Hans Feibusch

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Hans Nathan Feibusch (born August 15, 1898 in Frankfurt am Main , † July 18, 1998 in London ) was a German painter who had lived in exile in Britain since 1933.

life and work

Baptism of Christ , Chichester Cathedral

Feibusch studied painting as a student of Karl Hofer at the Berlin University of the Arts . From 1925 Feibusch lived again in Frankfurt, where he joined the Frankfurter Künstlerbund and moved into a studio next to Rudolf Heinisch and Benno Elkan in the Carmelite monastery there . In 1931 he received the Prussian State Prize from Max Liebermann for the picture The Fish Merchant.

Only two years later, in 1933, he was expelled as a Jew from the Frankfurter Künstlerbund . Feibusch decided to emigrate to Great Britain, where his British wife made it easier for him to enter. Feibusch's works were declared " degenerate art " by the National Socialists . His painting “Two floating figures” (confiscated from the Städtische Galerie in Frankfurt am Main ) was shown at the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich, together with works by Jankel Adler and Marc Chagall , under the heading “Revelation of the Jewish Racial Soul”.

In Great Britain, where he initially worked as a commercial artist, he was best known for his large-format wall paintings in churches. He received his first orders through the mediation of George Bell , the Bishop of Chichester. For Chichester Cathedral Feibusch created a mural of Christ's baptism.

Secular frescos can be found in the Civic Center of Newport (Twelve Frescos on City History, 1961–1964) and in Portmeirion , which Feibusch had been associated with since 1925 when he was commissioned to create a bust by Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis.

Honors

Literature / catalogs

  • Hans Feibusch: the heat of vision. On the occasion of the touring exhibition; a retrospective exhibition of works from 1930 to 1995, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 5 September - 21 October 1995 ... Newport Museum and Art Gallery 18 May - 29 June 1996 / in assoc. with Pallant House Gallery Trust, Chichester. Ed. by David Coke. London: Lund Humphries 1995 ISBN 0-85331-670-8
  • Rita Henzel: Hans Feibusch (1898 - *): biography and work. 1996 (Mainz, Univ., Diss., 1993) (with catalog raisonné)
  • Paul Foster (Ed.): Feibusch Murals: Chichester and beyond. Chichester: University College 1997 (Otter Memorial Papers 8) ISBN 0-94876-579-8

Web links

Commons : Hans Feibusch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Feibusch, Hans Nathan , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  2. ^ Stephanie Barron: Entartete Kunst , Los Angeles County Museum, Hirmer, Munich, 1992, pp. 235, 350, ISBN 3-7774-5880-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Feibusch, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feibusch, Hans Nathan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter in British exile (since 1933)
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1998
Place of death London