Hans Thuar

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Portrait of Hans Thuar by August Macke , 1903

Hans Thuar (born October 29, 1887 in Treppendorf , † October 24, 1945 in Langensalza ) was a German painter. He mainly painted landscapes and is attributed to the Rhenish Expressionism .

life and work

Since Thuar's father became the head of an insurance company, the family had to move to Cologne in 1892 . There he attended school from 1893 to 1907 and met August Macke at Easter 1897 , with whom he had a lifelong friendship. On May 12, 1899, he was run over by a horse-drawn tram and lost both legs. Macke visited him every day in the hospital and made sure that he could regain his courage to face life. They made their first attempts at painting and stayed in contact even after Macke moved to Bonn .

Hans Thuar: Messdorf (1911)
Hans Thuar: felled tree (1912)

In 1903 Thuar's first oil painting was created and he took lessons from Professor Wegelin in Cologne. From 1907 to 1908 he attended the Art Academy in Düsseldorf in order to continue his education. In 1911 he took part in the Cologne Secession for the first time . Further group exhibitions followed: the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne in 1912 , the Cölner Secession in 1913 , the Rheinischer Expressionisten exhibition in Bonn and the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin. After the death of his friend in the first weeks of the First World War, he did not paint for years. Only after the war did he return to painting. His most important creative period lasted from 1920 to 1926. After that, he was less active as an artist and only at longer intervals.

During this time, Thuar devoted himself very intensively to research and research on all topics relating to essential oils and aromatherapy . For this he traded under the name "HATERA" (Hans Thuar Ramersdorf) or also under "RA-Laboratorium" and developed and sold mainly the Cerapin product, which he developed on the basis of essential oils and other waxes, which was available in three variants.

On October 18, 1944, his house in Ramersdorf was destroyed and he was evacuated to Schwarza near Rudolstadt . A few months after the end of the war he died in Bad Langensalza.

With his girlfriend Else, Thuar had a daughter, Hilde-Vera. On October 31, 1913, he married Henriette Rasch (1890–1977), with whom he had three daughters. Their daughter Gisela (* 1914) married Wolfgang Macke (1913–1975), the son of August Macke, who later published the first monograph on Hans Thuar and organized his first solo exhibition. Dedicated to his memory, the director of the Kunstmuseum Bonn annually awards the Hans Thuar Prize to an artist living in the Bonn region. The Thuarstrasse in Bonn is dedicated to him.

literature

  • Hans-Georg Schmidt: Hans Thuar (1887-1945) a Rhenish expressionist. In: Lübben home calendar. 1995, pp. 70–75 (with two illustrations, one of which is a portrait).
  • Thuar, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 106 .
  • Thuar, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 4 : Q-U . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1958, p. 443-444 .
  • Käthe Augenstein (photos) u. a .: Hans Thuar. Paintings, watercolors, graphics. City Kunstsammlungen Bonn, March 23 to May 2, 1965. Municipal art collections, Bonn 1965.
  • Wolfgang Macke: Hans Thuar. Bongers, Recklinghausen 1969.
  • Ute Linnert (catalog editing): Rhenish Expressionism, e.g. Hans Thuar. February 4 to March 4, 1979, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren. Düren 1979 (supplement to the monograph Wolfgang Macke: Hans Thuar . Recklinghausen 1969).
  • Dorothea Eimert : Hans Thuar . In: The Rhenish Expressionists. August Macke and his painter friends. Verlag Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen 1979, ISBN 3-7647-0316-4 , pp. 391-409 and 437-438.
  • Ute Eggeling: Hans Thuar. 1887-1945. A Rhenish expressionist. Bongers, Recklinghausen 1984, ISBN 3-7647-0361-X , also: Dissertation, Münster (Westphalia) 1983 (with catalog raisonné: 206 oil paintings, 78 watercolors, 81 drawings, 14 woodcuts).
  • Katharina Schmidt (catalog editor): Hans Thuar on his 100th birthday. Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, in the house on the Redoute , December 10, 1987-17. January 1988 . Municipal Art Museum, Bonn 1987.
  • Burkhard Leismann and Margarethe Jochimsen (eds.): Hans Thuar. August-Macke-Haus Bonn April 23, 1995 - June 5, 1995, Kunst-Museum Ahlen June 11, 1995 - July 30, 1995. Kettler, Bönen [1995?], ISBN 3-925608-28-1 .
  • Ina Ewers-Schultz: Hans Thuar - artistic beginnings and first high points 1907 to 1914. In: Magdalena M. Moeller (Ed.): August Macke and the Rhenish Expressionists. Works from the Kunstmuseum Bonn and other collections. Hirmer, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7774-9540-9 , pp. 331-342; also pp. 359, 375 and 384.
  • In the garden of art. Homage to Hans Thuar on his 125th birthday. Association August-Macke-Haus, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-942423-02-1 .

Web links

Commons : Hans Thuar  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Thuar - Not just a painter
  2. ↑ Thuarstraße in Bonner Straße cadastral
personal data
SURNAME Thuar, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the Rhenish Expressionism
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Treppendorf, today in Lübben
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1945
Place of death Bad Langensalza