Hans Fähnle

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Self-portrait around 1950

Hans Fähnle (born June 12, 1903 in Flein near Heilbronn , † March 12, 1968 in Stuttgart ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Fähnle was the son of a school principal. He attended the Karlsgymnasium in Heilbronn and then the Evangelical Theological Seminars in Schöntal and Bad Urach . Then Fähnle studied drawing with the professional goal of drawing teacher from 1922 to 1924 at the School of Applied Arts and then at the Stuttgart Art Academy with Robert Poetzelberger , Christian Speyer and Robert Breyer . In 1925, Fähnle and his fellow Stuttgart student Richard Hohly went to the Kunsthochschule Kassel , where he was a master student of Georg Burmester . He then moved to the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg , where he was Hans Meid's master class until 1931 . Fähnle traveled to Paris , southern France, Venice , Florence , Rügen and again and again to Lake Constance .

He cultivated friendships with the sculptor, journalist and art historian Franziska Sarwey , the painter and gallery owner Hanna Bekker vom Rath , the painters Rudolph Müller , Franz Frank , Alfred Wais and the circle of academy students around Wilhelm Geyer , such as B. Joseph Kneer , Alfred Lehmann , Manfred Pahl , Walter Wörn and Heinrich Wildemann . During his studies, Fähnle had studios in Berlin and Hofheim am Taunus near Frankfurt , and he also used a holiday studio in his parents' house in Überlingen for life .

From 1935 Fähnle lived again in Stuttgart , soon afterwards until the end of his life with a studio and apartment in Ameisenbergstrasse 61 built in 1913. Direct studio neighbors were his fellow student Rudolph Müller and the elder Eugen Stammbach , with whom he had a constructive friendship as a painter. His first major solo exhibition took place in 1936 at the Schaller gallery in Stuttgart. In the time of the National Socialist ostracism of modernism as “ degenerate art ”, Fähnle was not persecuted by the Nazi art censors because of his low level of awareness, but there were no longer any opportunities for him to exhibit.

Drafted in 1941, he served as a soldier until 1945. During this time the graphic cycle “Passion 1942” was created (see below: work). In 1944 his studio and most of his early work were destroyed in bombing raids on Stuttgart. Back in Stuttgart after a short period as a prisoner of war, he took part in the reconstruction of the municipal studio building from 1946, together with his long-time friend Rudolph Müller and other artist colleagues. Together with the sculptor Emil Brüllmann and the painters Hermann Hübsch , Anton Kaper , Heinrich Kübler and Rudolph Müller, Hans Fähnle founded the Free Art School Stuttgart (registered association from 1948). There he worked as a lecturer for painting / nude and head drawing until 1956. In 1952 he was one of the founding members of the Free Stuttgart Group in the succession of the Stuttgart New Secession, which was banned in 1933 . In addition to his work as an art teacher, he worked as an illustrator and created sgraffiti and wall mosaics on buildings in Stuttgart. Since the war years, Fähnle suffered from a painful illness that increasingly burdened him. On March 12, 1968, Hans Fähnle died as a result of an illness-related fall in his Stuttgart studio.

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In his painting, Fähnle dealt early with Hans von Marées , Max Beckmann , Lovis Corinth and Max Slevogt . While the painterly impressionism of his teachers was noticeable in his early works , his painting style changed in the years in Berlin under the influence of German Expressionism to a clear increase in color and first attempts to dissolve forms. Later, too, he kept returning to the large areas of light and dark tones that were often applied with a spatula. His rich graphic work also shows the exploration of expressive stylistic devices.

The main subjects of his work are landscapes, flower pictures, domestic scenes, portraits, Christian and mythological scenes. In the works since 1941, traumatic war experiences and heightened human feelings have been discussed. During the years of his military service he created the cycle "Passion 1942" with 22 chalk drawings, which Alfred Eichhorn published in a collotype folder in 1946 (originals today in the Städtische Galerie Albstadt ).

