Alexander Oskar Noah

Alexander Oskar Noah (born February 10, 1885 in Meißen , † September 13, 1968 in Hamburg ) was a German art and landscape painter .

Life

Noah was born as the fourth child of the porcelain painter couple Anton Alexander and Auguste Noahs. After attending the arts and crafts school in Dresden and working as a theater painter at the Royal Court Opera in Dresden for seven years , studied at the art academy in Dresden (master class from Professor Eugen Bracht). Then his own painting school in Chemnitz until he was called up for military service in 1915. From 1918 after the war wedding, residence and studio in Lokstedt . Noah was a member of the Hamburg Art Association and had lived in Lokstedt since 1919 . After losing his house and studio in a bombing raid on Hamburg during World War II , Noah found a new home in Kappeln an der Schlei from 1943 , interrupted from 1944–1945 by military service and subsequent imprisonment in Belgium. In 1954 he returned to Hamburg. On September 13, 1968, he was killed in a traffic accident on a zebra crossing in Hamburg.

He became known nationwide primarily for his atmospheric landscape paintings and watercolors , most of which he created before the Second World War . Noah painted not only in Hamburg and the surrounding area, but also views of Meißen and Stolberg (Harz) are known, which he signed with “AO Noah, Lokstedt” . The Schleimuseum in Kappeln acquired 217 paintings by Noah in 2009. Countless lifelike pictures of his Saxon homeland, of Hamburg (harbor, Alster , Gängeviertel, Altes Land) and the surrounding area, of Kappeln and Schlei landscapes, of Harz , Black Forest and the Alps , as well as of his travels to Italy , Greece , Norway , Mallorca etc. . attest to his tireless work until the day of his death.

Web links

• http://www.lokstedt.de/stadtteil/stadtteil5.html