Hannes Beckmann (painter)
Hannes Beckmann (born October 8, 1909 in Stuttgart ; died July 19, 1977 in Hanover (New Hampshire) ) was a German-Czech-American painter.
Life
Hannes Beckmann's father died in the First World War in 1914 . His younger brother Paul "Bedra" also became a visual artist. Hannes Beckmann studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1928 , and his teachers included Josef Albers , Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky . In 1931 he received the Bauhaus diploma for stage design. After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he went to Vienna to the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (GLV) and trained there as a photographer. From 1934 he lived in exile in Prague. With his wife Matty Wiener, he visited Kandinsky in 1935 in exile in Paris, who tried to persuade them to flee to England. After the rest of the Czech Republic was broken up in 1939, he was interrogated several times by the Gestapo , while his Jewish wife Mathilda was detained separately from him in the Theresienstadt ghetto . In September 1944 he was in the "special camp for persons married to Jewish Aryan and Jewish half-breeds" on the SS training area Bohemia in Bistrita at Beneschau put into prison camp. In 1947 he received Czechoslovak citizenship and honorary citizenship. In 1948 he and Mathilda emigrated to the USA . In New York City he was appointed head of the photography department at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum . From 1953 he took a teaching position for "two-dimensional design" and "color theory" at the Cooper Union art college . In 1960 he gave guest lectures at Yale University . From 1970 he taught as a professor at Dartmouth College , where he retired in 1975, and therefore moved to Hanover, New Hampshire .
Beckmann designed his paintings, executed in oil or acrylic, in the geometric-abstract tradition of the Bauhaus. He was invited to participate in group exhibitions in the USA, for example in the 1965 exhibition The Responsive Eye at MoMA .
literature
- Peter Wiench: Beckmann, Hannes . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , pp. 190 f.
- Eckhard Neumann (ed.): Bauhaus and Bauhäusler: Memories and Confessions . New edition 1985, 5th edition, Cologne: DuMont, 1996 ISBN 3-7701-1673-9 , pp. 273-279
- Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.), International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 1 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 67
Web links
- Literature by and about Hannes Beckmann (painter) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Beckmann, Hannes, 1909-1977 , at snac
- Entries in Arthistoricum.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bronislava Rokytová: 'Dear Herr Beckmann…' From Wassily Kandinsky's letters to Hannes Beckmann in Prague (1934–1939) , from: UMĚNÍ ART 1 LXII 2014, Journal of the Institute for Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- ^ Special camp for "Jewish mixed Aryans and Jewish mixed race" on the SS military training area in Bistritz near Beneschau , at the Federal Archives
- ↑ Beckmann's camp is also known as the Janowitz subcamp (near Vrchotovy Janovice ). The Slovak city of Banská Bystrica is also mentioned as the place of detention, probably because of a mix-up .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beckmann, Hannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Czech-American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1977 |
| Place of death | Hanover, New Hampshire |