Fähnle was concerned with the artistic overcoming of war experiences and suffering until the end of his life in 1968. He expressed despair in religious and mythological themes, depicting violence, grief, anger and aggression. His images of man became increasingly deformed, the pictorial spaces narrower. His colors became more independent and intense, the expressive sign language increased the compositional tension. In the 50s, the impasto application of paint increased, shapes were largely dissolved in a surreal way, he increasingly painted block-like bodies and geometrically abstract figures, which also shaped his numerous, color-intensive flower pictures of this time. On many trips to Spain, Italy, North Africa and Greece, light landscapes were created in intensely muted colors. In the 1960s he increasingly experimented with reduced, abstract forms and making the individual colors independent. The self-portraits from this time reflect his progressive illness, from which he suffered since the war years.

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibition in the Fähnle Gallery, Überlingen

After Fähnle's death, his brother Ernst Fähnle had a modern, small exhibition building built not far from her parents' house in Überlingen (Goldbacher Strasse 70). Since then, the so-called “ Galerie Fähnle ” has been used to store and present a substantial part of Hans Fähnle's artistic estate.

There are around 350 paintings, 6 folders with around 380 graphics and works on paper, another 15 folders with around 900 drawings, sketches, sketchbooks and other works on paper as well as a large bundle of unsorted drawings, sketches and drafts. In 1975 Ernst Fähnle had transferred the property, exhibition building and collection to the city of Überlingen on the basis of a leasing contract with a term of 50 years.

Since 2007, the gallery is Fähnle with collection of scientific, artistic and local historical reasons under monument protection . The estate of paintings in the Galerie Fähnle was saved in a database and in 2010 by students studying restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . a. Recorded according to subject, painting style and time of origin (under the direction of Volker Schaible).

On April 20, 2012 the Förderverein Galerie Fähnle was founded in Überlingen, which in addition to promoting the cultural monument Galerie Fähnle u. a. The aim was to publicize the work of Hans Fähnle by promoting inventory and scientific processing.

As an important further step on this path, the inventory of the artistic legacy of works on paper, which are kept locked in drawers and folders in the Fähnle Gallery, began on July 11, 2012 - again with the help of the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and supported by the Rotary Club Überlingen. Students of the restoration of graphic, archival and library material at Irene Brückle record and examine the extensive graphic work of graphics, drawings, gouaches, watercolors, woodcuts, oil sketches and other works in many other techniques under the professional supervision of the freelance paper restorer Barbara Aull .

literature

  • General Artist Lexicon (AKL) Volume 36 (2003), p. 184
  • General Lexicon of Visual Artists of the XX. Century , Vollmer Volume 5 (1961), p. 468
  • Braun, Uli; Caesar, Volker; Knubben, Thomas (Ed.), Hans Fähnle. Painter, Frankfurt / M., 2013, ed. on behalf of the municipality of Flein, catalog for the exhibition October 25–15. December 2013, ISBN 978-3-86337-048-0
  • Thomas Knubben: Hans Fähnle - a lost painter is rediscovered , in: Schwäbische Heimat 2013/4, pp. 396–402.
  • Caesar, Volker, The painter Hans Fähnle - “lost” in Überlingen? Städtische Galerie Fähnle, Goldbacher Straße 70, in: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Wuerttemberg , newsletter of the preservation of monuments, 1.2010, pp. 19–25, (PDF; 5.2 MB)
  • Freie Gruppe Stuttgart, exhibitions 1952 and 1963, catalog for the exhibition Böblingen / Grafenau 1988, with contributions by Günther Wirth, Harry Schlichtenmaier and Hans Dieter Mück , pp. 39–40.
  • Froitzheim, Eva-Marina, Myths and Color, Rudolph Müller - Hans Fähnle. Boeblingen 1996
  • Grüner, Isabel, Hans Fähnle - a painter of the lost generation: 1903–1968; Exhibition by the Hohenkarpfen Art Foundation (Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg Art Association) and the city of Überlingen on Lake Constance; Hohenkarpfen Art Museum near Hausen ob Verena, July 11–10. October 1999; Municipal Gallery Fauler Pelz Ueberlingen, October 17–21. November 1999, Hausen ob Verena and Überlingen 1999
  • Hohly, Richard; Rapp, Dorothea, Richard Hohly. Life and Work - Life Pictures by Richard Hohly. Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 1980
  • Smitmans, Adolf, Hans Fähnle, Passion and other drawings, Städtische Galerie Albstadt, Reutlingen 1990
  • von der Thollen, Ingrid; Zimmermann, Rainer; Finckh, Gerhard, The Joseph Hierling Collection, Expressive Realism, Schweinfurter Museumsschriften 166/2009, pp. 77 and 87
  • Zimmermann, Rainer, Expressive Realism, Painting of the Lost Generation, Munich 1994, passim

