Emil van Hauth

Emil van Hauth (born  April 19, 1899 in Mayen as Gustaf Emil Hoffmann ; †  March 9, 1974 in Munich ) was a German painter and graphic artist. Gustaf Emil Hoffmann grew up in Mayen as the oldest child of a family of pharmacists and was interested in music and art from a very early age.

education

After attending primary school in Mayen and alumni in Boppard , he studied painting at the Munich School of Applied Arts. After two years he was drafted into the army and so he could not finish his studies. After several hospital stays due to war injuries in Engers , Koblenz , Kolberg and Andernach as well as his parents moving to Engers, Hoffmann attended two semesters at the Royal Ceramics School in Höhr-Grenzhausen in 1918 . He then studied at the arts and crafts school in Darmstadt and had private lessons with Professor Kay Heinrich Nebel. From the beginning of the 1920s, Hoffmann adopted the stage name Emil van Hauth based on the name of his maternal grandmother . This was not officially recognized for him until 1950. In 1922 van Hauth was a founding member of the Koblenz artist group Das Boot . During this time he met his future wife Margarethe Schmidt, who under the stage name Grit Hegesa as a dancer and UFA - film actress was known. The move to Berlin followed, where the wedding took place in 1925.

The Berlin time

In Berlin, van Hauth frequented the company of Max Beckmann , Ernesto de Fiori , Gustaf Gründgens , Emil Nolde , George Grosz , Philipp Harth and other contemporary artists. His teacher at this time was Arthur Segal . He painted portraits of many of these artists and of other people in Berlin society. His early works fluctuate between Expressionism and Cubism . From 1925 he switched to the New Objectivity style , and in 1926/27 after studying in Paris , he adopted the Cézanne style . Around 1930 he visited the artists' colony Ahrenshoop several times , and again he changed his painting style, this time his landscape paintings were more realistic and his portraits resembled the classic portrait painting of the 19th century. His main works were the qualitatively convincing portraits of women and still lifes .

In 1932 van Hauth, who was already a member of the November Group, joined the Berlin Secession . From May 2, 1933 until his departure on September 28, 1933, he was a member of the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur, which is closely related to the NSDAP , on the board of the Berlin Secession and joined the painter group of the Reich Chamber of Culture .

After unsuccessful party-related agitations, van Hauth withdrew from public life and only exhibited his pictures in private galleries. In a bomb attack in 1943, his Berlin studio with around 60 of his best works was destroyed. Then the couple moved to Bollendorf in the Eifel, where his father owned a pharmacy. After the end of the Second World War, they lived temporarily in Neuwied , Königstein im Taunus , Frankfurt am Main and Dießen am Ammersee . In 1953 the van Hauth couple found their last place of residence in Munich. In the post-war period he turned to the classic modern style , but without any noticeable artistic development. As an advocate of representational painting, van Hauth was unable to build on the success of his earlier works with his later works, which were more conservative.

His works

In addition to his mostly small-format still lifes and large portraits, some Eifel landscapes are also known. The art critic Reinhard Müller-Mehlis placed his late works in the succession of the French painters Bonnard , Vuillard and Vallotton . Van Hauth died on March 9, 1974 in Munich. His urn was buried in the family crypt of his wife's family in the lower cemetery in Lahnstein . A few years later, the largest van Hauth exhibition was opened in Bonn by the then State Secretary of Rhineland-Palatinate , Roman Herzog . The Eifelmuseum on the Genovevaburg in Mayen is the headquarters for researching the life of Emil van Hauth; 37 of his pictures and graphics can also be seen there. Occasionally pictures of van Hauth are still offered for sale in various art galleries. A total of almost 1100 works are known, of which 520 are available in color and 218 in black and white in photos, copies and partly also in newspaper clippings. There are also around 230 references to Emil van Hauth.

In terms of art history, Emil van Hauth belongs to the Lost Generation and Expressive Realism .

The table lists all of the works known in 1994 by genre .

Motifs	1923-1954	1955-1964	1965-1974	total
Branches, trees, leaves	16	15th	-	31
Nudes	11	2	5	19th
Architecture, landscape, houses	22nd	14th	4th	40
Boats	3	-	-	3
Eifel landscapes	6th	4th	4th	14th
Color plates	1	8th	-	9
People, portraits (without nudes)	55	46	68	169
Self-portraits	2	-	1	3
Still life	19th	48	29	96
Carpet designs	-	15th	-	15th
Animals	9	7th	1	17th
total	144	159	112	415

As part of further research into works by van Hauth, a total of 825 pictures were known in 2005. Including twelve self-portraits, 306 other portraits, thirteen mythological and religious subjects, 244 still lifes and 40 Eifel landscapes. The loss of 72 images is proven.

