Hans Jaenisch

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Hans Jaenisch (born May 19, 1907 in Eilenstedt ; † June 6, 1989 in Nebel (Amrum) ) was a German painter and watercolorist . He taught at the Berlin University of Fine Arts and mainly created abstract works.

Life

Jaenisch graduated from the Stephaneum in Aschersleben . In 1923 he came to Berlin, where he was a member of the “ November Group ” and where Herwarth Walden organized his first exhibition in 1927 in his gallery Der Sturm . From 1928 he dealt with the work of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky and taught as the successor to Otto Nebel at the art school Der Weg until 1933 . Since his work became surreal-abstract from 1930 onwards, the National Socialist regime imposed a partial exhibition ban on these pictures and closed the school. Jaenisch withdrew from the National Socialist art business, painted and continued to teach in his studio.

Recruited into the Wehrmacht during World War II , Jaenisch in Tunisia was influenced by the geometric patterns in Islamic art and lived in the United States as an American prisoner of war from 1943 to 1945 . He was taken to a prison camp in Scotland , where he ran a painting studio. After his release from captivity, Jaenisch followed the call to professor at the Berlin University of Fine Arts in 1953, where he taught until 1976. His students included Karl-Henning Seemann , Eugen Schönebeck , Günter Thiele , Rolf Fässer , Rainer Fetting , Stefan Roloff and Klaus Lindemann . Jaenisch was a member of artist associations such as the Berlin Secession , the New Group Berlin , the New Group Munich and the Federal Association of Visual Artists . Between 1966 and 1972 he was a board member of the German Association of Artists .

Jaenisch was married to Roki Reichstein († 1970) in his first marriage from 1947 , and from 1972 in his second marriage to Adelheid Raabe . Hans Jaenisch died at the age of 82. Since 2010 his estate has been in the Fritz-Winter-Haus , Ahlen , Westphalia.

Works

With the exception of a phase that included his imprisonment and the post-war period and in which Jaenisch created figurative and symbolic works, he painted mostly abstract until the late 1970s. In the course of his artistic activity he dealt with several forms of expression (including oil painting , watercolor painting and linocut ) and art styles ( cubism , surrealism , Islamic ornamentation , expressionism ). Jaenisch also created small sculptures. Only in the late work are figurative motifs found again.

  • around 1948: Homecoming , tempera relief, 67 × 196 cm, Ahlen , Fritz-Winter-Haus
  • six abstract works from 1964 as a permanent exhibition in the foyer of the Benjamin Franklin Hospital in Berlin-Steglitz
  • The Fritz-Winter-Haus showed a retrospective of his work from October 5, 2019 to February 16, 2020.

Honors

  • Berlin Art Prize (1950)
  • Hallmark Award, New York (1952)
  • Award in the competition for the Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner London (1952)
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (February 7, 1979)

Exhibitions

  • 2001: Artist of the gallery , Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf
  • 2019/2020: Hans Jaenisch. Retrospective , Fritz-Winter-Haus, Ahlen

literature

  • Hans Jaenisch, Ernesto Grassi (introduction): Watercolors from Amrum . Woldemar Klein Verlag, Baden-Baden 1958
  • Hans Jaenisch: Landscapes. North Friesland and Amrum . Schleiverlag, Schleswig 1980
  • Hans Jaenisch: 60 years of work . Art Office Wedding, Berlin 1992
  • Chris Steinbrecher: Hans Jaenisch. Painting . Exhibition catalog, Kunstverein Talstrasse, Halle (Saale) 2004, ISBN 978-3-932962-14-1
  • Jaenisch, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 523 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Board members of the German Association of Artists since 1951 ( Memento from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Sabine Tegeler: Fritz Winter House The legibility of abstraction. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. October 4, 2019, accessed on October 5, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  4. ↑ Hans Jaenisch. Retrospective. In: Fritz Winter House. 2019, accessed on October 5, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Jaenisch, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and professor of the fine arts
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Eilenstedt , Province of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1989
Place of death Fog (amrum)