The beginning of a collection of links to paintings and information available on the Internet about Theo von Brockhusen.
In 1977 Ulrich Gronert showed the first solo exhibition of the landscape painter Theo von Brockhusen after the Second World War in his gallery at Niebuhrstrasse 1 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, which was not organized by his estate administrator, the gallery owner Ferdinand Möller.
A total of twelve oil paintings from Brockhusen's creative period from around 1907 to 1915 were presented here.Theo von Brockhusen was born in Marggrabowa (today: Olecko) in Masuria in 1882. After finishing school he attended the Königsberg Art Academy and studied with Max Schmidt and Olol Jernberg. In 1904 he moved to Berlin, where he was soon represented by Paul Cassirer and sent annually to the secession exhibitions. As an impressionist with expressionist tendencies, he attracted the attention of critics and the public in the years before the First World War; His landscapes from the Mark Brandenburg, from the Dutch and Belgian North Sea coasts and the Italy pictures, which were created in 1913 during a stay as a Villa Romana Prize winner in Florence, found the favor and recognition of the art-interested public and gave Brockhusen a certain prominence in the Berlin art scene . In 1913 he was a founding member of the Free Secession, and in 1918 he succeeded Max Liebermann as its president. In April 1919, at the age of less than 37, he succumbed to a long-term lung disease.
After Brockhusen's death, his second gallery owner, Ferdinand Möller, managed the artistic estate and increased the painter's posthumous reputation with various exhibitions. Like many of his contemporaries and fellow artists, the prematurely deceased fell into oblivion after the Second World War.
It was only through Ulrich Gronert's particular appreciation of Theo von Brockhusen's art that an artistic reassessment of his oeuvre succeeded in the 1970s to 1990s. On the initiative of the director of the Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg, Dr. Gerhard Leistner, the first solo exhibition in a museum by the artist Theo von Brockhusen - A Painter Between Impressionism and Expressionism was realized in 1999. First in Regensburg, then in the Stadtmuseum Berlin, over 60 works were collected and shown. Without the contacts to collectors and the financial and temporal help of Ulrich Gronert, neither the show nor the catalog would have appeared. In this, Tim D. Gronert dedicated a separate chapter to the interesting connection between the artist and his art dealers.
From Lempertz gallery:
Ferdinand Mölller had opened his Berlin gallery in October 1918 and organized his first solo exhibition in 1919 for the artist Theo von Brockhusen, whom he particularly valued and who was previously traded by Paul Cassirer. After the painter's death, the gallery owner took on the artistic estate. In 1929, on the occasion of the 10th year of his death, he organized a retrospective with a total of 32 oil paintings and drawings. (Tim D. Gronert, Theo von Brockhusen and the art trade, in: Gerhard Leistner, Theo von Brockhusen, exhib. Cat. Regensburg / Berlin 1999/2000, p. 88)
1. Florenz II, groß 1913
2. Herbstliche Gebirgslandschaft 1917
3. Flucht nach Ägypten 1913
4. Havellandschaft 19175. Arnobrücke, groß 1913 [Arno Bridge in Florence]
Offered at auction 11/29/2020
6. Kaiserswaldau 1916
7. Florenz (Oliven) 1913
8. Ernte 1917
9. Frühlingslandschaft (Baumgartenbrück) 1912
10. Strand in Knocke 1908
11. Großes Stilleben 191312. Vormittag am Strand in Knocke 1908 [Beach with bathing carts, Knokke]
Owned by the Berlinische Galerie
13. Gutshof in Seelow 1910
Depicted on Gronert Kunsthandel site14. Frühling in Baumgartenbrück 1915
15. Blühende Bäume 1912
16. Hausbau in Geltow 1914
17. Segelboote in Nieuport 1909
Offered at auction November 29, 2006. On June 15, 1909, Brockhusen married Hildegard Bothe in Seelow; The couple spent their honeymoon in Paris and Nieuport, Belgium, where this well-known and published painting with the landing stage was made. [See also painting below on Nieuport]
18. Am Strande 1907
19. Aus Baden-Baden 1911 [maybe this one:]
Offered at auction November 29, 2006.
20. An der Havel 1912
21. Weidenweg in Mecklenburg 1918
22. Sonniger Vormittag 1916
23. Dünenlandschaft 1907
24. Aus Nieuport 1910
25. Winterlandschaft 1903
26. Flachlandschaft 1907
27. Blühende Bäume 1907
28. Florenz klein 1913
29. Strand in Knocke 1908
Offered at auction November 29, 2006, and again May 31, 2011
30. Strandbild aus Knocke 1908
31. Birken 1907
32. Baumgartenbrück 1912Märkische Village Street in the Sunlight
Unsigned. Certificate of authenticity. Offered at auction. December 4, 2009.
Port entrance in Nieuwpoort (Nieuport), around 1910
Sold by Gronert Kunsthandel [In 1909 Brockhusen spent part of his honeymoon in Nieuwpoort, Belgium. Here at the mouth of the Yser in the North Sea, some views of the landing stage, port entrance and ships were taken. The following year he went back to the North Sea town. From 1910 the artist showed these pictures at various (secession) exhibitions.]
At auction 12/1/2023 Lempetz. Est 6-8,000 euro
Luchlandschaft (Wustrov - Langen). Verso: Kühe auf der Weide
Circa 1905-1909
Oil on canvas. 64.5 x 86.5 cm. Framed. Signed 'Theo von Brockhusen' in brown lower left and inscribed "Luchlandschaft, Wustrov - Langen" verso on the stretcher. - With few retouches. Some rubbing verso.
Luch is an area with swamps and meadows in the northeast German Havelland.
Certificate
We would like to thank Claudia Böckel, Regensburg, for kind additional information.
Provenance
Private ownership, East Germany; private collection, North Germany (acquired in the 1970s from the previous owner)
Oil on canvas. 64,5 × 81 cm ( 25 ⅜ × 31 ⅞ in.).
[3055] Framed.
Provenance: Formerly Private Collection, Russia
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