Hans Boresch

Hans Boresch (born January 13, 1890 in Berlin , † June 27, 1944 in Innsbruck ) was a German painter and engraver .

Life

Boresch studied at the arts and crafts schools in Vienna and Hamburg , as well as at the Streblow painting school in Berlin. He was a soldier in the First World War . In 1920 he came to Innsbruck, where he stayed. At first he lived at Bismarkplatz and over the course of the decade he moved to the Hungerburg , where he lived in the so-called Wöhrlehaus next to the church. Around 1925 he moved to a house he had built at Kandlerweg 8. The motif of the view from the Hungerburg, the view over the Inn and the rock motifs of the Hafelekar occupied him very much.

Boresch was a professor at the Realgymnasium in Innsbruck.

His artistic work is essentially copperplate engravings of landscapes, primarily areas from Bozen and Meran , Kitzbühel , the area around Innsbruck, the Zugspitze , Lake Constance and the Rhine. There are also motifs from Venice , a few pictures of people and bookplates . About 87 copperplate engravings are known from Boresch . He etched, engraved and also printed the plates himself. Most of his engravings are monogrammed and dated in the plate. Most of them date from the 1920s and 1930s.

In his early copper engravings, Boresch worked out his motifs with dense lines and represented a realistic, sometimes slightly expressive style. The engravings with the South Tyrolean and Rhenish motifs, but also motifs from North Tyrol come from this time.

Boresch later changed his style. His stitches become more elegant and relaxed. He now mainly creates depictions of winter landscapes. Engravings with motifs from high mountains and views from the Kitzbühel area come from this time.

Boreschs prints were in a relatively high bearing manufactured. That is why his work has found widespread use.

Contacts with Tyrolean artists are known, including Alfons Walde and CHW Kühn.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ lot-tissimo.com