Hans Maaß (painter)

Hans Maaß (born November 9, 1914 in Bremen , † August 2, 2000 in Langwedel ) was a north German painter .

Life

Hans Maaß grew up in the rural Langwedel (located in the south-east of Greater Bremen) as the son of a cigar worker. From 1925 to high school in 1934 he attended the Domgymnasium Verden . For financial reasons, it was not possible for him to start studying art. He studied at the University of Education in Kiel , became a teacher and then a soldier. In 1945, after being seriously wounded three times, he returned to Verden, where he studied painting and at the same time worked as an art teacher.

After twenty years of artistic work, he appeared as a painter in 1965 for the first time with artistic work; this was followed by major exhibitions in Vienna, Munich, Bonn, Hanover and in the vicinity of his homeland. In 1972 he moved from Verden to Langwedel-Daverden and thus returned to the landscape of his childhood, where he died on August 2, 2000 at the age of 85 and was buried in the cemetery in Langwedel-Daverden.

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Independent of contemporary artistic directions, Hans Maaß pursued his own path, striving for the perfection of the " old masters " in the technique of oil painting, painting exclusively figuratively and above all through the composition of the objects in the picture - ancient, ideal, but also native landscapes and buildings , Faces, hands and (self) portraits, flowers (especially lilies, chrysanthemums, bouquets), painting utensils, symbolically used tools (“pendulums”) and personal mementos (e.g. dog tags from the time as a soldier) - the viewer Challenged controversy and achieved an image effect reaching up to the surreal .

Exhibitions

On the occasion of his 100th birthday, an exhibition of his works took place in October 2014 in the main office of the Kreissparkasse Verden , Verden (Aller) . More than 100 exhibits from all of Hans Maaß's creative phases were on display. Some of them were seen in public for the first time.

In cooperation with the Verden Kunsthaus CasarettoArt, an exhibition also took place that showed around 60 works. This exhibition ended on November 9th, 2014 with a celebration for the 100th birthday of Hans Maaß, u. a. with an interview with his son Volker Maass, companions and experts on his work.

literature

• Hans Maass, Imaginations, Bilder der Stille, portfolio dedicated to the completion of his 75th year . Verdener Heimatbund e. V., 1989
• Hans Maass, Off the Road Certainly, portfolio dedicated to the completion of his 80th year of life . Verdener Heimatbund e. V., 1994
• Hans Maaß (1914–2000), lectures, pictorial ideas and works of art, souvenirs for his 90th birthday . Editing and compilation by Günter Schreiber, Verden, 2004