Hans Meid

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Hans Meid (born June 3, 1883 in Pforzheim ; † January 6, 1957 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German painter and illustrator. He was a successful exponent of impressionism in printmaking .

life and work

Hans Meid grew up in Pforzheim as the son of a jewelry dealer. After graduating from secondary school, he attended the arts and crafts school in Karlsruhe from 1899 , and in 1900 he switched to the art academy there, where he became a student of the impressionist Wilhelm Trübner (1851-1917) and the realist Walter Conz (1872-1947).

In 1907 the Meißen porcelain factory engaged him as a designer; In 1908 he gave up this activity and settled in Berlin as a freelance artist. His success can be seen in the Villa Romana Prize (1910) and membership in the Berlin Secession (1911).

In 1919 Meid became a teacher of etching at the University of Fine Arts (from 1924: United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts ) in Berlin. In 1927 he was elected a full member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts , where from 1934 he also headed a master's studio for graphics. For the first print of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's one-act play The Troublesome in the Marsyas magazine , he created 6 etchings.

From 1910 onwards he created an extensive work in etching , lithography and other techniques, a large number of illustrations for works of world literature such as Cervantes' Don Quixote , Goethe's elective affinities and many others. From 1922 pen drawings , watercolors and paintings were added. He designed book covers for 44 publishers (particularly Schünemann and S. Fischer).

Meid's house in Berlin-Steglitz was destroyed in 1943 during the war. After 1945 he settled in Gereuth , Franconia , but then accepted a call to the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart in 1948 , where he taught until 1951. In 1953 the university made him an honorary member. In 1956, Meid received the Hans Thoma Prize from the state of Baden-Württemberg. The years up to his death he lived (on the mediation of Theodor Heuss ) in Ludwigsburg Palace .

Hans Meid was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Honors

  • The Hans Meid Prize for Book Illustration is regarded as a highly regarded award in this field.
  • The city of Pforzheim has named a Hans-Meid-Strasse in his honor.

Works (selection)

Illustrated books

Graphics and paintings

Exhibitions

literature

  • Rudolph Angermüller (Ed.): Mozart's operas in the work of Max Slevogt and Hans Meid . Bock, Bad Honnef 1996, ISBN 3-87066-387-1 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name in Mozart's birthplace).
  • Lothar Brieger : Hans Meid. Berlin: New Art Dealer, 1921
  • Heinz Höfchen:  Meid, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 637 ( digitized version ).
  • Adolf Jannasch : Hans Meid . Neff Verlag, Berlin 1943.
  • Ralph Jentsch: Hans Meid. The graphic work . City art gallery, Esslingen 1978.
  • Wolfgang Kermer (Ed.): Between book art and book design. Book designer for the academy and former arts and crafts school in Stuttgart; Work examples and texts. Edition Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1996, ISBN 3-89322-893-4 .
  • Käte Neumann: Hans Meid in Meissen . In: Keramos. Journal of the Society of Ceramic Friends eV , Vol. 112 (1986), Issue 4, pp. 41-54, ISSN  0453-7580 .
  • Käte Neumann: Hans Meid and the theater . In: Yearbook of the Dresden State Art Collections , year 1976/1977, pp. 113–124, ISSN  0419-733X .
  • Käte Neumann: Illustrations and book equipment by Hans Meid . In: Yearbook of the Dresden State Art Collections , 1984, pp. 145–166, ISSN  0419-733X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Meid, Hans ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 13, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Meid, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German impressionist painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1957
Place of death Ludwigsburg