Dan Hauenstein

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Dan Hauenstein (born August 24, 1894 in Mühlheim am Main , † September 19, 1978 in Bad Orb ) was a German painter and sculptor .

education

Daniel Hauenstein, later called Dan, was the son of a village tailor . He was born in Mühlheim am Main. He began his artistic training at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main, which was founded in 1832 (at that time "Technical Institute"). Then he continued his studies at the State University of Fine Arts in Frankfurt (at that time still " Städelschule "). Hauenstein first studied painting , later he switched to sculpture. His time as the sculptor's assistant at the Städelschule, Carl Stock (1876–1945), left a lasting impression and influence on the work of the later sculptor Dan Hauenstein .

Career and artistic work

Dan Hauenstein - Cinderella - clay model for the fountain sculpture

The war years (1914–1918), which Dan Hauenstein spent at the front, brought a turning point in artistic development. The general economic restrictions of the post-war years forced Dan Hauenstein to start a craft activity: he opened a stonemason in Hanau that specialized in tombstones and the like. He transferred his creative skills to the field of tombstone design. That soon drew a lot of attention to him and made his company prosper in the 1920s and 1930s. His latent desire to work entirely as a freelance sculptor found a breakthrough in 1937 when he visited the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich . He himself said: “An inner voice could no longer be suppressed: You have to work here too, you have to find a place here too, no matter how modest it may be.” Thanks to intensive work, he was already able to work on the exhibition Participate in 1939 with two works. In 1942 he exhibited in several rooms in an exhibition organized by the Hanau History Association. In 1944, Dan Hauenstein and his artist friend the painter August Peukert , with the approaching war front in mind, set up artist studios in Bad Orb, in the quiet Spessart. Since Hauenstein's workshop in Hanau and shortly afterwards his apartment were destroyed, Bad Orb became his new home, to which he remained loyal until his death. In the early 1950s, a fruitful collaboration developed between Hauenstein and the Rosenthal porcelain factory . Three of his smaller figures, the “Feedback give Sybill ”, “Marienkinder” and “ Hans im Glück ”, were also made in porcelain, as was the 70 cm tall “Maria with Baby Jesus”. Numerous portrait busts of industrialists, doctors and scientists, as well as Orber citizens and friends were created during this time. The sculptures created for the Alte Leipziger Versicherung in Frankfurt should be mentioned here (the head of the founder JFA Olearius and a warrior memorial for the fallen employees). Hauenstein's busts and reliefs by Albert Schweitzer were particularly popular. They found their way into numerous schools all over Germany that are named after this famous benefactor and philanthropist (e.g. Berlin , Frankfurt, Lüdenscheid , Offenbach and Osnabrück ). Many of his works to this day adorn the Orb downtown, including by the metalsmith bridge railing on the Orbbach the source ring running Heiner Desch or the bronze sculpture "Eternal couple" with two albatrosses on a ball in front of the junior high school Bad Orb.

The art of building with wall paintings , sgraffiti , mosaics and wall reliefs also belonged to Dan Hauenstein's domain. They can be admired on some Orber houses, on the fountain house of the Philippsquelle in Bad Orb or as a large stone relief at the entrance to the mourning hall of the Hanau cemetery . The variety of Hauenstein's design styles spans a wide range, from models such as Ernst Barlach to Georg Kolbe and Wilhelm Lehmbruck to his contemporaries Josef Thorak and Fritz Klimsch . Basically, he remains committed to the real and the physically recognizable. His characters are z. Sometimes described as “weightless, almost floating”.

Works (selection)

Sculptures

  • "Eagle",
  • "Albatros",
  • "Cinderella", (Brothers Grimm fairy tale cycle)
  • "Tree horse",
  • "Begin with child",
  • "Begin with children",
  • "Protected life", large sculpture in front of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Northeim
  • "Britta portrait",
  • "The time",
  • "Three pelicans",
  • "Rapture", (unfinished)
  • "Eternal couple", (two seagulls) bronze sculpture in front of the secondary school in Bad Orb
  • "Foal",
  • "Frog Queen", (Brothers Grimm fairy tale cycle)
  • "Horticultural architect Oberüber",
  • "Grenadier",
  • "Hans im Glück", (Brothers Grimm fairy tale cycle)
  • "Hunting horses",
  • "Johann Friedrich August Olearius",
  • "Youth Leader",
  • "Runner",
  • "Mary with baby Jesus",
  • "Marienkinder",
  • "My son",
  • "Mother Cross Bearer",
  • "Colonel Mölders",
  • "Horse heads",
  • "Resting with horses",
  • "Schoolboy Trio",
  • "Swan",
  • "Sybill",
  • "Mourners".

Stone reliefs

"Memento vivere memento mori"

literature

1. Leonhard Tomczyk: "The sculptor Dan Hauenstein", in Archives for Hessian History 67 (2009) 291-311

2. Luise Markert: "In Memoriam Dan Hauenstein", G. Bischof & Sohn printing works, Maintal, 1994

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Hauenstein: Daniel Hauenstein exhibits . In: Kinzig Wacht of March 7, 1942
  2. ^ Leonhard Tomczyk: The sculptor Dan Hauenstein . In: Archive for Hessian History 67 (2009), 298
  3. ↑ The sculptor Dan Hauenstein will be 75 years old on Sunday . Hanauer Anzeiger, 23 August 1969
  4. ↑ Hans Oehlschläger, “A Hanau sculptor exhibits”, in Kinzig Wacht, March 12, 1942

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personal data
SURNAME Hauenstein, Dan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlheim am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1978
Place of death Bad Orb