 24 years old, took over the guardianship of his younger siblings and pushed Edward into a primary school teacher training. In these years, Edward Bargheer began his artistic training at the School of Applied Arts in Hamburg - Lerch field, but also in the intensive self-study, which he continued for life. In 1924 the brothers Ernst and Eduard disunited. Edward got his own career aspirations of free painter.

1925 Edward traveled Bargheer first time to Italy and stayed for some time in Florence to. The deep affection for Italy and its culture became a dominant topic live. 1926 and 1927 was followed by extended trips to Paris. 1928 built Bargheer a studio for at Westerdeich in Finkenwerder. The friendship with the painter Gretchen Wohlwill (1878-1962) began in 1927 and led to a lifelong collegial exchange, which was interrupted by the emigration of Gretchen Wohlwill. Until about the mid-1930s she made a concerted study trips to Holland, Belgium, England, Italy and Paris, and to Denmark. Through well- Wills intercession Bargheer in 1928 a member of the Artists' Association Hamburg secession. To this period belong also the close contacts with the circles of the art historian Aby Warburg and Erwin Panofsky. 1932/33, took advantage of Bargheer a grant from the City of Hamburg for several months stay in Paris, during which time he became friends with the Panofsky - student, Ludwig Heinrich Heyden Empire.

1933 broke the Hamburg Secession on of his own accord, because they are not their Jewish members - as demanded by the Nazis - wanted to exclude. 1935 met Bargheer Paul Klee in Switzerland. In the same year he acquired a small fisherman's cottage on Siillberg in Hamburg, home to the Bargheer house today. In 1939 he moved to Ischia. In 1955 was Eduard Bargheer participated in the documenta 1 in Kassel, 1959 at the documenta II in the year 1962/1963 he created in the workshops of August Wagner in Berlin, the large glass mosaic "Sport ", which stands at the south entrance of the HDI - Arena in Hannover.

In 1948 he was made an honorary citizen of Forio on Ischia, in 1951, he received in addition to his German Italian nationality.

Artistic classification

Eduard Bargheer is today best known for its light, often a mosaic built watercolors of the 1950s of the 20th century. In its elemental form are abstracted pictures design characters to symbols of a seen and reflected reality. The web-like structure of the work is to make the formal relationships of the object world visible. The room is not as yet in expressionism treated objectively, but the impression of space is produced by the action of color and light on the scene. In his pursuit of harmony keep in Bargheer work linear and planar design the scale.

Bargheer Hamburger early work was at a time of a influenced by Edvard Munch style that the artists' association had trained Hamburg secession, which he joined in 1929.

In his paintings of the 1930s, the artist responded to the increasingly oppressive political circumstances that led him in 1939 to seek refuge in Italy. A time-related imagery often determined his motives in this phase of work. These images are to be regarded as important historical documents.

Compared to the vibrancy of watercolors, oil paintings act formally rigorous and built monumental. Even in oil painting less spontaneous executable succeeds Bargheer to achieve a harmony of color and light. For him, put the oil paintings Handel's greatest work dar. He said it: " I've always geduzt watercolor, and oil I have always respectful " you " said."

The basis for his watercolors and oils sketches and drawings in various techniques, especially reed pen drawings. This body of work has rarely been edited and published systematically.

In parallel with the other techniques originated in an extensive catalog of works by Detlev Rosenbach documented oeuvre of prints. Especially the combination of drypoint and aquatint technique achieved a high Bargheer championship. He created works that the watercolors are very close in their effect.

The artist has also created large commissioned works for public space, especially glass mosaics in Roland Jaeger publication painting in glass and stone - The mosaic work of Eduard Bargheer. Baugebundene works of art in Hamburg, Hanover and Forio d' Ischia. be appreciated.

Eduard Bargheer Museum in Jenischpark

According to Dirk Justus there are plans to build an Eduard Bargheer Museum in the former buildings of the Parks Department in Hamburg Jenischpark in the immediate vicinity of the Jenisch House and the Ernst- Barlach-Haus. A final decision on this is still pending. Dirk Justus is chairman of Eduard Bargheer Museum Foundation. (Updated: November 9, 2013)

Membership of Eduard Bargheer

Hamburg Secession (1929 - MAY 16, 1933)

Eduard Bargheer in contemporary assessment

Marion Dönhoff wrote on 1 January 1972 in the weekly Die Zeit:

Who creating Eduard Bargheer ... pursued over the last few years that has always amazed anew over the unbroken power to transform, which characterizes this master of watercolor and etching. It seems to me there are three characteristics that have enabled him to do so: his great intelligence, his poetic sensibility and the never -flagging zeal with which he studied the shape of the natural world.

The art historian Paul Vogt rated Eduard Bargheer 1972 as follows:

In the works Bargheer reflects a side of German painting, which acts like a seductive sound in addition to the usually dominant depth of meaning: a bright overtone, whose permission no express legitimacy.

Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt wrote on 3 February 2011:

I've Eduard Bargheer always appreciated. On the occasion of his death I wrote in 1979 to his family. " ... His artistic work, especially his way of teaching with enchanting ease landscapes have always fascinated me with joy that is why we have in August 1977 is an example of his perception and his ability here at the Federal Chancellery queued in the selection of works of important German painters of his generation. "

Eduard Bargheer

Life and work

Artistic classification

Eduard Bargheer Museum in Jenischpark

Membership of Eduard Bargheer

Eduard Bargheer in contemporary assessment

Archive

Archival material for the glass mosaics by Edward Bargheer

Archival material for the glass mosaic "Sport" by Eduard Bargheer