Hans Meyer-Kassel

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Hans Meyer-Kassel (born March 8, 1872 in Kassel , † August 30, 1952 in Genoa , Nevada ) was a German landscape , marine and portrait painter as well as graphic artist , illustrator and draftsman .

Live and act

Education and early work

Hans Meyer-Kassel, son of a banker, studied painting in Munich against his parents' wishes . From 1892 to 1904 he was with interruptions a student of Friedrich Fehr and Ludwig Schmid-Reutte . The first documented work is a still life from 1893, which was exhibited at the Kunstverein Stuttgart . In 1895 he had his own studio in Munich. His early works are reminiscent of Frits Thaulow and Gotthardt Kuehl . Hans Meyer-Kassel took part in the annual exhibition in the Glaspalast in Munich. During this time he also made craft designs such as book decorations , plaques, etc. a. In 1904 he went back to Kassel, where he worked as a conservator and became the manager of the Kunstverein für Kurhessen . From 1912 to 1915 he taught at the art college in Kassel . During the First World War he was a war painter in Lorraine from 1915 onwards . In 1917 he received the title of professor from Kaiser Wilhelm II after he had portrayed an Emperor's niece. He was particularly valued as a portrait painter and portrayed numerous European dignitaries. Until 1918 he worked at irregular intervals in the Willingshausen painters' colony . During this time he painted with loose, sketchy brushwork with a late impressionist lightness. An example of this is his painting Summer Guests on the Beach in Swinoujscie from 1914.

Emigration to the USA

In 1922 he emigrated to the United States , presumably for economic reasons . There he worked for ten years at Central Studio House in New York . This phase of life was difficult as he had to re-establish his artistic reputation. He still painted influenced by impulses from his time in Munich. Views of New York and city life, naval pictures, still lifes and soon portraits of celebrities such as governors and university senators were created. Hans Meyer-Kassel traveled to Spitzbergen and the Arctic on behalf of the North German Lloyd and exhibited the artistic results of these trips in 1932 at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. From 1932 to 1935 he was a lecturer and guest artist at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts . Meyer-Kassel went to Nevada in 1937 and lived in Reno , and from 1942 in Carson City . His famous portrait of James Edward Church dates from 1942 . From 1945 he lived in Genoa. He hardly received any portrait commissions and mainly painted landscapes, flower pictures and allegorical scenes as well as drafts for magazine covers. His portraits in oil, pastel and tempera have received several awards. His estate includes 600 paintings.

Exhibitions

  • 1897: Art Association for Kurhessen , Kassel
  • 1932: Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
  • 1961: California Parliament of the Legion of Honor (retrospective), San Francisco
  • 1985: Genoa, Courthouse Museum
  • 2003: Genoa, Courthouse Museum

Works in collections

literature

personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Kassel, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer-Cassel, Johannes Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1952
Place of death Genoa (Nevada)