Ferdy Horrmeyer

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Ferdy Horrmeyer (born March 8, 1890 in Hanover , † 1978 in Bremen ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Ferdinand Horrmeyer studied after school and painting apprenticeship in Hanover at the local arts and crafts school . He was a student of the church painter Friedrich Koch .

Towards the end of the First World War and in the young Weimar Republic , Horrmeyer created posters for war bonds , calls for elections for the SPD for the Reichstag elections or to advertise the avant-garde art magazine Das Hohe Ufer . Most of the prints were produced by Molling & Co. in Hanover, as the Imperial War Museum at Europeana .eu has proven.

In 1928 Horrmeyer lived in Berlin . He was a member of the German Werkbund .

Up until the Second World War , Horrmeyer designed, in addition to some paintings and church paintings, above all advertising posters for cigarette manufacturers and other companies. 1940–1945 he taught as a professor at the National Socialist -oriented Nordic Art College in Bremen. After the war he worked almost exclusively as a church painter and also designed picture windows . He has received numerous awards for his work.

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Ferdy Horrmeyer's estate is located in the State Church Archives in Hanover (holdings N 79).

literature

  • Walther Lampe : In memoriam Ferdinand Horrmeyer . In: Heimatland 6/1978, p. 182.
  • Art! Commerce! Visions! German posters 1888–1933 . Deutsches Historisches Museum (Ed.), Edition Braus, Heidelberg 1992, ISBN 3-89466-038-4 (exhibition catalog).
  • Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century , Seemann, Leipzig, 1953–1962

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Place of death according to auction notice ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.meerbuscher-kunstauktionshaus.com
  2. ↑ all other biographical information according to the short biography ( memento of March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Westermanns Monatshefte, Volume 106, Verlag Magazinpresse, 1965, p. 127, with congratulations on his 75th birthday; the year of death of 1960 mentioned in other sources is incorrect
  4. ^ Year of death 1978 according to: Hans Otte: Overview of the holdings of the Landeskirchlichen Archiv Hannover . 1983, p. 52
  5. ↑ so in the article by Lampe (see lit.); everywhere else, apparently after the self-designation as an artist, Ferdy Horrmeyer
  6. ↑ see web links
personal data
SURNAME Horrmeyer, Ferdy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horrmeyer, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 1978
Place of death Bremen