Conrad Hommel

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Conrad Hommel (also: Konrad , born February 16, 1883 in Mainz ; died November 11, 1971 in Sielbeck ) was a German painter. He was best known for his portraits of leading German entrepreneurs such as Max Grundig , Herbert Quandt , and politicians such as Paul von Hindenburg , Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring .

Life

Konrad Hommel's father was a commercial advisor in Mainz. Hommel's sister "Mimi" (Luise Mathilde Wilhelmine) later married Albert Friedrich Speer and became the mother of Albert Speer . In 1908 Hommel married Carolina Schultheiß (1869–1938), who was divorced from the painter Georg Schuster-Woldan , and was fourteen years older than him. Their child Eva, later Eva van Hoboken (1905–1987), was born on July 28, 1905 in Fiesole, where they had fled at the time .

Hommel had been a student of Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris since 1906 and enrolled on October 19, 1909 at the Munich Academy as a student of Hugo von Habermann's painting class . Hommel became a member of the Munich Secession , later its president, he held the title of professor in 1928. In 1936 he received the "Lenbach Prize".

The late impressionist Hommel had portrayed Albert Einstein and Friedrich Ebert . Hommel's painting style corresponded to the National Socialists ' understanding of art , so that during the Nazi era he was represented several times at the Great German Art Exhibitions in the Munich House of German Art , including portraits of Field Marshal August von Mackensen and “ Reichsminister Dr. Shaft ". For the Great German Art Exhibition, he sat on the jury as president of the Munich Secession with Adolf Ziegler , Rudolf Eisenmenger , Arno Breker , Karl Albiker , Josef Wackerle and Gerdy Troost .

After Hitler bought Hommel's Goebbels portrait in 1938 , he became head of a painting class at the Berlin Art Academy in 1939 . In the same year he married Barbara von Kalckreuth . In 1939 and 1940 he painted two portraits of Hitler, which were widely used as reproductions, as well as Heinrich Himmler and the Reichsjägermeister Göring. At the exhibitions of German artists and the SS in 1944 in Breslau and Salzburg , he showed a "daughter of the mountains". In the final phase of the Second World War , Hitler added him to the God-gifted list of the most important painters in August 1944 , which saved him from being deployed in the war, including on the home front .

After the end of the war he was indicted in front of the Spruchkammer X in Munich on July 9, 1948 as a Nazi activist and beneficiary, but the lawsuit was withdrawn after a month. After denazification , Hommel continued his career and portrayed business leaders in the Federal Republic.

literature

  • S.-W. Staps: Hommel, Conrad . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 74, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023179-3 , p. 370 f.
  • Peter Adam: Art in the Third Reich , Hamburg: Rogner & Bernhard, 1992 ISBN 3-8077-0259-8 , p. 99 u. 172
  • Nortrud Gomringer (Ed.): Lion Feuchtwanger, letters to Eva van Hoboken , Vienna: Ed. Splitter 1996 ISBN 3-901190-26-0
  • Tobias Ronge: The image of the ruler in painting and graphics of National Socialism, an investigation into the iconography of leaders and functionaries in the Third Reich , Berlin 2010, pp. 283–285
  • Robert Thoms: Great German Art Exhibition Munich 1937-1944 . Directory of artists in two volumes, Volume I: painter and graphic artist. Neuhaus, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937294-01-8
  • Georg Jacob Wolf: Conrad Hommel . Oechelhäuser Verlag Munich 1928 6 p. Text and 41 plates. Art of time

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 265-266.
personal data
SURNAME Hommel, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hommel, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1971
Place of death Sielbeck at Eutin