Hans Loew (graphic designer)

Hans Gabriel Loew (born June 14, 1919 in Klausenburg ; † February 27, 2016 in Bad Krozingen ) was a Romanian-German art teacher , graphic artist and painter .

Life

Hans Loew was born in 1919 as the son of the paint wholesaler Rudolf Loew and his wife, Ilse Herzberg, who came from a Jewish family in Berlin , sister of the graphic artist and caricaturist Walter Herzberg , in the city of Klausenburg (Hungarian Kolozsvár) in Transylvania , which was then part of Hungary . After graduating from high school, which Loew took at a grammar school in Cluj, he went on to study in Paris for about a year in 1938/1939 . Hans Loew attended lectures at the Collège de France with Paul Valéry and took courses at the École libre "Albert Simon", which Hans Loew and his student group visits a. a. with Georges Braque , Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse made possible.

Under the influence of the political situation and the impending war, Hans Loew returned to Cluj in 1939, which had fallen to Romania through the Trianon Peace Treaty in 1920 . After the Romanian Cluj and much of northern Transylvania by the Second Vienna Award re-Hungary had been affiliated, Hans Löw was established in 1940 for community service his conscription drafted into the Hungarian army and took until 1944 in an anti-aircraft artillery department of the Hungarian 2nd Army on German -Soviet war part. Loew's war trauma was exacerbated by the fact that he, who was considered a “ half-Jew ” in the terminology of Nazi racial ideology , was threatened by it until the end, reported to his Hungarian and German military superiors and finally in the persecution and extermination process against them Hungarian Jews to be included. With the German occupation of Hungary in 1944 at the latest , the isolation and deportation measures had also begun in Loew's home town of Cluj-Napoca. At this point in time, Loew's maternal grandmother, Rose Herzberg, nee. Landsberg (1943), his uncle Walter Herzberg, his wife Edith, b. Wunderlich (both in 1943) and other Berlin relatives were murdered in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz-Birkenau .

1945–1947 Hans Loew studied art history (teaching post) in Klausenburg; Acquaintance with the composer György Ligeti , who had met Loew's sister Brigitte in 1943 in Cluj and was married to her from 1949 to 1952. Loew stayed in his hometown, which had belonged to Romania again since 1947, and worked as an art teacher, librarian and publicist before moving to Freiburg im Breisgau in 1972 and working there as an art teacher at a grammar school until his retirement in 1983. Hans Loew died on February 27, 2016 at the age of 96 and was buried in Freiburg.

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Around 1980 Hans Loew began to distinguish himself as a freelance artist in the first series of linoleum and woodcuts . In 1984 he was one of the founding members of the Kunstverein Gundelfingen , which he chaired for several years. Initially interested in the forms and structures of nature and landscape, Loew devoted himself to the illustration of literary texts in the following years. a. by Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard . Since 1991, Loew's central series of works, “Ode to Bamberg”, especially about the biblical-human figure of the prophet Jonah , which was presented in solo exhibitions and ... Has been created in an intensive graphic examination of the medieval, plastic apostle and prophet representations of the east choir barrier in Bamberg Cathedral Retrospectives 1998 and 1999 by the Diözesanmuseum Bamberg and Regensburg and under the title “Prophet Jona” in 2002 in the New Synagogue Freiburg and “Jona Cycle and Disputing Prophets” in 2003 in the “CityKirche”, Wuppertal Elberfeld . After that, Loew became more active as a draftsman: with a ballpoint pen and India ink he created a. a. Drawings based on texts by Marguerite Duras and Manfred Riedel . In one of the last phases of his work, inspired by Serge Poliakoff 's painting , after 2007 he devoted himself to color and as a painter expanded his previous, monochrome, black-printed work to include experimental works with pastel oil chalk . In 1998/2008 Loew donated a large part of his graphic works to the Bamberg Diocesan Museum. At the same time, it was his concern to secure the privately handed down estate of his uncle Walter Herzberg , which he bequeathed to the Jewish Museum Berlin in 2015 , and not to let the life story of the Herzberg family as victims of the Holocaust be forgotten.

Works (selection)

Printmaking

After György Ligeti "Lontano" - On György Ligeti's birthday , linocut 1979
Natural elements , linocuts, 1980/81
After Samuel Beckett: “ Waiting for Godot ”, woodcuts and drawings ( studies ), 1986–1990
Ode to Bamberg : Prophets , Jona , woodcuts and drawings ( studies ) 1991–1998

drawings

About Thomas Bernhard's story “ Gehen ” and about the play “Simply Complicated”, 1994/95
According to Manfred Riedel: “Jug, glass and early meeting. At the beginning of Bloch's philosophy ”, 1997
Mrs. World and Her Guardians , 1998
Meditative , 2000
According to Marguerite Duras: "Vice-Consul" and "Nathalie Granger", 1998–2000