His painting techniques

watercolor	pencil	gouache	coal	Oil paint	tempera	ink
on handmade paper	on Ingres paper	on paper	on oil	on wood	on brown tissue paper	+ Watercolor
on paper	on cardboard	about coal	Charcoal and ink	on Ingres cardboard	on screen	India ink brush
on vellum paper	on monopoly cardboard	over ink brush drawing	Charcoal drawing	on Japanese paper	via pencil drawing on canvas	Brush drawing
and gouache	on paper		Chalk and charcoal	on cardboard	about pastel / gouache	+ Oil paint
watercolored charcoal drawing	Pencil sketch			on screen	+ Gouache and charcoal	+ white body color
about pen drawing	Pencil drawing			Canvas on cardboard	Water and opaque paints
over chalk drawing				on plywood	Wash
via reed pen drawing

In addition to the techniques mentioned above, Emil van Hauth also made lithographs , some colored, etchings and drypoint etchings . Often drawings are made with blue or black ballpoint pens.

Signatures and false names

Emil van Hauth used around 20 different signatures for his pictures. *

• Emil Hoffmann
• EH (monogram, with the E under the crossbar of the H)
• HE
• Emil Gustaf Hofmann
• Emil van Hauth
• EvH / EvH
• Gustaf Emil van Hauth
• Gustav Emil van Hauth
• GUSTAV EMIL HOFFMANN VAN HAUTH
• GE Hoffmann van Hauth
• GE HOFFMANN V DEN HAUTH
• H VAN, monogram, with the VAN under the crossbar of the H
• H VAN, monogram, but the VAN is under the crossbar, whereby the left bar of the V is also the lower part of the H.
• van Hauth
• van skin
• VAN HAUTH
• VAN HAUHT
• vH (monogram)

There are also various misspellings for Emil van Hauth in the literature. In the exhibition catalog Great Berlin Art Exhibition - Colored Space Art - 1926 as a skin, van . Emil van Haut in the exhibition catalog 30 German Artists , Berlin 1933. On the back of a photo from Hout's Ullstein picture service . In the inventory book of the German National Gallery in Berlin Emil van Houth . In: Will Grohmann: Art of the time , magazine for art and literature, Verlag Ottens Berlin, 1928 Van Hout . In the Lexikon des Films, 1926 he is called Von Hauth and in the Kürschner Graphic Designer Handbook, Illustrators by Charlotte Fergg-Frowein, van Hauth is named Prof. van Hauth .

Solo exhibitions

• 1920 Darmstadt: Gustaf Emil van Hauth (di Emil Hoffmann) Walpurgis Night
• 1920 Darmstadt: Emil van Hauth: Erotic sketches
• 1936 Berlin, Buchholz Gallery, Emil van Hauth watercolors and drawings
• 1939 Berlin, Buchholz Gallery, exhibition of Emil van Hauth oil paintings and Philipp Harth sculptures
• 1963 Düsseldorf, Galerie Alex Vömel, Königsallee 42: works by Emil van Hauth oil paintings
• 1964 Bremen, Graphisches Kabinett und Kunsthandlung Ursula Voigt KG, Bremen Rembertistr. 1 a: Works by Emil van Hauth-oil paintings-water-color-drawings
• 1965 Koblenz, Galerie Haus Metternich: Emil van Hauth painting drawings
• 1971 Munich: Emil van Hauth: Studies on sleepers. Oil paintings 1955–1971
• 1973 Munich, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Prinzregentenstrasse 60. First Van Hauth exhibition in Munich - pictures from three decades
• 1976 Munich, gallery at Poschinger Weiher. Estate exhibition on the sculptor Philipp Harth and the painter Emil van Hauth
• 1977 Bonn in the house of the State Representation of Rhineland-Palatinate: Emil van Hauth: Exhibition of the painter Emil van Hauth . Opening by Prof. Roman Herzog
• 1979 Mayen in the Eifel Landscape Museum, Genovevaburg
• 1982 Munich, Galerie Dietz, Maximilianstr. 36: Emil van Hauth 1899–1974 watercolors-drawings-oil sketches
• 2010 Mayen in the old prison: Emil van Hauth art exhibition MitMenschen The Mayener painter Emil van Hauth
• 2010/11 Bitburg, exhibition in the Bitburger Kreissparkasse. Emil van Hauth 1899–1974 painting drawings

