Hans Jürgen Kallmann
Hans Jürgen Kallmann (born May 20, 1908 in Wollstein , Posen Province , † March 6, 1991 in Pullach im Isar Valley ) was a German painter.
Kallmann was the son of a dermatologist. He grew up in Halle (Saale) and spent his early years as an artist in Berlin from 1930 to 1944 . In 1937 he was defamed as a “ degenerate artist ” and banned from exhibiting. Some of his works were confiscated and destroyed when the paintings were burned on March 20, 1939 in the courtyard of the Berlin fire station .
In 1949 he was offered a call to the Art Academy in Caracas in Venezuela, where he taught nude and portrait painting as a professor.
Kallmann returned to Germany in 1952 and lived and worked as a freelance artist in Pullach near Munich until his death in 1991. From the mid-1950s, Kallmann became known as a portrait painter for his psychologically sensitive portraits of well-known personalities from culture, science and politics, such as Konrad Adenauer , Otto Hahn , Theodor Heuss , Johannes XXIII. , Mao , Bertolt Brecht or the physicist Walther Meißner .
Kallmann's preferred painting techniques were oil painting and an unusual mixed technique of pastel and tempera painting , the recipe of which he always kept a secret. As a draftsman, Kallmann preferred pastel chalk, charcoal and, from the 1950s, a special lightfast felt pen . Influenced by the German impressionists Max Slevogt and Max Liebermann as well as the painters of Expressionism , Kallmann developed a personal artistic signature in which expressive gestures were combined with figurative painting style. Observation of nature and the implementation and transformation of what was seen into a new visual reality were the prerequisites for artistic creation for him. All his life he remained true to expressive, figurative painting.
The life's work of the painter Hans Jürgen Kallmann is looked after in the Kallmann Museum , a foundation museum , opened in 1992 in Ismaning near Munich.
Honors
- 1977: Gold Medal of the Humboldt Society
- 1990: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Jürgen Kallmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography (pdf; 30 kB)
- Biography at the Kallmann Museum Ismaning
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 293.
- ↑ Walther Meißner as President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kallmann, Hans Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wollstein , Poznan Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1991 |
| Place of death | Pullach in the Isar Valley |