Otto Ten

Its life

Youth

Otto Ten was born in Untermhaus (close to Gera in Thuringe) on December 2nd 1891. It is resulting from a working medium (his/her Franz father worked in an iron mine), but receives an artistic education by his mother who was interested in the music and painting.

After having followed the professor of drawing Ernst Schunke during its youth, Ten takes courses with Gera near the painter and decorator Carl Senff of 1905 with 1909, which doubts the future of its pupil as a painter. A grant provided by the Prince de Reuss makes it possible Ten to enter to the School of the applied arts of Dresden, of 1909 with 1914. Johann Nikolaus Türk and Richard Guhr will be his professors among others. Ten will be tested with the Cubisme, the Futurisme and later with the Dadaïsme.

First World War and Weimar Republic

Ten voluntarily engages as a soldier at the time of the First World War, and will fight in France and Russia. The horror of the war marks it enormously and then becomes the base of its works. On its return to Dresden, it founds the Groupe 1919 with Conrad Felixmüller (1897-1977) and carries out joinings hobby-horse. In 1922, Ten settles in Düsseldorf where it integrates artistic association Das Junge Rheinland. It Marie with Martha Koch in 1923. Between 1925 and 1927, Ten lives and works in Berlin where its critical painting reaches its apogee. He becomes an artist of the movement of the Nouvelle Objectivity, of which he is one of the founding fathers. In 1927, it is named professor in Kunstakademie of Dresden.

Under the Nazi regime

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, Otto Ten is one of the first professors of art to being returned. The same year, it begins a “interior emigration” in the south-west of Germany (in 1933 with Randegg then in 1936 with Hemmenhofen), where it paints landscapes. Into 1937, its works known as “are degenerated” by the Nazis. 260 of enter they are withdrawn from the museums and a part is burned, others are exposed during the exposure Nazi “degenerated Art” (Entartete Kunst).

In 1938, Ten is stopped and locked up during two weeks by the Gestapo. During these difficult times, it paints a representation of St Christophe at the request of the brewery of Köstritz, in the style of the large Masters.

Post-war period until its death

At the end of the war and until its death, Ten moves away from the new German artistic currents. It is identified neither in the social Réalisme in GDR nor in the art of post-war period in FRG. It however receives high distinctions and honorary titles in the two states.

1959 - Bundesverdienstkreuz; 1966 - Alfred-Lichtwark-Preis in Hamburg and Martin-Andersen-Nexö-Preis in Dresden; 1968 - Rembrandt-Preis in Salzburg.

Otto Ten dies on July 25th 1969 after an infarction with Singen. Its tomb is with Hemmenhofen.

Its work

1914 - Selbstbildnis als Soldier Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
1914 - Selbstbildnis put Artillery-Helm at the back of Selbstbildnis als Soldat Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
1915 - Selbstbildnis als Mars
1920 - " Die Skatspieler" or " Kartenspielende Kriegskrüppell" Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
1920 - Streichholzhändler I Staatl.Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin
1921 - Bildnis der Eltern Kunstmuseum Basel
1921 - the workman
1922 - Year die Schönheit Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
1923 - Bildnis Karl Krall Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
1923 - Bildnis Frau Martha Ten I Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
1924 - Der Krieg
1924 - Die Eltern of Künstlers II Sprengel-Museum, Hannover
1925 - Bildnis der Tänzerin Anita Berber Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
1923 - Schützengraben disappeared
1926 - Porträt der Journalistin Sylvia von Harden National museum of Modern art, Paris
1926 - Der Kunsthändler Alfred Flechtheim Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
1926 - Der Streichholzhändler II Kunsthalle Mannheim
1928 - Triptych Großstadt Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
1932 - Triptych Der Krieg Gallery Neue Meister, Dresden
1933 - Die sieben Todsünden Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
1933 - Die Tänzerin Tamara Danischewski Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
1934 - DER Triumph of Todes Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
1935 - Waldrand put Buche Galerie Michael Haas Berlin
1936 - Flandern Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
1939 - DER heilige Christophorus Otto-Dix-Haus Managed
1945 - Saül and David
1946 - Crucifixion
1947 - Selbst als Kriegsgefangener Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
1962 - Grosse Kreuzaufrichtung Stadtkirche Sankt Johannes (Bad Saulgau)

See too

To paint the Century 101 major Portraits 1900-2000

External bonds and documents

In German:

Eva Karcher: Otto Ten - 1891 1969 - Leben und Werk , Köln 1988
Florian Karsch: Otto Ten. Das graphische Werk , Hannover 1970
Fritz Löffler: Otto Ten. Leben und Werk , Dresden 1977
Fritz Löffler: Otto Ten 1891-1969 . Work der Gemälde, Recklinghausen 1981
Fritz Löffler: Otto Ten. Bilder zur Bibel . Berlin: Verlag union, 1986.
Ulrike Lorenz: Otto Ten. Das Werkverzeichnis der Zeichnungen und Pastels , Weimar
Ulrike Lorenz: Ten before Ten. Das Jugend- und Frühwerk 1909-1914 , Jena: Glaux, 2000
Catalog of exposure, Gallery der Stadt Stuttgart, Nationalgalerie Berlin 1991
Suse Pfäffle: Otto Ten. Werkverzeichnis DER Watercolour und Gouachen , Stuttgart 1991
Diether Schmidt: Otto Ten im Selbstbildnis , Berlin 1981
Dietrich Schubert. Otto Ten - Der Krieg. 50 Radierungen von 1924 . Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2002
Birgit Schwarz: Großstadt , Frankfurt/M. 1993

In French:

Otto Ten: Drawings From one War to another . Catalog exposure to the Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. 157p, illustrations. Gallimard editions, 2003.

" Otto Ten, Metropolis" Cataloge of exposure Foundation Maeght, St.Paul de Vence

External bonds:

Otto Ten
Maison Otto Ten with Managed
Exposition to the Kunstmuseum of Stuttgart
Maison Otto Ten in Hemmenhofen
virtual Galerie Otto Ten
the Representation of the soldier during the Great War with the CRDP of Amiens

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