Hans Toepper

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Hans Toepper (born September 9, 1885 as Johannes Otto Toepper in Briesen , West Prussia ; † August 11, 1956 in Munich ) was a German landscape , genre and portrait painter and graphic artist from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Toepper initially received an artistic training at the Danzig School of Applied Arts. From 1904 to 1912 he was a student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Albert males , Peter Janssen the Elder , Adolf Munzer and Willy Spatz his teachers. From 1912 he lived in Munich . During the First World War he was recruited as a volunteer. In 1920 he joined the DAP or NSDAP . Toepper was also a member of the federal Oberland and as such received the blood order of the NSDAP. In 1923 he took part in the Hitler putsch in Munich.

As an illustrator he created representations for postcards , for example the Ring des Nibelungen , Schiller's Glocke and Wilhelm Tell , as a portrait painter he created portraits of Carl Benz , Gottlieb Daimler , Erich Ludendorff , Paul von Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler . In particular, he made an appearance through Nazi art . His painting People in Danger was presented at the Great German Art Exhibition in 1937 . His oil painting Deutsche Symphonie , a monumental allegorical group of figures from 1938, which idealized the ethnic and national socialist idea of ​​the national community and was shown in the Great German Art Exhibition in 1939, was bought by Hitler for 9,000 marks. He was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition in 1940 with the picture Der Judas . Several of his pictures are in the collection of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus .

literature

  • Edgar Schindler: Hans Toepper, a fighter for the Third Reich and its art . In: The picture. Monthly magazine for German art in the past and present , CF Müller, Karlsruhe, 7th year, issue 5 (May 1937), p. 158 f.
  • Toepper, 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.
  • Mortimer G. Davidson: Art in Germany 1933–1945. A Scientific Encyclopedia of Art in the Third Reich . Grabert, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 978-3-8784-7096-0 , Volume II / 2, p. 438.
  • Toepper, Hans . In: Horst Ludwig : Munich painter in the 19th century . Volume 6: Landschreiber, Max - Zintl, August . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1994, p. 419 f.
  • Toepper, Hans . In: Marlies Schmidt: The "Great German Art Exhibition 1937 in the House of German Art in Munich". Reconstruction and analysis . Dissertation University of Halle, Halle (Saale) 2012, p. 842 ( title recording ).
  • Toepper, Hans . In: Manfred Neureiter (Hrsg.): Lexicon of ex-libris artists . 5th edition, Konstanz 2018, ISBN 978-3-96409-034-8 , p. 598 ( Google Books ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  2. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall : The blood order of the NSDAP . Verlag Militaria-Archiv Klaus D. Patzwall, Hamburg 1985, p. 23, no. 171
  3. ↑ Marlies Schmidt: The "Great German Art Exhibition 1937 in the House of German Art in Munich". Reconstruction and analysis . Halle (Saale) 2012, p. 57
  4. ^ Deutsche Symphonie , data sheet in the portal gdk-research.de , accessed on March 24, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Toepper, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toepper, Johannes Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape, genre and portrait painter as well as graphic artist from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Briesen , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1956
Place of death Munich