Hans Troschel

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Hans Troschel (* 1899 in Berlin ; † 1979 in Lethe / Ahlhorn ) was a German painter who spent much of his life in Albania .

After the end of the First World War , Troschel studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar , later at the German University for Physical Education and in 1925/26 at the Breslau Art Academy . Then he worked as an art teacher at high schools. In 1925 he created six woodcuts in which he depicted his war experiences, and published them under the title Inferno . His other works often depicted death and decay in drastic form. In autumn 1936 he published the book "Am See der Milane" in Szczecin "Verlag Leon Sauniers Buchhandlung", which contains 100 illustrations (photos, oil paintings, pen drawings) of him. In 1937 his first marriage failed, and in the autumn a number of his works were confiscated as “ Degenerate Art ”. He then fled via Italy to Albania, where he subsequently stayed illegally . He had neither a passport nor money. He wandered the country on foot, enjoyed traditional Albanian hospitality, made contacts and made numerous sketches. He painted drawings and oil paintings and made a plan for the establishment of a national park. He also painted the panel for a new church next to the Franciscan monastery in Shkodra . The picture has been lost since the church was closed and turned into a warehouse in 1967 as part of Enver Hoxha's atheist campaign .

After the Italian occupation of Albania , he received an order from the Ministry of Education to document traditional craft techniques and equipment. He created numerous panels on which Albanian house types, household items, musical instruments, agricultural implements, rafts , bridges, mills, felt production, blacksmithing, etc. a. were documented. In 1940 he returned to Germany and was immediately arrested. After serving a year and a half in prison, he was drafted into the Air Force . After the Italians withdrew, he was one of the first German soldiers to occupy Albania. Due to his knowledge of the language and the country, he soon received a special status. He deserted shortly before the German troops withdrew in 1944.

After the Communists came to power , he was arrested. Torture, imprisonment, labor camps and solitary confinement followed. During his stay in prison he gave drawing lessons to the then twelve-year-old Albanian painter Spiro Vllahu , whose father ran the prison kiosk . He was only able to return to West Germany in 1954 . He settled in Lethe near Ahlhorn and worked from 1956 to 1970 as an art teacher at the grammar school in Ahlhorn and at the Clemens August grammar school in Cloppenburg .

literature

  • Susanne Dell: Kosovo. Inform-Travel-Remember . 3. Edition. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-9179-8 , pp. 117-118 .
  • Karl Reddemann: Painter in "Heaven and Hell". Biographical approach to Hans Troschel. Painter and graphic artist 1899–1979 . Regensberg, Münster 1999, ISBN 978-3-7923-0735-9 .
  • Karl Reddemann: Hans Troschel: a German artist and his Albania . In: Werner Daum (Ed.): Albania - between cross and crescent . Pinguin, Innsbruck 1998, ISBN 3-7016-2461-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Troschel has always been an idiosyncratic person", works by the former art teacher can be seen in the Clemens-August-Gymnasium , Nordwestzeitung, May 24, 2005
personal data
SURNAME Troschel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 1979
Place of death Ahlhorn (Grossenkneten)