Ernst Wolfhagen – Wikipedia

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The painter Ernst Wolfhagen in 1959

The painter Ernst Wolfhagen in 1960

Ernst Wolfhagen (Born August 22, 1907 in Hanover, † May 6, 1992 in Hanover) was a German painter, graphic artist and art teacher.

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From 1923 to 1926, Ernst Wolfhagen had art lessons with Otto Gleichmann as a high school student, with whom he had a lifelong friendship and who was also a godfather of his son Michael, born in 1941. From 1926 to 1928 he studied at the Technical University of Hanover, today’s Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover and then at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and at the state art school in Berlin, today’s University of the Arts Berlin (UDK) with Rudolf Großmann.

He made his state examination in biology, philosophy and art and from 1933 to 1967 worked as an art teacher in higher school service, most recently until retirement at the Elisabeth Granier School (today: Ricarda-Huch-Schule) in Hanover. In 1935 he married the sculptor Anneliese Lucke.

His teaching was interrupted by military service from 1941 and Soviet captivity until 1948.

He undertook study trips to Italy and France.

  • Mädchenakt mit Tuch 1932

    Girl act with cloth 1932

  • Frau im Hut, Frühling 1932

    Woman in the hat, spring 1932

  • Rotes Haus und Straße 1939

    Red house and street 1939

  • Zwei Pferde 1965

In addition to his painting, Ernst Wolfhagen has illustrated and published many folding works with texts by various poets, such as Pavese and Trakl.

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The focus in Wolfhagen’s oeuvre is about 800 woodcuts.
In addition to files and landscapes, the painter addresses figures of ancient mythology here.

Ernst Wolfhagen received great recognition through his numerous illustrations and etchings, which he made to texts by Cesare Pavese, Georg Trakl, Wilhelm Lehmann and in particular French poetry by Charles Baudelaire, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gérard de Nerval and Antonin Artaid Film plants published.

  • Porträt U. Hollensteiner 1953

    Portrait U. Hollensteiner 1953

  • Zwei Mädchen im Bikini 1975

    Two girls in Bikini 1975

  • Vor dem Spiegel 1978
  • Frau mit Blauem Hut und Roter Feder 1949

    Woman with a blue hat and red feather 1949

Selection

Exhibition participations, among other things

  • 1964 German art of to-day
  • 1963 – 1980 Xylon, Soc.Int. Wood engravers. Künstlervereinigungen IM Grand-Palais Paris
  • 1966 German woodcut Baden-Baden
  • 1959 I. Prize for religious graphics, Munich
  • 1978 Price for drawing, Fondation Michel -ange Poggio

Ernst Wolfhagen – in Spanish alleys in 1957

In the following locations there are works by the artist

  • Hans Adolf Halbey: Ernst Wolfhagen, Edition Monika Beck, Homburg-Schwarzenacker/Saar 1980.
  • Claude Bouret: Le Bois engraved, Paris 1983.
  • J. Büchner: The painter Ernst Wolfhagen, Hanover 1982.
  • Heimar Fischer-Gaaden: Ernst Wolfhagen. Pictures and graphics since 1960, catalog for the exhibition from June 7th to July 9th, 1972, Hannoverscher Künstlerverein, Hannover 1972.
  • Heimar Fischer-Gaaden: Ernst Wolfhagen. The painter. Brosch. Exhibition catalog, Schäfer, Hannover 1982.
  • Ernst Wolfhagen; Hans Wille: Flame, thirst and scream, color woodcuts to expressionist poetry, Werkkunstschule, Hannover 1968.
  • Ernst Wolfhagen – catalog of work of the woodcut 1957-1990, Inv. Tobien, Felicitas, Verlag Dietrich, Maximilian/Edition Curt Visel, Memmingen 1990, ISBN 978-3-922406-45-7.
  • Ulrich Ackermann: Lust and grief. Love poems from the baroque with woodcuts by Ernst Wolfhagen. Uetze-Dollbergen 1987.
  • Ernst Wolfhagen. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hanoverian biographical lexicon. From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hanover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9.
  • Ernst Wolfhagen . In: Hans Vollmer (ed.): General lexicon of the visual artists of the XX. Century. Band 5 : V-z. Addendums: A–G . E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1961, S. 163 .
  • Ernst Wolfhagen. In: Axel-Alexander Ziese (ed.): General lexicon of artists in the visual and shaping art of the late 20th century. Jean-GebSer-Academy, Bad Schmiedeberg 2005, ISBN 3-923326-75-0.
  • Hugo Thielen: Wolfhagen, Ernst. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) And.: Stadtlexikon Hanover. From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hanover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9, p. 684.

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