Eugene Ludwig Hoess

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Eugen Ludwig Hoess (* 1. October 1866 in Immenstadt ; † 9. March 1955 in Langenwang ; actually Eugen Ludwig Hoess ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

biography

Eugen Ludwig Hoess comes from a brewing family from Immenstadt in Oberallgäu . After attending secondary school and, from 1885, the Hans Heim preparatory school in Munich , he passed the entrance exam at the Academy of Arts in Munich after six months . There he was a student of Professors Kirchbach, Raupp, v. Hackl and Ritter v. Herterich. In 1889 he moved to Frankfurt , but in 1891 he returned to Munich. There he had his first exhibition two years later with pictures of hunting, game and landscapes of the Allgäu .

His stage name Eugen Ludwig Hoess came about when he returned to Munich.

He went on study trips to Sweden, Austria and Italy, among others.

He returned to his hometown in 1898.

For the city administration of Immenstadt he designed, among other things, the emergency note for 50 pfennigs and a certificate for the honorary citizen Paul von Hindenburg .

In 1936 he moved to Langenwang and married the writer Adele Ude there.

The artist died at the age of 88 and his final resting place was in the cemetery in Lindau / Bodensee.

Works

Crows on a dead young rabbit from "Animal Construction and Animal Life Considered in Their Context" by Richard Hesse and Franz Theodor Doflein

Eugen Ludwig Hoess' works related to landscapes and the game living in them (hence his nickname → the Rehfidles painter ). The technique he used was pen and stone drawing , etching , watercolor , and oil painting . Between 1900 and 1914 he had earned a reputation as the best hunting painter. His success was also based on his collaboration with the widespread magazine "Jugend", founded in 1896. Hoess has sent several national and international exhibitions and is a historical guest at the art exhibition Die Südliche 2010, which is relevant for the Upper Allgäu .

literature

  • Immenstadt im Allgäu - landscape, history, economy, cultural and religious life over the centuries, (Ed.) † Dr. Rudolf Vogel, Verlag J. Eberl KG, Immenstadt 1996.
  • Swabian stubborn heads , † Hans Breinlinger, Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag GmbH, 1975.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Rehfidles painter in art histories of Gunther le Maire
personal data
SURNAME Hoess, Eugene Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Höss, Eugen Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Immenstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1955
Place of death Langenwang