Hanns Schaefer
Hanns Schaefer (born February 8, 1903 in Gelsenkirchen ; † January 19, 1964 there ) was a German painter and poet .
Life
Schaefer's father was the Gelsenkirchen architect Ludwig Schaefer . Hanns Schaefer earned his studies at the Folkwangschule by working in the Ruhr mining industry . In the 1920s he received scholarships, for example at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, and was a master student of Emil Orlik . From 1926 he was a master student of Käthe Kollwitz and Karl Hofer in Berlin . In 1928 he created a Tobias triptych for the Freiherr vom Stein School in Recklinghausen .
After completing his apprenticeship, he returned to Gelsenkirchen as a freelance artist. Here he made a name for himself through public contracts, such as B. a modern wall design in a meeting room of the Deutsche Eisenwerke .
During National Socialism, Schaefer was not one of the artists protected by the regime. After the war he was one of the first to paint abstractly .
Schaefer regularly took part in the annual shows of the Gelsenkirchen artists, except for 1962, when he was seriously ill. Schaefer also gave art education courses at the Volksbildungswerk Gelsenkirchen, and for a while he was a drawing teacher at the Schalke Gymnasium . In 1957 he took part in the “Art in Building” competition for the new music theater in the Revier .
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Visual arts
Schaefer is described by contemporaries as very straightforward and clean . Although he was a modern artist, he thought little of fashion and technical refinements. “No messing around” has been handed down as his motto. His style was called semi-loud .
He became known for paintings with strong colourfulness, abstract, but partly still-life- like arrangements of forms of representational painting. Often there is also a drawing style in the painted pictures. Hanns Schaefer also worked in the graphic area.
poetry
Hanns Schaefer did little to publicize his poetic work during his lifetime. He wrote poems and a cycle on Rembrandt van Rijn in four acts.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schaefer, Hanns |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelsenkirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1964 |
| Place of death | Gelsenkirchen |