Franz Huth (painter)

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Franz Huth (born November 9, 1876 in Pößneck , † June 7, 1970 in Weimar ) was a German painter . He is considered one of the most important pastel painters of the 20th century , especially in Thuringia . His area of ​​activity was primarily landscape paintings and interiors.

Ilmpark Weimar with a view of Goethe's garden house
Grave in the historical cemetery in Weimar

Life

Franz Huth was the second son of the porcelain painter Louis Huth . He learned the technique of porcelain and glass painting from his father . As a 12-year-old he worked in his father's workshop. After an apprenticeship (from 1892) in Volkstedt near Rudolstadt as a porcelain painter, he began an apprenticeship as a glass painter in the Giant Mountains in 1894. He also got to know his long-time friend and painter colleague Arthur Julius Barth .

He then began studying at the Dresden School of Applied Arts, where he only endured three semesters between 1895 and 1897. After a long stay from 1897 to 1898 in Switzerland, southern France and northern Italy, he visited the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin in 1900 .

From 1903 he worked for a few years in Heidelberg for the local branch of his father's manufacture. From 1911 to 1918 he lived and worked as a freelance artist in various cities: Cuxhaven, Heidelberg, Rome, Darmstadt. Pastel painting came more and more to the fore. In 1918 he took up residence in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse.

He was married to the artist Gertrud Borchmann (d. 1959). In 1922 he moved with his family to Weimar , where he worked with short breaks until 1961. During the last nine years of his life, an eye disease put an end to his work. Franz Huth died, honored in Thuringia and an honorary citizen of his hometown Pößneck, at the age of 93 in Weimar and was buried there in the historical cemetery .

During almost forty years of activity in Weimar, Franz Huth became a sensitive mediator of the city's atmosphere. His masterful mastery of pastel painting was particularly evident in the depiction of the interiors of the Weimar palaces, which he knew how to reproduce in a detailed and atmospheric way.

literature

  • Theo Müller: Professor Franz Huth - special exhibition on the occasion of his 85th birthday. Catalog. Weimar.
  • Hans Joachim Malberg (Hrsg.): Weimar: 14 colored plates after pastels by Franz Huth . With an introduction by Hans Malberg, Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1964.

Web links

Commons : Franz Huth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://d-nb.info/gnd/118708414
  2. ↑ In the book the editor is referred to as "Hans Malberg" or "Dr. Hans Malberg". According to the online catalog of the German National Library, this is the same person. (Link to this dataset: Dataset )
personal data
SURNAME Huth, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastel painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Poessneck
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1970
Place of death Weimar