Hanns Lamers

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Hanns Lamers (born April 28, 1897 in Kleve ; † February 9, 1966 in Kleve) was a German painter of classical modernism .

life and work

Hanns Lamers was born the son of the church painter Heinrich Lamers (1864–1933) and the crib artist Johanna Vordermayer. He received his first technical instruction from his father. In 1912 he did an apprenticeship as a baker in Holzkirchen in Bavaria. From 1917 to 1918 he served as a soldier in the First World War . From 1919 he went to his father as an apprentice. From 1920 to 1926 he studied at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich under Josef Eberz and in Berlin. During these years, Lamers went on study trips to Italy, Tunis, southern France and Corsica. In 1927 he went to Paris and studied with Roger Bissière and Gino Severini at the Académie Ranson. In Paris, where he lived until 1939, he met his future wife Ilse Schmidt († October 23, 1988 in Wiesbaden ), whom he married in 1946. From 1935 to 1939 Lamers undertook study trips to Italy and the Balkans.

From 1939 he was drafted again as a soldier in World War II and from 1941 he was used in the Russia campaign , during which he suffered hearing damage. Almost all of his work from the 1920s and 1930s was bombed. In 1945 Lamers returned to Kleve and moved with his wife into the tower of the Koekkoek house , the former studio of the landscape painter Barend Cornelis Koekkoek . The living studio developed into a meeting place for young artists. The circle included Joseph Beuys , the photographer Fritz Getlinger , Rudolf Schoofs, the sculptor Pierre Theunissen and the gallery owner René Block . In 1936, together with the painter and sculptor Walther Brüx, he founded the “Profiles Artists Guild”, which from 1947 was continued under the name “ Niederrheinischer Künstlerbund ”. The artist's late work was created around 1947 and is influenced by Cubism and Surrealism as well as by Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee . It consists of numerous prints and paintings in which he tried to express or process the experiences of the war and to deal with current events. The upright or broken column and the sounding or destroyed harp appear again and again as leitmotifs.

In Kleve, the Hanns-Lamers-Platz behind the Koekkoek house is named after the artist.

Solo exhibitions

A list of the solo and group exhibitions can be found in Litz Kentner, How Two Old Tower Owls Came to a Tower Child: My Years with Hanns & Ilse Lamers in Kleve , Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus Kleve and Haus Koekkoek, Kleve, 2014, included on p. 198 - 199

  • 1958 Hanns Lamers , Koekkoek House Museum, Kleve
  • 1963 Hanns Lamers , Kunstkreis, Rheinhausen
  • 1964 Stadtische Galerie Oberhausen (with Remigius Netzer )
  • 1966 Art on the Lower Rhine since 1900 , Städtisches Museum Haus Koekkoek, Kleve (memorial exhibition, separate area in the anniversary exhibition)
  • 1974 Rheinhausen Municipal Collections (with Walter vom Endt)
  • 1982 Hanns Lamers 1897–1966 , Municipal Museum Haus Koekkoek, Kleve
  • 1986 Hanns Lamers. Printmaking and design drawings , Koekkoek House Museum, Kleve
  • 1988 Hanns Lamers , Koekkoek House Museum, Kleve
  • 2000 Hanns Lamers 1897–1966 , Museum Kurhaus Kleve

Work documentation

  • Hanns Lamers . Catalog of works with a directory of watercolors, etchings, pencil drawings, linocuts, lithographs, oil paintings, relief paintings, woodcuts and behind glass paintings. With texts by Herbert Griebitzsch, Josef Nyssen and greetings from friends, including Heinrich van Ackeren, Joseph Beuys , René Block , Horst Brienen, Horst Egon Kalinowski and Rudolf Schoofs . Printed by GW Bösmann KG, Kleve approx. 1967, without ISBN (edition: 600 copies, compiled immediately after Lamer's death in 1966).

literature

  • Walter Brüx: Art on the Lower Rhine since 1900 Exhibition catalog of the Niederrheinischen Künstlerbund. Publisher = GW Bösmann KG . 1966.
  • Hanns Lamers. Prints and drafts , Städtisches Museum Haus Koekkoek , Kleve 1986.
  • Litz Kentner, How two old tower owls got a tower child: My years with Hanns & Ilse Lamers in Kleve . With texts by Ulrike Sack, Valentina Vlasic , Guido de Werd , Litz Kentner. Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus Kleve and Haus Koekkoek, Kleve, 2014, ISBN 978-3-934935-71-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Litz Kentner, How two old tower owls got a tower child: My years with Hanns & Ilse Lamers in Kleve . With texts by Ulrike Sack, Valentina Vlasic , Guido de Werd . Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus Kleve and Haus Koekkoek, Kleve, 2014, p. 197, ISBN 978-3-934935-71-6 .
  2. ↑ see: Hanns Lamers . Work catalog. Printed by GW Bösmann KG, Kleve approx. 1967.
  3. ↑ Article by Andreas Dams from December 19, 2015 in the Neue Ruhr Zeitung , accessed on June 26, 2019.
  4. ↑ Article by Matthias Grass in the Rheinische Post from February 9, 2016, accessed on June 26, 2019.
  5. ↑ Hanns Lamers on the website of the Museum Kurhaus Kleve , accessed on July 16, 2019
  6. ↑ Litz Kentner, How two old tower owls got a tower child: My years with Hanns & Ilse Lamers in Kleve . With texts by Ulrike Sack, Valentina Vlasic , Guido de Werd , Litz Kentner. Freundeskreis Museum Kurhaus Kleve and Haus Koekkoek, Kleve, 2014, ISBN 978-3-934935-71-6 .
  7. ^ Academic dictionaries and encyclopedias
  8. ↑ Hanns-Lamers-Platz on neue-strassen.de, accessed on June 27, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Lamers, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of classical modernism
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleve
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1966
Place of death Kleve