Hans-Josef Becker-Leber

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Hans-Josef Becker-Leber (born January 13, 1876 in Berlin ; † November 20, 1962 in Wedel ; actually Anton Johannes Josef Becker ) was a German portrait and landscape painter .

Life

Becker-Leber came from the Becker family of art gardeners in Bonn . He was a son of the painter and engraver Carl Leonhard Becker . In 1902 he married the painter Sophia Becker-Leber , who was almost seven years older than him, in Bonn . a. had their son Helmar Becker-Berke , who was also a painter. While his wife devoted himself to painting flowers, Becker-Leber specialized in landscapes and portraits.

While his wife opened a painting and drawing school in Bonn after their wedding, Becker-Leber led a painting and drawing class at the city of Bonn, worked for the provincial curator and painted villas. Personal acquaintance with the ruling Prince Georg von Schaumburg-Lippe 's sons Adolf and Moritz, who were studying in Bonn, prompted him to apply for a job at the upcoming art and trade school in Bückeburg in 1912 . Victoria of Prussia , sister of Kaiser Wilhelm II and wife of the now reigning Adolf II, sponsored the project. The employment took place, Becker-Leber became princely Dominialbeamter and the Princely House also provided a studio for private work. However, activities outside of Schaumburg-Lippe required approval. Becker-Leber also did not receive the school management he had hoped for.

Max Ernst judged: “At the top of the polonaise, the artist couple court painter Hans Joh. Becker-Leber and his wife, both outspoken art, still seem to be marching. When I heard that he was a court painter and away from Bonn, I was madly delighted with the illusion that I no longer had to look at his bland, boring impressions (in matte purple, matte pink, matte blue, matte green) and their pink, perfumed flowers that she had learned to paint in the painting class. "

As a result, however, there was a falling out with the school principal and the head of cabinet. A dismissal of Becker-Lebers planned for 1913 was prevented by an unknown party. Becker-Leber was drafted into World War I as a soldier in 1914 . In 1918 the prince abdicated and closed the school. By 1924, disputes followed with the court chamber over the free use of the studio and a severance payment in the event of renouncing the pension.

In 1930 the couple followed their sons who were studying in Berlin . Becker-Leber's wife created a literary salon in the capital . The couple sold their pictures in a shop in the Kurhotel Fürstenhof. After the Second World War , the couple lived in Bückeburg again.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hubert Höing, Schaumburg und die Welt: on Schaumburg's foreign relations in history, 2002, ISBN 3895344117 , p. 168.
  2. ^ Max Ernst in the Bonner Zeitung "Volksmund" of December 11, 1912 in his article on the Obernier Museum in Bonn.
personal data
SURNAME Becker-Leber, Hans-Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Anton Johannes Josef (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1962
Place of death frond