Hanns Hagenauer

Hanns Hagenauer (born August 8, 1896 in Lindenberg im Allgäu , † September 7, 1975 in Oberammergau ) was a German painter , draftsman and graphic artist .

Life

After completing his training as a printer, Hanns Hagenauer went to the First World War in 1914 , where he was seriously wounded in 1916 and discharged from the military. From 1918, Hagenauer studied for four years at the Stuttgart Art Academy under Christian Landenberger , Robert Poetzelberger and Arnold Waldschmidt . He then lived as a freelance artist in Vorarlberg . In 1933 he moved to Gießen , where he founded the Upper Hessian Artists' Association together with Hellmuth Mueller-Leutert and Carl Bourcarde in 1943 - which was directed against the art movement propagated by the Nazi regime - after a dispute with the Hessian Gauleiter about an art exhibition. Hagenauer remained chairman of the federal government until 1952 and then moved to Garmisch-Partenkirchen . Study trips took him mainly to France , Italy ( Ischia ), Yugoslavia , Switzerland , Hungary and Czechoslovakia .

Härtl, Rudolf (1990): The painter Hanns Hagenauer, in: Galerie Norbert Blaeser: Hanns Hagenauer. Rediscovery of an Expressionist [exhibition from May 4 to June 2, 1990], Düsseldorf
Jessewitsch, Rolf / SCHNEIDER, Gerhard (eds.) (2008): Discovered modernity; Kettler; Bönen; P. 487

personal data
SURNAME	Hagenauer, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lindenberg im Allgäu , Germany
DATE OF DEATH	7th September 1975
Place of death	Oberammergau , Germany