Hans Pape (painter)

August Rudolf Hans Pape (born October 1, 1894 in Hamburg , † December 30, 1970 in Münster ) was a German freelance artist , craftsman , commissioned painter , graphic artist and university professor. He was a member of the Free Artist Community Schanze .

Live and act

Hans Pape received his first drawing lessons in the last two years of the vocational school in Hamburg. After a long period of time, which he spent with practical exercises, he began training at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts with Anton Kling . With the beginning of the First World War in 1914 he had to go to the Western Front and towards the end of the war he was seriously wounded and transported in a hospital train from Lille to Munich. After his recovery he stayed in Munich and attended the arts and crafts school there, where Julius Diez taught him. He later joined teaching units with Peter von Halm and Adolf Schinnerer at the academy . In 1920 Pape was able to sell his first series of woodcuts to the local Georg Müller Verlag . These illustrate an edition of Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas , Logan's epic poems and Giovanni Fiorentino's Pecorone . The first-mentioned books appeared in 1920, the latter in 1921. He was artistically active in Munich for five years, supplying in particular the publishing houses Georg Müller and Eugen Diederichs (Jena), who were trying to revive the woodcut illustration technique . But he also did commissioned work for Gerhard Stalling (Oldenburg), Drei Masken Verlag (Berlin), Oldenbourg Verlag (Munich) and Greifenverlag (Rudolstadt). In autumn 1925 he was called to Münster / Westphalia to set up a graphics class .

From 1925 to 1960 he was a professor in the book trade and commercial graphics department in the design department of the Werkkunstschule Münster and - despite less time for his own work - took up his role as a trainer for the next generation. One of his students was Waldemar Mallek . From 1925 he was a member of the Free Artist Community Schanze . During National Socialism , three of his works were confiscated as " Degenerate Art ".

In addition to book illustrations ( including covers and vignettes ), Hans Pape also created magazine heads, stamps, consumer goods labels (wine, schnapps, etc.), coats of arms, bookplates , membership cards, and greeting and information cards.

The delicacy of his explanations becomes clear in his woodcut initials, wrote Eberhard Hölscher , because in the narrow space of 14 square centimeters he has accommodated an abundance of processes and details. This is where his “epic talent” unfolded. Hölscher saw in this type of execution a distant relationship to the equally careful and cozy creations of Ludwig Richter .

Quote about pape

“His strict, sometimes harsh objectivity, interspersed and softened by a strong, slightly mischievous humor, the inherent trait for clarity and order, the unity and calm of his artistic language of form, leave the North German and the deep connection and inner context in him easily recognize with the home soil. "

- Eberhard Hölscher : artist portrait from the series "German book artists and commercial graphic artists"

photos

Pictures from the Catharijneconvent Museum in Utrecht.

Web links

Commons : Hans Pape  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• University of Münster

Individual evidence

1. ↑ University of Münster
2. ↑ Eberhard Hölscher: Hans Pape (=  German book artist and commercial artist of the present ). Verlag Deutscher Buchgewerbeverein, Leipzig 1928, p. 46 ff .
3. ↑ Eberhard Hölscher: Hans Pape (=  German book artist and commercial artist of the present ). Verlag Deutscher Buchgewerbeverein, Leipzig 1928, p. 19 .
4. ↑ Eberhard Hölscher: Hans Pape (=  German book artist and commercial artist of the present ). Verlag Deutscher Buchgewerbeverein, Leipzig 1928, p. 26 .
5. ↑ Eberhard Hölscher: Hans Pape (=  German book artist and commercial artist of the present ). Verlag Deutscher Buchgewerbeverein, Leipzig 1928, p. 45 f .