Lithograph Otto Heinrich Engel
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View of Schleswig over the Schlei by Otto Heinrich Engel.
Otto Heinrich Engel
The well-known painter Otto Heinrich Engel is the focus of the “second generation” of the Ekensund artist colony. Between 1892 and 1910 he spent numerous study visits on the Flensburg Fjord, which had a lasting impact on his work. Engel, who was born on December 27, 1866 in Erbach/Odenwald, moved to Berlin with his family as a small boy. Here he studied at the art academy between 1886 and 1890 before moving to Karlsruhe and later Munich to the art academies.
His stays in Ekensund inspire his work. But at the beginning he has to struggle with some difficulties: For example, he is deeply annoyed that he can hardly find models: “But there are hardly any people who would sit for a model, they are all too busy and they work in a different place every day.” Engel often works throughout the winter on drawing up studies, which he then quickly paints in Ekensund in the summer. At first he mainly deals with summer landscapes, light-flooded interior views and studies of local fishermen and pilots, which are based on the pictures of the painters from the Skagen artists' colony.
Engel studies the extraordinary lighting conditions in Ekensund: "First thing in the evening at eight o'clock I set off with a frame to paint a twilight study. It is now a popular problem for most young painters to study the color tones of the twilight. And since there is a long-lasting twilight at this time of year, especially in Ekensund's northern location, it is also my endeavor to solve this problem."
Many of the pictures that Engel sketched in Ekensund and worked on in intensive artistic processes in Munich, and from the mid-1890s in Berlin, made him famous: they were exhibited in Munich, Berlin and other cities. In 1899, Engel co-founded the “Berlin Secession,” which he left in 1902 after a dispute over preferential support for French Impressionists along with other conservative painters. But Engel enjoyed success: in 1906 he was appointed to the “Academy of the Arts” and in 1908 he was appointed professor. A little later he leaves Ekensund behind him; the colony has almost fallen apart; At first Engel often went to Föhr, but in the 1920s he went back to the Flensburg Fjord: but to the Prussian part on the southern bank, to Holnis.
In 1926, Flensburg honored him with an exhibition on his 60th birthday, which was then shown in Kiel. Six years later, Engel moved to Glücksburg until his death on January 30, 1949; to the area whose picturesque descriptions have brought him much fame. He writes to a friend: "It was of course a difficult decision. But in the end I feel as if it was fate that I should retire to what has become my adopted home after having worked artistically there for 40 years."
Otto Heinrich Engel
The well-known painter Otto Heinrich Engel is the focus of the “second generation” of the Ekensund artist colony. Between 1892 and 1910 he spent numerous study visits on the Flensburg Fjord, which had a lasting impact on his work. Engel, who was born on December 27, 1866 in Erbach/Odenwald, moved to Berlin with his family as a small boy. Here he studied at the art academy between 1886 and 1890 before moving to Karlsruhe and later Munich to the art academies.
His stays in Ekensund inspire his work. But at the beginning he has to struggle with some difficulties: For example, he is deeply annoyed that he can hardly find models: “But there are hardly any people who would sit for a model, they are all too busy and they work in a different place every day.” Engel often works throughout the winter on drawing up studies, which he then quickly paints in Ekensund in the summer. At first he mainly deals with summer landscapes, light-flooded interior views and studies of local fishermen and pilots, which are based on the pictures of the painters from the Skagen artists' colony.
Engel studies the extraordinary lighting conditions in Ekensund: "First thing in the evening at eight o'clock I set off with a frame to paint a twilight study. It is now a popular problem for most young painters to study the color tones of the twilight. And since there is a long-lasting twilight at this time of year, especially in Ekensund's northern location, it is also my endeavor to solve this problem."
Many of the pictures that Engel sketched in Ekensund and worked on in intensive artistic processes in Munich, and from the mid-1890s in Berlin, made him famous: they were exhibited in Munich, Berlin and other cities. In 1899, Engel co-founded the “Berlin Secession,” which he left in 1902 after a dispute over preferential support for French Impressionists along with other conservative painters. But Engel enjoyed success: in 1906 he was appointed to the “Academy of the Arts” and in 1908 he was appointed professor. A little later he leaves Ekensund behind him; the colony has almost fallen apart; At first Engel often went to Föhr, but in the 1920s he went back to the Flensburg Fjord: but to the Prussian part on the southern bank, to Holnis.
In 1926, Flensburg honored him with an exhibition on his 60th birthday, which was then shown in Kiel. Six years later, Engel moved to Glücksburg until his death on January 30, 1949; to the area whose picturesque descriptions have brought him much fame. He writes to a friend: "It was of course a difficult decision. But in the end I feel as if it was fate that I should retire to what has become my adopted home after having worked artistically there for 40 years."