Hans Daucher (art teacher)

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Hans Daucher (born February 7, 1924 in Amberg ; † September 1, 2013 in Munich ) was a German art teacher and painter . He was a professor of art education at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the author of the Great Drawing School . With his wife Mirjam, geb. Henszler, he had two children; Jeannette Daucher (* 1959 in Munich), art teacher at the Asam-Gymnasium Munich , and Hans-Kaj Daucher (* 1954 in Munich), doctor. Hans Daucher lived and painted in Munich, Frauenchiemsee (summer courses with his daughter until 2013) and Capri .

Live and act

Hans Daucher attended the Amberg advanced school (today Max-Reger-Gymnasium ) and graduated from high school there in 1942. During the Second World War he was a soldier in the Air Force until the end of the war . The brief stationing as a soldier in France ( Normandy ) was formative for him. After the war he worked for a church painter to prepare for the academy. Nevertheless, he first studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Munich and from 1947 painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Xaver Fuhr and art education with Anton Marxmüller . In 1951 he passed the 1st state examination . After passing the 2nd state examination, he took up his first position in Marquartstein . In 1953 he married his wife Mirjam. Since the position in Marquartstein put a strain on the young marriage, he switched from the state as an employer to the city of Munich, first to the St. Anna Gymnasium in Lehel and finally to the Theodolindengymnasium in Harlaching. Together with schoolgirls, he created the mosaic that can still be seen today above the entrance to the school. After a lectureship at the Augsburg University of Education, he received a professor at the Munich / Pasing University of Education in 1970, where he established the chair for art education.

“His apartment and studio soon became a meeting place for the Schwabing art scene. It has always been important to him to teach people art in the best sense of the word. In the 1970s, thanks to his persuasiveness and assertiveness, he succeeded in integrating art education into the faculty of art studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich “... and finally wrenched it from its slumber as an appendage to general school education. With the strategic goal of creating aesthetic education at university level, Daucher directed the chair for art education, of which he was full professor until 1992, in two directions:

  1. Design with a focus on painting at the highest possible level. To this end, he engaged well-known artists such as Ernst Eichinger , Hannes Strauch (both painting), Gerhard Graeb ( photography ), Thomas Lehnerer ( philosophical aesthetics ), Gabriele Schnitzenbaumer ( ceramics ) and Angelika Obletter ( Chinese painting ) as lecturers.
  2. Scientific foundations of aesthetic education: Under Daucher, under the direction of Almut Clausen, a research project was brought to the chair that dealt with early childhood drawing for the first time in a broad field study . For the first time, these results allowed medically relevant conclusions to be drawn about early childhood developmental disorders.

Daucher's scientific focus should also be seen in this context. On the one hand, this was due to the connection of cerebral functions, such as the hemispheric theory, with aesthetic education. On the other hand, in numerous research projects and seminars, he documented the seamless aesthetic development of people from early childhood scribbles to cephalopods to the loss of childlike design during puberty. In doing so, he contributed to creating categories of aesthetic development that have become the standard in this subject and beyond today.

60 seconds portrait drawing of a student after hypnosis, showing Daucher

Daucher also networked the chair for art education at the LMU in an interdisciplinary manner. In seminars held by external lecturers, he repeatedly made references to the then still young science of art therapy , although he was always convinced that art in itself is therapy. As part of his observation of the interaction between the brain and artistic creation, Daucher was interested in the topics of autogenic training and hypnosis . To this end, he organized experimental seminars on Capri in the Villa Malaparte in the 1980s under the direction of Dieter Vaitl . Student subjects had to cope with certain drawing or painting tasks after hypnosis or autogenic training. “If you ask about Daucher's achievements in his active time as a professor of art education, the term 'fresh wind' that he sparked comes up. As early as 1986, his students were able to actively deal with image design on the computer , a pioneering act and an indication that curiosity and openness are essential for artistic work. "

Despite all the scientific nature and its support, he never lost sight of the best possible education for his students. Whoever got involved with Daucher, who did extensive teaching himself, was given design tools and guides with which even * gifted * students could achieve remarkable artistic results. His students and later art teachers carried this artistic armament hundreds of times into their professional practice, thus turning art education in Bavaria from a frustrating to a pleasure subject.

