Friedrich Wachenhusen
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Auf dem Darss
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| Born |
27 May 1859 Schwerin, Mecklenburg, Germany |
| Died | 2 May 1925 (aged 65) Schwerin, Mecklenburg, Germany |
| Occupation | landscape artist, draftsman and etcher |
Adolf Friedrich Wilhelm Wachenhusen (27 May 1859 – 2 May 1925) was a German landscape artist, draftsman and etcher. The focus of his work was on the countryside of his home region, Mecklenburg.
At the urging of his father, a Schwerin ministerial secretary, Wachenhusen took after attending high school in Schwerin in 1880 to study architecture at the Polytechnikum Karlsruhe. He moved in 1881 to the Academy in Karlsruhe, to study painting. After the change in 1884 to the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Arts of Weimar, he continued to study under the landscape painter Theodor Hagen. In 1889 he moved to Berlin, attended the Academy of Fine Arts and painted a year with Eugen Bracht. Then he worked as head of a drawing and painting school in Berlin. Since 1889 he was also a member of the Association of Berlin Artists. In 1892 to 1895 Wachenhusen had several stays in Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea. Here he runs together with Paul Müller-Kaempff the painting school of St Lukas during the summer months. Müller-Kaempff lived here since 1892. Study trips led Wachenhusen 1892 to northern Italy and in 1894 to Holland, where he was in Volendam and the artists' colony Katwijk.
On March 1, 1897 Wachenhusen married the Dresden opera singer Eva Baroness von Gillern. In the same year Wachenhusen built his house with own plans on "Schifferberg 10" in Ahrenshoop. Before him and besides to Müller-Kaempff already had settled here fellow artists Anna Gerresheim, Elisabeth von Eicken and . It was soon the Ahrenshoop artists' colony, to their founders also include Wachenhusen. He counted with the painters Theobald Schorn and Paul Müller-Kaempff to the founders of Ahrenshooper Kunstkaten (art cottage) which opened 1909. In the meantime Wachenhusen had from about 1903 a residence in Hamburg, where he also led a painting school. After the death of his wife in 1910 he married in 1912 his second wife, the 20 years younger Lucie Schindowski, a former painting student. In 1909 he was appointed professor by the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg.
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