Hans Kohl (painter)

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Hans Kohl (* 1897 in Mainz ; † April 11, 1990 in the Hambacher Mühle, Hambach near Heppenheim (Bergstrasse) ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Kohl studied from 1915 to 1923 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . His professors included Max Doerner , Julius Exter and Angelo Jank . He was a master student of Peter Halm , whose style influenced Kohl's work from the years 1918 to 1920 with 12 etchings on the subject of Das Goldene Mainz . All his life he was a portrait and figure painter, whose figures are very often shown in landscapes with a classic appearance.

Kohl was a member of the Mainz Association of Fine Artists , the Hessian Art Cartel and, since 1933, a member of the Frankfurt artist community . A few paintings with groups of naked women or men are known from the 1930s.

In the Luther Church in Offenbach-Bieber , built in 1934/35 , Kohl painted the three large walls of the chancel with motifs from the Bible. Because of the heroic depictions, the pictures came under criticism after the Second World War , but are still valued today (2013) by the evangelical community.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Kohl, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 21 : Knip – Kruger . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927, p. 202 .
  • Kohl, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 84 .
  • Supplement to the exhibition from March 7 to 31, 1964: Hans Kohl: Paintings, drawings , Landesmuseum Mainz.
  • Hans Kohl, painter-puppeteer-gardener, biography of Prof. Dr. Werner Zimmer, self-published by the Masonic Lodge "Johannes der Evangelist zur Eintracht", Darmstadt 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jesus and Maria as Herrenmenschen in FAZ of September 5, 2013, p. 48.
personal data
SURNAME Kohl, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz , Grand Duchy of Hesse
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1990
Place of death Hambacher Mühle, Hambach near Heppenheim (Bergstrasse) , Hesse