Hans Werdehausen

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Hans Werdehausen (born February 5, 1910 in Bochum , † July 5, 1977 in Bödexen near Höxter ) was a German painter .

Life

As an abstract expressionist, Werdehausen was a representative of German post-war painting. As a co-founder of the group " Junge westen " he accompanied the emergence of German art after 1945, especially in the Ruhr area .

From 1924 to 1929 Werdehausen trained in the painting trade and from 1932 to 1935 he studied under Kay H. Nebel at the Kassel Art Academy . In 1936 he went on a one-year study trip to Sicily . He moved to Essen in 1937 and worked there as a freelance painter. After his military service in the Wehrmacht from 1939, he was released in 1942 and first moved to Bödexen near Höxter , and later back to Essen.

In 1948 Werdehausen co-founded the artist group Junge westen together with Gustav Deppe , Thomas Grochowiak , Ernst Hermanns , Heinrich Siepmann and Emil Schumacher . In 1950 Werdehausen was awarded the Recklinghausen City Young West Art Prize. In 1952 he became a member of the German Association of Artists , which had been re-established two years earlier, and three years later (1955) a member of the West German Association of Artists . As a full DKB member, Werdehausen took part in a total of nine major annual exhibitions between 1952 (in the Cologne State House on Rheinpark ) and 1978 (in the Academy of the Arts in Berlin). In 1956 he was awarded the German Continental Prize of the International Guggenheim Foundation , New York. In 1959, Hans Werdehausen became a participant in documenta II in Kassel.

A well-known work by Werdehausen is the 1961 stage set for William Shakespeare's drama " Richard III. " In the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf and the monumental wall frescoes " Aufbruch derelemente " and " Marriage of the elements " in the house of the Ruhrfestspiele in Recklinghausen.

In 1971 Hans Werdehausen moved to Bödexen, where he died on July 5, 1977 at the age of 67.

Solo exhibitions

literature

  • Werdehausen, Hans , in: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. Fifth volume (VZ / supplements AG) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 (p. 113)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Werdehausen, Hans , in: Kunstreport: nineteen hundred three | nineteen hundred ninety-five. An overview of the German Artists Association , special edition Winter 1994/95, Bonn 1995. ISBN 3-929283-08-5 (p. 135)
  2. ↑ van-ham.com: Raumknoten , 1957. Oil on paper (laid on canvas), 58 x 77 cm

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personal data
SURNAME Werdehausen, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1977
Place of death Bödexen at Höxter