Hans Kreuzer

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Hans Kreuzer (born March 10, 1911 in Breslau , † September 8, 1988 in Abbensen in Wedemark ) was a German chemigrapher and painter . During the years of reconstruction, he painted and drew mainly on construction sites in the Lower Saxony state capital, Hanover , which gave him the nickname "construction cruiser ".

Life

Hans Kreuzer, who was born in Breslau in 1911 at the time of the German Empire, first completed school in his hometown and then trained as a chemographer. As a result, he continued to work in the printing industry for a while. He studied painting at the State Academy for Art and Applied Arts in Breslau as a student of Georg Muche and Max Friese, among others . In 1937 he took part in the »4. Silesian Art Exhibition «in Breslau, where he opened his own studio in 1939 . In his hometown he was particularly in demand as a landscape and portrait painter.

During the Second World War , Kreuzer was only drafted as a soldier in 1942 and was stationed on the border with the Netherlands. In 1944 he married Eva Behrens (1918-2016), a daughter of Anna Pape, who was married to the acting manager Alfons Pape for the second time .

Eventually, however, Kreuzer became a prisoner of war . He was interned first in Unna , then in the Friedland district in the Dornum community in East Frisia . Under the British military government , Kreuzer was released in 1945 and then found a new home in Abbensen in Wedemark after he was unable to return to Breslau .

At the age of 38, Hans Kreuzer, who had not got to know the future Lower Saxony state capital before it was destroyed by the air raids on Hanover , began to accompany pictures during the (re) construction. From 1950 to 1966, Kreuzer recorded the construction work in the city of Hanover almost in a documentary manner, by painting and drawing on the city's construction sites with great attention to detail until the 1970s. He was therefore also referred to as the “painting chronicler of the reconstruction”, who in particular recorded the structural redesign during the era of city planning director Rudolf Hillebrecht almost in a documentary manner. The "construction cruiser" painted around 70 pictures a year, several of which the City of Hanover acquired.

In 1960, the Lower Saxony Museum of Local History, later known as the Hanover Historical Museum , organized a special exhibition with works by Kreuzer under the title Hanover Construction Sites 1950–1958 . An exhibition was opened in the municipality of Wedemark on Kreuzer's 65th birthday.

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Hans Kreuzer was buried in an urn in the family grave at the cemetery in Helstorf , where his mother-in-law Anna Pape, his grandson Otto Kreuzer and his wife Eva were also buried.

Pictures (selection)

Today Kreuzer's works are in public ownership, including in the Hanover Historical Museum. In addition to his Hanoverian construction site paintings, Hans Kreuzer also devoted himself to landscape and portrait painting and also created the following works:

  • Construction site Constructa-Block , watercolor, 1952; exhibited in the exhibition Stadtbilder from September 10, 2013 to May 18, 2014 in the Historical Museum Hanover
  • Cityscapes series of Wolfsburg , 1956

literature

  • Christiane Kerrutt: Painting and graphics in Emsland 1860–1960 , 1st edition, in the series Emsland - Raum im Nordwesten , Vol. 17, Sögel: Emsländischer Heimatbund e. V., 2001, ISBN 3-88077-085-9 , pp. 88-89.
  • Hugo Thielen : Kreuzer, Hans. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 213 online via Google books .
  • Hugo Thielen: Kreuzer, Hans. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 368.
  • NN : Painted construction sites 1950–1966. In: Gerhard Kier, Sid Auffarth , Karljosef Kreter : Rudolf Hillebrecht: Born February 26, 1910. Documentation of the exhibition on the 100th birthday in the building administration of the state capital Hanover , accompanying document of the exhibition from February 26 to March 26, 2010, publisher: Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Department of Planning and Urban Development, Hannover: Landeshauptstadt, 2010, pp. 42–45.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In contrast to this, the Hanoverian Biographical Lexicon for the keyword Hans Kreuzer was mistakenly named a daughter of Franz Bubenzer as wife

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Hugo Thielen: Kreuzer, Hans , in: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 368.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Compare the revised biography of Hans Kreuzer by Hugo Thielen in the version of April 11, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c N.N .: Painted building sites 1950–1966. In: Gerhard Kier, Sid Auffarth , Karljosef Kreter : Rudolf Hillebrecht: Born February 26, 1910. Documentation of the exhibition on the 100th birthday in the building administration of the state capital Hanover , accompanying document of the exhibition from February 26 to March 26, 2010, publisher: Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Department of Planning and Urban Development, Hannover: Landeshauptstadt, 2010, pp. 42–45.
  4. ↑ see the picture: [1] on the hannover.de page
personal data
SURNAME Kreuzer, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Construction cruiser (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemigrapher and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1988
Place of death Hanover