Albert Aereboe (31 January 1889 – 6 August 1970) was a German painter of the

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Life

Born in Lübeck as the son of the

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, Aereboe first attended the

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and the Johanneum, and then in 1906 underwent his training as a craftsman and artist in Berlin. In 1910, he returned to

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and attended the art school of Leo von Lütgendorff there. On Lütgendorff's recommendation, he went to

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in 1912 to the

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and studied with Hugo von Habermann until 1915. In 1916, he was called up for military service. Around 1917, he was commissioned by the well-known

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Karl Reitz to decorate his living room at Holtenauer Straße 59a in with murals and integrated paintings, watercolours and drawings to create a landscape. Only photographs of this work have survived. After the war, Aereboe worked as a freelance artist, first in Lübeck, and from 1925 on

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. In the meantime, from 1919 to 1926, he led the class for decorative painting at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule in

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, where he was awarded the title of professor in 1923. Here he met the painter Julie Katz (1888–1927), who had led the class for textiles since 1919 and became a professor in 1923; they both married in 1922. One of his outstanding works is ''My Ancestor Jens Aereboe''. Among other things, discussed on the occasion of its exhibition at the Behnhaus under ''A Monumental Painting by Albert Aereboe'' in the 13 November 1927. The artist had here painted his ancestor lord, who was a

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. Like Dürer's

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, the latter sits in a housing, albeit a completely Nordic one. See on this Saint Jerome in His Study Through the window one sees an austere dunescape and raindrops run along the glass. Inside are relationships to mathematics and optics. In the centre is the mentally worked-through face of the ancestor. The suspended glass sphere that intersects the face of "Jens Aereboe" is a symbol that makes itself understood without words. Through the door in the background, wrapped only in a flowing veil, comes a naked female figure. She too is of heightened significance. In the 1930s he also ran a studio in Berlin, but returned to bombed out Sylt in 1943 and worked exclusively in Lübeck again from 1959. He died in Lübeck. Here he was buried in 1970 in accordance with his last will in the Wenningstedter cemetery.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

* ''Albert Aereboe'', St. Anne's Museum Quarter, Lübeck, 1970. * ''Albert Aereboe'',

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, 1983. * ''Im Bann der Insel. Albert Aereboe'', Sylter Heimatmuseum,

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2018/2019, (Katalog).

Participations

* 1929: Große Kunstausstellung, Kunstverein Kassel * ''Lübecker Grafik der zwanziger Jahre'', with Erich Dummer, Asmus Jessen,

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, Waldemar Rosatis, Leopold Thieme, Museum im St.-Annen-Kloster, Lübeck, 1978/1979 and 1979. * ''Neuerwerbungen und Bilder aus dem Bestand des Söl'ring Foriining'', with Andreas Dirks,

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, Carl Christian Feddersen, C. P. Hansen, Richard Kaiser,

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, Franz Korwan,

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, Walther Kunau,

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, Siegward Sprotte, Helene Varges, Magnus Weidemann among others, Sylter Heimatmuseum,

2003.

Awards and honours

* 1959: Honorary citizen of Kampen on Sylt * 1968: (together with Gertrud-Wiebke Schröder)

Museum presence

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Lübeck – ''Die rote Jacke'' (1924), ''Selbstbildnis in der Turmstube des Doms'' (1924), ''Das tote Lamm'' *

* Landesmuseum

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