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Ernst Hase (born September 26, 1889 in Münster ; † June 3, 1968 there ) was a German painter.

Life

Ernst Hase attended the Paulinum grammar school from 1895, but was a poor student. He only blossomed in Caesar Eimermacher's drawing school . He decided to study at the Art Academy in Munich , where he had Karl Raupp and Carl von Marr as teachers. In 1913 he went to Berlin and studied with Maximilian Schäfer . With the outbreak of the First World War, Hase became a soldier. After the war, Hase went to Düsseldorf and became a master student of Franz Kiederich , a representative of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . In 1922 he became a member of the Free Artist Community Schanze and was able to exhibit at its first exhibition in the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History . He became a member of both the Reich Association of Fine Artists in Germany and the Malkastens . From 1930 Hase toured the Mediterranean region and changed his style. After his return in 1932 he became chancellor of the "Schanze", but resigned in 1933 after the National Socialists came to power. Although Gauleiter Alfred Meyer had offered him a professorship, Hase refused. Finally, in 1937, Hase traveled to South Africa . In 1938 he bought a house in Emsdetten- Hembergen . There the street Ernst-Hase-Weg is named after him. With the end of the Second World War, Hase began to focus on his hometown Münster and the Münsterland , which he portrayed in many ways. On his 70th birthday, the Osnabrück City Museum dedicated an exhibition to him in 1959.