Hans E. Schwender

Hans Eugen Schwender (born March 31, 1929 in Altstadt / Saar ; † August 31, 2006 in Zweibrücken ) was an important Saarland artist who is best known for his impressive oil paintings, which are characterized by a gloomy mood. His work can be assigned to an expressionist surrealism . After the Second World War , an avant-garde art scene between Belgium , Germany and France met in Saarland , which influenced his work stylistically.

Live and act

Characterized by a long stay as a teenager in Babitz (today: Babice) near Auschwitz , where his father worked as a wholesale merchant at IG Farben between 1942 and 1945 , and of the war death of two older brothers, his pictures were often gloomy, dark and terrifying. Throughout his life he worked through his experiences in art.

Trained at the Saarbrücker Werkkunstschule , where he studied with Boris Kleint and Frans Masereel between 1949 and 1951 and from 1956 to 1958 , he created not only oil paintings, but also watercolors , sculptures (the village fountain in the old town / Saar) and mosaics (for example for the Limbach elementary school ) Woodcuts , glass applications (for example for the Church of St. Corpus Christi in Homburg ) and first multimedia work with Super-8 as early as the mid-sixties. He was also a dialect collector and poet, wrote aphorisms , researched and published on local history .

The last exhibition took place in 1986 in the “Galerie der Arbeit” in Kirkel. He denied the art market, did not sign his pictures. There are handwritten notes on the size of the picture and a number on the back.

literature

• Martin Baus, Wolfgang Kerkhoff, Hans E. Schwender: Old Town Moments .

1. Word and picture book . 1985.
2. School book . 1990.

• Saarpfalz-Kreis (Hrsg.): Saarpfalz Calendar 2007 . P. 67 and p. 216f.