Hans-Friedrich Geist

Hans-Friedrich Geist (born October 22, 1901 in Weimar , † August 28, 1978 in Lübeck ) was a German draftsman, author and art teacher.

Life

Geist was the son of a chamber musician and attended school and teachers' seminar in Weimar until 1922. He made contact with the Bauhaus as early as 1919 . In 1922 he became a teacher, in Altenburg until 1925 , and in Meuselwitz from 1925 to 1930 . 1930–1934 academy school in Halle (Saale) . He was 1930/31 exchange student in the master class of Paul Klee . Geist became a member of the National Socialist Teachers' Association in 1933 and a specialist advisor for art education in 1934. In 1937 he passed the drawing teacher examination for secondary schools . In that year disciplinary proceedings were initiated against him relating to his membership of the Bauhaus.

In 1938 Geist came to Lübeck, where he worked as a drawing teacher until 1942. After serving in the Second World War, he worked again as a drawing teacher in Lübeck from 1945 to 1953. From 1946 to 1950 and from 1958 to 1970 Geist, recognized nationwide, was artistic director of the Overbeck Society in Lübeck, the local art association . In 1949 he organized the large exhibition Children's Drawings of the Nations in the Kunsthalle Hamburg .

Fonts (selection)

• Child and material. Laying and shaping from worthless things , Ravensburg 1931
• The rebirth of the artistic from the people. A book about the art of the people and their confirmation in the work of the child as an example of practical folk work , Leipzig 1934
• Lübeck Bilderbogen , ed., 1935
• German folk art. 150 photographs. Introduction and interpretation by Hans Friedrich Geist, Leipzig undated [around 1935]
• Lübecker Bilderbogen , ed. No. 1-20, undated [around 1935ff.]
• Embroidered symbols - man and human work - a collection of German symbols for cross stitch embroidery , ed. with Ellen Semmelroth, edited by Christel Wöhrlin, 4 folders, Verlag NS.-Frauenwarte, Munich undated (around 1935)
• Toy. A colorful primer. , Pictures by Alfred Mahlau , L. Stackmann, Leipzig 1938, new edition 1971
• Little Christmas joys. From Christmas customs in the German house , drawings by Fritz Lometsch, 1940
• Wonderful little art. The paper cut, happiness after work, 1941
• A childhood full of love , Kassel undated [1943]
• The heavenly light , Lübeck 1946
• Paul Klee , 1948
• together with Abram B. Enns : 50 years Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck 1918-1968 , Schmidt, Lübeck 1968
  • numerous essays and various catalogs of the Overbeck Society of the Geist era

literature

• Abraham B. Enns: Art and Bourgeoisie . Weiland, Lübeck 1978. ISBN 3-7672-0571-8
• Rainer K. Wick : Hans Friedrich spirit and the art of the child. Bauhaus, Third Reich, post-war period, (Ed.), Wuppertal 2003 (= context. Series of publications for art, art education and cultural education at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, vol. 5)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rene Drommert : What should an art exhibition look like? The Lübeck Overbeck Society gives an example in: Die Zeit , July 22, 1966
2. ↑ Monsters over the house - Threatened with the ax in: Der Spiegel 51/1949
3. ↑ Thomas Deecke : The Toy Primer - Unexpected Consequences , in: Lübeckische Blätter , 182 Jg. 2017, pp. 1–3

Web links

• Biography at the Thuringian Literature Council

• Memorial exhibition of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (2006): one of "the most distinguished and progressive art educators of the Weimar Republic"