Hans Olde

Hans Olde (* April 27, 1855 in Süderau, Holstein, † October 25, 1917 in Kassel), actually John William Olde, was a German painter.

Life

After training as a farmer himself Olde decided in 1879 against the wishes of his father to study with Ludwig Löfftz at the Munich Art Academy. He was with his friend, the sculptor Adolf Brütt (1855-1939) of the founding members of the Munich Secession and 1894 as a born Schleswig- Holstein to the founding members of the Schleswig -Holstein Kunstgenossenschaft.

Olde led since 1902 the Weimar Art School in cooperation with Brütt ( Weimar school of sculpture ) and Henry van de Velde ( School of Applied Arts in Weimar ) in one of the secession movement associated concept further ( German Association of Artists ) and established it as a university. He was in close contact with Alfred Lichtwark in Hamburg. 1911 Olde became director of the Royal Academy of Art Kassel. Olde thus laid the foundation for the further development of these two colleges to universities today.

His son Hans Olde the Younger was also a painter.

In Kiel - Friedrichsort a street is named after him, as in Dänischenhagen and Mahlow. He is buried in Dänischenhagen.

Hans Olde: Rape field at the Baltic Sea, 1895, Museum Flensburg

Early in the morning of the field, drawing