Hans Starcke
Karl Albert Hans Starcke (born June 15, 1875 in Jena ; † December 18, 1943 there ) was a German artist and poet. He worked under the pseudonym Hans Huckebein (after 1867, first published picture story Hans Huckebein, the Jonah of Wilhelm Busch ).
Life
Karl Albert Hans Starcke came from a respected merchant family and had six siblings. He probably completed his training at the art school in Weimar . After that he is said to have lived in Kaufbeuren for a long time , as well as in Allstedt , where his brother Paul Starcke worked in a pharmacy. Since 1906 he was listed in Jena's address book as a painter. His field of work was varied, such as artists, painters and graphic artists, but also local poets. His first poems were published in 1911 in the Jenaische Zeitung (Neuenhahn Verlag) under his pseudonym Hans Huckebein. At the age of 52 he married Marie Kittel, who was 19 years his junior. Starcke died in Jena in 1943.
Works
- Around 1900 various series of postcards ( lithographs ) with satirical and amorous subjects appeared. The influence of Art Nouveau is evident
- During the First World War, various postcards with poems and soldiers' humor appeared
- In 1930 a series of postcards from the competition for pictures "Who knows the homeland?" Of the Jenaische Zeitung was issued
- In 1918 he published under his pseudonym Hans Huckebein in the publishing house Robert Peitz Nachf. , Camburg , a volume of poetry with the title "Happy Verses".
- Paintings from Jena and its surroundings are privately owned. Numerous pictures that were given to the Jena City Museum were destroyed during the bombing of Jena in World War II.
- Cover design of individual books by August Ludwig in Ilmthuringian dialect , such as B. Spackkuchen , muskräppelchen
- Emergency money series of the Fuchsturm community from 1921, print: Johannes Arndt, Jena
literature
- Winfried Koksch: Hans Starcke - A Jena artist and local poet , 2011. ISBN 978-3-00-036758-8
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Starcke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Images of the emergency money series made by Hans Starcke, alias Hans Huckebein, of the Fuchsturm community Jena, 1921
- Website with a poem by Hans Starcke, alias Hans Huckebein , Jenaische Zeitung from 10./11. May 1931
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Starcke, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Starcke, Karl Albert Hans; Huckebein, Hans (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1943 |
| Place of death | Jena |