Hans E. German

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Hans Emil Deutsch (born April 18, 1927 in Wangen , Canton Schwyz ; † June 15, 2014 in St. Gallen ) was a Swiss painter , honorary doctor and honorary professor of the Interamerican University of Humanistic Studies Florida , USA, and honorary professor of the Accademia Internazionale di Arti -Lettere-Scienze in Rome .

Live and act

His areas of activity were mainly oil painting and lithography , of which he published a New Year's lithograph every year until his death in an edition of 100 copies. But he also worked with mixed media, pastel, pencil drawings, drawings, created murals and stained glass windows and worked with woodcuts in his early years.

Hans E. Deutsch in his studio in Rorschacherberg SG

Deutsch was a pioneer of European abstract expressionism and has been awarded a large number of art prizes and titles since 1956. In 1978 he received a. a. the Rembrandt Prize, in 1979 the Senate of the Accademia Italia delle Arte e del Lavoro awarded him the title of Accademico d'Italia with gold medal for his artistic work in Salsomaggiore-Terme , the Albrecht Dürer Medal followed in 1982. 1985 awarded him the Academia Italia the title of Cavalliere . In 1986 he was awarded the “Golden Torch of Fine Art” and the “Golden Palm of Europe” for his artistic work. In the same year, the Accademia Italia Calvatone was honored in the form of the Premio d'Italia award by his community of Rorschacherberg. "With obvious pride to know that a laureate of the Accademia Italia lives in the municipality of Rorschacherberg, the mayor Ernst Tobler presented the award including the certificate of honor."

Hans E. Deutsch was encouraged early on by his father, a factory owner. From 1944 to 1950 he studied painting and art history in Lucerne , St. Gallen and Munich , where he set up a studio in 1948 and made his first exhibitions. They took him to many galleries and museums in Europe and overseas. In 1950, Deutsch moved to Rorschach , but continued to work in his studio in St. Gallen until 1959. In 1959 he took up residence in Rorschacherberg above Lake Constance .

In his early years Hans E. Deutsch was on friendly terms with painters such as Jo von Kalckreuth , Otto Dix and Cuno Amiet , with Adolf Dietrich and Varlin (Willy Guggenheim), Hans Purrmann and Ernst Morgenthaler . With Jo von Kalckreuth he traveled a. a. 1952 to Greece and Tangier .

From his house in Rorschacherberg he had a wide view of the whole of Lake Constance, which was important for his personal work and which also strongly influenced him. Three countries meet here: Germany , Austria and Switzerland . This vastness of the landscape is clearly noticeable in Deutsch's work. The proximity to water and his love for Lake Constance unmistakably shaped his work. The play of colors in the water, boats, sails and seagulls kept returning as leitmotifs in his works. The landscapes and the vastness of the seascape, the moods of Lake Constance, but also the great seas, the impressions of which he brought home, shaped many of his works.

Deutsch also painted people, clowns and harlequins, in lush application of paint, opulent still lifes , deep blue lake idylls, the Rhine Valley with its vineyards, fields and settlements, boats on the jetty or ready for departure.

In addition to figurative and objective things, he also worked on free color compositions. He processed his works expressively with a certain abstraction, especially in the idiosyncratic treatment of perspective.

At home and abroad, Hans E. Deutsch took part in numerous exhibitions. His works hang in many public and private collections in Switzerland, Europe and overseas.

Hans E. Deutsch worked as an artistic advisor to the International Olympic Committee ( International Olympic Committee IOC) from 1965 to 1970 and was also an artistic advisor for Swissair until 1999 . In the 1980s, the University of Konstanz offered him a professorship in art studies, which he refused. He feared that the institutionalization of his work would restrict it or even lose his artistic freedom, the greatest good of the free artist. He remained an alert spirit, creative thinker and artist throughout his life until his death in 2014.

Hans E. Deutsch was a Freemason and a member of the Swiss Grand Lodge Alpina and the Freemason Lodge Humanitas in Libertate in the Orient St. Gallen.

As a freelance painter, Hans E. Deutsch was a member of the Thurgau artist group and the Society of Swiss Painters and Sculptors (GSMBA).

