Alfred Hemp

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Alfred Hanf (born November 17, 1890 in Erfurt , † May 17, 1974 in Erfurt) was a German painter , graphic artist and commercial artist . He is considered a picture chronicler of his hometown Erfurt.

Live and act

Hanf attended the arts and crafts school in Erfurt from 1908 to 1910 . He recorded the old Erfurt in numerous sketches and his impressions there on trips to the Erfurt area and the Rhineland. From 1910 to 1912 he completed a drawing teacher training at the State Art School in Berlin and passed the state examination as a drawing teacher for secondary schools. In 1912/13, hemp studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden under Professor Carl Bantzer . In 1914/15 Hanf worked as a drawing teacher at schools in Erfurt, and from 1915 to 1918 he was deployed as a front soldier in the First World War .

In 1918/19 Hanf took up teaching positions at trade schools in Eberswalde and Erfurt. On January 20, 1919 he was one of the founding members of the “ Jung-Erfurt ” artist group . From 1919 to 1922 he worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist, then until 1924 at the commercial vocational school in Erfurt. Afterwards, hemp worked freelance again and traveled through Germany and Italy . From 1926 he worked at the Kunstgewerbeschule Erfurt, interrupted by trips to Italy, Spain , southern France and Switzerland . From 1942 to 1945 Hanf taught at the Erfurt Master School of German Crafts . In 1944 there was an exhibition of hemp plants in the Angermuseum in Erfurt. From 1945 onwards, Hanf was again working as a freelancer in Erfurt, giving private drawing lessons. After his denazification process in 1947, he received smaller orders again. So he designed the lettering of the Thuringian regional newspaper of the LDPD . Hemp lived and worked in the Carthusian mill in Erfurt. He was spiritually active well into old age and creatively active until shortly before his death at the age of 84.

Hemp was closely linked to art life in his hometown of Erfurt for over half a century. The long period also explains the different styles and working techniques in his work. This included a wide range of pencil drawings, etchings, copperplate engravings, woodcuts and linocuts, watercolors, some oil paintings, portraits, nudes, book illustrations, bookplates, commercial graphics, postcards, emergency notes and font design. Hemp was especially a picture chronicler of his hometown Erfurt. He kept much of the "Erfurt idyll", which has now disappeared due to bombing, misunderstood renovation and traffic planning. Hemp has created thousands of plants, large and small, in total.

After the First World War, hemp had a relatively short expressionist creative phase. In 1919 he founded an association " Jung-Erfurt " together with seven other artists in the hope of social change through art . This published a manifesto in the “ bull press ” (name after the lithographed bull designed by Hanf as a signet). In 1924, the group disbanded again, also under the impression of hostility to modern art. In 1924, Hanf designed mural paintings for the Reichsferienheim of the Socialist Workers' Youth Associations in Germany in the Tännich manor palace near Breitenheerda in Thuringia and for a new school in Friedersdorf near Großbreitenbach in the Thuringian Forest. Both were painted over in the 1930s. However, a corresponding graphic portfolio with the illustrations and texts has been preserved in the “bull press”: Towards life .

In the late 1920s, hemp turned more to a lyrical, soft, impressive style. In 1937, twelve graphics by hemp in the Angermuseum were classified as " degenerate art ", but not destroyed. Hemp had already returned to its earlier style and thus continued to hold onto nature, the streets, alleys and squares of his hometown Erfurt and its surroundings.

Hemp was married, the marriage remained childless.

literature

  • Hans-Peter Brachmanski: Alfred Hanf. Nostalgic Erfurt impressions . Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 1999. ISBN 3-932554-79-5
  • Hans-Peter Brachmanski: Retirement in peace and quiet - memories of the Erfurt artist Alfred Hanf . Thuringian General, June 23, 1999
  • Announcements of the German Exlibris Society 1/2010 (PDF; 1.5 MB): Alfred Hanf. Exhibition on the 35th year of the Expressionist's death , by Hans-Peter Brachmanski, pp. 19–20
  • Hans-Peter Brachmanski (Ed.): Alfred Hanf. Life and work. Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2011, ISBN 978-3-86777-253-2 .
  • Ruth Menzel: Memory of Alfred Hanf. An Erfurt artist of great versatility . Thuringian newspaper, November 24, 1990
  • Expressionism in Thuringia. Facets of a cultural awakening . Book for the exhibition “Expressionism in Thuringia” in Erfurt 1999. Eds. Cornelia Nowak, Kai Uwe Schierz, Justus H. Ulbricht. Glaux-Verlag, Jena 1999. ISBN 3-931743-26-8

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personal data
SURNAME Hemp, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 1974
Place of death Erfurt