Hans Breinlinger

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Hans Breinlinger (1958)

Hans Breinlinger (born July 8, 1888 in Konstanz , † February 10, 1963 in Konstanz) was a German painter , photographer and graphic artist . Breinlinger created over 80 glass windows and numerous stations of the cross in the vicinity of Constance .

Life

The Judas Kiss (1920)

From 1903 to 1905 Breinlinger completed an apprenticeship as a photographer and retoucher . Until 1908 he worked as a photographer in Nuremberg , Freiburg im Breisgau , Lausanne , Boulogne , Paris and Stuttgart . He returned to Constance in 1909 and began studying at the Grand Ducal Baden Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe in 1911 . His painting style was influenced there by Wilhelm Trübner . From March 1915 to the end of 1918 he took part in the First World War.

In the early 1920s he met the writer Alice Berend , married her in London in 1926 and moved with her to Berlin . Breinlinger found access to Berlin society through his wife, her younger sister Charlotte Berend-Corinth and his brother-in-law Lovis Corinth . In 1933 the books of Alice Berend were put on the "List of harmful and undesirable literature" by the National Socialists. As she was persecuted as a Jew, she emigrated to Italy in 1935. Breinlinger and Berend then got divorced.

In 1943 his apartment and studio in Berlin were bombed out and Breinlinger returned to Konstanz. From 1948 he worked as a curator at the Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie in Konstanz. In 1947 he became a board member and exhibition manager of the Kunstverein Konstanz and from 1951 he was a board member of the Oberschwaben-Bodensee secession.

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Early work

Breinlinger's early work, landscapes , portraits , still lifes and pictures with religious themes, is characterized by bright colors, painted with a broad brush, spatula or fingers. Initially influenced by his teacher Wilhelm Trübner , a style soon emerged that arose from his impulsive joie de vivre and his inclination towards mysticism and “ primordial religion ” (e.g. The Burning Bush , 1919). After his return to Konstanz, he joined the artist group Breidablik .

The 1920s

Facade of the house at Hussenstrasse 18 in Constance, designed by Hans Breinlinger

In 1921 he had his first solo exhibition. From 1922 he created the facade of the house at Hussenstrasse 18 in Constance from the first floor to the third floor, up to the beginning of the roof, with an expressionist effect and in line with anthroposophical ideas. From 1923 to 1924 he went on study trips to Holland, Italy, Vienna, Paris and London. In 1924 the city of Konstanz bought his painting ' Mother with Child' , which was confiscated in 1937 as “ degenerate ” and has since disappeared.

At the end of the 1920s, when confronted with the art business in Berlin, Breinlinger's pictures change: the colors become paler, the painting style becomes finer, the surfaces dissolve into dots and lines. The landscape temporarily recedes in favor of figurative representation. The two art dealers Justin Thannhauser and Alfred Flechtheim sponsored him, and he regularly took part in the jury-free art show in Berlin.

Church art in the 1930s

From the beginning of the 1930s he received commissions for numerous religious monumental works, which he executed as mosaics , glass or wall paintings . In 1931 he became a board member of the Association of Catholic Artists in Berlin and invited to the Berlin building exhibition to make a mural. In 1932 he was allowed to participate in the Berlin Secession as a non-member . At the world exhibition in Chicago in 1933 he was represented with two stations of the cross. During the 1930s numerous church windows, stations of the cross, altarpieces and organ decorations were created in Berlin churches and in Silesia.

Destruction and ostracism

Most of his works of church art that had been created up to that point were destroyed in the Second World War. In 1937 his pictures were removed from the Wessenberg gallery in Konstanz as "degenerate". On November 23, 1943, his Berlin studio was destroyed and he moved back to Konstanz.

Late work after the Second World War

First he designed ways of the cross and church windows in the Lake Constance area:

  • 1946: Immendingen
  • 1947: Waldkirch
  • 1952: Hornberg
  • 1952: Meersburg
  • 1953: Singen, St. Peter and Paul
  • 1955: Lindau
  • 1962: Konstanz-Wollmatingen, St. Martin
  • 1962: Konstanz-Allmannsdorf, St. Georg

Almost all of the stylistic devices and themes from the previous creative phases can be found in Breinlinger's late work. Added to this are non-representational images based on the still life .

Honors

In 1958 he was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany. A street in Konstanz was named after him.

The "Hans Breinlinger Museum" is located in the Knittel Gallery in Constance. His grave is in the main cemetery in Konstanz .

