Hanna Breidinger-Spohr

Hanna Breidinger-Spohr

Hanna Breidinger-Spohr (born July 26, 1922 in Eberbach ; † September 7, 2000 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German painter and woodcut artist. Her complete oeuvre includes around 600 woodcuts and linocuts that were created between 1954 and 2000.

Life

Hanna Breidinger-Spohr was born as the eldest daughter of master tailor Heinrich Spohr and his wife Georgine. On the advice of her teacher, she applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe in 1941 and was admitted there for the winter semester of 1941/42. She received her training from Josua Leander Gampp , Hermann Goebel and Wilhelm Sauter , who was appointed as a new professor at the academy at the end of 1941 and whose pictures with soldier motifs were very well received in the “Third Reich”. At the end of the summer semester of 1944, studying at the Art Academy was declared a luxury by the National Socialist authorities, and all students were drafted into the military industry. Hanna Breidinger-Spohr first came to the electronics company Stotz in Eberbach, later she was used in the construction of the bunker on the Ohrsberg .

A relatively extensive complete work has come down to us from the 1940s, comprising oil paintings , portraits , watercolors and pen drawings with Eberbach city motifs and motifs from the Neckar valley . Although different in the selection of techniques and motifs, her works of art in those years were based on a more classic, conservative understanding of art. This changed through the contact with the Bauhaus artist Heiner Knaub , also a native of Eberbach, who had returned to Eberbach in 1947 from captivity. In her “Notes”, Hanna Breidinger-Spohr noted: “I went to see him as soon as possible. And I owe him the best possible, careful introduction to a new worldview. He gave me literature and also criticized my attempts to free myself from the conventional way of seeing. At first we argued sharply. Today I know that I owe him a lot. It was like a foreign language that had to be spelled with difficulty. But the question left me no longer in peace: How did these people come to paint and draw like that? ”In 1947 Hanna Spohr married her childhood friend Willy Breidinger.

In 1952 Hanna Breidinger-Spohr resumed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and was assigned to the drawing class of Karl Hubbuch , who was banned from working by the Nazi rulers in 1935–1945 and has been back at the Academy taught as a professor. It was through him that Hanna Breidinger-Spohr found her real profession: hand-printing woodcuts .

Over a period of around 45 years, an extensive oeuvre of around 600 woodcuts and linocuts was created , which can be divided into the following subject areas:

• People and portraits
• Cityscapes | composition
• Animal representations
• Everyday life | Customs and traditions
• Parables | symbolism
• Religious and biblical motifs
• Illustration | Graphic | Limericks

From 1954 Hanna Breidinger-Spohr lived in Bad Kreuznach, where her husband had accepted a job as an architect. In 1968 she joined the artist group Nahe, of which she was an active member until her death in 2000.

Works (selection)

Works in public collections and privately owned in Germany, Switzerland and France:

• The grandmother, 1958, woodcut, Badischer Kunstverein
• Gethsemane, 1958, woodcut, Theol. Pedagogical Institute Godesberg
• Gethsemane, 1958, woodcut, Church Music Institute Heidelberg
• Owls II, 1978, woodcut, Kurhaus Bad Kreuznach
• Autumn, 1972, wood-linoleum cut, State of Rhineland-Palatinate
• The fish calls for fresh water, 1991, woodcut, Ministry of Culture Mainz
• Cat, 1956, woodcut, Singen aluminum rolling mills
• The last sheet, 1984, woodcut, Rheumaklinikum Bad Kreuznach
• Landscape, 1958, woodcut, Badischer Kunstverein
• Sunflower field, 1973, linocut, Boehringer, Ingelheim
• Crouching women, 1970, wood-linoleum cut, Kurzentrum Eberbach
• In the world you are afraid, 1953, woodcut, city administration Karlsruhe
• Ballonfest II, no year, woodcut, Bad Ems district administration
• Kurpark, 1994, linocut, Ministry of Culture Mainz

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions: Bad Kreuznach, Bad Godesberg, Mayen, Koblenz, Ingelheim, Bad Bergzabern, Bonn, Bad Zwischenahn, Frankfurt a. M., Birkenfeld, Eberbach a. N., Bad Ems, Meisenheim, Alzey, Idar-Oberstein.

Participation in exhibitions: Bad Kreuznach, Bourg-en-Bresse, Karlsruhe, Kirn, Mainz, Koblenz, Eberbach a. N., Baden-Baden, Munich.

literature

• Hanna Breidinger-Spohr: records. unpublished manuscript, Eberbach, undated
• Wilma Döring-Vitt: Hanna Breidinger-Spohr - woodcuts - an artist monograph. Karthaus artist house, 1982.
• Siglinde Knopp-Simon: Encounter with the woodcut artist and native Eberbacher Hanna Breidinger-Spohr. In: Eberbacher Geschichtsblatt. Volume 99, 2000, pp. 178-198.
• Siglinde Knopp-Simon: A knife in "delicate woman's hands". In: The Naheland calendar 1999. Chronicle of the Bad Kreuznach district. Verlag Matthias Ess, 1998, pp. 169-175.
• Axel-Alexander Ziese: General encyclopedia of artists in the fine and creative arts of the late XX. Century. 1984/85, arte factum publishing company, Nuremberg [Hanna Breidinger-Spohr: 83055].

Web links

• www.hanna-spohr.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Home I Hanna Spohr. Retrieved February 5, 2020 . 
2. ^ Künstlergruppe Nahe eV Accessed on March 16, 2020 (German).