Hans Boehler

Hans Böhler , also Boehler (born September 11, 1884 in Vienna ; † September 17, 1961 there ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

Life

Böhler attended the Jaschke private painting school in Vienna. In 1904 he passed the entrance exam at the Vienna Art Academy , but decided not to be accepted and preferred to stay at the private painting school. In 1908 he took part in the spring exhibition of the Vienna Secession . In 1909 he exhibited with the Neukunstgruppe in the Salon Pisko .

In the years 1910–1911 Böhler traveled to Russia , Siberia , China , Japan and India ; 1913–1914 to South and North America . He then worked in Germany , Switzerland , Italy , Belgium , Holland , Spain , England , Denmark , Norway and Africa . From 1918 to 1923 he stayed in Ticino and had his residence in Niederwil (Solothurn).

Böhler was a close friend of Josef Hoffmann , who set up his studio for him in Vienna. From 1920 he exhibited at the Vienna Secession. In 1928 he became a member of the Austrian Werkbund , for which he designed postcards.

Böhler lived in the USA from 1936 to 1950 . Then he returned to Vienna. In 1954 he received the City of Vienna Prize for Painting and Graphics and the title of Professor .

Works

Böhler mainly created expressionist, brightly colored depictions of people , but also landscapes and precisely contoured nude drawings . An extensive collection of his works is in the Leopold Museum in Vienna.

• Girl in the Garden (Vienna, Leopold Museum, inv.no.713), 1906, oil on canvas, 136 × 68.4 cm
• Fräulein List (Vienna, Leopold Museum, inv. No.698), 1911, oil on canvas
• Girl with a blue headscarf (Vienna, Leopold Museum, inv.no.699), 1913, oil on canvas, 70.3 × 58.3 cm
• Seated Woman with Flowers (Vienna, Leopold Museum, Inv. No. 612), 1913, oil on canvas
• Piazza Bra in Verona (Vienna, Leopold Museum, inv. No. 702), 1914, oil on canvas
• Green House with Lady Dressed in Blue (Vienna, Leopold Museum, inv. No. 601), around 1915, oil on canvas
• Waldweg (Vienna, Leopold Museum, Inv. No. 606), around 1915, oil on canvas
• Boy with a Blue Jacket (Vienna, Leopold Museum, Inv. No. 4137), 1915, oil on canvas
• Portrait against a purple background (Vienna, Leopold Museum, inv. No.700), 1916, oil on canvas
• Spaniard (Vienna, Leopold Museum, Inv.No. 703), 1919, oil on canvas, 79.5 × 70 cm
• Blonde woman in front of green (Vienna, Leopold Museum, inv. No. 708), around 1925, oil on canvas
• Baden landscape (Vienna, Leopold Museum, inv.no. 609), 1925, oil on canvas
• Two seated women (Vienna, Leopold Museum, inv.no.714), 1927, oil on canvas
• In der Loge (Vienna, Leopold Museum, Inv. No. 707), 1927, oil on canvas
• In the Reissbar (Vienna, Leopold Museum, inv. No.710 ), 1928, oil on canvas, 92 × 104.5 cm

literature

• Sonja Menches (ed.): Boehler - drawings and paintings. Giese and Schweiger, Vienna 2014.
• Martin Suppan: Hans Böhler: Life and Works. [1884 - Vienna - 1961]. Edition Martin Suppan, Vienna 1990.
• Otto Breicha (Ed.): Hans Böhler. Paintings and graphics . alerie Welz, Salzburg 1981, ISBN 3-85349-084-0 .
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Böhler (Boehler) Hans. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 415 ( digitized version ).
• Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive realism. Painting of the Lost Generation. , Hirmer, Munich 1994, p. 356.
• Arthur Roessler : The painter Hans Böhler. Amalthea, Vienna 1929.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Böhler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Boehler, Hans. In: Sikart
• Literature by and about Hans Böhler in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Böhler, Hans. In: SIKART , accessed on 21 August 2015 .