Hanns Hoffmann-Lederer

Hanns Hoffmann-Lederer (born February 3, 1899 in Jena , † April 17, 1970 in Esseratsweiler ) was a German sculptor, graphic artist, designer and art college teacher.

Live and act

After attending secondary school in Jena, he completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason. From 1919 to 1924 he was a Bauhaus student in Weimar. a. Walther Klemm , Walter Gropius and Oskar Schlemmer . Anne Hoormann sees evidence that he drew the inspiration for his artistic work and pedagogy from Itten , Kandinsky and Klee .

From 1926 to 1929 he was a senior artistic employee of the city of Magdeburg. There he designed a. a. the Magdeburg city arms and was responsible for the design and supervision of the sculptural, painterly, graphic and advertising tasks as well as the city exhibitions. He then worked as a freelance artist at the Berlin Trade Fair and Exhibition Office until 1942. After that he moved to Poznan and became a teacher at the master school for the craftsmanship.

After the war he was a lecturer and associate professor at the State University of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar until 1950 , which he set up based on the Bauhaus model . Klaus-Jürgen Winkler noted in 1992: The most important elements of immediate Bauhaus reception were the preliminary teachings of Hoffmann-Lederer and Keler , both of which were based on Itten's ideas in the most important parts. Over four semesters, Hoffmann-Lederer teaches basic form and design as the basis for the later professional training of graphic artists, painters and sculptors. Winkler quotes Hoffmann-Lederer himself with: "Observation and representation, exploration of the abstract fundamental laws in art, as well as the interpretation of the representational, are the basic means ..." (1946). As a teacher he taught a. a. Gerhard Altenbourg , Gerhard Bondzin , Günther Brendel , Fritz Eisel or Gottfried Schüler .

Eventually he gave up his activity there, moved to West Germany and became a professor for the pre-teaching subject at the Werkkunstschule in Darmstadt . During this time he designed a. a. between 1953 and 1955 several asymmetrical vase shapes for the porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal . and since 1950 a whole series of wall and table lamps bent from Plexiglas plates, which were initially produced by the Heinz Hecht company in Darmstadt and later by the Endemann company in Friedrichshafen .

After his retirement in 1963 he moved to Esseratsweiler with his wife, the Bauhausler Mila Lederer (painter, weaver and poet), whom he had met and married in Magdeburg, and lived in the Akron house until his death in 1970 , which was based on his concept designed by Raumformen and built in 1960. After his death, Mila Hoffmann-Lederer published the illustrated book Magic of Laws .

His name also appears in the spellings Hanns Hoffmannlederer and Hans Hoffmann-Lederer. His estate has been preserved, but has not yet been processed in terms of art history.

Works (selection)

• Two wall lights (around 1950)
• Table lamp (around 1950)

Publications

• Mila Hoffmannlederer, Helmut Emde (ed.): The magic of regularity. Room shapes by Hoffmannlederer. Roether, Darmstadt [1974].

literature

• Anne Hoormann u. a .: Hanns Hoffmann-Lederer: Bauhausler, graphic artist, painter, designer, sculptor , Bauhaus University Weimar, 2001 ISBN 3-86068-151-6 .
• Franz Goldstein, Ruth Kähler, Hermann Kähler: Monogrammlexikon 1 / Dictionary of monograms 1 . Walter de Gruyter, 1999, ISBN 3-11-014453-0 , p. 973.
• Rainer K. Wick : Bauhaus. Art and education . Athena, Oberhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89896-378-7 , pp. 463–476 (Chapter: “Remained loyal to the Bauhaus until the end.” On the art education and design theory of Hanns Hoffmann-Lederer. ).
• Hoffmann-Lederer, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 466 .
• Hoffmann-Lederer, Hans. In: Dietmar Eisold (Hrsg.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. 1st edition. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 371.
• Hanns Hoffmann-Lederer . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 74, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023179-3 .

Web links

• Hans Hoffmann-Lederer in: Art in the GDR
• Literature by and about Hanns Hoffmann-Lederer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anne Hoormann: medium and material. on modern and contemporary art . Fink, 2007. ISBN 978-3-7705-4041-9
2. ↑ Klaus-Jürgen Winkler: Comments on the Bauhaus reception at the Weimar University immediately after the war. In: Scientific Journal. College of Architecture and Construction. Edition A. Weimar 38 (1992), 5/6, pp. 277-286. Quotations on p. 280, with illus. (PDF; 10.2 MB).
3. ↑ Information from: Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon Artists in the GDR. 1st edition. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 371 and Hartmut Pätzke: Ausgebürgert. In: limited - excluded. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2000.
4. ↑ Silke Göttsch-Elten, Christel Köhle-Hezinger: Complex world . Waxmann Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8309-6300-4 (p. 358 ff).
5. ↑ Anne Hoormann (ed.): Hanns Hoffmann-Lederer - Bauhaus, graphic artist, painter, Designers, sculptors . Weimar 2001.
6. ↑ House Akron ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Edith Maryon Foundation website. Retrieved December 2, 2014.