Hans Wagner (painter, 1902)
Hans Wagner (born May 29, 1902 in Wiesbaden , † February 22, 1980 in Mainz ) was a German painter .
life and work
The artistic place of activity of Hans Wagner was mainly in Wiesbaden, Westendstrasse 8 in his parents' house. The father Ludwig Wagner was a sculptor and plasterer, his grandfather Karl August Wagner was a sculptor in Wiesbaden. Hans Wagner attended the arts and crafts schools in Wiesbaden and Giebichenstein ( Halle (Saale) ), took painting lessons from Paul Dahlen , began as a bookseller and worked in various professions until 1939, including as a designer of hat and fashion jewelry.
In 1926 Wagner became a member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists in Germany . From 1939 to 1967 he worked as a scientific draftsman at the State Office for Cultural History and Soil Antiquities in Wiesbaden (director Ferdinand Kutsch 1927–1956 and Helmut Schoppa 1955–1972) study trips took him to European countries and North Africa. In 1945 he was a co-founder of the Ring of Visual Artists . From 1950 he took part annually in all exhibitions of Gruppe 50 Wiesbaden . Wagner was also a co-founder of this group.
1920s and 30s
Late Cubist compositions are characteristic of Wagner's painting in the early years from 1927. In the phase at the end of the 20s he created his dark pictures, in which a pale blossom mysteriously lights up, reminiscent of Novalis with his "blue flower".
In between there were always oil paintings of landscapes, flower pictures and views of urban squares and buildings (town hall in Marburg, farm in the Wachau 1932).
Hans Wagner was friends with the painter Adolf Presber , who made a portrait of him in 1923 (owned by the heirs Harald Wagner).
1940s and 50s
Then came a period of pure abstraction, romantic in its basic mood, flat and like a mosaic. Wagner's endeavor in his painting was to keep the secrets in everything, in nature, not to unveil or reveal anything, but to suggest. This is how he created his animal pictures, animals with long necks, animals that have a connection with nature. It is landscapes, it is things that are far from today's sober world that try to keep the secret. And when you look at them, when you see the colors, everything grows together from a wonderful evening landscape of firs, trees transformed into figures, into animals. Hans Wagner tried to create a large unity, to preserve something that in earlier epochs actually moved painters to create. Then the mystical animal figures ("moon animals") are created with flute playing.
Wagner's artistic work was also influenced by his annual stays in the Taunus / Rheingau since 1952 in his brother's weekend house in the Wisper district (Heidenrod) . During this time, he kept making sketches and watercolors of these landscapes.
1960s and 70s
During this time, Wagner experimented with different materials: paper, wax, acrylic paints and collages and still lifes were created. In the last years of his work he painted on foil (glass painting) with intense colors. Many, very colorful, different types of flower compositions were created.
Works
Hans Wagner's works can be found in Munich, Wiesbaden and Bremen, among others, as well as with collectors in Bad Godesberg and Bad Honnef, but also in France, England, the USA and Japan. The Wiesbaden Museum and the Wiesbaden Art Ark Association also own some pictures.
Exhibitions
- 1927 Group exhibition, first animal pictures in pastel
- 1928/29 exhibition with Wiesbaden artists
- 1930 Participation with 3 pictures in an exhibition in Berlin
- 1931 Participation in the exhibition at Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
- 1932 Participation in the State Prize Exhibition of the Academy in Berlin developed a connection with Mr. Hildebrand Gurlitt Berlin and subsequently a connection with Wilhelm Uhde Paris and an invitation to Paris
- 1933 first collective exhibition in the museum by Mr. Schenk von Schweinsberg, first exhibition of blue carpets
- 1933 Exhibition in Marburg with (helping) artists, blue carpets
- 1934 Exhibition of the Marburg Art Institute, pencil drawings and landscapes
- 1945 Exhibition at Rathausstrasse with the Wiesbaden painters Otto Ritschl , Alo Altripp , Weber, Erbach (patronage Mayor Redlhammer) Hans Heinrich Redlhammer
- 1946 Exhibition of the 'Ring' in the Nassauer Hof Wiesbaden
- 1947 Founding of Galerie Hillesheimer with Ludwig Hillesheimer, 1st collective exhibition with Jawlensky , Otto Ritschl, Alo Altripp and Hans Wagner
- 1948 Exhibition of the University Museum Marburg with 60 works by Professor Richard Hamann
- 1948 Participation in an exhibition in Kassel, Heidelberg and Wiesbaden
- 1948 spring exhibition "Ring bildender Künstler" Wiesbaden
- 1949 Spring exhibition "Ring bildender Künstler" Wiesbaden Nassauer Hof
