Hans Best

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Grave of Hans Best in the Westfriedhof in Munich

Johann "Hans" Best (born August 25, 1874 in Mannheim ; † March 3, 1942 in Munich ) was a German landscape and genre painter who also worked as a sculptor, draftsman and illustrator.

Life

Best was the son of a master carpenter from Mannheim. On October 30, 1894, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich for the nature class with Karl Raupp . Even Wilhelm von Diez was one of his teachers.

After completing his studies, he traveled to Italy and spent a year in Trieste . He then opened a studio in Munich, became a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative and a member of the jury for its annual exhibitions. He made several trips through Italy, France and Belgium and taught as a professor of graphics at the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich . Best owned a summer house near Fürstenfeldbruck and took the motifs of his genre pictures mainly from Bavarian country life. Many of his paintings, which often have a humorous touch, were widely used as postcard motifs. He produced a series of blackboard illustrations for Ernst Wasmuth Verlag . As a sculptor, he mainly worked as an animal trainer.

Wrong picture and word ... ( Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig)

In 1913 he painted the lunettes in Auerbach's cellar in Leipzig .

Until the fire in 1931, he was almost regularly represented at the exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace through the Munich Artists' Cooperative, most recently with the oil paintings Germany and Defamation and a bronze bust of Prof. Georg Fuchs . Hans Best was also present at the major German art exhibitions from 1937 to 1942, as evidenced by the catalogs.

Awards

  • 1913 gold medal of the Glaspalast exhibition
  • 1916 Austrian State Medal
  • 1940 Lenbach Prize of the City of Munich

Fonts

  • Architecture sketches. Kanter & Mohr, Berlin / Cöln 1901

literature

  • Georg Jakob Wolf : Hans Best. Munich 1928
  • Best, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 198 .
  • Peter Wiench: Best, Hans . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 10, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22750-7 , p. 220.

Web links

Commons : Hans Best  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to a letter from the widow Berta Best to Adolf Brusch dated May 21, 1942, offered at ZVAB , accessed on August 30, 2013; the matriculation book states March 4, 1942
  2. ↑ 01344 Johann Best, register book 1884-1920
  3. ^ Catalog of the 1931 exhibition
  4. ↑ Digitized catalogs of all “Great German Art Exhibitions” 1937-1944 ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on arthistoricum.net @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / spkkunstbibliothek-cdm.gbv.de
personal data
SURNAME Best, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Best, Johann (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and genre painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1942
Place of death Munich