Hans Jegerlehner

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Hans Jegerlehner (born November 24, 1906 in Bern , † December 9, 1974 in Syens ) von Walkringen was a Swiss graphic artist , illustrator , draftsman and painter .

Life

Hans Jegerlehner was born as the son of Johannes Jegerlehner , high school teacher in Bern and author of legends and stories, and Emma Jegerlehner-Schreiber. Jegerlehner received his basic artistic training at the Bern Gewerbeschule (with H. Scheller), followed by studies at the Munich Art Academy . Then, from 1928 onwards, he spent some time in the lively art metropolis of Berlin . There he worked as an illustrator for Grothe Verlag. He illustrated some of his father's books.

In the 1930s he studied in Paris with André Lhote , Roger Bissière and Othon Friesz . There were ironic studies of the environment and city views.

During the Second World War he did active service in the Swiss Army, where he was occasionally able to be artistically active. From 1928 to 1944 Jegerlehner lived with his family in Grindelwald , then again until 1956 in Bern and most recently in Bressonnaz near Moudon VD. In 1948 and 1949, as well as 1955 and 1956, Hans Jegerlehner toured Calabria , 1952 the Canary Islands and 1953 the Belgian Congo in Africa.

He was an employee of various magazines, u. a. Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk SJW, Illustré, Sunlight Märchen. His poster designs for the SBB , Grindelwald and other winter sports locations are among the most important of Swiss advertising posters.

In addition to his performing arts, Hans Jegerlehner played a passionate cello and viola in a Bern orchestra. He died at the age of 68 in 1974 of a serious illness in his adopted home Syens in Vaud.

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During the time when Jegerlehner lived in Grindelwald, he dedicated a large part of his pictures and book illustrations to the mountains and the lives of their inhabitants. He found new horizons on his travels, of which only drawings and color sketches have survived. As a result, his basic understanding of the color-intensive, expressively simplified style was consolidated. The recognition of his work brought him orders with posters for the Swiss Federal Railways SBB. He received orders for portraits and color woodcuts with mountain motifs from the Grenchen industrialist Paul Glockner and was able to show his works at numerous exhibitions. The Kunstmuseum Bern acquired some of his works, and the Kunsthaus Grenchen received the entire estate as a gift from his widow Silvia Jegerlehner.

Exhibitions

  • 1931: Joins: Societe des Artists Independents Paris with regular participation in exhibitions
  • 1956: Le Chemin de fer dans l'art . Musée d'art et d'histoire (Geneva)
  • 1963: 27th exhibition GSMBA . Kunsthaus and Helmhaus Zurich
  • 1968: Christmas exhibition of Bernese painters and sculptors . Kunsthalle Bern
  • 1972: art exhibition . Congress center, Biel / Bienne .
  • 1973: Art possession in Burgdorf. Paintings, drawings and sculptures , Kirchbühl parish hall, Bertram gallery, Burgdorf BE
  • 1997: The train moves. Railway poster exhibition , Le Point Gallery, Zurich
  • 1997: Hans Jegerlehner (1906 to 1974). Selection from the estate. A retrospective with pictures, drawings and graphics . Kunsthaus Grenchen

literature

  • Johannes Jegerlehner, pictures by Hans Jegerlehner: The big day: A goat boy story . JR Keutel, Basel 1922, p. 22 .
  • Johannes Jegerlehner, pictures by Hans Jegerlehner: Sunlight fairy tales . Sunlight Institute, Olten 1930.
  • Hanni Bay, Hans Jegerlehner, Eugen Wyler: Mother book: Sons and daughters tell about their mother . Schmied & Cie., Bern 1935, p. 383 .
  • Rudolf Wyss, Hans Jegerlehner drawings: Morning light over southern Italy . Self-published by the author, Interlaken 1951, p. 78 .
  • SAC, Hans Jegerlehner, Hans Steuri: 50 years of the SAC, Grindelwald section, 1907–1957 . Swiss Alpine Club Section Grindelwald, Grindelwald 1957, p. 72 .
  • Hans Jegerlehner et al .: Thomaskirche, Liebefeld . Pfarramt Liebefeld, Liebefeld 1967, p. 16 .
  • Johannes Jegerlehner, pictures by Hans Jegerlehner: The fight for the glacier forest: A story for the youth . Morgarten-Verlag AG, Zurich, Leipzig 1993, p. 158 .
  • Karin Linxweiler: Hans Jegerlehner: Directory of the exhibition in Spiez Castle: 17.6. - 13.8.1995 . Bern 1995.
  • Markus Seger, Karl Wobmann: The train moves. Railway poster exhibition . ProLitteris, Zurich 1997.
  • Hanspeter Rentsch, Gerald Lechner: Hans Jegerlehner (1906 to 1974): Selection from the estate: a retrospective with pictures, drawings and graphics . Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen 1997, p. 28 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerald Lechner: Hans Jegerlehner (1906 to 1974): Selection from the estate: a retrospective with pictures, drawings and graphics . Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen 1997, p. 28 .
personal data
SURNAME Jegerlehner, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jegerlehner, Hans Gordon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss graphic artist, draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1974
Place of death Syens