painting

Saw Poliakoff IX, pastel oil chalk, 2007

literature

Hans Loew: Jonah. Confessions. Catalog for the exhibition from October 30th until 13.11.1996 in Röthenbach. Röthenbach 1996.
Hans Loew: Jonah. Fish. Vessels. Catalog for the exhibition from June 24th until July 1, 1997 in Eichstätt. Röthenbach 1997.
Schieb, Barbara (Ed.): Walter Herzberg. Artist, caricaturist, humanist 1898–1943. Hamburg 1998, therein: Hans Loew: Walter Herzberg - A life dedicated to the line , pp. 23–31. ISBN 3-933374-14-6 .
Göller, Luitgar (Ed.): Hans Loew. Ode to Bamberg. Drafts, printing blocks, prints. September 18 to October 15, 1998. Bamberg, Department of Art and Culture, Archbishop's Office Bamberg (= publications of the Archbishop's Office, Department of Art and Culture, Volume 5) 1998. ISBN 3-9804772-7-4 .
Angerer, Wolfgang; Degen, Eva-Maria (Ed.): Encounter with Hans Loew. Festschrift for the retrospective of Hans Loew's graphics from 1978–1999 in the Diözesanmuseum zu Regensburg from April 16. until May 30, 1999. Regensburg, Diocesan Museum Regensburg 1999.
Göller, Luitgar (Ed.): Hans Loew. Ways. (Catalog and catalog raisonné). Bamberg, Department of Art and Culture, Archbishop's Office Bamberg (= publications of the Diözesanmuseum Bamberg, Volume 18) 2008. ISBN 978-3-931432-17-1 .

Web links

Literature by and about Hans Loew in the catalog of the German National Library
Archdiocese of Bamberg: Fateful encounters translated into art , for the exhibition in the Diocesan Museum Bamberg, 2008.

Individual evidence

↑ See: Hans Loew: Life with and in pictures (artistic autobiography) , in: Luitgar Göller (Ed.): Hans Loew. Ways. Bamberg, Department of Art and Culture, Archbishop's Ordinariate Bamberg 2008, pp. 99-102.
↑ See: Schieb, Barbara (Ed.): Walter Herzberg. Artist, caricaturist, humanist 1898–1943 , Hamburg 1998, p. 18 f.
↑ See Richard Steinitz: György Ligeti. Music of the Imagination. London 2003; to Brigitte Löw in the following here.
↑ Hans Loew's art historical articles were u. a. in the Hungarian-language cultural magazines Utunk and Korunk, published in Cluj, between 1957–1971.
↑ See Luitgar Göller (Ed.): Hans Loew. Ode to Bamberg. Drafts, printing blocks, prints. September 18 to October 15, 1998. Bamberg, Department of Art and Culture, Archbishop's Office Bamberg (= publications of the Archbishop's Office, Department of Art and Culture, Volume 5) 1998; Angerer, Wolfgang (ed.): Encounter with Hans Loew. Festschrift for the retrospective of Hans Loew's graphics from 1978–1999 in the Diözesanmuseum zu Regensburg from April 16. until May 30, 1999. Regensburg, self-published by the Diözesanmuseum Regensburg 1999.
↑ Cf. Marion Tietz-Strödel: "I saw Poliakoff". Thoughts on a new series of works by Hans Loew , in: Luitgar Göller (Ed.): Hans Loew. Ways. (Catalog and catalog raisonné). Bamberg, Department of Art and Culture, Archbishop's Office Bamberg (= publications of the Diözesanmuseum Bamberg, Volume 18) 2008, pp. 46–51.
↑ See: Schieb, Barbara (Ed.): Walter Herzberg. Artist, caricaturist, humanist 1898–1943 , Hamburg 1998; therein: Hans Loew: Walter Herzberg - A life dedicated to the line, pp. 23–31.

personal data
SURNAME	Loew, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Loew, Hans Gabriel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Romanian-German art teacher, graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 14, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cluj-Napoca
DATE OF DEATH	February 27, 2016
Place of death	Bad Krozingen

[1] See: Hans Loew: Life with and in pictures (artistic autobiography) , in: Luitgar Göller (Ed.): Hans Loew. Ways. Bamberg, Department of Art and Culture, Archbishop's Ordinariate Bamberg 2008, pp. 99-102.

[2] See: Schieb, Barbara (Ed.): Walter Herzberg. Artist, caricaturist, humanist 1898–1943 , Hamburg 1998, p. 18 f.

[3] See Richard Steinitz: György Ligeti. Music of the Imagination. London 2003; to Brigitte Löw in the following here.

[4] Hans Loew's art historical articles were u. a. in the Hungarian-language cultural magazines Utunk and Korunk, published in Cluj, between 1957–1971.

[5] See Luitgar Göller (Ed.): Hans Loew. Ode to Bamberg. Drafts, printing blocks, prints. September 18 to October 15, 1998. Bamberg, Department of Art and Culture, Archbishop's Office Bamberg (= publications of the Archbishop's Office, Department of Art and Culture, Volume 5) 1998; Angerer, Wolfgang (ed.): Encounter with Hans Loew. Festschrift for the retrospective of Hans Loew's graphics from 1978–1999 in the Diözesanmuseum zu Regensburg from April 16. until May 30, 1999. Regensburg, self-published by the Diözesanmuseum Regensburg 1999.

[6] Cf. Marion Tietz-Strödel: "I saw Poliakoff". Thoughts on a new series of works by Hans Loew , in: Luitgar Göller (Ed.): Hans Loew. Ways. (Catalog and catalog raisonné). Bamberg, Department of Art and Culture, Archbishop's Office Bamberg (= publications of the Diözesanmuseum Bamberg, Volume 18) 2008, pp. 46–51.

[7] See: Schieb, Barbara (Ed.): Walter Herzberg. Artist, caricaturist, humanist 1898–1943 , Hamburg 1998; therein: Hans Loew: Walter Herzberg - A life dedicated to the line, pp. 23–31.