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Eduard Bargheer was born in 1901 on the island of Finkenwerder and spent most
of his life in Italy. He bought a house in Forio on the island of Ischia as early as
1939. Initially he attended the art school Gerda Koppel in Hamburg, was taught
by Ahlers-Hestermann and Harry Reuss-Löwenstein, in the late twenties he
moved into a small cottage on the Ness in Finkenwerder (which was torn down in
1939 due to an extension of the aircraft construction works), in the mid thirties
he moved to a fisherman's house on the Elbe slopes in Blankenese. A number of
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| In 1940 Bargheer relocated to Ischia with the permission of the Wehrmeldeamt ("Army Record Section"), after the war he taught in Hamburg, Rome and Berlin. Ischia remained his main place of residence, though, and he surrounded himself with artists and intellectuals there. He spent the last years of his life in his house Haus Rutsch 2, on the slopes of the Elbe in Blankenese, where he initiated a foundation for young artists. Eduard Bargheer died there in 1979. |
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| Waiting for Godot - Performances in Forio/Ischia |
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which he often did in company of his mentor and patron Gretchen Wohlwill. As a matter of fact, it seems that Bargheer seems to have fared very well throughout
the time of the world economic crisis, much better than most of his fellow
painters from Hamburg. He turned down the offer of a studio in the Ohlendorffhaus and rather spent time studying in Paris in the years 1932/1933, later moving to the more spacious studio on Jungfernstieg. In 1929 he joined the "Hamburg Secession", was acquainted with mayor Krogmann and had maintained a good relationship with the head of Hamburger Kunsthalle at the time, Wilhelm von Kleinschmit-Lengefeld. Nevertheless he complained (also to Beckett) about difficulties with the authorities, monitoring and threats, which he saw himself and his paintings exposed to. Indeed, the campaign "Entartete
Kunst" ("Degenerate Art") saw several of his works being confiscated. |
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