Hanns Pellar

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Hanns Pellar (born March 17, 1886 in Vienna ; † August 20, 1971 there ) was an Austrian painter and illustrator. In his artistic training he was a. a. Student of Franz von Stuck in Munich. He was one of the most noticeable artists in Munich who were formative for the time of the Prince Regent with their solid craftsmanship and very pleasing art . As a “darling of various respected Darmstadt families” he made a large number of portraits, v. a. numerous portraits of women, which finally earned him the name "painter of elegance".

Life

Hanns Pellar, Queen of the Night, oil sketch, around 1910

Originally, Hanns Pellar aspired to training as an officer, but the joy of imaginative drawing was greater, so that from 1901 he was a student of Joseph Eugen Hörwarter at the " Grafische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt " in Vienna before joining the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1905 has been. There he studied painting with Heinrich Lefler . A year later he went to Munich, where he stayed at the Franz von Stucks painting school until 1908.

As a freelance painter, he made oil paintings and watercolors as well as illustrations for several magazines such as “Lustige Blätter” or “Simplizissimus”. After the Grand Duke of Hesse became aware of the so-called "Painter of Elegance" through the illustration of the children's book "The Little King", he appointed him to the artists' colony in Darmstadt in 1911 . Until 1913 he was involved in wall paintings in the music rooms of the Herzberg and Waldthausen villas in Essen, designed by the artist colony member Edmund Körner.

In Darmstadt itself, Pellar only achieved success after he specialized in portrait painting. He created portraits of members of the grand ducal family, of ladies of the aristocracy and the bourgeois upper class. His numerous portraits of women earned him the name "painter of elegance". Challenging looking ladies in rococo dresses and hairstyles such as "Ninon de Lenclos", but also dancers and park parties with figures of the Faun are his permanent repertoire.

Inspired by an order from the Grand Duke, he came to miniature painting . This technique was used to create portraits on ivory for the miniature collection of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig .

At the artist colony exhibition in 1914 , he mainly participated with portraits in oil and pastel. His costume designs were on display in the makeshift fashion pavilion. In November 1914, Hans Pellar was appointed professor by the Grand Duke.

According to research by Olényi von Husen, Pellar was a member of the Darmstadt artists' colony on Mathildenhöhe until 1917.

According to Albin Müller's autobiography, which was written in the 1930s but only published in print in 2007 (cf. literature), an example for the group of foreign artists who were invited to exhibitions or other projects is: a. Called Hanns Pellar. If you believe the source, he could not fully integrate into the artist colony because he did not move his place of residence or center of life to Darmstadt. However, he understood himself to be a member of the artist colony without any such differentiation.

In 1925 Pellar moved to Frankfurt and later left due to the seizure of Nazi Germany and arrived after several intermediate stations to Vienna, where he received after the seizure of the Nazis by the Reich Chamber of Culture 1938 disbarment because it both rejected by the Nazis Style pursued as well as to his Jewish wife Stefanie.

Following on from his early success, Pellar seemed to have found an elite collector's body and thus a niche whose taste developed more in the private sphere and permeated many areas of culture such as literature, theater and painting, illustration, sculpture, architecture, and applied arts.

In the summer semester of 1929 Pellar joined the Corps Franconia Darmstadt at the age of 43 and became the owner of the Corpsschleife (IdC). Due to his advanced age, his reception and reception took place on the same day.

Paintings (selection)

  • Mephisto , 1910
  • The Favorite , 1922, oil on cardboard. 63.5 × 56.5 cm
  • Evening song , 1912, gouache and tempera (mixed media) on wood. 64 × 61.5 cm
  • Drunk Romance , oil on cardboard. 62.5 × 57 cm
  • Lady with a Muff , ca.1910, oil on canvas, 60 × 46 cm
  • Faun and Lady , mixed media on wood, 34.5 × 34.5
  • The Faun in Love , 1914, oil on cardboard. 35 × 35 cm
  • Ninon (de Lenclos) , 1911, oil on canvas, 97 × 93 cm

Exhibitions

  • 1908 Kunstschau Wien (involved with two works)
  • 1909 at Heinrich Thannhauser's opening exhibition in Munich
  • 1909 and 1910 solo exhibition at Heinrich Thannhauser in Munich
  • May to October 1911 “Kunsthausausstellung Darmstadt” in the Ernst-Ludwig-Haus in Darmstadt
  • June 1913 portrait exhibition in the studio of the Ernst Ludwig House in Darmstadt
  • 1914 in the fourth artist colony exhibition in Darmstadt
  • 1916 Large art exhibition in Berlin
  • 1967 Exhibition "Painting of the Darmstadt Residence"
  • 1976 memorial exhibition for the artists of the Mathildenhoehe same place
  • 2016/2017 “Coming and Going - from Courbet to Kirkeby ” at the Giersch Museum in Frankfurt
  • 2018 "Art and Life. Gustav Bock and his Art Foundations 1915 and 1917", exhibition of the municipal art foundation in the Upper Hessian Museum Gießen

Illustrations

  • Hanns Pellar (Illustr.) / Fritz von Ostini: The little king. A fairy tale to twelve pictures by Hanns Pellar, told by Fritz v. Ostini. Georg W Dietrich, Munich 1909.
  • Max Henning: The most beautiful stories from a thousand and one nights. With eight colored pictures and cover design by Hanns Pellar, Reclam, Leipzig, 1926.

literature

  • Burger, Fritz : Hanns Pellar - Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1912. Online
  • Olényi von Husen, Britta: Hanns Pellar (1886 - Vienna - 1971) - Theatrical Rococo and fairy tales . Inaugural dissertation to obtain the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of History of the Ruhr University Bochum. Bochum 2011. Online
  • Museum of the Darmstadt Artists' Colony. Catalog, ed. from the Institute Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt. Edited by Renate Ulmer and Ines Wagemann, Darmstadt 1990. p. 219.
  • Albin Müller: From my life. Autobiography. Mauritius Verlag, Magdeburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-939884-05-7 . (on the Darmstadt artists' colony from page 141)

Web links

Commons : Hanns Pellar  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Servaes, Franz: Hanns Pellar . In: Velhagen & Klasings monthly booklet, issue 6 . 1917, p. 185 .
  2. ^ Ulrich Thieme & Felix Becker: General Lexicon of Visual Artists . tape 26 , 1932, p. 357 .
  3. ↑ Volker Schrader: Until January 22nd, 2017 in the Giersch Museum: The exhibition “Coming and Going - from Courbet to Kirkeby”. Retrieved January 25, 2017 (German).
  4. ↑ https://www.giessen.de/index.phtml?object=tx,1894.17.1&ModID=11&FID=684.41766.1&sNavID=1894.296&object=tx%7C1894.17.1%7C0&ModID=11&FID=684.41766.1
personal data
SURNAME Pellar, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1971
Place of death Vienna