Web links

Websites dedicated to Hans Fähnle

Press

Exhibitions / events

Fähnle as an illustrator

Artist friends

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short biography of Fähnle with Caesar, Volker, The painter Hans Fähnle - “lost” in Überlingen? Städtische Galerie Fähnle, Goldbacher Straße 70, in: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Newsletter of the State Monument Preservation, 1.2010, pp. 19-25, (PDF; 5.2 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.denkmalpflege-bw.de
  2. ↑ cf. Illustrated biography on the website of the Förderverein Galerie Fähnle , cf. Braun, Uli; Caesar, Volker; Knubben, Thomas (Ed.), Hans Fähnle. Maler, Frankfurt / M., 2013, pp. 152–157
  3. ↑ cf. Niederhofer, Ulrike, Hans Fähnle - Impressionist - Expressive Realist - Surreal Poet on the website of the descendants of Hans Fähnle's family, April 2011
  4. ↑ Passion 42  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Flyer for the exhibition@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / xn--galerie-fhnle-freunde-e2b.de  
  5. ↑ Heilbronn Voice , February 14, 2013, Hans Fähnle's path of suffering
  6. ^ Double exhibition on the work of the painter Hans Fähnle , Südkurier, S. Floetemeyer, March 12, 2014
  7. ↑ Überlingen galleries pay tribute to a forgotten painter , Schwäbische Zeitung, H. Voith, March 10, 2014
  8. ↑ Vernissage for the double exhibition , Südkurier, Karin Walz, March 17, 2014
  9. ^ Wrestling with abstraction , Schwäbische Zeitung, Antje Merke, March 17, 2014
  10. ↑ Caesar, Volker, The painter Hans Fähnle - “lost” in Überlingen? Städtische Galerie Fähnle, Goldbacher Straße 70, in: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Newsletter of the State Monument Preservation, 1.2010, pp. 19–25 (PDF; 5.2 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.denkmalpflege-bw.de
  11. ↑ Handwritten list by Ernst Fähnle 1975, local files RP Tübingen, Section 26 Monument Preservation
  12. ↑ Galerie Fähnle holds exciting works , Südkurier, Überlingen, July 13, 2010, and Academy of Fine Arts, Outlook and Insights October 2010: Project Galerie Fähnle  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective . Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 975 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.abk-stuttgart.de  
  13. ↑ Report on the founding of the association on the website of the Friends of the Fähnle Gallery, as of February 15, 2013
  14. ^ "Galerie Fähnle" association founded , Südkurier, Überlingen, April 23, 2012
  15. ↑ Articles of Association of the Fähnle Gallery
  16. ↑ Information on this course at the ABK Stuttgart ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Friends of Galerie Fähnle, as of February 15, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / xn--galerie-fhnle-freunde-e2b.de
  17. ^ Project graphics , website of the Friends of the Fähnle Gallery, as of February 15, 2013
  18. ↑ Goerlich, Martina, review of the exhibition catalog "Hans Fähnle. Painter" in: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , newsletter of the Landesdenkmalpflege, 1.2014, p. 65f
personal data
SURNAME Fähnle, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Flein
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1968
Place of death Stuttgart