Works in public collections

Composition 1997
Lithograph 1987, Rose, by Hans E. Deutsch

literature

Monograph Hans E. Deutsch, published in 1990
  • Catalog HE German , with introductory words by Prof. Dr. A. Nydegger, University of St. Gallen (HSG), with ten color and thirteen black and white reproductions. Format 30 × 21 cm, edition of 10,000. Ex., Geisser Druck, Horn TG, 1965
  • Alfred Rutz, Rorschach: Warmth of color - melody of form , essay on the painter Hans E. Deutsch, in Rorschacher monthly chronicle, No. 7 - 1968
  • A color title page Bergstrasse im Winter by Hans E. Deutsch with an essay by the well-known art historian Dorothea Christ was published by Observer Verlag Basel on November 21, 1961 .
  • In the Enziklopedia Internationale degli Artisti 1970–1971, Bugatti Editore-Universitas Europea, Ancona, Italy, Hans E. Deutsch appears alongside Picasso, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Viktor Vasarely, Giorgio Morandi, Casorati Guttuso and other internationally known artists with various reproductions presented.
  • In the 1970 Kunstcomposé, Kraus Verlag Munich, Hans E. Deutsch is listed with a review by Alfred Rutz, Rorschach, and five black-and-white panels alongside 24 important European painters.
  • Dr. Walter Röcking, Frankfurt: Article about the painter Hans E. Deutsch with five color plates. in the New Year's Gazette from 1970, Loepfe-Benz Verlag AG, Rorschach
  • Large illustrated book by Hans E. Deutsch , 1990, arranged by Hauser Treuhand, Rorschach / CH, Geisser Druck, Horn / CH and Druck + Satz AG, Rorschach / CH
  • Internationale Bodenseehefte, No. 12, 1986, with an 11-page article by Manfred E. Friedrich, Bremerhaven, A painter sees Lake Constance , with 8 color and 4 black-and-white reproductions about the painter Hans E. Deutsch
  • Swiss artists of the 20th century, Verlag Huber AG, Frauenfeld
  • Thurgauer Künstler 1980, Thurgauer Künstler publishing house
  • Lexicon of Contemporary European Artists, Edizione Accademia Italia
  • Lexicon of Contemporary Swiss Artists, Verlag Huber AG, Frauenfeld
  • Who is Who in the Arts, Red Series Verlag International, for celebrity encyclopedias 1982
  • The Swiss and Liechtenstein, Who is who, Red Series Verlag International, for celebrity encyclopedias 1983
  • Contemporary personalities of the world, Edizione Accademia Italia 1983
  • Who is who International Art, 1986
  • Office for cultural maintenance of the canton of St. Gallen, artist documentation 1984
  • "The painter Hans E. Deutsch", Institute for Contemporary Art, Milan

Web links

Commons : Hans E. Deutsch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Graf: International Awards - Rembrandt Prize and Honorary Professorship for Hans E. Deutsch In: Rorschacher Zeitung of July 26, 1978.
  2. ↑ Hans E. Deutsch - a pioneer of European abstract expressionism. In: Das Kunst-Bulletin , September 1997 edition.
  3. ^ Ernst Graf: International Awards - Rembrandt Prize and Honorary Professorship for Hans E. Deutsch. In: Rorschacher Zeitung of July 26, 1978.
  4. ^ Ernst Graf: Hans E. Deutsch appointed Accademico d'Italia. In: Ostschweizer Zeitung of November 20, 1979.
  5. ^ Ge: Dürer Medal for Hans E. Deutsch. In: St. Galler Tagblatt from May 3, 1982.
  6. ↑ Hugo Rohner: A «cavalier» of art. In: St. Galler Tagblatt from April 23, 1997.
  7. ^ Manfred E. Friedrich: The painter Hans Deutsch is 60 years old today. In: St. Galler Tagblatt from April 18, 1987.
  8. ↑ Peter Beerli: Honoring Hans Deutsch In: Rorschacher Zeitung of December 18, 1986.
  9. ^ Kö: Rorschacherberger painter is honored - Received the Premio d'Italia. In: St. Galler Tagblatt of December 18, 1986.
  10. ↑ Louis Mettler: Ambassador of the Lake Constance area (Hans E. German for the seventieth). In: Eastern Switzerland from April 18, 1997.
  11. ↑ Louis Mettler: Ambassador of the Lake Constance area. In: Eastern Switzerland from April 18, 1997.
  12. ↑ Erich Hochreutener: Hans E. Deutsch. In: Photo book Hans E. Deutsch. 1990.
  13. ↑ Louis Mettler: Ambassador of the Lake Constance area. In: Eastern Switzerland from April 18, 1997.
  14. ↑ What he did made sense. Tagblatt Online from June 25, 2014.
  15. ↑ see Membership lists of the lodges .
  16. ↑ Detlev Eberhard: New art volume about Hans E. Deutsch published in: Ostschweizer Tagblatt from January 9, 1991.
personal data
SURNAME German, Hans E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES German, Hans Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheeks SZ
DATE OF DEATH 15th June 2014
Place of death St. Gallen