Hans Speidel (painter)

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Hans Speidel (born May 5, 1895 in Polokwane , South Africa ; † September 24, 1976 in Berlin ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Hans Speidel was born on May 5, 1895 in Polokwane (formerly Pietersburg), South Africa. In 1913 he received training in an advertising agency as a graphic designer and in 1914 he switched to the Berlin School of Applied Arts . 1915–1918 military service and English captivity, from 1920 work for publishers with book designs and illustrations, freelance work as a painter, friendship with Willy Jaeckel . In 1943 his Berlin studio and all of his works were destroyed by bombs. After military service and Soviet imprisonment 1944–1947, he was a lecturer at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin-Weißensee from 1947–1948 and then from 1948–1965 lecturer at the Heinrich Zernack School for free painting and graphics in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Emser Strasse. He died on September 24, 1976 in Berlin-Grunewald.

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Hans Speidel insisted on only painting what he could see, he felt obliged to his counterpart. The objects, in and of themselves simple, even unimportant, are not over-interpreted, but neither are they used as set pieces for picture compositions. He was attracted by the combination of materials and colors - a piece of newspaper with two smoked mackerel on it; unobtrusive hints of something to be seen first. The suburban landscapes in Berlin, which he painted on site in the 1960s, fascinated him in their inconspicuousness, so he neither trivialized them into “painterly motifs”, nor did he make them sad. A small still life, “Lucky Strike”, painted in 1947, is quite uncomplicated and not without a slight irony, and it touches on something of the general Americanism of those years. He said to his students: "I'll show you how to paint. What you make of it is up to you". He was a very well-read man who introduced his students to world literature. Most of his work was destroyed in a night of bombing in Berlin in 1943. The paintings he had sold until then have been lost. The estate managed by Prof. Günter Ohlwein in Berlin includes:

  • Oil paintings, pastels, watercolors, drawings and sketches.
  • Folder with 17 colored drawings for "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" by Thornton Wilder
  • Folder with 21 woodcuts to poems by François Villon
  • Portfolio with 16 woodcuts for "The Plowman and Death" by Johannes von Saaz
  • Portfolio with 35 watercolors for "The Banished of the Islands" by Joseph Conrad
  • Portfolio with 10 woodcuts for "The Proverbs of Fu-kiang" by Paul Gurk
  • Portfolio with 16 etchings for “The Centaur” by Maurice de Guérin, transferred by Rilke

Exhibitions

  • 1978 Taube Gallery in Berlin as exhibition No. 41: "Pictures and Drawings 1947-1970"
  • 1995 AGO Galerie Wolfgang Thiede: City / landscape pictures and still lifes

The Berlinische Galerie owns the oil painting “Berliner Vorstadt” and the oil painting “Villa in Traberner Strasse” on loan.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Märtens (Ed.): Hans Speidel. Pictures & drawings 1947–1970. Catalog for the exhibition in the Galerie Taube Berlin October 6th - November 12th 1978. Berlin 1978.
personal data
SURNAME Speidel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Polokwane , South Africa
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1976
Place of death Berlin