Honors

Fonts

  • Artistic and rationalized vision. Laws of perception and creation. Munich: Ehrenwirth 1967
  • Vision artistica y vision racionalizada. Coleccion Cornunicacion Visual (Span. Edition of: Artistic and rationalized seeing, Munich: 1967). Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili 1978
  • with Rudolf Seitz (art educator) : Didactics of the fine arts. Munich: Don Bosco 1969
  • with Otto, Gunter u. Seitz, Rudolf: teaching program art didactics. In: Art + Education (Hanover), 4th year (1971), special issue, pp. 23-108
  • Plastics. In: Kunst + Studium (Hanover), 5th year (1972), issue 16, p. 22 and p. 27
  • City Scout System In: Graphic design 55 (Tokyo), o.Jg. (1974), No. 55, August, p. 61 ff
  • Musical and technical experiments. Art education in America a travelogue. In: Art + Teaching (Hanover), 7th year (1974), issue 27. P. 50 f
  • Creativity as a Structural Problem of Thinking. In: International Perspective Creativity Research. National Council of Educational Research. New Delhi 1980
  • with Karl-Peter Sprinkart (Ed.): Aesthetic education as science. Problems, positions, perspectives. Cologne: DuMont 1979 therein: Psychogenetic explanatory approaches to the concept of aesthetics, pp. 111–132, and: Report of the 21st congress of the International Art Teachers Association in Australia on August 12, 19, 1978. pp. 277–292
  • Psychological Aspects of Aesthetics. In: Art in International Diversity. Melbourne / London / New York
  • Ways of drawing. Basics, Volume 1 ; Landscapes; Figure, Volume 3 - all Ravensburg: Ravensburger 1985
  • Ways of drawing. Portrait, Volume 4 ; Objects, Volume 5 ; Workshop secrets, Volume 6 all Ravensburg: Ravensburger 1986
  • Modos de Dibujar, Vols. 1-6. Chip. Edition of: Ways of Drawing, Vols. 1–6. Ravensburg 1985/86. Barcelona / Madrid / Buenos Aires / Mexico Naucalpan / Bogota / Santiago de Chile: Editorial Gustavo Gili 1987
  • Purity versus ornament. Interview by Walter Siegfried. In: du (Zurich), o.Jg. (1986), No. 1, pp. 68-71
  • (Ed.): The mustard seed garden. Chinese painting textbook. Translation by Angelika Obletter and Emilie Sun. 2 vols. Ravensburg: Ravensburger 1987
  • Children think in pictures. Munich: Piper 1990; In it: Children draw what they think., 135–158;
  • The great drawing school. 624 pages to draw in, with 350 drawings by great masters from different times and cultures ; New edition Edition XXL, Tosa-Verlag Fränkisch-Crumbach, 2008

literature

Necrologist

  • Tilman Steiner: Farewell to Professor Hans Daucher. In: Der Bayernspiegel , H. 5–6 / 2013, pp. 6–9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (from the laudation for the honorary award of the Schwabing Art Prize 2011)
  2. ^ Gerhard Graeb: Didactics of Photography. Guide to teaching photography . Don Bosco Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3769802993
  3. ↑ Angelika Obletter Der Senfkorngarten: Textbook of Chinese painting
  4. ↑ From 'art lessons' to 'aesthetic education'
  5. ↑ Dr.rer.nat. Almut Clausen breathing school GetAlive
  6. ↑ The Kita-Handbuch
  7. ↑ Dauchers painting courses in the Villa Malaperte
  8. ↑ Prof. em. Dr. Dieter Vaitl , University of Giessen
  9. ↑ (from the laudation for the honorary award of the Schwabing Art Prize 2011)
  10. ↑ Partial distribution of the Bavarian People's Foundation on the occasion of the Bavarian Constitution Day in Landshut 1991 , in: Der Bayernspiegel , Jan./Febr. 1992, p. 9f.
personal data
SURNAME Daucher, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art educator and painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH On the mountain
DATE OF DEATH September 1st 2013
Place of death Munich