Hans Szym

Hans Szym (born December 27, 1893 in Berlin-Spandau as Johannes Szymkowiak, † April 16, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German painter .

biography

Hans Szym was born in Berlin-Spandau in 1893. At the age of six he was enrolled in the seven-class municipal community school and went through it completely. His teachers recognized his artistic talent and recommended an apprenticeship as a lithographer , which he began in 1910 and finished in 1914. In order to give his own creativity more leeway, he attended courses at various arts and crafts schools . In 1914 he took up a position as a draftsman at the Märkische Elektrizitätswerke . On August 8, 1914, however, he was drafted into the 3rd New Prussian Pioneer Battalion in Spandau. As a result of illness, he was assigned to the bullet factory within the Spandau Fortress after eight weeks , where he was trained as a bullet master. On November 2, he was deployed in this function with the Magdeburg Hussar Regiment No. 10 in Stendal , before the General Command sent him on on January 26, 1916. On July 1, 1917, he was drafted into the 36th Reserve Infantry Regiment and assigned to the Magdeburg marching orders, which led him to the French front . There he was involved in the breakthrough battle at Chemin des Dames . In fact, the Revolution Day November 9, 1918 is no longer the army belonging, was officially dismissed on 27 November 1918. From 1919 to 1921 he studied art at the educational establishment of Decorative Arts Berlin (now the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin ) with Professor Doeppler and professor Böhm and from 1920 to 1924 as a studio student of the painter Johann Walter-Kurau . After an extensive study trip through Italy in 1924, which served to study the old masters , especially in Naples , he set up his own studio in Berlin and began to establish himself locally as a freelance artist around 1927/28 .

From 1928 to 1932 he exhibited, a. a. in the Academy of Arts (Berlin) , in the Kunstverein Hannover and in the Kunstverein in Hamburg . In 1929 he was accepted into the Berlin Secession , from then on he signed exclusively with “Szym”. In April 1930 a request for financial support was rejected and his applications for the great state prize of the Prussian Academy of the Arts were initially unsuccessful. Finally, in 1932, Szym was proposed for the Grand State Prize, which he was no longer awarded in 1933 for political reasons. During the National Socialist era , Szym was banned from exhibiting. Some of his works were confiscated by the government and his studio was controlled.

Szym began a decisive analysis of color theory . In 1946 he took part in the first post-war art show by Berlin artists in Berlin-Weißensee . From 1948 until its dissolution in 1949, he held the office of district representative of the Association for the Protection of Visual Artists, Berlin, in the British sector part of Spandau. In March 1950 Szym was one of the founding members of the professional association of visual artists in Berlin. He was a member of the Berlin Artists' Association for only one and a half years (summer 1950 to January 1952). Between 1951 and 1961 he took part in almost all the art exhibitions of the Ring and the jury-free art exhibitions in Berlin and Leverkusen . From 1959 to 1961 he was also represented in the major Berlin art exhibitions.

Hans Szym died in April 1961 in Berlin-Spandau . The estate of Szym is u. a. in the Spandau art collection.

Web links

• Biography on exilarchiv.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spandau's art treasures are presented in the citadel , Berliner Morgenpost from December 30, 2010 (accessed on September 18, 2013)
2. ↑ Szym, Hans , exil-archiv (accessed on March 4, 2014)
3. ↑ Spandauer Kunstbesitz ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , zitty (accessed September 18, 2013)