Ewald Hess

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Ewald K. Hess (born December 31, 1918 in Merbelsrod , Thuringia ; † May 30, 1996 in Brazil ) was a German painter of expressive realism in the post-war period.

Life

Hess studied in Dresden first at the School of Applied Arts and then at the State Art College , he was a student of Richard Müller , Rudolf Schramm-Zittau , Ernst Richard Dietze and Ernst Oskar Simonson-Castelli , as well as a master student of Wilhelm Rudolph . He also studied architecture with Wilhelm Kreis .

From 1938 he worked as a freelance painter in Leipzig and Dresden. He went on painting trips to Nuremberg and the Austrian Alps. In the Art Exhibition of the GDR in 1953 a total of six works of Hess were shown, but he decided in the same year the GDR to leave and moved to Wiesbaden where he set up his studio at the Nettelbeckstraße 24th Hess became a member of the artists' association "Ring Bildender Künstler".

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In order to free himself from the artistic constraints of socialist art, Hess emigrated to the Federal Republic. He turned to abstraction, most of his works are to be assigned to expressive realism and were created after numerous trips to Europe and Latin America. At the request of the art market, Hess also painted still lifes, which are in academic tradition and have expressionist features .

Hess also made murals in sgraffito and wax painting for public clients , among others in Leipzig, Wiesbaden , Bodenrod , Hünfeld and Bad Nauheim .

Publicly owned works are in the Biebrich Palace in Wiesbaden, in the Ministry of Culture of the State of Hesse, the art collection of the Federal Finance Directorate as well as in museums in Dresden, Berlin , Halle and in the Moritzburg Castle Museum in Zeitz .

Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 2. Great German Art Exhibition, Munich, 1938
  • Third German Art Exhibition, Albertinum Dresden, 1953
  • Wiesbaden artist, Nassau Art Association, 1961

Participation in art exhibitions in Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt and other cities, including Klagenfurt, Barcelona and Mallorca.

Solo exhibitions

  • "Ewald Hess", Dahms Gallery, Wiesbaden 1968
  • "Ewald Hess" at the Paris Art Association and at Pinosch, Paris

Further solo exhibitions in Hamburg, Chicago, Los Angeles and at the Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.museum-digital.dewww.museum-digital.de/nat/index.php?t=objekt&extern=yes&exWho=&oges=21393
  2. ↑ http://katalog.slub-dresden.de/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vl%28freeText0%29=%22Hess+Ewald%22&vl%28174636822UI0%29=creator&vl%28207932217UI1%29=all_items&tab=s default_tab & mode = Basic & vid = SEM & scp.scps = SemanticThirdNode
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de

literature

  • Manfred H. Grieb: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: visual artists, artisans, scholars . De Gruyter Saur, Berlin, 2007, p. 645

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Hess, Ewald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hess, Ewald K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Merbelsrod , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1996
Place of death Brazil