Claus Hansmann

Claus Hansmann (born June 15, 1918 in Munich ) is a German graphic artist and photographer .

Life

Claus Hansmann grew up in a left-wing liberal family. The mother was a piano teacher and photo journalist. The father was a writer and translator. Hansmann learned the profession of graphic artist at the graphic trade school in Munich. He then studied at the Academy of Applied Arts in Munich and graduated in 1939. In 1939 he was committed to labor service. With the beginning of the Second World War he was called up for military service and was a radio operator in the infantry . During the western campaign in France he began to draw fallen documents as documents of the inhuman . In the Soviet Union during the German-Soviet War , Hansmann intensified his secret drawing and began in September 1941 to write texts in literary form about his war impressions.

After the war, Claus Hansmann worked as a freelance graphic designer, set designer and photographer. He was co-founder of the union of intellectual and cultural workers and partly chairman of the protection association of visual artists. He organized the first exhibitions of young artists after 1945 in Munich.

As an illustrator, picture author, publisher, co-author and layouter, numerous book publications on cultural history and folk art have been published in collaboration with his wife Liselotte Hansmann.

From 1968 to 1970 Claus Hansmann was a lecturer for illustration and scientific graphics at the Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden .

In his speech on the 50th anniversary of the Hitler War on September 1, 1989 in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Claus Hansmann referred to Chancellor Helmut Kohl's saying grace of the late birth and claimed the life-shaping grace of a rational, critical and loving home for himself . And named a high-caliber circle of friends, committed and open to discussion , including the art historian and cultural philosopher Franz Roh , who lived a few doors down. The publisher and antiquarian Ernst Weil and his wife Gertrude Weil. The typographer Jan Tschichold , László Moholy-Nagy from the Bauhaus , Ing. Hultschiner , who worked abroad for a long time and left Germany in 1932. The art theorists Sigfried Giedion and Ernst Kuriel . The philosopher Rudolf Carnap , the myth and maternal rights researcher Ida Lublinski . The high school teacher August Schroff as an exponent of radical pacifism . The poor doctor Horn from the Munich Westend. The philosopher Stern with his partner Lotte Pariser. He committed suicide on the day of the deportation, Lotte Pariser ended up in Theresienstadt. The authority in the family's circle of friends was the Viennese economist and sociologist Otto Neurath , who in 1919 went into hiding with the family like a meteor in the night and fog over Gertrude Weil. Claus Hansmann's aunt Alexe Franken , Corinth student, was killed by the Nazis. Regine Pachmayr emigrated with her three children in 1939. The photographers Aenne Biermann , Lucia Moholy and Hilde Horn . The circle of friends was halved in 1933. Franz Roh was a so-called cultural bolshevist in protective custody taken. In June 1933 Ernst and Gertrude Weil emigrated.

Publications

• 8 drawings in: Leonce and Lena . A comedy. by Georg Büchner at Kluger Verlag, Munich 1947.
• Way of the Cross of the Spirit. Introduction by Franz Roh , visual arts, Alfons Bürger Verlag, Lorch 1948.
• Dolls from all over the world. With color photos, introduced by Leonie von Wilckens, Bruckmann Verlag , Munich 1959.
• with Liselotte Hansmann: Lots of delicious wax figures. With 30 color photos and 27 illustrations, Bruckmann, Munich 1959.
• Color photographs in: masks, schemes, larvae. Folk masks of the Alpine countries. Introduction by Gislind Ritz , Bruckmann, Munich 1959.
• Color photos in: Paula Kiessling, Waldemar Kiessling: Lüftlmalerei . Bruckmann, Munich 1959.
• Color photos in: Liselotte Hansmann (text): Hit the bullet. Bruckmann, Munich 1960.
• Color photos in: Eugen Roth : Oberammergau . Bruckmann, Munich 1960. English edition translated by Elizabeth Thompson, Munich 1960.
• Color photos in: Johanna Schmidt-Grohe: Galantes Porzellan. Fine arts, Bruckmann, Munich 1960.
• Color photos in: Wilhelm Döderlein: Altötting . Fine arts, Bruckmann, Munich 1960.
• Color photos in: Liselotte Hansmann (text): Tobacco since Anno Tobak. Cultural history, folklore, Bruckmann, Munich 1961.
• Color photographs in: Motley Farmer's Sky. On reverse glass painting , introduction by Gislind Ritz, fine arts, cultural history, Bruckmann, Munich 1961., 3rd edition, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-7654-1116-7 .
• Photos and drawings in: Manfred Bachmann : Das große Puppenbuch. Kulturgeschichte, Wasmuth, Tübingen 1971, French edition: Le grand livre de la poupée. Edition Leipzig 1972, English edition: Dolls the wide world over. Harrap, London 1973, 1991; ISBN 3-361-00381-4 .
• Photos and drawings in: Nativity scenes . Illustrated guide through the crib department of the Bavarian National Museum. Fine arts, Bavarian National Museum , Munich 1972.
• Color photos in: Juliane Roh : I received wonderful help. Votive pictures from Bavarian pilgrimage sites. Fine arts, cultural history, Bruckmann, Munich 1974, 5th expanded and new edited edition, Bruckmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7654-1871-4 .
• with Liselotte Hansmann, Roswitha Schlötterer: The Atlantis Christmas Book. Beautiful literature and songs, Atlantis, Zurich 1977, ISBN 3-7611-0526-6 .
• Over - not over. Russian impressions. 1941-1943. Foreword by Christoph Stölzl , The afterwords are excerpts from a speech given by Claus Hansmann at the opening of an exhibition commemorating 50 years of the outbreak of the Second World War on September 1, 1989 in the German Historical Museum . With 21 drawings and 16 photographs, Ullstein Sachbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-548-34682-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A farmer distributes bread to prisoners of war, Soviet Union, 1941 German Historical Museum