Hans Völker (painter)

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Hans Völker (born September 24, 1889 in Hanover , † February 18, 1960 ibid) was a German drawing teacher , art teacher , high school teacher , lecturer and painter .

Life

Hans Völker grew up in the early days of the German Empire . After graduating from school, he first studied in his hometown at the local arts and crafts school and in Berlin at the Royal Art School with Lovis Corinth, among others . In 1912 he passed his state examination as an "academic drawing teacher".

After graduating, Völker worked almost continuously and until 1954 at various high schools in Hanover. During the First World War , however, he did military service in 1917 and 1918.

During the Weimar Republic , towards the end of 1927 , the photographer Ernst Schwitters took a group photo in which his father Kurt Schwitters can be seen in his Hanover studio working on the brochure for the Zinnoberfest . The photograph also shows Carl Buchheister , the seated Käte Steinitz , Hans Völker, Reinecke Altenau and Rudolf Kindermann . The photograph later became part of the Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Foundation owned by the Sprengel Museum Hannover .

Also in 1927 and 1928, Hans Völker held a teaching position at the School of Applied Arts in Hanover.

As a painter, Hans Völker initially worked mainly as a portrait and still life painter . Only in later years did he mainly turn to landscape painting . One of Völker's early works, however, is the oil painting of Georgengarten , created in Hanover in the middle of World War I in 1916 , which the city of Hanover later acquired. The work is one of the few views of the Georgengarten from the time before the city bought the Great Garden ; previously " Herrenhausen was hardly a motif and after that it was mainly the restored garden". Posthumously was Völkers George Garden in the Hanover Association of Artists in the Historical Museum Hannover organized in 1985 group exhibition Hannover in the image. Artists of the 20th century see Hanover and Hanoverians on display.

Erika Völker

In connection with Hans Völker, Erika Völker or Voelker, born in 1917, is also mentioned, "the widow of a Hanoverian art collector" who, through her husband's work, got to know numerous artists of the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the post-war period, such as Ernst Thoms , Erich Wegner , Carl Buchheister and Grethe Juergens . Erika Völker was available on August 12, 1992 as a contemporary witness and conversation partner for the text Art and Politics written by Ines Katenhusen . Hanover's struggles with modernity in the Weimar Republic

Well-known works (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ludwig Zerull (Red.): Hanover in the picture. Artists of the 20th century see Hanover and Hanoverians. An exhibition by the Hanover Art Association in the Hanover Historical Museum. March 21 - June 9, 1985 , illustrated booklet accompanying the exhibition of the same name, Hanover: Hannoverscher Künstlerverein , 1985, pp. 24, 61
  2. ↑ Megan R. Luke: Kurt Schwitters. space, image, exile (in English), Chicago, Illinois; London: University of Chicago Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-226-08518-0 and ISBN 0-226-08518-X , fig. 34; preview by Google Books
  3. ^ Ines Katenhusen: Art and Politics. Hanover's confrontation with modernity in the Weimar Republic (= Hanoverian Studies, series of publications by the Hanover City Archives , Volume 5), also a dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art , Hanover: Hahn, 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , p. 761
  4. ↑ Compare the yearbook of the Wilhelm Busch Society , issues 1–14, 1932, pp. 1, 111 and others; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Völker, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German drawing teacher, art teacher, high school teacher, lecturer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1960
Place of death Hanover