Hans Böhme (painter)

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Hans Böhme (born June 16, 1905 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber , † 1982 ibid) was a German landscape painter , etcher and draftsman .

Hans Böhme studied from 1924 to 1928 at the Dresden Art Academy with Ferdinand Dorsch and Max Feldbauer , and in the winter semester of 1928 he switched to Angelo Jank at the Munich Art Academy . After graduating, he worked as a freelance painter in Rothenburg.

In 1943 he was awarded the Albrecht Dürer Prize of the City of Nuremberg . From 1937 to 1944 he was regularly represented with numerous works at the National Socialist propaganda shows " Great German Art Exhibition " in the House of German Art in Munich. Several works shown there were created through his service in a propaganda company as a front painter, including In the glowing dust of the Donsteppe (1943) and In the steel storm (1944). Both pictures were bought by Adolf Hitler . Joseph Goebbels bought the work Aus der Kesselschlacht von Kiev (1942) .

Hans Böhme used a wide variety of techniques, for example there are frescoes and sgraffiti , landscapes, cityscapes and portraits that are mainly associated with his home town of Rothenburg.

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Individual evidence

  1. 00044 Hans Böhme, Matrikelbuch 5, 1919-1931, p. 121 in: Matriculation of the AdBK Munich
  2. The archive; Reference work for politics, economics, culture , issues 121–126, 1944, p. 69 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  3. Database of the Central Institute for Art History, German Historical Museum and House of Art with information on all exhibited works of art