Siblings Rogge – Between Hunte and Wümme / Geschwister Rogge – Zwischen Hunte und Wümme
Thanks to the generous support of an art collector friend, the Dötlingen Foundation is in possession of an extensive collection of \Verken by the artist Emy Rogge and her brother Cornelius Rogge.
At the centre of the exhibition are large-format oil paintings by Emy Rogge with motifs from motifs from Dötlingen, works from her time in Berlin, as well as paintings and etchings with motifs from the Worpswede area.
Emy Rogge * 4 July 1866 in Schweewarden (today Nordenham); + 7 April 1959 in Worpswede)
Rogge and Georg Müller vom Siel’s grandmother were siblings.
Numerous paintings with Dötlingen motifs bear witness to their deep connection to the artists’ village in the Wildeshauser Geest. In her reports Emy Rogge mentions that in 1901 and 1902 she attended the painting school of Georg Müller vom Siel’s painting school in Dötlingen. After studying briefly at the Levin Funke studio in Berlin around 1901, Emy Rogge went to the ‘Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum’ in Berlin in 1902, which later became the Bode Museum. Her main task here was to copy old masters. She stayed here for 20 years. We can show two of these special works in the exhibition. In 1922, she and her brother Cornelius set up an etching workshop in Worphausen near Worpswede to earn a living as an artist.
Cornelius Rogge (1374 – 1936)
For the first time, we are also showing \Verke by her brother Cornelius Rogge, who a large number of etchings of different sizes and motifs to the extensive extensive presentation of the siblings. Cornelius Rogge initially worked as an export merchant in Oldenburg and later for Nestle, Stollwerk and Sprengel in Berlin. From 1919 he spent time in West and East Africa. In the etching workshop in Worphausen he mainly produced coloured etchings with motifs of the North German landscape, in particular the landscapes around Worpswede and Dötlingen. Through the distribution of the high-quality, often subtly coloured art postcards, the works have become known throughout Germany and also become known abroad.