Hans Seyppel

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The old level crossing at Haus Meer in Büderich , 1926

Hans Seyppel (born October 10, 1886 in Düsseldorf, † 1945) was a German painter.

Life

The son of the painter, draftsman and writer Carl Maria Seyppel and his wife Helene, née Brunstering, grew up with four siblings in Düsseldorf. After the father recognized his son's talent early on, he studied at the Düsseldorf Academy under Claus Meyer , who had succeeded Wilhelm Sohn in 1895 , Carl Ederer and Willy Spatz . When the First World War broke out , he was drafted as a soldier, deployed as a company commander and wounded several times. After returning to Düsseldorf, he continued his education as a master student of Franz Kiederich until 1920 .

Hans Seyppel documented the war effort in France , Flanders , Galicia and Russia in 1914/18 in numerous sketchbooks . In search of a motif, he went on study trips to the Lower Rhine, the Netherlands and Waldeck in Hesse ("Landscape near Arolsen", 1930). Further trips took him to Italy and Spain . In early compositions of figurative scenes he was at least thematically based on the tradition of the " Düsseldorfer Malerschule ", such as in "Arrival of the Post Coach before the Village Inn" (1922), while in the painting "The dying forest" (two woodcutters at the Sawing up tree trunks, around 1930/35) with hard contours and subdued colors turned to the factual realism of the time. In addition to pure, contrasting landscape images and figurative compositions, he created partial views of Düsseldorf's old town and its surroundings, such as "Corpus Christi procession in Ratinger Strasse", "Schattiger Garten" and "The old Benrath Bridge", "Altwasser am Rhein" and "Geborgene Stadt" , Portraits (“Mein Freund Otto”, 1930) and depictions of horses. From the 30s - on a public order and together with Willy Reetz - also murals. With Hanns Herkendell (1886–1958) he designed the commemorative publication “25 Years of Michelwerke ”.

In 1940 Hans Seyppel was drafted again as captain and war painter. He died in action during a bomb attack on Düsseldorf in the last days of the war.

Work (selection)

  • KVM Düsseldorf: "Portrait of Carl Maria Seyppel" (oil).
  • Düsseldorf, city archive. Sketches and watercolors.
  • Munich, Bayerische Staatsgalerie: “The port of Toulon”, 1942.

Fonts

  • Text template for the performance “Finale”, May celebration of the KVM, April 30, 1927: Düsseldorf, Malkastenarchiv.
  • HS (about yourself), In: Communications of the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia. XI, 1940, issue 1, pp. 7-8, with photogr. Portrait and ill .: “Benrath Bridge in Düsseldorf”.

literature

  • Seyppel, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936.
  • Emanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. n. ed., Volume IX, 1976.
  • Seyppel, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958.
  • Siegfried Weiß : Seyppel, Hans. In: Hans Paffrath , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Volume 3. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3011-0 , pp. 281-282; 2 illustrations.
  • Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): Sculptor and painter in the countries on the Rhine. Düsseldorf 1913, p. 172.
  • Sabine Schroyen (arrangement): Sources on the history of the artists' association Malkasten. A center of bourgeois art and culture in Düsseldorf since 1848. Cologne 1992.
  • Jan Wellem: Monthly for Düsseldorf, Niederrhein and Bergisches Land. Düsseldorf 1909, p. 47: Fig. “Level crossing at Haus Meer”. - Jan Wellem 15, 1930, illus., P. 247: "39ers on the march", illus., P. 348: "The Rhine at the Heerdter Loch".
  • Velhagen & Klasings monthly books. 39 / II (1924/25), p. 119, color illus., P. 96; 49 / II (1934/35), p. 470, color illus., P. 472.

Web links

Commons : Hans Seyppel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Probably in March 1945 in Düsseldorf
  2. ↑ both: Ill .: Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. Volume 3, pp. 281, 282.
  3. ↑ Düsseldorf 1931; Text: P. Schröder.
personal data
SURNAME Seyppel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Dusseldorf