Hans Peters (painter)

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Self-portrait by
Hans Peters, January 1947

Hans Peters (born August 2, 1885 in Jauer, today Jawor / Silesia , † June 12, 1978 in Bargfeld-Stegen (Stormarn district)) was a German graphic artist , painter and art teacher .

Life

Hans Peters was the son of a teacher. He attended elementary school and later high school in his place of birth. Between 1900 and 1905 he trained as a teacher in Sagan . In the following three years he taught as a village school teacher in Silesia . From 1908 to 1910 he attended the Berlin Academy and then spent a year demonstrating his skills as a drawing teacher at the German school in Madrid . In 1911 he returned to Jauer for a short time. In 1912 he followed Sebald Schwarz 's invitation to teach at the Oberrealschule zum Dom in Lübeck as a drawing teacher. Between 1914 and 1916 he had to go to war and spent three years, until 1919, in British captivity. At the end of the year he returned to the Oberrealschule zum Dom, where he continued teaching until he was transferred to the Katharineum in 1926. In 1921 he married Ilse König, son Gerhard was born in 1922 and daughter Ruth in 1926. In 1933 he was dismissed from school service by the National Socialist high school authorities without explanation and from then on worked as a freelance artist . After the war, the Schleswig-Holstein state government awarded him the title of professor . His wife died in 1976.

Book illustrations

Hans Peters works can be found in numerous books:

  • Agnes Miegel : Herd of the home. 20 drawings by Hans Peters. Gräfe and Unzer, Königsberg i.Pr. 1937.
  • Simon Vestdijk : The trip to Jamaica. With pen drawings by Hans Peters. Rohrer, Vienna 1941.
  • Hans Peters: A German draftsman. Introduction by Walter Passarge. Rembrandt, Berlin 1942.
  • Bastian Müller: Oh how is it possible then. Drawings by Hans Peters. Krüger, Hamburg 1944.
  • Edgar Walsemann: Piet and his brothers. Illustrated by Hans Peters. Brauns, Wedel 1946.
  • Hans Peters: Lübeck in poetry. Writing and drawings by Hans Peters. With works by Dietrich Buxtehude, Hermann Claudius, Emanuel Geibel, Julius Havemann and Otto Anthes. Weiland, Lübeck 1946.
  • Honoré de Balzac : The Unknown Work of Art. German by Heribert Scholten. With 15 pen drawings by Hans Peters. Holzwarth, Iserlohn 1947.
  • Hildegard Stern: The figurehead. 5 stories. With illustrations by Hans Peters. Wildner, Lübeck 1947.
  • Hildegard Stern: Hans Peters. 40 pen drawings. Wildner, Lübeck 1947.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : The new Melusine. With 27 pen drawings by Hans Peters. Holzwarth, Iserlohn 1947.
  • Gottfried Keller : The three just Kammacher. Story with illustrations by Hans Peters. Wildner, Lübeck 1948.
  • Werner Kohlschmidt: Rainer Maria Rilke . With a pen drawing by Hans Peters. Wildner, Lübeck 1948.
  • Walter Bauer : The Black Sun - The Story of Henry Morton Stanley . Illustration by Hans Peters. Nannen - Hannoversche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1948.
  • OA Palitzsch: And all around a golden edge. Illustrations by Hans Peters. Wulff, Überlingen 1948.
  • Sketches and glosses. Hans Peters. Wolfshagen, Scharbeutz 1950.
  • Little Lübeck Almanac. Lübeck 1952.
  • Walter Weber (Ed.): Stories from the old Lübeck. Lübeck 1965, ISBN 3-87890-058-9 .
  • Lübeck in poetry. Font and illustration by Hans Peters. Schmidt-Römhild workshops.
  • Legends and stories from old Lübeck. Illustrations by Hans Peters. Weiland, 1965.
  • Thomas Mann : Tonio Kröger . Facsimile edition of the text handwritten in 1950 by Herbert Müller-Fried , who also designed the cover title. Illustrations by Hans Peters. Ed. Vom Buddenbrookhaus , Lübeck 1993.

Exhibitions

  • Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden , July 13 to August 4, 1941, works by Hans Peters, Philipp Franck and Will Lehmann-Carwy
  • Liegnitzer Kunstverein, September 7 to September 28, 1941, works by Hans Peters and Hans Theo Richter
  • Dom-Museum Lübeck , July 10 to August 20, 1965, on the occasion of the 80th birthday
  • Overbeck-Gesellschaft Lübeck, August 17 to September 21, 1975, on the occasion of the 90th birthday
  • St. Annen Museum Lübeck, March 26th to May 19th 1985, on the occasion of the 100th birthday
  • Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft Lübeck, March 26th to April 19th 1985, on the occasion of the 100th birthday
  • Werkstatt Galerie - Alte Schule Grebenhagen, June 9th to July 7th, 2007, drawings by Hans Peters

Working in public collections

Honors

Originally by Carl Peters named Petersweg in Schwäbisch Gmünder district Rehnenhof-Wetzgau was rededicated in September 2012 on Hans Peters.

literature

  • Hans Peters. Under the spell of the real. In: Abram Enns: Art and Citizenship - The controversial twenties in Lübeck. Lübeck 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0571-8 , p. 233ff.
  • Silke Thoemmes: Hans Peters. In: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Volume 11. Neumünster 2000, ISBN 3-529-02640-9 , pp. 312-314.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Will Carl become Hans Peters? Councilors decide on the namesake on Rehnenhof , in Gmünder Tagespost of September 22, 2012
  2. ^ Criticism of the culture of remembrance. Accusation: change of name to Petersweg too little publicly discussed - but councils agree , in Gmünder Tagespost of September 26, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist, painter and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Jauer , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1978
Place of death Bargfeld-Stegen , Schleswig-Holstein, Germany