Felix Hess (draftsman)

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Drawing by Felix Hess on the controversial closure of community shops in the Netherlands (1921)

Felix Isidor Hess (born June 20, 1878 in Amsterdam ; died April 9, 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp ) was a Dutch draftsman , painter , illustrator and caricaturist .

biography

Felix Hess received his artistic training from 1901 to 1905 at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten , one of his teachers was the painter Pieter Dupont . In 1910 he became a member of the Kunstenaarsvereniging Sint Lucas and the following year of the Maatschappij Arti et Amicitiae . During the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940, because he was Jewish, he had to leave both associations.

Between 1916 and 1936 Felix Hess published the comic strip Uit het Kladschrift van Jantje in the magazine de Groene Amsterdammer , in which he made political comments from the perspective of a child. In 1934/35 drawings from this series were exhibited in the Kunstzaal van Lier in Amsterdam. In 1928 Hess took part in the art competitions of the Olympic Games in Amsterdam with drawings and watercolors , but won no awards.

Felix Hess later worked with the author Leonard Roggeveen on other comic strips such as De wonderlijke Reis van Jan Klaassen , which appeared in Algemeen Handelsblad and Nieuwsblad van het Noorden , and he illustrated the classic Dutch children's book De ongelooflijke avonturen van Bram Vingerling . He illustrated other children's books, for which he also designed the covers. From 1940 he continued to work under the pseudonym Jantje .

At an unknown point in time, Felix Hess was deported together with his wife Eliza Binger; both were murdered on April 9, 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp. According to the information available, the couple had no children.

literature

  • Hess, Felix . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 434 .
  • Jan van Adrichem (et al.): Rebel, mijn hart: kunstenaars 1940–1945 . Waanders, Zwolle 1995.

Web links

Commons : Felix Hess  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Felix Hess - Beeldende Kunst in Noord-Holland. In: artindex.nl. April 9, 1943, accessed November 14, 2018 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ jan klaassen. In: stripboekmuseum.nl. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ De ongeloofelijke avonturen van Bram Vingerling. In: DBNL - digital library before de Nederlandes letteren. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Felix Hess. In: lambiek.net. April 9, 1943, accessed November 14, 2018 . ; Felix Isidor Hess and his family. In: joodsmonument.nl. February 28, 2006, accessed November 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hess, Felix Isidor (full name); Jantje (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch draftsman, painter, illustrator and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1943
Place of death Sobibor extermination camp