Hanns Reeger

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Hanns Reeger (born February 25, 1883 in Kiel , † June 7, 1965 in Talheim (district of Heilbronn) ; also Hans Reeger ) was a German painter. In 1963 he became an honorary citizen of Talheim (Heilbronn district), where he had lived and worked since the time after the First World War.

Life

Hanns Reeger was born in Kiel and was able to study in Leipzig, Stuttgart, Munich and Karlsruhe after completing his school days thanks to a scholarship from the city of Kiel. In Karlsruhe he was influenced by his teachers Hans Thoma , Wilhelm Trübner , Christian Landenberger and Gustav Schönleber . A study trip took him to Talheim in Württemberg, where he was drafted into the military in 1914. After the end of the First World War, Reeger returned to Talheim, where he married Anna Gmelich (1889–1956) and built a house for himself. Reeger quickly became one of the culturally interested group of people around the Talheim teacher Christian Leichtle(1892–1949), the founder and first director of the Heilbronner Volkshochschule. At his suggestion he was accepted into the Heilbronn Masonic lodge Zum Brunnen des Heils , where he a. a. met the author Hans Franke and various dignitaries. Franke published on Reeger as early as the 1930s.

Grave of Hanns Reeger and his wife Anna in Talheim

Reeger's artistic work includes oil and pastel paintings, drawings and woodcuts. In addition to works influenced by his military service, such as the litho series War and Peace , numerous portraits, still lifes and views of Talheim motifs, as well as religious images, should be mentioned. In Heilbronn he worked on the restoration of the historic clock on Heilbronn town hall in 1946 . Most of the years after the death of his wife he spent in seclusion in his Talheimer estate. On his 80th birthday in 1963 Reeger became an honorary member of the Heilbronner Künstlerbund and an honorary citizen of his home town Talheim.

Reeger bequeathed a significant part of his artistic legacy to his home town of Talheim, which presented his works at an exhibition in the town hall in 1985 and named Hanns-Reeger-Weg after him. Most of his estate went to the Heilbronn Municipal Museums . His grave in the old cemetery near the Protestant Kilian's Church in Talheim has been preserved.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data after entry on Hanns Reeger in the personal database of the state bibliography of Baden-Württemberg and according to the Heilbronn city archive, contemporary history collection, signature ZS-10322, entry on Hanns Reeger in the HEUSS database
  2. ^ Hans Franke: The painter Hans Reeger in Talheim , in: Württemberg - Monthly magazine in the service of people and homeland , issue 12, December 1930
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museen-heilbronn.de

literature

  • Hans Franke: The painter Hans Reeger in Talheim. In: Württemberg. Monthly in the service of people and homeland, 1930, pp. 534-538.
  • Reeger, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958.
  • Hanns Reeger, painter - honorary citizen of the Talheim community . In: History book of the municipality of Talheim in the district of Heilbronn , Talheim 1995
personal data
SURNAME Reeger, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1965
Place of death Talheim (district of Heilbronn)