Hans Christiansen

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Hans Peter Feddersen : Portrait of the painter Hans Christiansen, 1902
Die Woge (title page of the magazine Jugend), 1896

Hans Christiansen (* 6. March 1866 in Flensburg , † 5. January 1945 in Wiesbaden ) was a German craftsman and painter of Art Nouveau . As a Wiesbaden painter he represents classical modernism .

Life

As a painter's journeyman, he attended the Munich School of Applied Arts in 1888 . After a trip to Italy, he worked as a decorative painter in Hamburg . He was in contact with the Folk Art Association and devoted himself to studying nature. In 1892 he published his master work New Flax Ornaments . In 1895 he gave up his profession and went via Antwerp to Paris , where he studied at the Académie Julian and met his future wife.

On behalf of the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck, he designed collecting pictures for Stollwerck scrapbooks , including the series "Sternbilder" for Stollwerck's collector 's album No. 2 from 1898.

In 1899, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and near Rhine appointed him to the Darmstadt artists' colony on the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt . He belonged to Joseph Maria Olbrich and Peter Behrens among the first seven members and designed craft furniture, ceramics, stained glass and jewelry designs of Art Nouveau .

As part of the first exhibition of the artists' colony "Document German Art" in 1901, the artists built completely designed houses. Hans Christiansen also designed his own house, which he called “Villa in Roses” because the rose served as a leitmotif for the design of all rooms in the villa. He also worked as a graphic designer for the magazine Die Jugend . From 1911 he lectured at the Wiesbaden School of Applied Arts. He belonged to the Free Art Association of Wiesbaden .

Because of his artistic style and because he was married to a Jew, he was excluded from membership in the Reich Chamber of Culture in the so-called Third Reich , which amounted to a professional ban.

The "Villa in Rosen" was destroyed in the Second World War and its furnishings are lost. Only a duplicate of the guardian angel hanging in the bedroom , woven in the Scherrebek art weaving school , North Schleswig , appeared. The carpet that Christiansen had given to the founder of the Scherrebek-Manufaktur, Pastor Jacobsen, was acquired by the art and cultural history museum in Flensburg . The museum keeps his estate, which it acquired from his widow in 1959.

Honors

Exhibitions

literature

  • Ralf Beil, Dorothee Bieske, Michael Fuhr et al. (Eds.): Hans Christiansen. The retrospective. (Exhibition catalog) Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7757-3896-5 .
  • G. Fanelli, E. Godoli: Art Nouveau Postcards. Rizzoli, New York 1987, pp. 331 f.
  • Margret Zimmermann-Degen: Hans Christiansen. Life and work of an art nouveau artist. Part I (introduction and work analysis), part II (catalog raisonné), Langewiesche Verlag , Königstein im Taunus 1985.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlef Lorenz: Advertising art around 1900. Artist lexicon for collecting pictures. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2000.
  2. ^ "Ch." ( Mela Escherich ): Wiesbaden artists. In: Der Cicerone , 18th year, p. 683.
  3. ↑ Arsprototo , year 2012, No. 3, p. 11. (with illustration of the tapestry)
  4. ↑ Friedrich Pecht (Ed.): The art for all. 7th year, Munich 1902, p. 285

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SURNAME Christiansen, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art nouveau artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1945
Place of death Wiesbaden