Hans Huber-Sulzemoos

Hans Huber-Sulzemoos (born March 21, 1873 in Sulzemoos ; † March 7, 1951 in Munich ) was a German painter for children , flowers, Madonnas and landscapes . He mainly cultivated Christian art .

Life and artistic work

He was the son of the farmer and innkeeper Martin Huber from Sulzemoos and his wife Theresia, geb. Parl. When he was three years old, his father died unexpectedly of a heart attack . The mother then had to sell the property and moved to Fürstenfeldbruck with her three children . Hans soon showed great love for nature. The boy was interested in beetles, flowers and butterflies, which he also drew . In 1876, after moving to the royal seat of Munich , he took on an apprenticeship in glass painting at the Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt . From 1888 he studied at the Munich Academy and in Anton Ažbe's private painting school . After completing his studies, the artist worked as a glass painter in Innsbruck and Speyer for several years . In the latter city he met his wife Elisabeth. In 1897 the two of them had signed the marriage bond. The union produced five sons.

Since the late twenties Huber-Sulzemoos was an honorary member of the KStV Rhenania Innsbruck in the KV , in 1928 he took part in the publication ceremony of the subsidiary KStV Südtirol in the KV.

The artist went on extensive study trips through Germany , Italy and England with his friend Matthäus Schiestl , and the two artists were particularly interested in old chapels and sculptures by old masters. Hans Huber-Sulzemoos, who, in grateful memories of his childhood, added the name of his place of birth to his name, had u. a. created several altarpieces such as B. the Holy Family in the Catholic parish church in Cologne-Zollstock or the Sacred Heart Altarpiece in the Catholic parish church in Cologne-Sülz. In addition to his innumerable pictures of Christian art, Hans Huber-Sulzemoos had repeatedly painted the Dachau moss . In 1908, the artist exhibited two pictures for the first time (“Primula Auricula” and “At the edge of the forest”) in the Munich Glass Palace , both of which were sold after a few days. Many of his most important works were destroyed there in a fire on June 6, 1931. In the early 1920s he illustrated the Bible introduced by Bishop Michael Buchberger in the Catholic denominational schools in Bavaria. The work had a total circulation of over a million issues.

Hans Huber-Sulzemoos grave is on the forest cemetery Obermenzing . The artist created the image of the Madonna that adorns the tombstone on the occasion of the death of his wife in 1929. His grave, which no longer bears an inscription, is maintained by the state capital of Munich today.

Works (selection)

• The Rapp estate in the Dachauer Moos
• Joy of motherhood
• Mother with child 1919
• Girl with cowslips in the meadow
• Holy Family Altarpiece Cologne-Zollstock 1916
• Sail butterfly 1908
• Schiller Butterfly 1909
• Mullein 1910
• Anemones (viol) 1910
• Primula obconica 1910
• Chapel 1910
• In the beech forest 1911
• Children's head 1912
• Portrait of a boy 1912
• Herbstzeitlose 1912
• Escape to Egypt 1918
• spring
• Child in the meadow
• Under the apple tree in 1924 to Dr. Beeking
• R & d. Children in 1924 to Dr. Beeking

literature

• Joseph Beeking: Hans Huber-Sulzemoos. A painter of German spirit. Freiburg i. Brsg. 1925, DNB 572758642 .
• From the divine child friend. Pictures by Hans Huber-Sulzemoos / text by Tiberius Burger. Regensburg 1927, DNB 362275742 .
• Obermenzinger booklets. June 2010 / No. 55, p. 14.
• Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century. Volume 5, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7654-1805-6 , p. 424.

swell

• Handwritten notebook by "Hans Huber Sulzemoos" with a list of pictures and retail prices

Individual evidence

1. ^ Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 4th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 5). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1996, ISBN 3-89498-032-X , pp. 56-57.