Else Zinkeisen and friends: around Hamburg Bellevue and Ausser Alster.

Today some more nice pictures of picturesque Hamburg, to be more specific of the beautiful surroundings of the Alster the 2 lakes in the heart of this great city.

Visit also my earlier posting on the Alster Ühlenhorster Fährhus with Margarete Braumullers iconic print of this location that was destroyed in the bombing and firestorms following Operation Gomorrha in 1943 with the rest of Hamburg and was never rebuild. (use the search option or follow the labels to this post) 

Helene Mass, View on the Alster and Jungfernstieg
 from the Lombardsbrücke Haltestelle 

To my surprise Helene Mass was in Hamburg too (and in Amsterdam !), I wonder if the two printmakers ever met, hard to believe they did not. Another recent discovery is Else Zinkeisen (before 1910) studied privately in Berlin with painter Franz Skarbina (1849-1910 !) and an even greater surprise is that Wally Peretz-Brutzkus, of whom we know so very little, also was Skarbina's student (as was Marianna von Buddenbrock btw). This will all be revealed in the upcoming book and later postings.

 

Ernst Eitner, "Monet of the North": Alster ferry on its way to Uhlenhorst.   

Arthur Illies: Alster ferry on its way from Uhlenhorst.   

The many districts of this big city that are spread around the Alster were interconnected with a steam ferry service in service again today.

Many bridges spanning the many canals and branches, the inner city of Hamburg is often compared to Amsterdam. 

This print, possibly of historic importance, was recently discovered and is showing the "Fernsicht Brücke". For a while however we wrongly assumed it might be the Eppendorfer-Winterhude bridge depicted below by Hamburg photographer-printmaker Bernhard Troch (1867-1924). 

   

Eppendorfer Brücke with horse and carriage 

Fernsicht Brücke 

With its companion bridge the "Krugkoppel Brücke" the "Fernsicht Brücke" it closes the circuit around the Ausser Alster in the north. It is seen looking into the "Rondeelkanal" and "Rondeelteich" a "Cul de sac" of the Ausser Alster  occupied by the villa's of Hamburg prosperous elite build in the second half of the 19th century.  

Fernsicht Brücke in 1892, entrance to the Rondeelteich

Both wooden bridges were build around 1890 and replaced in 1927/28 by concrete and macon work bridges still standing today. They give access to "Bellevue": Hamburgs posh district with grand villas and city palaces build and owned by the rich and influential. Compare living here with living around Central Park in New-York, around Tiergarten in Berlin or in the heart of London. 

View from "Fernsicht" 

The new Fernsicht Brücke shortly after completion in 1928 

Most interesting is also the horse drawn coach: "Kaiserliche und Königliche Post" connecting Hamburg with the world with a network of fast and modern designed coaches working in clockwork schedules until the steam engine took over.

Unknown painter Bruno Liedmann: Deutsche Post (eBay find)  

This also never before seen (not by me) and recently found in Hamburg print by Else Zinkeisen of whom my research learned she possibly was from a prosperous family of Hamburg city-centre chemists/pharmacists shows the entrance (Park Tor) to a park.  

Else Zinkeisen: Park Tor

The Hamburg Stadt-Park in Winterhude is not far away and it is also not far from the "Künstlerhaus" were she lived in 1930. I would love to receive more genealogical and biographical information concerning the Hamburg Zinkeisen family.

Helene Mass: Kinder im Park

Else Zinkeisen had two artistic cousins in Dresden and is remotely connected to the famous Scottish painting Zinkeisen sisters Anna and Doris who derive from  a Zinkeisen timber trading branch of the family. 
  

Arthur Illies: Alster Wiese

And this Else Zinkeisen print (below) that came to me through different channels could very well show the, or a, "Stadt Park" or Alster meadow although Else Zinkeisen traveled and created views of other places (like Munich). Before today she was mostly know and remembered for her views of river Elbe seen from the heights of Hamburg-Altona.

More Alster and Hamburg in next posting.