Group exhibitions

In addition to the exhibitions listed above, Emil van Hauth's works have been published in around 50 group exhibitions. His pictures were shown for the first time in Koblenz in 1922/23 and 1924. This was followed by 23 participations in Berlin between 1925 and 1993, Magdeburg 1933, Saarbrücken 1933, and between 1933 and 1935 exhibitions in the Kahnweiler Gallery, Frankfurt a. Main, Hamburg and Bonn 1936, Mannheim 1937. 1939 Exhibition at the Buchholz gallery in Berlin. But there half of the pictures were banned by the Propaganda Ministry. Münster 1940, Cologne and Hamburg 1942. After the end of the war, Emil van Hauth exhibited in the Neuwied district museum in 1947 as part of the exhibition The Middle Rhine in contemporary art . 1949 in Koblenz, 1953 in Baden-Baden, 1955 in Hanover, 1962 in Munich and 1964 in Bielefeld.

Exhibitions after 1974

• 1976 Art exhibition at Pöschinger Weiher: The Inseparable, Emil van Hauth and Philipp Harth
• 1978 Koblenz, the painter Hans Sprung and his contemporaries in the Metternich house
• 1982 Munich, Emil van Hauth 1899–1974 in the Klaus Dietz gallery
• 1986 Bonn, German Association of Artists, 34th annual exhibition
• 1986 Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden. Philipp Harth and his friends
• 1993/94 Berlin, exhibition Novembergruppe Galerie Niemann
• 1995 Koblenz Middle Rhine Museum. Exhibition FUNDUS
• 1999/2000 Munich, Bernd Dürr Gallery. Exhibition VERFEMT! FORBIDDEN! TO FORGET!
• 2005 Koblenz, Middle Rhine Museum. Rhenish expressionists and European avant-garde

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive Realism. Painting of the Lost Generation , Hirmer, Munich 1994, p. 383
2. ↑ Barbara Schiele: Emil van Hauth (1899–1974) . Master's thesis, University of Mainz, 1994. (Unpublished)

