Ulrich Hübner

German painter Ulrich Hübner was an important impressionist and landscape painter leading the landscape class of a painting school. In 1899, he became a member of the Berlin Secession in 1899 and was on the Board in 1906-07. He painted harbor scenes in Hamburg and the Baltic Sea, in particular, and city scenes of Berlin.

Hübner came from a family of artists and studied in Karlsruhe and München. In 1913 he moved back to Lübeck and joined the Free Berlin Secession. Later he spent the summers in Travemünde on the Baltic Sea and then lived there for a number of years. In 1919, he returned to Berlin and was influenced by the impressionists having his breakthrough after returning from a stay in Italy.

Hübner later taught at the Academy of Visual Arts and was appointed a full member of the Prussian Art Academy. In the last decade of his life, he hesitantly adopted more modern tendencies in art. When his house was confiscated after World War II, his artistic estate and collections of contemporary art vanished. His brother Heinrich also became a painter.

Hübner posthumously took part in the 1932 Olympic art competitions as he had died a few months earlier. A 70 x 94 cm painting (oil on canvas) shows a Summer Day on the Baltic coast. It was painted as early as 1909 and is in the collection of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. At least one other painting is known bearing the same title, also painted shortly before World War I. A painting with the title Summer Day, Lübeck was created in 1910, Summer Day in Travemünde in 1913. The year of origin of Summer Day at Wannsee is not known.