Hans-Günther Baass

Hans-Günther Baass (born March 22, 1909 in Hamburg ; † December 12, 1991 there ) was a German painter who explored the light spectrum as a sensory perception in a new way and then depicted the relationship between light and space on large canvases .

Life

Baass received his first artistic training at the Hamburg State Art School (Am Lerchenfeld) from Julius Wohlers around 1937. However, he broke off his art studies in 1938, possibly due to financial problems. In the same year he worked in the studio of the portrait painter Wilhelm Mann. Around 1939 he worked for a painting company and did an apprenticeship at the Jagdmann und Bohm printing company in Hamburg until 1940.

After the Second World War , Baass studied at the State Art School in Hamburg with the former secession artist Ivo Hauptmann . He then took on poster orders for companies such as the Hamburg Süd shipping company and created murals for the city of Hamburg. His ceramic pictures with anchors could be seen at Landungsbrücken S-Bahn station until the beginning of 2020 . Most of them have now been covered, but one is to remain.

His first exhibition took place in Hamburg's Café Latin in 1967. A year later, he moved into his roof-top studio on Jungfernstieg, which he was to keep until his death and which now serves as a studio for the Baass scholarship holders.

In 1973 Baass exhibited in the Galérie Saint Placide in Paris and between 1976 and 1980 in the "Salon des Artistes Indépendants".

From 1981 to 1988 he was one of the few German artists to take part in the Paris Autumn Salon (“ Salon d'Automne ”) in the French capital every year.

Many of his pictures fell victim to the artist's burns in 1983. There is still speculation about the reasons.

After an intensive examination of the Bible , between 1982 and 1983 he created a picture cycle with ten scenes from the New Testament , which was exhibited in 1984 in the nave of the Hamburg main church St. Petri .

In 1987 his last exhibition in France took place at the Galérie Evérart in Paris. The last exhibition of his works during his lifetime hung between 1989 and 1991 in the town hall of the island of Helgoland , where he had made many trips in the last years of his life.

Hans-Günther Baass died on December 12, 1991 after a long illness in Hamburg.

A scholarship is financed from his estate, which the Hamburg cultural authority awards to young artists for a period of two years.

Another part of his estate was donated to the Forum for Estates of Artists Association, Hamburg.

literature

Exhibition catalog "Exhibition premiere", forum for the estates of artists , Künstlerhaus Sootbörn , Hamburg 2005.
Exhibition catalog "Hans-Günther Baass. 1909 - 1991. Retrospective". Ed. Forum for bequests from artists e. V., Hamburg. Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg 2007.
Antonia Lindner: Hans-Günther Baass - life and work. Master thesis. University of Hamburg, Hamburg 2007.

Exhibitions

"Exhibition premiere", forum for the estates of artists eV Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg 2005
Hans-Günther Baass (1909–1991). Retrospective. Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, November 4th to 18th, 2007

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personal data
SURNAME	Baass, Hans-Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 12, 1991
Place of death	Hamburg