Hans Thiemann

Hans Wilhelm Fritz Thiemann (born April 18, 1910 in Langendreer , † July 28, 1977 in Hamburg ) was a German painter .

Life

In April 1930 Hans Thiemann went to the Bauhaus in Dessau. A few months before the Bauhaus closed, he was given his Bauhaus diploma on April 1, 1933 by the two Bauhaus masters Klee and Kandinsky after successfully completing his studies in the free painting class . At the Bauhaus he also met his future wife, the photographer Elsa Franke ( Elsa Thiemann ). Thiemann subsequently moved to Berlin and lived in a studio apartment at Ludwigkirchstrasse 10a in Berlin-Wilmersdorf during the entire period of National Socialism .

Pen pals with the Swiss architect Paul Matthias Naeff and Wassily Kandinsky, who had lived near Paris since 1933, helped Thiemann to endure the isolation forced by National Socialism and the resulting depression. In the meantime, Thiemann had starved himself to 47 kilograms and so he was dismissed as 'completely unfit' in the spring of 1940 when he was examined for the first time. He was able to improve his financial situation with a few realistic portraits and landscapes, which he deliberately did not sign.

When the Nazi era and the war were over, his situation changed immediately. He was able to publish numerous drawings in the art magazines 'Athena', 'Ulenspiegel' and 'Der Insulaner'. As early as September 1945 he took part in the second group exhibition at the Gerd Rosen gallery , which had been opened only a month earlier by the antiquarian Gerd Rosen, the painter Heinz Trökes and the consul Max Leon Flemming at 115 Kurfürstendamm as the first post-war German gallery . He was also involved in the 'Fantasten exhibition' shown in the Gerd Rosen gallery in 1946. This exhibition caused a real scandal. Stephen Alexander, Hannah Höch , Heinz Trökes, Hans Uhlmann and Mac Zimmermann were also involved . In 1954, Thiemann received the Berlin Art Prize and, after a guest professorship in 1954, he was offered a professorship at the Hamburg Art School in 1960 , where he headed the elementary class from 1963 with short interruptions until 1976.

Many of his pictures are lost and destroyed during the war. The artistic and documentary estate was handed over to the Bauhaus Archive Berlin in 1982 by the heiress Eljo Volkmann . These include 91 paintings as well as numerous sketches and drawings.

literature

• Christian Beutler (ed.): Twelve letters from Wassily Kandinsky to Hans Thiemann 1933-1939 , West German Yearbook for Art History, vol XXXVIII, Cologne 1976.
• Will Grohmann: Hans Thiemann . The work of art , 2nd year (1948).
• Lothar Klünner: Lukullische Gegenwelt or The ironic dream landscapes of Hans Thiemann , in: Jeanne Mammen: Hans Thiemann , exhibition catalog, Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin 1979.
• Markus Krause, Peter Hahn : Art above the Real, Hans Thiemann and the Berlin Fantast . Bauhaus Archive , Catalog, Berlin 2000.
• Birgit Ahrens: Thiemann, Hans . In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary . Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns , Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 465.

Web links

• Hans Thiemann on artnet