Please send any information on Else Zinkeisen (27 aug. 1871 - prob. around or after 1934)

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Margarethe Havemann: Spring in Hamburg - Ühlenhorster Fährhaus Terasse

This wonderful and iconic print was in eBay ................ for almost two years. I showed it in this Blog 2015 when I first found it. It is a Max Liebermann painting executed in relief print. I loved it then, I love it today. Too expensive ? Not good enough ? Not a good or well known artist ? I often wonder why some prints end in a buyers frenzy and others linger in auction shelves as "shop daughters" (an old Dutch expression for over-date, unloved and unsold articles). My problem: just not enough funds. Never enough funds. 

All you see here is what made our (great)-grand-parents lives worthwhile was consumed by "Operation Gomorrah" in the warm summer of 1943: the Anglo-American carpet bombing killing 40.000 people and wiping Hamburg from the face of the earth. Hamburg eventually was rebuild but the Fährhaus location was not. It is to this day an empty plot, a place to jog and, according to recent maps, to walk and relief the dog (it's quite true: "Hunde Auslaufzone").  

Max Liebermann (1847-1935) was in Hamburg to paint and he choose another (the other) popular view with roughly the same entourage: a tree covered shaded terrace ("Restaurant Jacob Linden-terasse") not overlooking the Alster but always busy majestic river Elbe.

Recently I sold (I let go) another great and iconic Hamburg print by Ernst Odefey (1882-1964) to travel to America to be part of a serious museum collection. Momentarily "well to do" it was not difficult to chose what was to replace the empty space Odefey left and befitting my collection of works by German woman printmakers. (All suggestions for swapping/trading male/female prints from this day are welcomed). 

Margaretha Braumuller-Havemann (1877-1955 ?) had been student of Ernst Neumann (1871-1954) in Munich and as an artist she is not very well known, by only a few examples although she was represented with 11 (!) woodblock prints in Reinhardt Pipers 1904 Munich catalogue of graphic artists. Making her one of the god-mothers of European Modern Printmaking (with Martha Cunz, Norbertine Bresslern, Emma Bormann and of course Emil Orlik)   

Margarethe married painter and graphic artist Georg Braumüller (1870-1927) and lived (1921 -30) at Hamburg, Uhlenhorst-straße nr. 3 not very far from the "Ühlenhorst Fährhaus" (Ferryhouse) she depicted. This "Cloth-line" is  one of the very few examples I was able to find and locate, and is from un unsigned 1905 edition. 

The Ühlenhorst Fährhaus was a popular location to spend a Sundays afternoon, a nice terrace, the Alster waterfront, ferry boats, sailing boats , elegant swans and a great panoramic view over the city of Hamburg with its iconic church- and town hall towers dominating the skyline.

Hamburg painter Gustav Burkhardt (1890-1970) 

Paul Peaschke (1875-1943) one of my favorite German etchers, showed the "Fährhaus" in an etching with an Armada of boats:

Walter Zeising (1876-1933) choose almost the same point of vantage as Margarethe in this lively and fine etching.

In my efforts to assemble some more biography of Margarethe Havemann I was able to find some interesting facts about her family: she had a sister Hedwig who was an illustrator and a brother Richard who was in his days a famous trainer of wild and exotic animals. He did not recover from a bear attack he'd raised as a cub. More about Margarethe's life in the upcoming book. 

In 1913, commissioned and invited by director of Hamburg Kunsthalle Alfred Lichtwark, French impressionist Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) visited Hamburg and also chose this iconic terrace now lost in history. And since people having memories have long since died, all we have are these works of art and old photographs.  

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Hugo Vogel (1855-1934): Fire-works at Ühlenhorster Fährhaus,
seen from the terrace.

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PS: Reframing the Ühlenhorster Fährhaus print the old backing board showed signs of earlier use. It was used in participating the “Schwarz-Weiss Ausstellung” (or department) of an exhibition held in Berlin and Munich 1905 (Nr. 370: “Alte Frau, Schwarz-Weiss Zeichnung. 100 M., Frau M. Havemann, Hamburg, Hofweg 7). It may be an indication this particular print once has been in the possession or estate of the artist Margarethe Havemann. Hofweg 7 is very near Uhlenhorsterweg 3, Margarethes' address in 1921-1930 according to Dresslers Kunsthandbuch. 

