Franz Kumher

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Franz Kumher (born July 16, 1927 in Oravița , German  Orawitz , Kingdom of Romania ; † February 13, 2018 ) was a German painter , graphic artist and light kineticist .

life and work

Franz Kumher was a student at the German grammar school in Timișoara . As a Banat Swabian , he was deported to forced labor in the Soviet Union in 1944 . In the autumn of 1946 he was released into the former Soviet zone of occupation on an ambulance in Heiligenstadt . After a few months he moved to the British zone of occupation ( Einbeck district ). He traveled to Austria, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, England, Spain, Portugal and France for study visits.

From 1948 to 1950 Kumher studied fine arts at the Alfeld University of Education (Leine) with Kurt Schwerdtfeger , a graduate of the Bauhaus University Weimar . In 1953 and from 1955 to 1957 he continued his studies at the Hanover School of Applied Arts with Erich Rhein , Gerhard Wendland , Helmut Gressieker and Herbert Jaeckel . From 1957 to 1961 he studied at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts with Heinz Trökes , Paul Wunderlich , Karl Kluth and Otto Stelzer . At the same time, he studied art history , German studies , philosophy and education at the University of Hamburg . He also took part in painting courses with Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg and with Johannes Itten in Hanover and Hamburg. He made lithographic works in the graphic experimental workshops of Slavi Soucek and Werner Otte in Salzburg and etchings with Herbert Jaeckel in Hanover and Worpswede .

Franz Kumher began his professional activity as an assistant at the Alfeld University of Education and as a teacher at elementary schools and grammar schools. In 1963 he was appointed professor of fine arts there and at the Hildesheim University of Education . In 1989 he continued his professorship at the University of Hildesheim , where he retired in 1992. His focus is on painting, graphics and light kinetics.

In his work, Kumher used technical and industrial manifestations, such as automatons, apparatus, spaceships, writing tablets, radios, machines or robots are motifs of his art that are symbolically charged. He created sketches of industrial landscapes, which he implemented in painting ( acrylic , tempera , mixed media ) and graphics (etching, lithography). He often integrated his Romanian homeland in his pictures.

Exhibitions

Publications

  • Art education , Kamp, Bochum, 1968
  • Painting - Graphics - Light Kinetics , Olms, Hildesheim, 1992
  • Signs of departure, traces of farewell Südostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Munich, 1994
  • Bild -zeichen , Kunstverein, Hildesheim, 2002

voluntary work

  • Vice President of the Cultural Association of the Banat Germans (Munich)
  • Supporter of the cultural forum of the Banat mountainous Germans in Reșița
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg
  • First chairman of the artists' guild, Lower Saxony regional association
  • First chairman of the Association of East German cultural workers
  • Member of the Südostdeutschen Kulturwerk in Munich
  • Member of the board and secretary of the state association of Lower Saxony of the Federation of Visual Artists in Hanover
  • Employee at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus (Düsseldorf)

Awards

  • Danube Swabian Culture Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg
  • Prize Municipal Art Gallery of Athens
  • Prize for lithography from the State of Salzburg
  • Austrian Rome price
  • Grand Prix of the Argentine National Committee
  • Palme d'Or des Beaux Arts of Monte Carlo
  • Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class (May 21, 1988)

literature

  • André Ficus : Franz Kumher . Delp, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-7689-0112-2
  • Günter Ott: Franz Kumher. In: artist profiles , Düsseldorf 1980
  • Heribert Heinrichs: On the pictures by Franz Kumher , House of the German East, Düsseldorf 1982
  • Manfred Boetzkes, Dieter Lüttge: Franz Kumher - Painting - Graphics - Light Kinetics , Hildesheim 1992
  • Heribert Heinrichs (Ed.): Painting and graphics by Franz Kumher , Hildesheim 1999
  • Josef Nolte , Klaus Sliwka: Franz Kumher - Bildzeichen , Hildesheim 2002
  • Ulrich Kumher (Ed.): Contributions to the artistic work of Franz Kumher , Hildesheim 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Kumher: Obituary notice. In: Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung. February 15, 2018, accessed February 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Franz Kumher . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
  3. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Kumher, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist, light kineticist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Oravița , Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2018