literature

• Helga Kliemann: Hauth, Emil van , in: Die Novembergruppe (Visual Arts in Berlin, Volume 3) , Berlin 1969, pp. 46, 51, 83, 106 and 107, 1 ill. On p. 107.
• NN: Van Hauth, Emil , in: Art and artists in the Middle Rhine area in the 20th century . Arbeitsgemeinschaft Bildender Künstler am Mittelrhein Koblenz, Koblenz o. J. [1974], p. 95 ff. With 1 photo of the artist and 4 other images.
• Theobald Simon: Emil van Hauth , in: The art and the beautiful home , Munich 1975, 7, pp. 413-416, with 5 color photos
• KH Bodensiek: The painter Emil van Hauth (1899–1974) , in: Die Eifel 72, Düren 1977, p. 379, with 1 ill.
• Theobald Simon: Emil van Hauth: An artist portrait , in: Yearbook for the Daun district, Daun 1979, pp. 165–170, with 1 portrait photo of the artist and 5 other photos
• Rainer Zimmermann: Emil van Hauth 1899–1974 , in: The Art of the Lost Generation, German Painting of Expressive Realism from 1925–1975 . Düsseldorf / Vienna 1980, p. 360. With 1 portrait photo of the artist and another image of a painting on page 94.
• Bernd Brauksiepe and Anton Neugebauer: Emil van Hauth, 1899–1974 , in: Kuenstlerlexikon Rheinland-Pfalz, painter and graphic artist from 1450 to 1950 , Mainz 1986, pp. 94–95, with 2 illus.
• Barbara Schiele: Emil van Hauth (1899–1974) . Master's thesis, University of Mainz, 1994. (Unpublished).
• Rainer Zimmermann: Emil van Hauth, 1899–1974 , in: Expressive Realism, Painting of the Lost Generation , [new edition of the manual from 1980, but with a changed title], Munich 1994, p. 383, with a portrait photo of the artist.
• Hans Joachim Bodenbach: Emil van Hauth (1899–1974) , in: Encounters with Eifelmalern - A family history -, in: New Trierisches Jahrbuch 2000, NF, Volume 40, Trier 2000, pp. 247–268 with 18 illustrations and color plate IV. (Also reprints). With paintings / drawings by the following painters: Aenni Härtung / Koblenz (1 fig. B / w.), Kavenmoser / Koblenz (?) / (1 fig. B / w.), Pitt Kreuzberg / Schalkenmehren (1 color, and 3 fig . b / w.), Jean Möhren / Elberfeld (1 fig. b / w), Dr. Hans Roth / Koblenz (1 fig. B / w.), Fritz Schönhagen / Koblenz (?) (1 fig. S / w.), E. v. Hauth / Mayen (pp. 249–254, with 4 illus. 3–6, b / w.), Otto von Wille / Düsseldorf (2 illus. B / w.).
• KG Saur: Hauth, Emil van, portrait painter, stilllife painter , in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon , Bio-Bibliographischer Index AZ / The Artists of the world, Bio-bibliographical Index AZ, KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2000, p. 608.
• Hans Joachim Bodenbach: Grit Hegesa, dancer and silent film star from Niederlahnstein , [Grit Hegesa as the wife of Emil van Hauth], in: Yearbook for the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis 2003, Bad Ems 2002, pp. 147–153, with 4 figs.
• Willibald Reichertz: A son of the city of Mayen - the painter Emil van Hauth. His ancestors from Maifeld , in: Mitteilungen der Westdeutsche Gesellschaft für Familienkunde 90, 40, 7, Cologne 2002, pp. 208–211, with 5 figs.
• Hans Joachim Bodenbach: The painter Emil van Hauth (1899–1974), the son of a pharmacist from the Eifel, artist of the lost generation , in: Geschichte der Pharmazie, 54, 1/2, March 2002, pp. 23–25, with 4 illustrations. , including one in color. [Circulation: 40,000 copies]
• Hans Joachim Bodenbach: The painter Emil van Hauth (1899–1974) - artist of the lost generation , in: Eifel Jahrbuch 2004, p. 147, Düren 2003
• Hans Joachim Bodenbach: The painter Emil van Hauth (1899–1974) from Mayen in the Eifel , in: Heimatbuch 2005 Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz, Koblenz 2004, pp. 79–83. With 3 photos on p. 80 (from around 1912, with his 4 siblings, from 1925 together with his wife Grit Hegesa and the Koblenz painter Dornbach), and from 1936 (leaflet from the Buchholz Gallery, Berlin)
• Margot Klütsch: EXPERIMENT AND CONVENTION, Emil van Hauth painted modern urban women, landscapes and still lifes in delicate, shiny metallic colors in the Berlin of the Roaring Twenties in the New Objectivity style , in: Weltkunst, the magazine for art and antiques, 4, 2005, Munich 2005, pp. 66-68. (With photo on p. 66 from 1925, together with his wife Grit Hegesa and the Koblenz painter Dornbach)
• Bénézit [Emanuel Bénézit] Dictionary of Artists , Paris: Editions Gründ 2006, 14 volumes
• Margot Klütsch: The Mayener painter Emil van Hauth – From the Eifel to Berlin , in: Eifel Jahrbuch 2009, Düren 2008, pp. 18–28, with 12 illustrations, 7 of them in color.
• Margot Klütsch: The Mayener painter Emil van Hauth - from the Eifel to Berlin , in: Festschrift for the 59th time Stein & Burgfest - the festival in the volcano park, [To the Emil van Hauth - exhibition MitMenschen 2010 in the Mayener detention center (curator: Jan Wilbert, Hürth )] , Mayen 2010, pp. 8-63.
• Marie-Luise Niewodniczanska: Emil van Hauth 1899–1974, paintings, drawings PEOPLE-STILL-LIFE-LANDSCAPES, in: Exhibition catalog, Bitburg / Eifel (December 12, 2010 to January 31, 2011)
• M. [argot] Klütsch: Hauth, Emil van (eigtl. Hoffmann, Gustaf Emil), German painter, graphic artist, draftsman , in: Allgemeine Künstler-Lexikon -The visual artists of all times and peoples-, Volume 70, de Gruyter: Berlin / Boston 2011, pp. 251-252.
• Willibald Reichertz: Van Hauth - from Beverloo (Province of Limburg) zu Maifeld , in: Der Eisenbahner-Genealoge, Volume 4, pp. 348-350 (no year of publication given !!)
• Oxford Art Online , Oxford (GB) 2013 ff.

Web links

• Artist homepage at http://www.eifel-und-kunst.de/
• The artist community Das Boot in Koblenz
• Extensive collection of material about Emil van Hauth in the Middle Rhine Museum Koblenz
• Private website with many pictures of the painter