Hans Speckter

Hans Speckter around 1880

Hans Speckter (born July 27, 1848 in Hamburg , † October 29, 1888 in Lübeck ) was a German illustrator, draftsman and author.

biography

Hans Speckter was the son of Otto Speckter and the nephew of Erwin Speckter . After initial training, Speckter learned from Louis Asher and Martin Gensler from Thumann and Ferdinand Pauwels . After several trips through Germany and the trip to Italy in 1876/77, he returned to Hamburg. The pictures that were shaped by his trip to Italy are among the outstanding works of his work. In his productivity he was very diverse and created the cardboard boxes for the curtain of the city theater in Hamburg, glass windows for the local patriotic society . He illustrated the house book of German poets since Claudius (edited by Theodor Storm , Leipzig 1875) and Walter Scott's Guy Mannering (1875). He was an art reviewer for the Hamburg correspondent . The plan to found a museum for Hamburg history goes back to him , which was finally implemented under Otto Lauffer . He was also a member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

Sick of melancholy, he died in the Lübeck State Sanatorium .

Museum property

Exhibitions (selection)

2019: Hamburg School - The 19th Century Rediscovered (April 12 to July 14), Hamburger Kunsthalle

literature

Rosa Schapire : Hans Speckter - a Hamburg painter 1848–1888. Saucke, Wienhausen 2004 (new edition)
Rosa Schapire (Ed.): Hans Speckters letters from Italy. With an introduction by the editor, 1910 ( digitized version )
Rosa Schapire: From Theodor Storm's letters to Hans Speckter. In: Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde 1910, pp. 39–49
Walter Hettche: Theodor Storm - Otto Speckter Theodor Storm - Hans Speckter correspondence. Critical Edition, 1991, ISBN 978-3-503-03024-8
Hans Speckter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 347-348 .
L. u .: Speckter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 85-88.
Helmut Börsch-Supan: Speckter, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 641 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

^ Hans Speckter: The necessity of a museum for Hamburg history. Lecture given at the Verein f (ür) Hamb (ur) history on January 7th (and others) and at the Architects and Engineers Association on January 16, 1884. Hamburg, L. Voss, 1884. pp. 1–32.

Web links

Commons : Hans Speckter - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Hans Speckter in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Speckter, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German illustrator, draftsman and author
DATE OF BIRTH	July 27, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	October 29, 1888
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] Hans Speckter: The necessity of a museum for Hamburg history. Lecture given at the Verein f (ür) Hamb (ur) history on January 7th (and others) and at the Architects and Engineers Association on January 16, 1884. Hamburg, L. Voss, 1884. pp. 1–32.