47. Hans Carl Gotthold KOBERSTEIN Bogomil
Part 2: The decoration painter and Lessingbiograph Hans Koberstein. [ 30 ]
Hans Koberstein was born on 3 July 1864 as a first child of petrol Lessings sister Bertha (1844-1914) and Karl Koberstein (1836-1899) in Schulpforta. His father, son of the literature historian August Koberstein (1797-1870) [ 31 ] , was royal of Saxonian yard actors in Dresden, where also Hans's brothers and sisters Odilia Elizabeth (1867-1945), Kaethe (1868-1943) and Fritz (1873 to 1942) were born. After the High School Hans Koberstein visited the Dresdener academy of arts for three years and changed at the beginning of 1886 to Berlin, in order to begin in the studio of its uncle Lessing training there as decoration painters. At the same time it visited the teaching institute at the royal museum of arts and crafts, where it beside Lessing in particular max of Friedrich cook (1859-1930) [ 32 ] as the decoration and historical-scenes painter trained. Lessing and cook, latter since 1889 married with Lessings sister-in-law Betsi Gude, let Koberstein cooperate in own projects and transferred him soon independent work. First larger tasks were 1886/87 the cooperation at the decorative equipment from Hermann end (1829-1907) & William Boeckmann (1832-1902) sketched Erbprinzlichen palace in the Cavalierstrasse in Dessau (1927 broken off) and of Heinrich the Kayser & Carl v. Groszheim sketched dome-resounds the exhibition palace at the Lehrter station in Berlin (destroyed) [ 33 ] . 1888 worked Koberstein - partial after drafts of Johann Ernst Schaller (1841-1887) - with Lessing, cook and other one on the decoration of the dining-room of the imperial dwelling in the citizen of Berlin city lock, sketched again by Adolph v. Heyden (1838-1902), (destroys). [ 34 ] 1889 became Koberstein member in the association citizen of Berlin artist [ 35 ] , the general German art cooperative and citizens of Berlin the arts and crafts association. it made 1890 independent with a studio for decorative painting, married themselves arts and crafts and graphics in Berlin and 1895 Gisela latch plate, it the children Ruth (* 1896), Hans Gotthold (1896-1944) and Annelise (* 1902) bore. On behalf of the pupils of the academy of the arts Berlin Koberstein illustrated a congratulation address to 9 May 1893 on the occasion of the 50sten of birthday of the director of academy Anton von Werner (1843-1915), who was married with a cousin petrol Lessings, Malvida Schroedter (1847-1901). [ 36 ] In co-operation with the pupils of the teaching institute to museum of arts and crafts created Koberstein starting from 1899 under the direction of cook wandmalereien for buildings of the Prussian federal state parliament [ 37 ] and the manor-house in Berlin, sketched by Friedrich Schulze (1843-1912). [ 38 ] 1906 were assigned Koberstein a wall painting for traffic and building museum in the former Hamburg station in Berlin. Destroyed, the achievements of the technology and the human inventor spirit bringing up for discussion paintings, the today, decorated the southern internal Giebelwand of the large exhibition hall. [ 39 ] The picture center took an enormous, painted monument, which presented a Allegorie of the industry. A female figure wrapped into rough work clothes supported self-confidently a suggestion hammer by one behind its standing anvil. On the left and on the right this technique mark were workers, planners and scientists, busily with their work, shown. Column-decorated architectures and also a course also under steam of standing locomotive served as motives for background. Further monumental and figure-rich wandmalereien developed for the district administration office Meseritz (today: Miedzyrzecz), cover paintings and Allegorien for the department stores value home (Berlin, destroyed) and Tietz (Hamburg, destroyed), the emperor Friedrich museum (since 1956 Bodemuseum; and 1905/06 for the schauspielhaus in Berlin [ 40] destroy painting . Apart from numerous poster drafts, book illustrations [ 41 ] , ex-Libris and honour addresses lithographies developed like the " Friedrich the large one create villages and cities in Schlesien " called. 1908 a developed fan with spitzenbesatz and a painted olympic God scene Kobersteins might be typical for the art-commercial work [ 42 ] . In oil Koberstein painted categoryful history pictures with titles like " the lost son " [ 43 ] , " last layer ", " the Schweinehirt ", " 1793 " [ 44 ] and " the luck in the angle ". 1909 were transferred it painting the Goerlitzer public library. [ 45 ] Over the later work years little is well-known. 1944 wrote Koberstein the manuscript " my uncle petrol ". Parallel to it petrol Lessings daughter IDA Caren wrote the Biographie of its 1941 of "pleased" brother Robert " my brother petrol Robert, called Bob ", which represents a further source of information to the personality Lessings. [ 46 ] Hans Koberstein probably deceased on 24 January 1945 in Berlin.