- Bernhard Hoetger
Bernhard Hoetger (
4 May 1874 inDortmund –18 July 1949 inInterlaken ) was a Germansculptor , painter and handicrafts artist of the Expressionist movement.The son of a
Dortmund blacksmith , he studiedsculpture inDetmold from 1888 to 1892, before directing a workshop inRheda-Wiedenbrück . After a spell at the Dusseldorf Arts Academy, he took a trip toParis , where he was deeply influenced byAuguste Rodin , but also got to knowPaula Modersohn-Becker . Later he was able to familiarise himself withAntoni Gaudí . In 1911, Hoetger was called up to the "artistic colony" ofDarmstadt , where he was to remain for some time.In 1914, inspired by Becker-Modersohn, he got to
Worpswede . It was here where he met with Bremer'sLudwig Roselius , with whom he would go on to make his masterpiece, Bremen's "Böttcherstraße ", in anExpressionist style.Like his patron
Ludwig Roselius , Hoetger sympathised with theNazi ideals and became a member of theNazi Party . He tried, in vain, to instill himself through his art into the party, but in 1936 Hitler declared it to beDegenerate art . Expelled from the party, he settled in Switzerland, where he died in 1949.References
"Translated from the German and French Wikipedias"
External links
* [http://www.mastersofmodernism.com/?page=Jewelry&item=1 Masters of Modernism ] at www.mastersofmodernism.com
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NAME= Hoetger, Bernhard
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Germansculptor , painter and handicrafts artist of the Expressionist movement
DATE OF BIRTH=4 May 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH=Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH=18 July 1949
PLACE OF DEATH=Interlaken
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