Works (selection)

  • 1920: Judas kiss , oil / cardboard, 70 × 48 cm, Hans-Breinlinger Museum Konstanz
  • 1923: The artist's mother
  • 1927: Monkey , oil, 48 × 46 cm, Hans-Breinlinger Museum Konstanz
  • 1930: Stations of the Cross , oil / egg tempera, 131 × 132 cm, Hans-Breinlinger Museum Konstanz
  • 1936: Christ crowned with thorns , oil, 68 × 50 cm, Hans-Breinlinger Museum Konstanz
  • 1938: Old Upper Silesian peasant couple
  • 1941: Der Mahner , egg / tempera, 103 × 77 cm, Hans-Breinlinger Museum Konstanz
  • 1948: Clown with mirror , oil, tempera, 55 × 39 cm, Hans-Breinlinger Museum Konstanz
  • 1956: Two eerie creatures , egg / tempera, 71 × 50 cm, Hans-Breinlinger Museum Konstanz
  • 1958: Christ crowned with thorns , egg / tempera, 68 × 48 cm, Hans-Breinlinger Museum Konstanz
  • 1958: The Big Bang , oil / sand / casein, 82 × 54 cm, Berlin
  • 1962: Landscape by the river , egg / tempera, 57 × 44 cm, Hans-Breinlinger Museum Konstanz
  • 1962: Self-portrait with a cat , tempera / hardboard, 82.5 × 60 cm, Wessenberg-Galerie, Konstanz

Exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions

  • 1919: Breitablik ; Constancy
  • 1946: Palatine Secession ; Darmstadt, Ludwigshafen, Speyer
  • 1947: New group ; Munich
  • 1948: Salon Peuser; Buenos Aires
  • 1991: Südstadt Gallery ; West German Art Fair, Cologne
  • 2000: 7 Hills - Images and Signs of the 21st Century ; Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin, May – October 2000,

Solo exhibitions

  • Post-war period: Constance, Schaffhausen, Freiburg, Zurich, Fontainebleau
  • 1978: Hans Breinlinger in memory ; Municipal Wessenberg Gallery , Constance
  • 1995: Signal exhibition ; Signal House, Dortmund
  • 1996: In the rhythm of the brush ; Villa Bosch, Radolfzell, May 15 to June 16, 1996
  • 1998: Religious Works ; Municipal Wessenberg Gallery, Constance, October 11 to November 22, 1998
  • 2008: Expression ; Suzhou Museum, China, September 10 to October 10, 2008
  • 2009: Bonsai meets Breinlinger ; Bürgersaal on Stephansplatz, Constance, July 25th to August 2nd, 2009

literature

  • AMPrint - Catalog of Modern Art (1-paintings), 1977–1978.
  • Edgar Bruker: Hans Breinlinger in memory. In: Konstanzer Almanach, XXV. Vintage. Konstanz 1979, pp. 39-43.
  • Hans Albert Peters: The painter Hans Breinlinger: Work and life. Edited by Frieder Knittel. Universitätsverlag, Konstanz 1985, ISBN 3-879401-89-6 .
  • Waltraud Liebl: I am a wild painter. In: Bodensee Hefte, Edition 09/1988 pp. 14-18.
  • Frieder Knittel: Hans Breinlinger. In: General Artist Lexicon . Saur Verlag , Munich / Leipzig 1996, Volume 14, pp. 85ff
  • Doris and Frieder Knittel, Barbara Stark: Hans Breinlinger - Religiöse Werke. Exhibition catalog. 1998, ISBN 3-929768-06-2
  • Two creeps. Weltkunst magazine ; Cover picture January 1998.
  • 7 hills - images and symbols of the 21st century. Exhibition catalog 2000, p. 156; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; The Big Bang , 1958.
  • Frieder Knittel: Expression. Hans Breinlinger 1888-1963; a famous son of Constance. Exhibition catalog. Suzhou Museum, China. Vesalius Verlag, Konstanz 2008, ISBN 3-934952-14-3 .
  • Breinlinger exhibition in Suzhou, China. Project report. City of Konstanz (Ed.), Konstanz 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Barbara Stark: Hans Breinlinger 1888–1963. In: Konstanzer Almanach, 59th year 2013. Stadler, Konstanz 2012, pp. 64–65.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Edgar Bruker: Hans Breinlinger for memory. In: Konstanzer Almanach, XXV. Vintage. Konstanz 1979, pp. 39-43.
  3. ^ Eva-Maria Bast: building painting. Despite nasty neighbors. In: Eva Maria Bast, Heike Thissen: Secrets of the homeland. Edition Südkurier, Konstanz 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035899-9 , pp. 48–50.

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personal data
SURNAME Breinlinger, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, photographer and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1963
Place of death Constancy