Hanns Ludwig Katz

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Hanns Ludwig Katz (born July 24, 1892 in Karlsruhe ; died November 17, 1940 in Johannesburg ) was a German expressionist painter and graphic artist of Jewish descent.

Life

After graduating from high school, he came to Paris for a short stay in Henri Matisse's studio .

From 1913 to 1918 Katz studied painting, art history and architecture in Karlsruhe, Heidelberg and Munich . His works show the influence of Max Beckmann and the New Objectivity . He was supported by the art critic Max Osborn . Katz became a member of the Ghat artist group in 1920 .

Katz married the pianist Franziska Ehrenreich and moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1920 . The architect Otto Fucker designed and built a residential and studio house in Frankfurt-Eschersheim for Hanns Ludwig Katz and his wife in 1927 , in which Ms. Katz held public house concerts at the time

After 1933 Katz was active in the Frankfurt Jewish Cultural Association. In 1935, one year after the untimely death of his wife, he planned to establish a Jewish settlement in Yugoslavia .

In 1936 Katz married Ruth Wolf and emigrated with her to South Africa. In 1937 his works were publicly denounced as Degenerate Art in his former home .

The South African National Gallery owns works by Katz. From November 24, 1993 to February 27, 1994 the gallery presented a retrospective of his work. The exhibition was carried out with the support of the German federal government and Lufthansa .

literature

  • Helga Krohn, Karl-Ludwig Hofmann (Red.): Hanns Ludwig Katz 1892-1940 . [published by the Jewish Museum on behalf of the City of Frankfurt am Main] Wienand Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3879092923
  • Hayden Proud, Wilhelm Snyman (Ed.): Hanns Ludwig Katz . South African National Gallery, Cape Town 1994, ISBN 1-874817-11-1
  • Ch. Präger: Katz, Hanns L. . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 79, de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-023184-7 , p. 419 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ House concerts
  2. ↑ FAZ
  3. ^ Rebecca Faye Rosenberg: The Jewish Traveler: Cape Town . In: Hadassah magazine, January 2007. online at www.hadassahmagazine.org, accessed May 8, 2016
  4. ^ Catalog of the German National Library: bibliographic evidence for the exhibition catalog .

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personal data
SURNAME Katz, Hanns Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1940
Place of death Johannesburg