Hans Gassebner

Hans Gassebner (born March 7, 1902 in Blaubeuren , † February 19, 1966 in Löwenstein ) was a German painter . As an artist he is assigned to the " lost generation ".

Life

Gassebner's childhood was overshadowed by the early death of his mother. After attending the Latin and Realschule in Blaubeuren, Hans Gassebner was sent to the Oberrealschule in Stuttgart to do the one year old. Then he began a commercial apprenticeship in an optician wholesaler, which, however, did not correspond to his nature. In 1922 he attended the arts and crafts school in Darmstadt, but had to break off his training after a short time in order to earn a living. In the Alzey psychiatric sanatorium, he worked as a nurse and at the same time devoted himself entirely to art in his free time. Between 1923 and 1933 he stayed in the art centers in Vienna, where he met Anton Kolig , in Zurich, Berlin and Stuttgart.

With the beginning of the Third Reich, Hans Gassebner was declared a "degenerate" artist. In November 1933 he emigrated to Yugoslavia with his Jewish partner and her daughter. They lived under extremely depressing financial and spatial conditions. In May 1935 he traveled to Switzerland; In 1936 he moved to Zaton-mali, a village near Dubrovnik , and increasingly turned to printmaking . He made several trips to Italy and Greece. Gassebner spent the winter of 1936/37 in the Gail Valley in Carinthia . His right hand complaints, which always died in the cold, worsened. In 1938 he went to Zurich to undergo angiography using the radioactive X-ray contrast agent Thorotrast . This should have fatal long-term consequences.

In 1946 he returned to Stuttgart, where he lived under extremely difficult financial conditions; later he settled on the Swabian Alb . At the turn of 1946/47 the first Gassebner collective exhibition took place in Ulm. Around 40 oil paintings as well as 50 drawings and watercolors were shown. In 1948 Gassebner married Luise Hörsch and moved to her home town of Ulm. From 1950 Gassebner's health deteriorated further; From 1952 he therefore lived intermittently in the Spanish fishing village of Tossa de Mar , where his transparent colored monotypes were created. In 1955, the pre-existing handicap of his working hand as a result of the Thorotrast injection in 1938 led to complete paralysis. He immediately began to switch to the left hand. The ten-year legal dispute due to medical malpractice was a heavy burden for Gassebner. From 1956 to 1958 and from 1959 to 1961 he spent long periods in the Gail Valley. From 1962 to 1965 the couple traveled to Spain and for a longer stay in Dalmatia. Back in Germany, Gassebner's condition worsened; the onset of cancer weakened his strength. On February 19, 1966, Hans Gassebner died in the Löwenstein sanatorium from the effects of thorotra.

His work often revolves around the subject areas of nature and landscape.

literature

• Günther Wirth: Art in the German Southwest from 1945 to the present . Hatje, Stuttgart, 1982.
• City of Bad Saulgau (Ed.): Hans Gassebner. Tart tenderness towards the world. Biberach a. d. Riß: Hohn 2003. (= catalog for the exhibition in the municipal gallery “Die Fähre” , Bad Saulgau. March 23 to May 4, 2003).
• Brigitte Reinhardt, Ulmer Museum (ed.): Hans Gassebner. Home and foreign. Ulm: Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft 2002. (Catalog for the exhibition in the Ulmer Museum. February 23 to April 7, 2002).
• Wolfgang Schürle (Ed.): Hans Gassebner. Catalog of works. Drawings and prints with an image documentation selected by Elmar Schmitt. Ulm: Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft 1995.
• Rainer Zimmermann: The Art of the Lost Generation. German painting of expressive realism from 1925 - 1975. Düsseldorf 1980.
• Ulmer Museum (Ed.): Hans Gassebner. Ulm 1982.
• Museum Ulm / Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (Ed.): Hans Gassebner 1967.
• Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart September 27 - October 29, 1967 (exhibition catalog) Ulm 1967.
• Wolfgang W. Schürle: Hans Gassebner. Stations at home. In: Hansmartin Decker-Hauff / Immo Eberl (ed.): Blaubeuren. Sigmaringen 1986. pp. 891-893.
• Heinrich Geissler (State Gallery Stuttgart): Hans Gassebner. Address for the opening of the exhibition in Saulgau on January 30, 1983.
• Herbert Pée, Bertold C. Hackelsberger: Hans Gassebner exhibition catalog (Ulm no year).
• Marburg University Museum (ed.): Hans Gassebner. Exhibition catalog 1969.
• Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm (ed.): Hans Gassebner. Watercolors, monotypes, drawings, prints. Exhibition catalog. (Hamm n.d.).
• Kunstverein Ulm (ed.) Hans Gassebner exhibition catalog. (Ulm) 1972.

Web links

• Museum project on Hans Gassebner