Hans light
Hans Licht (born April 16, 1876 in Berlin ; † February 14, 1935 there ) was a German landscape painter .
Life
After attending the Falk High School in Berlin, Hans Licht completed a two and a half year internship at the Royal Porcelain Manufactory . From 1896 he studied at the Art Academy in Berlin as a student of Eugen Bracht and Albert Hertel . From 1920 he directed a painting school in the Künstlerklause in Schwalenberg (Lippe) for several years . Hans Licht also brought numerous female painters to Schwalenberg, including Nelly Cunow, Margarete Mikeleitis, Anna Kühl , Olga Werkmeister and Ellen Dresing. As a freelance artist, he created numerous impressionist landscape paintings and still lifes and was involved in group exhibitions at the Kunstverein Hamburg (1906, 1907 and 1912). In 1906 he exhibited in Berlin together with Eugen Bracht, August von Brandis , Albert Gartmann and Conrad Lessing.
He was married to the opera and concert singer Ella Wendel.
His final resting place is a striking boulder on the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .
Works
From old time (1900), An der Havel (1900), Das Muldenthal against evening (1901), Alter Fährkrug (1901), Abendläuten (1901), Der Großes Luzinsee in the evening (1902), Dusk (1903), June (1903 ), Märkische Seenlandschaft (1905), a statue (1905), afternoon bells (1907) and six frescoes in the Brandenburg Hall in the Berlin-Schöneberg Town Hall .
literature
- Reichs Handbuch. Vol. 2, Berlin 1931, p. 398.
- Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculptures, Desinateurs et Graveurs. 3rd ed., Vol. 5, Paris 1976.
- General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Vol. 23, Leipzig 1992, p. 190.
- Frank Jahnke: Die Künstlerklause in Schwalenberg - On the history of the Schwalenberg painter colony: Berlin 1998.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Jahnke: The heyday of the painter colony between the world wars. In: malerkolonie-schwalenberg.de. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .
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SURNAME | Light, Hans |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1876 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1935 |
Place of death | Berlin |