Hannes Neuner

This article deals with the artist and university professor Hannes Neuner. For other people see Hans Neuner .

Hannes Neuner (born August 27, 1906 in Schweinheim near Aschaffenburg , † April 25, 1978 in Stuttgart ), actually Hans Ferdinand Neuner , was a German graphic artist , photographer , draftsman , painter , sculptor , glass painter and professor at the State School for Art and Craft in Saarbrücken (1949–1953) and at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (1953–1969).

Life

Hannes Neuner was the third of ten children of the married couple Nikolaus Neuner and Babette, née. Garden laborer born. The family moved to Aschaffenburg in August 1918 and Nikolaus Neuner opened a whitewash shop at Betgasse 15.

In 1922 Hannes Neuner began studying graphics at the Offenbach am Main School of Applied Arts , before moving to the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in 1923 , where Hans Leistikow and Willi Baumeister became his teachers. In 1929, on Baumeister's advice, he continued his studies at the Bauhaus in Dessau . There he attended lessons from Josef Albers , Wassily Kandinsky , Joost Schmidt and Walter Peterhans , whose assistant he was for a short time. From 1931 to 1933 he worked for Herbert Bayer in the Dorland studio in Berlin, then assistant to László Moholy-Nagy until he emigrated in 1934.

In September 1933 he married Eve Kayser (1914–1979), the eldest daughter of the harmonist Hans Kayser and student of Johannes Itten in Berlin.

In the mid-1930s, he and his brother Hein founded a graphics agency in Berlin. It was during this time that the first indications of his work on the lifestyle magazines, the new line , whose visual appearance was particularly influenced by Herbert Bayer, came about , which not only reflected “the aesthetic ideals of Bauhaus modernism”, but “also provided a good insight into the Sensitivities at the beginning of the Weimar Republic and in everyday life under the Nazi regime ”( Patrick Rössler ). From 1934 to 1942 Neuner carried out a total of eleven cover photos under the name of Hans Ferdinand Neuner (six of them after the outbreak of war), in addition to examples described by current research as particularly successful and even "fascinating" and the Olympic booklet (August 1936, which was elaborate for propaganda purposes) , together with Hein Neuner) also includes such martial and heroic covers as the May 1940 issue, the second “Italy issue” (August 1940) and the “soldiers issue” (September 1941).

In 1943 Neuner had to leave Berlin (bombed out) and returned to his father's house in Aschaffenburg in October. In 1946 the “painter” moved to the Altenbachsmühle near Obernau, which he had acquired from Nikolaus Staudt and shared with his brother Ruppert, who was also an artist. In 1949 he followed a call to the State School for Art and Crafts in Saarbrücken for the field of advertising graphics and introduced photography there in conjunction with Otto Steinert . In 1953 he received a professorship at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and worked there, initially as head of a class for general artistic training, from 1967 as head of a newly established specialist class for painting and drawing, successfully up to his early entry into the due to illness Retired in 1969.

In 1962 Neuner designed “Art in Architecture” with the colored glass front in the newly built church in Obernau . Other works were created for the church in Wambach. His son Burkard also distinguishes himself as a visual artist through his concrete and glass work. Together they created the altarpiece "The Fugue" in the parish church "To the Holy Family" in Karlstadt .

Honorary grave in the Aschaffenburg forest cemetery

Neuner was just as involved in the large exhibition “50 Years of Bauhaus” organized by the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart in 1968 , which then wandered through numerous cities around the world, and in 1977 in the Stuttgart show “Art in the Cityscape”, where the monumental Plexiglas sculpture “Kosmos I - Homage to Hans Kayser ”was visible until it was deliberately damaged. In 1973, the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin provided an overview of educational work, particularly from 1953 to 1967, with the exhibition "Hannes Neuner and his basic teaching: a further development of the Bauhaus preliminary course" organized by Hans Maria Wingler . The exhibition, which was organized by Max Bense was opened, showed 120 originals and photographs by Hannes Neuner and his students, numerous sculptural works and the Plexiglas ball "Kosmos I - Homage to Hans Kayser" on loan.

In 1976, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, Hannes Neuner was made an honorary member of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, and in the following year he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class .

In 1978 "a life full of duty as a passionate artist and teacher came to an end". Hannes Neuner, a famous and honored son of Aschaffenburg, found his final resting place in his homeland, the urn was buried in a grave of honor in the Aschaffenburg forest cemetery. His wife Eve Neuner-Kayser, who appeared as a painter in numerous exhibitions after 1945 and, like Hannes Neuner, became a member of the Neue Gruppe Saar , founded in 1957 , is also buried there.

The better-known students of his time in Saarbrücken and Stuttgart include Kilian Breier , Manfred Güthler , Siegfried Pollack , Herbert Strässer (Saarbrücken); Wolfgang Bier , Hans Brög , Eckard Hauser , Wolfgang Kermer , Gerd Neisser , Gunther Stilling (Stuttgart).

literature

• Max Bense : Hannes Neuner: spherical sculptures. Roether, Darmstadt 1973.
• Hannes Neuner and his basic teaching. A further development of the Bauhaus preliminary course. Exhibition catalog. Bauhaus Archive, Berlin 1973.
• Wolfgang Kermer (Ed.): Between book art and book design. Book designer for the academy and former arts and crafts school in Stuttgart: examples of works and texts. Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1996, ISBN 3-89322-893-4 , p. 188, ill. P. 25, 131.
• Gabriele Merkes (Hrsg.): The collection of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: Catalog of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-931485-41-2 , pp. 44, 145.
• Günter Scharwath: The large artist lexicon of the Saar region. Biographical directory of visual artists in the Saar region from all disciplines and periods . Geistkirch, Saarbrücken 2017, ISBN 978-3-946036-61-6 , p. 759.

Web links

• [1] "To the Holy Family" Karlstadt stained glass window by Burkard Neuner
• Hannes Neuner - Main-Echo June 15, 2010
• Exhibition of Aschaffenburg Avantgarde at Breitenbach & Pötschik

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer / Hannes Neuner: Questions - Answers: Hannes Neuner, the teacher and friend, to the memory . Edited by Wolfgang Kermer. State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: Institute for Book Design, Design Günter Jacki, o. J. [1979] (Reprint of an interview that took place at the end of 1972 on the occasion of the exhibition “Hannes Neuner and his basic theory - a further development of the Bauhaus preliminary course "was created).
2. ↑ Patrick Rössler: The Bauhaus at the Newsstand: The Bauhaus at the kiosk: the new line 1929-1943 . Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2009 ISBN 978-3-86678-282-2 (the documentation of all editions of the new line in the appendix ).
3. ↑ Wolfgang Kermer: Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint from: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), o. P. [10], [11].
4. ↑ obernau 1191 - 1991 contributions to past and present , edited by Hans-Bernd Spies and Renate Welsch, Aschaffenburg 1991 - Aschaffenburg - Town and monastery archives, ISBN 3-922355-02-1
5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Altarpiece "To the Holy Family", Karlstadt.  
6. ^ Art in the Cityscape: Stuttgart 1977 . May to October 1977. With contributions by Manfred Rommel and Ulrich Gertz. Ed .: Cultural Office of the State Capital Stuttgart. Stuttgart, o. J. (1977), o. P. [48-49, m. Fig.]. According to the attached site plan, the plant from 1973 was set up in Untere Königstrasse.
7. ^ Hans Maria Wingler: Press release on the opening of the exhibition on October 19, 1973.