Hans Zimbal

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Hans Zimbal (born April 24, 1889 in Pless , Upper Silesia , † July 27, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German painter , graphic artist and art teacher .

Life

Zimbal attended high school in Katowice and studied from 1907 to 1911 at the Royal School of Arts and Crafts in Breslau, from 1909 under Karl Hanusch . In 1911 he passed his exam as a drawing teacher. From 1911 to 1912 he held a scholarship and went to study with Carl Ernst Morgenstern in the Giant Mountains . Between 1912 and 1913 he was at the Dresden Art Academy with Richard Müller , from 1914–16 Zimbal was resident and freelance in Jannowitz in the Giant Mountains.

In 1915 Zimbal married Elisabeth (nee Schmedes, 1887–1985), the sister of the graphic artist Grete Schmedes . In 1916 he first taught in the drawing teacher seminar at the Breslau Academy and soon took over the class for type design. He worked there as a teacher until 1929. In 1921 at the latest, he became a member of the " Artists' Association of Silesia ". In 1924 he illustrated, among other things, the book Schlesische Volkslieder mit Bilder u. Wise men from Theodor Siebs, Max Schneider. From 1929 to 1933 he was a teacher at the city's craft and arts and crafts school in Wroclaw.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists and joining the NSDAP in March 1933, he was appointed teacher at the State University of Art Education in Berlin in 1934 and professor in 1936. Between 1938 and 1940 he was director of the university. He participated in several exhibitions.

Zimbal had a daughter Margarete (born 1916 in Jannowitz), who left Germany with the photographer Walter Reuter and his Jewish friend Sulamith Siliava and who later fought as an activist in the Spanish Civil War. She died at the age of 20.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1941: Large German art exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich (3 paintings).
    • Plowing farmer
    • Bouquet of flowers I and II
  • 1943: Young art in the German Reich
    • The garden umbrella
    • The white sail
    • Boat on the beach
  • June 25, 2004 to September 25, 2005: Modernist workshops. Teacher and pupil of the Breslau Academy 1903–1932. Silesian Museum in Görlitz .
  • May 11 to October 31, 2015: Art during wartime 1914–1918: Artists from Silesia between hurray patriotism and longing for peace Silesian Museum in Görlitz.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Siebs, Max Schneider, Hans Zimbal: Silesian folk songs with pictures and ways (=  landscape folk songs . Volume 1 ). Bergstadtverlag, Breslau 1924, OCLC 72193254 .
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 684.
  3. ↑ The short, intense life of Margarete Zimbal . In: Focus Online . September 4, 2018 ( focus.de ).
  4. ^ Zimbal, Hans . In: Great German Art Exhibition . Munich 1941, p. 88 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Catalog Exhibition of Young Art in the German Reich 1943 . S. 76-77 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  6. ^ Johanna Brade: Werkstätten der Moderne: Teachers and students of the Breslau Academy 1903-1932 . Ed .: Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz. Stekovics, Halle an der Saale 2004, ISBN 3-89923-061-2 , p. 51 .
  7. ↑ Art in wartime. Artist from Silesia between hurray patriotism and longing for peace. schlesisches-museum.de, accessed on March 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Zimbal, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Pless , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1961
Place of death Berlin