Hans Förster (graphic designer)

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Hans Förster (at the age of 80)

Hans Förster (born February 9, 1885 in Hamburg ; † April 22, 1966 there ) was a German graphic artist, draftsman and writer. In his colored woodcuts he recorded the vanishing old country life in the Hamburg marshland , especially in the Vierlanden and the Altes Land .

Life

Förster was introduced to the art of drawing at an early age by his father Christian (1826–1902), a well-known Hamburg painter and press illustrator. After studying at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts , he continued his training in Berlin with Emil Orlik (1870–1932). Here he received a lot of suggestions that shaped his artistic style.

He moved his residence to Neuengamme and was able to artistically depict the Vierlande, their people, buildings and customs. To this end, he also dealt with the history of the landscape and published a number of illustrated books on the subject. He also published novels, poems and stories, often in Low German. Some of his folk paintings were circulated as postcard prints. The economic success was low, and Förster developed into a loner with a "clearly shown bitterness in old age". Förster was a member of the Hamburg Art Association and the Hamburg Art Association .

The main part of his estate is now in the Altona Museum . The Museum for Bergedorf and the Vierlande owns a number of prints.

Afterlife

The Hans-Förster-Bogen in Hamburg- Nettelnburg is named after the artist.

Fonts

  • The picturesque Vierlande. Pictures and sketches . Hermes, Hamburg 1918
  • Koornknicker - Ohl Veerlanner Vertellen . Westermann, Braunschweig and Hamburg 1921.
  • Altländer rides . Alsterverlag, Hamburg 1922 (2nd edition 1923, 3rd edition 1938).
  • Marsh land rides . Alster Verlag, Hamburg 1924.
  • Old folk art of Lower Saxony. With many drawings by the author . Lower Saxony publishing house, Hanover 1926.
  • Shells. Folklore delicacies from the Low German world of forms in 500 pen drawings. Westphal, Scharbeutz / Lübeck 1935.
  • Old Hamburg in words and pictures: A walk through the old town before it was destroyed. With 70 pen drawings by the author. Nordmann, Hamburg 1958.
  • Picturesque marshes in words and pictures: from Bill- and Ochsenwerder via Bergedorf to Vierlanden. With 78 pen drawings by the author. Nordmann, Hamburg 1958.
  • Beautiful Finkenwerder in words and pictures: Von Marschenland and Waterkant. With 78 pen drawings by the author. Nordmann, Hamburg 1959.

literature

  • Verena Fink: Hans Förster. Hamburg painter, graphic artist, writer and restless art hiker . Verlag der Kunst, Husum 2017.
  • Maike Bruhns : Förster, Hans (Otto Paul Erwin) . In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary . Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 129.
  • Werner Schröder: The four-country painters Hermann Hesse and Hans Förster. In: Vierlande. Cultural history between the Elbe and Bille. Kultur- & Geschichtkontor, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-9811271-9-5 ; Pp. 114-153.
  • Torkild Hinrichsen: Hans Förster. In: Franklin Kopitzsch and Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie. Lexicon of persons. Volume 2. Christians, Hamburg 2003, p. 127.
  • Olaf Matthes and Bardo Metzger: Bergedorfer Personen Lexikon. Museum for Bergedorf and the Vierlande. Hamburg 2003.
  • Harald Richert: Hans Förster, the keeper of Low German cultural assets. In: Hamburgische Geschichts- und Heimatblätter, Vol. 10 (1979), 8, pp. 189–196.
  • Thieme / Becker 12, p. 136.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Schröder: The four-country painters Hermann Hesse and Hans Förster. P. 143.
  2. ^ Olaf Matthes and Bardo Metzger: Bergedorfer Personen Lexikon. P. 71.
personal data
SURNAME Forester, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist, draftsman and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1966
Place of death Hamburg