Hannes Pingsmann

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Hannes Pingsmann , partly also listed as Hans Pingsmann (born March  18, 1894 in Essen - Rüttenscheid , †  September 27, 1955 in Essen) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Career

After the First World War , the primary school teacher Pingsmann found an interest in art. Despite his brief studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Essen (which later became known as the Folkwangschule ) and the Düsseldorf Art Academy , he insisted on having completed his artistic development as a "blatant autodidact ". With great enthusiasm for experimentation, he became familiar with many techniques, but from 1919 he developed a particular preference for etching and drypoint . From 1928 onwards, extensive cycles of illustrations for works of literature, etc. a. Rainer Maria Rilke's way of love and death of the cornet Christoph Rilke , Friedrich Hebbels Judith , Charles de Costers Ulenspiegel , Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust and Edda . He also went on study trips to Flanders, France, Spain and Italy.

Through their local poet friend Hermann Hagedorn , the family first came to Fretter , today a part of Finnentrop , during the holiday season , bought a house there in 1940, and when Essen was bombed, his wife and four daughters moved there. In this way, Antonie Pingsmann managed to save a large part of the graphic work and a considerable number of the erasure plates from destruction. In 1945, after his discharge from the Wehrmacht , Pingsmann followed his family to Fretter and lived there until his death in 1955. He also found numerous motifs for his work in the area.

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  • Ulrike Monreal: "... and the highest of feelings: digging into the record!" On the life and work of Hannes Pingsmann (1894–1955). In: To Bigge, Lenne and Fretter, local history articles from the community of Finnentrop . Booklet 8, Heimatbund Gemeinde Finnentrop eV, Finnentrop 1998, p. 120 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ E-museum, Düsseldorf
  2. ^ Paul Westheim: Art criticism from exile (= Paul Westheim, Tanja Frank [Hrsg.]: Publication of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR ). Müller & Kiepenheuer, Hanau am Main 1985, ISBN 3-7833-6507-4 , p. 120, 286 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Pingsmann, Hannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pingsmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Essen - Rüttenscheid
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1955
Place of death Essen - Rüttenscheid