Please send other examples of Margarethe Havemann prints and all biographical facts you might know, for sharing.

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To have and to hang: Margarethe Braumüller-Havemann

Hamburg:

Alster- Uhlenhorster Fährhaus

Margarethe Braumüller-Havemann

Ebay: Buy Now 
(link to Ebay offer) 

 (ending 30 jun 2015 20:10:52 CEST)

A great and rare around 1930 print and priced accordingly. A Max Liebermann view on one of the prettiest locations in pre-war Hamburg along the shores of the Alster river. This seller has more lovely Hamburg and Alster prints on offer. Can't afford a.t.m. so this one might be yours ..........

Follow the label below to see the earlier Blog attribution on Margarethe Braumuller-Havemann.

Philipp Georg Braumüller: husband of Margarethe Havemann

Braumüller, Philip Georg

(Hohenlohehütte 16-09-1870 – 1927)

painter, printmaker and books illustrator. 

and was married to Margarethe Havemann in before posting. His birth place Hohenlohehütte, now Katowice, in Silesia in the South of what is now Poland. 

I found this nice painting of the Isle of Rügen with its iconic cretaceous cliff coast. Observing it having a closer look at his wife's woodblock print "Herbst" convinced me this print was also designed in Rügen and they worked together in this beautiful location, possibly spending their holiday. 

Closeby were the Hiddensee and not far away the Ahrenshoop artist colonies. In summer these wonderful locations and Dover-like Cliffs would have attracted hords of painters. Kandinsky (1866-1944) was here, Eugen Bracht (1842-1921 and Paul Emil Gabel (1875-1938) who painted the Island on several locations (above)   

Allee in Puttbus on Rügen  

My favorite Braumüller painting is this "Allee in Puttbus" painted in soft light in the tradition of "Berlin Impressionismus" and in my humble opinion matching the examples of the Grand Avenues and Tiergarten in Berlin depicted by Liebermann, Ury and Hübner. 

The painter Braumüller in auctions is both mentioned as Philipp Br. or George Br. Sometimes these names are combined indicating he is not that well known today. 

"Runkel and der Lahn"

A family chronicle stating he was born the son of an army general but a disability kept him from a military career. Instead he started his career as gardener in Breslau, some 100 miles to the West from Katowice, then moved to the centre of Germany to study in Kassel Art Academy, and also in the “Kunstschule” in Weimar. He also studied in the painting school of Friedrich Fehr (1862-1927) in Munich and with printmaker Ernst Neumann (1871-1954). He created posters ("Plakatkünstler") with woodblocks and lithography. 

He was wel known for his woodblock portraits of contemporary Munich celebrities like Max Petzold(*), composer Max Reger (1873-1916), theatre director and playwright Otto Falckenberg (1873-1947) and poet Martin Greif (1839-1911). But I was only able to find Falckenbergs (below)

He was a member of the “Graphischen Vereinigung Münchener Künstler”. and exhibited, like and possibly with his wife Margarethe, in the Glaspalast in Munich 1900-1906, in Düsseldorf 1907 and in Wiesbaden 1909.

Painting by Georg Braumuller and photograph of Berlins "Ballon Platz"  

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(*) Petzold, Max (1852-1896), the son of famous international and royal (imperial) landscape architect Eduard Petzold (1815-1891) became like his father a German gardener, garden architect and designer. He was also a painter like Braumüller (below), maybe Braumüller taught his former colleague. 

Petzold worked for some time (1880) with Elvaston Nurseries (above Elvaston Castle and Gardens) near Derby in England. Maybe Braumuller visited his friend  explaining his interest and painting of British historic steam-engine “the Rocket”. Petzold later (1882-1883) crossed the Atlantic and worked in the Central Cemetery* in Cincinnati, Ohio. He then moved to Brasil.
*Probably: Spring Grove Cemetery and arboretum which was designed combining British   landscape design with Paris Père Lachaise cemetery lay-out, by garden architect Adolph Strauch a colleague of his father Eduard. The Braumuller, Petzold and Strauch families originated roughly  from the same region and maybe are a clue and indication for these contacts and ties decades later.  

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Please send any pictures of other paintings or portraits by Georg Braumuller.