- 1949 2nd collective exhibition in the Hillesheimer Gallery, Wiesbaden; further investments in Kassel, Mainz, Stuttgart
- 1950 New painting Rhein-Main 1950 (Nassauischer Kunstverein)
- 1950 "Wiesbaden 1950" artist competition "Hans Wagner Prize" in a cafe on Wilhelmstrasse "
- 1950 Participation in the Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath
- 1950 Exhibition in the Amerikahaus
- 1950 Wiesbaden courier conversation with Hans Wagner, clear form, romantic content .; Author: TPH
- 1952 Christmas exhibition (Nassauischer Kunstverein)
- 1951 Participation in the exhibition 'Freie Darmstädter Künstler' on Mathildenhöhe
- 1956 5th collective exhibition of Wiesbaden artists
- 1961 Wiesbaden artist (Nassau Art Association)
- 1962 Collective exhibition of Wiesbaden artists in the museum for their 60th birthday (Nassauischer Kunstverein)
- 1963 Exhibition "Gruppe 50" in Kiel
- 1962–1970 Participation in exhibitions in the museum, fountain colonnades
- 1964 Graphic arts from Wiesbaden artists (Nassau Art Association)
- 1969 Wiesbaden painter in the fountain colonnade
- 1970 painterly competition with the problems of time; Spring exhibition of Gruppe 50, Gruppe Real and Ring
- 1972 5 Wiesbaden painters, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary (Nassauer Kunstverein), 3 separate rooms, overview of pictures by Hans Wagner
- 1975 Anniversary exhibition Group 50 in the Clinic for Diagnostics
- 1977 Wiesbadener Kurier (June 16/17, 1977) page 9; Individual solutions and comprehensive appearances; Author: Bruno Russ
- 1978 Exhibition of fountain colonnade
- 1981 Wiesbaden artist from 3 generations
- 1981 Memorial exhibition Villa Clementine, Wiesbaden
Web links
* Web presence of Kunstarche Wiesbaden eV
"Swell"
- Catalog Nassauischer Kunstverein, exhibition painting XX. Century Nassauer Hof, September – November 1946
- Catalog University Museum Marburg, exhibition May / June 1948
- Catalog Galerie Hillesheimer, Wiesbaden, Walkmühlstrasse 1, 1949
- Catalog Group 50 Wiesbaden, exhibition in Kiel April / May 1963
- Various newspaper articles on the exhibitions from 1948-1981 (2-15)
- Correspondence Gallery Gurlitt
- Klaus Feilke 1992 (self-published): Hans Wagner commemorative "The Blue Flower"
- Brochure: Copies of cassettes discussed by Hans Wagner (1970) Compiled by B. + Harald Wagner 9.2014, Munich
- bound volume of poetry 1982 (compiled by B. + H. Wagner Munich)
- Correspondence with Wilhelm Uhde and sister Anne-Marie Uhde, Paris
- Writer Adalbert Luntowski called Reinwald 1883–1934, treatise on painting by Hans Wagner,
- Carl Emde Wiesbaden, treatise pictures Hans Wagner for the exhibition Galerie Hillesheimer in the Taunus Hotel
Individual evidence
- ^ Marburger Zeitung (May 1948): New exhibition in the anniversary building. Author: L.
- ↑ Wiesbadener Kurier (Feuilleton, May 8, 1948): Strict selection, pleasant level - spring exhibition of ring visual artists. Author: DrHK.
- ^ Wiesbadener Kurier, Feuilleton (May 7, 1949) Charm of Opposites; Spring exhibition "Ring of Fine Artists".
- ^ Wiesbadener Kurier (Feuilleton, November 1950): "Wiesbaden 1950" artist competition.
- ^ Wiesbadener Kurier (October 1950) -colorful rhythm-works by Hessian artists; Author: TPH
- ↑ Darmstädter Zeitung (April 8, 1951): Annual exhibition of the independent Darmstadt artists' association. Author: GE
- ↑ Wiesbadener Kurier (Feuilleton, December 8, 1964): Graphics in Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein. Page 9, author: H.
- ↑ Wiesbadener Tagblatt Feuilleton (December 11, 1964) - honesty in the artistic statement - graphics of Wiesbaden artists; Author: Cie
- ↑ Wiesbaden Courier 8./9. November 1969 - Feverish commitment and cool sense; Author: Carl Emde
- ↑ Wiesbadener Tagblatt (March 1970) -painting competition with problems of the time author: m
- ↑ Wiesbadener Kurier (March 18, 1970) - variety of topics and structures - exhibition in the fountain colonnade, author: TPH
- ^ Wiesbadener Kurier (April 1972) page 8, spring exhibition Wiesbaden artists, author: us
- ↑ Wiesbadener Tagblatt (May 29, 1972) Hans Wagner turns 70 - in the spirit of Novalis -; Author: md
- ↑ Wiesbadener Kurier (May 29, 1972) - Hans Wagner - remained true to himself; Author: HA
- ^ Wiesbadener Kurier (May 8, 1975) Artists in Competition
- ^ Wiesbadener Kurier (April 1978) general topic landscapes; Author: TPH
- ↑ Publication of the Kunstverein Wiesbaden ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Wiesbadener Kurier (April 6, 1981) A Romantic in the Anti-Romantic Era, a retrospective in the Villa Clementine; Author: Verena Flick
- ^ Wiesbadener Tagblatt (April 1981) A painter through the ages, Hans Wagner's life's work in the Villa Clementine; Author: KB
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1980 |
| Place of death | Mainz |