Hans Gyenis

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Hans Gyenis (* 1873 in Üszög near Fünfkirchen ; † after 1926 ) was a painter , caricature and portrait artist.

biography

Gyenis was born in 1873 in Üszög in what was then Austria-Hungary as Johann Gyenis. His baptismal name was Johann, but his call and stage name was "Hans" Gyenis.

He studied at the Munich Art Academy with Wilhelm von Diez . He was enrolled at the academy on April 1, 1901. From 1901 to 1905 he also worked as an illustrator for the Munich weekly magazine Fliegende Blätter . His works, watercolors and drawings from Alexandria are dated and signed between 1905 and 1907. In Csoboka (south of Sumony) he made and signed watercolor works in 1904. In August 1910 he painted Die Dascha on the railway line, a landscape motif in his place of birth, Üszög . Evidently from June 1920 to September 1921 he drew for the well-known Munich art and literary magazine Jugend .

Hans Gyenis married Mathilde Gyenis born on November 19, 1907. Lutz, in Munich. The marriage had a son, Hans Gyenis (January 19, 1909 - May 2, 1945).

The works of Hans Gyenis can be traced back to 1926 in Munich and Pécs, the exact time of his death is not known.

Works (selection)

In the period from June 16, 1915 to March 25, 1919, Hans Gyenis can be traced back to his signed drawings at the locations of the prisoner-of-war camps Somorja, Dunaszerdahely and Leles'z. There were prisoners from the tsarist army, mostly Russians and Serbs, in the camps. Hans Gyenis made, dated and signed charcoal portrait drawings of prisoners of war there. He provided these drawings with the prisoners' personal data (name, camp, regiment, origin, age, marital status, children, arrest).

The scope of the complete oeuvre of Hans Gyenis is still manageable with the pictures known today, although other titles have come down from auction records. Near the Loreley rock, in Sankt Goar am Rhein near Gertrude Gyenis, other watercolor works of art and drawings of prisoners of war have been preserved for posterity.

His watercolors from Alexandria are among the best-known works by Hans Gyeni, but he is also known for his signed drawings, caricatures and illustrations.

Watercolors

  • The Alexandrian Water Carrier, watercolor, painted in Alexandria April 14, 1907
  • Kaiserjäger with dog, watercolor pastel, painted in 1904, in Csoboka
Watercolor, The Alexandrian Water Carrier, watercolor, painted in Alexandria April 14, 1907
  • Dignitare Egyptien D'alexandrie, watercolor pastel, Alexandria 1905,
  • The violin player, watercolor pastel, painted in Csoboka in 1906

Drawings in Austro-Hungarian POW camps

  • Kgf.Junos Slatinow, portrait drawing, painted in Lelesz, October 1916
Portrait drawing (47 × 32) of Kgf. Aga Kurbanow, painted and signed on May 8, 1916, in Dunaszerdahely
  • Kgf. Alexander Mamulaschwilli, portrait drawing, painted in Lelesz, in August 1917
  • Kgf.Aga Kurbanow, portrait drawing, painted in Dunaszerdahely, on February 6, 1916,
  • Kgf.Ahmed Ali, portrait drawing, painted in Somorja, on November 15, 1917

Watercolors and drawings depicting women

  • Peasant girl with lunch basket, watercolor pastel, Csoboka 1904
Watercolor, peasant girl with lunch basket, painted in Csoboka in 1904
  • Sister Walhtrudis in the Josephinum Munich , around 1900, watercolor
  • Beautiful peasant girl, sitting, watercolor pastel, painted in Csoboka in 1904

City views and landscape motifs

  • Dasha on the railway line, Üszög, watercolor dated and signed on August 19, 1919
Watercolor, “Dasha on the railway line”, painted in 1919 in Üszög

India ink drawings

Hans Gyenis talking shop in front of the Sistine Madonna 1908

credentials

  1. ↑ Register book of the Academy of Fine Arts

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personal data
SURNAME Gyenis, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gyenis, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter, caricature and portrait artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Üszög near Fünfkirchen , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH after 1926