Hans Fehlhaber

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Hans Max Julius Fehlhaber (born April 19, 1881 in Görtz near Stettin , † July 14, 1974 in Hanau ) was a German painter and drawing teacher.

Life

Fehlhaber was born the son of a civil servant who was transferred to Berlin in 1884. After finishing school, Hans Fehlhaber first completed an apprenticeship as a painter , which was followed by a degree in art. He attended the arts and crafts schools in Charlottenburg and Magdeburg , and later the Schinkel Academy in Berlin.

After taking an exam as a drawing teacher, Fehlhaber came to Hanau in 1906, where he was temporarily employed as an art teacher at the Hanau Girls' Middle School. This employment relationship was converted into a permanent position a year later.

His work as a teacher is described as very fruitful; the works of his students have been exhibited in many cities in Germany, but also in Finland and the United States. During the school holidays, Fehlhaber traveled to Germany, Holland, Belgium and France, in later years also the Balkans, Spain, Greece, Turkey and North Africa, from where he always brought new ideas to his works. In 1946 he left the school service and went into retirement.

Memberships

Fehlhaber was a member of the Hanau SIMPLICIUS .

Private

Hans Fehlhaber's first marriage was to Gertrud Fehlhaber - this marriage resulted in a son and two daughters. His apartment and studio were in Hanau, at Markt 4. This house was destroyed after the war and he lived in Kahl am Main for several years, where he met his second wife. He later moved back to Hanau, at Salisweg 77, where he lived and worked until his death.

On July 8, 1938, he married Maria Elisabeth Naleppa in Seligenstadt . He was friends with the Hanau painter Reinhold Ewald .

Between 1955 and 1970 he repeatedly traveled to southern Europe and North Africa and sketched v. a. life in markets, streets and beaches.

Hans Fehlhaber was buried in the cemetery in Hanau / Kesselstadt (the grave has already been closed).

plant

Fehlhaber's work includes portraits , nudes , landscapes , still lifes, and street sketches that can be found in many private collections and museums.

style

Initially committed to objective or naturalistic portrayal, in the course of his long life the bond with the object loosened; via "impressionistic works", he came to works that were "abstracted (...) in color and form". Here he achieved an "astonishingly high degree of abstraction." In this context, Fehlhaber himself spoke of dematerialization . Other images can be assigned to Cubism .

Evaluation of the work

Fehlhaber created sketches, which he later expanded into oil paintings , whereby - due to the spontaneity and density - the drawings achieve a higher degree of authenticity.

Self-testimony

Fehlhaber wrote about his work that it was guided by "a strong will to the higher, to the spiritual and soul" and that he felt guided "by a belief in that eternal force that we call God."

Exhibitions

numerous exhibitions in the Rhine-Main area such as

  • 1966 Large exhibition on the occasion of the 85th birthday in Hanau Town Hall
  • further exhibitions in Aschaffenburg, Bad Orb, Munich, Palermo
  • Participation in the annual exhibitions of the artists' association SIMPLICIUS until his death

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Communication from the Department of Culture, Urban Identity and International Relations of the City of Hanau, December 19, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Gerd Lobin in the Hanauer Anzeiger, edition April 16, 1966
  3. ^ Website of the artist association Simplicius
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Karlheinz Schmid in the Hanauer Anzeiger, edition April 18, 1981
personal data
SURNAME Fehlhaber, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fehlhaber, Hans Max Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and watercolorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Görtz near Stettin
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1974
Place of death Hanau