Hans Hueber

Hans Hueber (born December 10, 1813 in Waizenkirchen , Upper Austria; † November 15, 1889 ibid) was an Austrian miniature painter of the late Romantic period , he instructed Empress Elisabeth in painting.

Life

He was the son of Johann Hueber, a trader from Waizenkirchen, and his wife Theresia, nee Lehner, and was baptized Johann Evangelist on the day of his birth. Huebers birth house is on the market square of Waizenkirchen (house number 8). Hueber spent his youth under thrifty circumstances, he had eleven siblings. Nothing is known about a possible initial training. In the mid-thirties he attended the Munich Art Academy ; Of greater influence on him, however, was his membership in the Munich Art Association . Here Hueber came into contact with painter colleagues who, like himself, devoted themselves to unacademic landscape painting. Hueber was accepted into this association in 1836 or 1837 and remained a member for almost thirty years. In the 1940s he exhibited regularly in the art association. In 1843 he joined forces with painters to form the “Munich Radir Club”.

Several surviving sketchbooks provide information about the painter's life stages for the following period. A sketchbook from 1848 attests to an intensive study of the landforms in the area around Munich, so there are references to trips in other books. In summer 1850 to Marienbad , in autumn of the same year to Scheveningen , in July 1852 to Franzensbad , in September to Heidelberg and in autumn 1852 to Stettin . He traveled to Franzensbad in the summer of 1853; and to Scheveningen in the summer of 1854. He also traveled to North and South Tyrol. It is very likely that the painter accompanied his employers on these trips. Hueber often worked as a drawing teacher in aristocratic houses. In this function, Hans Hueber was also taken into service by the family of Duke Max in Bavaria , the father of Empress Elisabeth. As a drawing teacher for the Bavarian princesses, including Sissi, the painter lived for two years at Possenhofen Castle on Lake Starnberg .

The main place of residence in the forties and fifties is Munich. There the painter lived relatively securely from the sale of his pictures.

From the 1960s the artist's center of life shifted to Austria. Hueber worked at Seisenegg Castle as a drawing teacher in the family of Baron Riesenfels.

From 1865 until his death he lived completely withdrawn in Waizenkirchen with his sister. The connection between the two siblings must have been very close. When Hueber died on November 15, 1889, his sister Creszenzia followed him two days later. Hueber was never married.

estate

When Hueber died in 1889, he left behind a large number of finished and unfinished paintings without having made any disposition over his property. Many of his pictures were improperly packed in boxes in the attic. The estimated number of approx. 1000 works of art were scattered in all directions. The Upper Austrian State Museum has the largest inventory, around 120 drawings and pictures, and some works are in the Albertina's art collection .

Hueber and his painter colleagues

In 1843 Hans Hueber joined forces with Christian Morgenstern , Friedrich Voltz , Eugen Napoleon Neureuther , Hermann Dyck and many others to form the Munich Etching Club. In addition to the contacts with friends and colleagues at the Munich etching club, Hueber is said to have other connections with artists. Artist personalities like Moritz von Schwind , Carl Spitzweg , Carl Rottmann and Eduard Schleich the Elder are among other names that are mentioned again and again in connection with Hueber. “Ah yes, Hueber can do something, it's just a shame that he doesn't seem to want to show himself off anymore, he has what it takes,” says Moritz von Schwind.

Artistic creation

Huebers landscape miniatures represent a special feature of the Austrian and South German landscape painting of the 19th century in the balance of the mood values. The figures painted in individual landscape miniatures, which mostly consist of a few dots and lines, show a rider, cow, farmer or Farmer's wife with a feeling for the proportions that even studying with a magnifying glass she remains very close to nature. The depiction of the landscape occupied the artist throughout his creative period.

In his color sketches, the phenomena of nature with their changing moods are recorded with just a few brushstrokes.

In the structure of his landscape paintings, light and shadow zones dominate in the middle distance and background. The lyrical mood that is characteristic of his works is caused by the special structuring of the picture surface. The mostly low-lying horizon means that a large part of the picture area is taken up by the sky, which he set in scene in his constructed “distant images”. In addition, Hueber knew how to bring weather situations and lighting effects into this image area in a moody manner. People and animal representations play a subordinate role in Hueber's landscape paintings, nature predominates in his works.

In his sketches and drawings, Hueber tried to capture the first impression, the overall view, with just a few lines. His lines are exceptionally fine. Hueber has succeeded in using light in his small-format drawings as an atmospheric mood carrier. Even in Hueber's smallest drawings, this light-flooded density is achieved in the interplay between structured shadow areas and left standing white areas. There are also caricatures of Huebers scattered in which he makes fun of himself and others with naive and at the same time old-fashioned humor. The most famous caricature by Franz Stelzhamer was made by himself.

Exhibitions

In the 1840s, Hueber exhibited regularly at the Munich Art Association.

• 1924 Hueber exhibition in the Upper Austrian State Museum in Linz under the direction of Ubell.
• 1949 Hueber memorial exhibition in Waizenkirchen.
• 1989 Hueber memorial exhibition in Waizenkirchen on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of death
• 2013 Hans Hueber memorial exhibition on the occasion of the artist's 200th birthday in the shop windows in the center of Waizenkirchen
• 2013–2014 exhibition in the Upper Austrian State Museum, landscape paintings and caricatures by the Upper Austrian artist.

literature

• Otto Hamann : Hans Hueber a small painter of the German late romanticism. Parcus & Co publishing house, Munich 1923.
• Peter Assmann : Hans Hueber (1812-1889) Landscapes. Published by the Heimat- und Kulturwerk Waizenkirchen, Waizenkirchen 1989.
• Hans Hueber art calendar 2014, on the occasion of the 200th birthday of Waizenkirchner. Published by the Heimat- und Kulturwerk Waizenkirchen, Waizenkirchen 2013.
• Hueber Hans. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 447.