Hans Neubert

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Hans Neubert (born August 6, 1924 in Dresden ; † September 30, 2011 in Feldafing ) was a German painter and graphic artist , best known for his portraits ("images of people") and landscapes.

"Self-portrait" (2003) by Hans Neubert

biography

"Barbara" (1967) by Hans Neubert. Portrait of the actress Barbara Neubert, née Simon

Hans Neubert already dealt at a young age autodidact with visual arts and sat down during extended visits to the Dresden Gemäldegalerie intensively with the works of old masters such as Titian , Rubens and Rembrandt apart. In 1941/1942 he studied - after an apprenticeship in lithography in the company Meinhold & Sons - briefly with Ernst Richard Dietze (1880–1961) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. He was called up in 1942 and was taken prisoner during the Second World War , some of which he had to spend in former concentration camps . He recorded encounters from these years, which took the artist to Norway , Poland , Russia and Slovakia , in several sketchbooks.

"The little big Cormak" (1978) by Hans Neubert

After the war and imprisonment, Neubert resumed his studies at the Dresden Art Academy from 1947 to 1949. Reinhold Langner (1905–1957) and Max Erich Nicola (1889–1958) were among his teachers . Without a degree, Neubert went into business as a painter and graphic artist in Dresden. For example, 10 murals were created for the Friedrich Loeffler Institute on Riems Island, which deal artistically with the subject of virology in a unique way . Furthermore, Neubert illustrated several books during this time, of which the Africa volume Where the Rhinos wallow was recognized as one of the most beautiful books of 1959. In 1958 he went on a study trip to Switzerland , where, among other things, a portrait of the writer Hermann Hesse was created. Other portraits from these years show the conductor Kurt Masur and the pianists Arthur Rubinstein and Wladimir Horowitz ; these works, but also the portraits of the singers Elvis Presley , Billie Holiday and Michael Jackson, bear witness to Neubert's pronounced passion for the world of music .

"Ernst Bloch" (1977) by Hans Neubert

In 1961, shortly after his marriage to actress Barbara Simon, Hans Neubert moved to West Berlin . From there he went on further study trips to France and Spain . Since 1969 he lived and worked in the small Bavarian village of Pähl near the Ammersee.

"Setting Sun" (1992) by Hans Neubert
"Eberschädel, Plastik und Uhr" (1959) by Hans Neubert

Neubert was a loner who refused all his life to artistic or political dictates, trends and fashions. Nevertheless, there were formative role models for him; Not only the old masters, whom he studied in Dresden, were pioneering, but also contemporary artists such as Max Beckmann , Pablo Picasso and Oskar Kokoschka .

Works (selection)

Paintings (selection, chronological)

  • Behind the Circus , Oil, 1955
  • Children's Carnival large , oil, 1955
  • Children's Carnival Small , Oil, 1956
  • Marcel Marceau , oil, 1956
  • Snow Road , Oil, 1956
  • Four serious images: The last conversation with oneself - mercy - recovery - death , triptych with predella , oil, 1956
  • The meaning and practice of virology , 10 murals for the Friedrich Loeffler Institute on the island of Riems, 1957–1960
  • Portrait of the psychiatrist Hanns Schwarz , 1957 (in the Pomeranian State Museum )
  • Hermann Hesse , oil, 1958
  • Boar skull, plastic and clock , oil, 1959
  • Tree with moon , oil, 1961/1962
  • Millennial olive tree , oil, 1963
  • The clown and death , oil, 1963
  • The blue sun , oil, 1966
  • Old Olive Mallorca , oil, 1966/1968
  • Barbara , oil, 1967
  • Girl with Cigarette , Oil, 1967
  • 6 blue pictures , oil, 1977/1978
  • The little big Cormak , oil, 1978
  • Marcel Marceau. Bip and the butterfly , oil, 1980
  • Great spruce and sun , oil, 1989/1990
  • Setting sun , oil, 1992
  • Horowitz , Oil, 1998
  • Large maple back , oil, 2000
  • Self-portrait , oil, 2003

Book illustrations

  • Fritz Gay: Dispute in Pinguinea. A shadow play. VEB Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig 1956
  • Kurt Tucholsky : Four scenes for cabaret. VEB Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig 1956
  • Wolfgang Ullrich : Africa, once not seen through the rear sight. Neumann Verlag, Dresden 1956
  • Conrad Ferdinand Meyer : Firnelicht. Selection from his work. Union Verlag VOB, Berlin 1957
  • Wolfgang Ullrich: When the giraffes come to drink. Neumann Verlag, Dresden 1958
  • Wolfgang Ullrich: Where the rhinos wallow. Neumann Verlag, Dresden 1959

Exhibitions (selection)

Literature (selection, chronological)

  • Friedbert Ficker : Neubert, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 472 .
  • Fritz Löffler : Special exhibition by Hans Neubert. Bernburg 1956 (exhibition Bernburg, leaflet)
  • Fritz Löffler: Hans Neubert. In: Fine arts. Volume 5, 1957, pp. 324-325
  • Gerhard Pommeranz-Liedtke: Ten murals by Hans Neubert reflect the meaning and practice of virology. In: Archives for Experimental Veterinary Medicine. Volume XIV, Issue 5, 1960, pp. 841-855
  • Heinz Peters: Man in the subway. In: The bell. Volume 5, 1967, p. 30
  • Heinz Peters (preface): Hans Neubert. Oil paintings and drawings from the last few years. Berlin 1967 (exhibition Berlin)
  • Adolf and Sascha Mehringer (foreword), Hans Neubert. Paintings and drawings. Salzburg 1989 (exhibition in Frankfurt am Main)
  • Neumeister KG / Adolf Mehringer (preface): Exhibition Hans Neubert. Paintings from the Berlin years. Salzburg 1991 (exhibition in Berlin)
  • Rainer Beck / Natalia Kardinar (eds.): Nevertheless. New beginning in 1947. For the reopening of the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden. Dresden 1997, pp. 325–327 (exhibition Dresden)
  • Fedor Bochow: Neubert, Hans. In: Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia. CD-Rom, 2001
  • Klaus Seibel (introduction): Hans Neubert. Dresden, Berlin, Pähl - excerpts from life's work. Paintings and works on paper 1954–2001. Munich 2002 (exhibition Herrsching am Ammersee)
  • Ingrid Zimmermann: The radiance of the serious character. Hans Neubert's first exhibition of his expressive-realistic pictures. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 12, 2002, Starnberg page, R7
  • Alison Abbott: Behind the wall. Hans Neubert's murals paint a picture of scientific research in East Germany in the 1950s. In: Nature. Volume 423, 2003, p. 226
  • Klaus Seibel (preface): Hans Neubert. Pictures from the life's work. Starnberg 2009 (exhibition Starnberg)
  • Ingrid Zimmermann: Windows with the prospect of opposites. Hans Neubert shows a selection of his expressionistic and soulful pictures in Starnberg. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 16, 2009, Starnberg page, R6
  • Detlef Witt: Art on the island of Riems. Painting and sculpture by Fritz Cremer, Heinrich Drake, Waldemar Grzimek, Hans Neubert, Hans Prütz, Walter Wadephul and Matthias Wegehaupt / with the assistance of Barbara Riebe, Insel Riems / ed. from the Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Insel Riems 2010
  • Detlef Witt: He created a cycle of pictures on the Riems. In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Issue 4/2011, ISSN  0032-4167 , pp. 44-45.

Movie

  • Clemens Kuby , The painter Hans Neubert (short film, Garching, mind films GmbH)
personal data
SURNAME Neubert, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2011
Place of death Feldafing