Hans Breker

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Hans Breker - painter and sculptor

Hans Breker (born November 5, 1906 in Elberfeld , † November 15, 1993 in Düsseldorf ; pseudonym: Hans van Breek ) was a German sculptor and painter .

Life

Hans Breker was born on November 5, 1906 in Elberfeld. The father was a stonemason and ran a tombstone shop. The parents' marriage resulted in five children. He was and is repeatedly confused with his older brother Arno Breker (1900–1991), who like him became a sculptor and was very successful during the Nazi era . They went very different ways. Hans Breker began his training in 1925 at the Dresden Art Academy with Karl Albiker and in 1928 he switched to Richard Langer at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . He worked there as a freelance artist until 1942. In 1937 he married Maria Minten. In 1939 and 1941, the daughters Beate and Susanne were born.

In 1936 he received the Cornelius Prize of the City of Düsseldorf and in 1942/1943 the Villa Romana Prize . This included a study visit with the family at the Villa Romana in Florence.

After the destruction of his Düsseldorf studio and apartment, the family moved to Weimar .

In 1945 the University of Architecture and Fine Arts was re-established there. Breker received a call on condition of a name change to avoid confusion with his brother Arno Breker . He chose the name Hans van Breek .

In 1948 he was awarded the title of "Professor for Life" and the chair for free sculpture as well as architecture and nude drawing.

In 1954 the family returned to Düsseldorf for political and family reasons. Here he lived as a freelance sculptor, who received many public contracts for the design of fountains, squares and monuments, but also as a painter. He died on November 15, 1993 in Düsseldorf.

Works (excerpt)

Well, 1965
Reclining woman with child , 1971
The sea snail , 1987
  • 1936: two figures "Sower" and "Gleaner" for the Reich Exhibition Schaffendes Volk , which were removed in 1938 by the then police chief
  • 1938: Monumental sculpture “Mother and Children” for Meisenheim am Glan
  • 1938: Purchase of a marble figure for the “Galerie der Neuzeit” in Düsseldorf
  • 1939: Monumental relief "The Source" for the world exhibition "The Water" in Liège
  • 1939: two portrait busts "Friedrich the Great and his father" for the Provincial State Museum in Wesel
  • 1939: Acquisition of works by the "Galerie der Neuzeit" in Düsseldorf and the Folkwang Museum in Essen
  • 1940: Hardenberg bust for the State Museum in Bonn
  • 1940: “Mother and Children” sculpture for the Wanderer works in Siegmar
  • 1945: Zeiss portrait - relief for the Eichplatz in Jena / Thuringia
  • 1948: Goethe portrait, larger than life, for the German National Theater in Weimar
  • 1949: Mozart portrait for the music academy in Weimar
  • 1951: Portraits of women for the Angermuseum in Erfurt
  • 1952: Portrait of Käthe Kollwitz for the Museum Altenburg
  • 1952: Portrait of Käthe Kollwitz for the Chemnitz Museum
  • 1952: Thomas Müntzer portrait for the town hall in Mühlhausen / Thuringia
  • 1954: Life-size group of boys for the museum in Weimar
  • 1954: Karl Marx portrait, larger than life for the University of Jena and the Academy in Moscow
  • 1955: Madonna statue for the city of Monheim / Hitdorf
  • 1955: Comenius relief for the Comenius-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel
  • 1955: "Mother and Child" for the honorary burial ground of the bomb victims in the city of Wuppertal
  • 1955: Figure frieze (14 figures) in life size and ten decorative motifs for the Wuppertal-Barmen theater
  • 1956: 1st prize in the competition for the Düsseldorf city arms: bronze lion on a granite column in front of the Düsseldorf city hall (administration building Marktplatz 6)
  • 1956: eleven portrait reliefs of the Schill officers for the catacombs of the city of Wesel
  • 1958: Memorial of the assault artillery in Karlstadt am Main
  • 1958: Relief for the new school building at Rethel-Gymnasium Düsseldorf
  • 1958: Carl Theodor portrait for Benrath Palace (destroyed by vandalism, reworked in 1961)
  • 1959: Käthe Kollwitz portrait for the school of the same name at Hackenbruch
  • 1960: "The Sower", full sculpture for the Lennep tax office
  • 1961: Homer relief for a grammar school in Düsseldorf, Graf-Recke-Straße
  • 1961: Coat of arms and large group of figures for the Horten administration building in Düsseldorf, Am Seestern
  • 1962: Aeskulap relief for the administration building of the North Rhine Medical Center, Düsseldorf
  • 1962: Portrait of Käthe Kollwitz for a school of the same name in Düsseldorf
  • 1962: Allegorical heads for the cemetery hall in Duisburg
  • 1963: Large children's fountain for the school yard of the new elementary school in Großenbaum near Duisburg
  • 1964: Monumental memorial for the city of Wesel
  • 1965: three concrete sculptures for a new school building in Duisburg-Eickelkamp
  • 1965: 3rd prize and purchase of a fountain for Düsseldorf-Unterrath
  • 1965: Dietrich Bonhoeffer portrait for the high school of the same name in Hilden
  • 1966: Girls group for secondary school in Wesel
  • 1967: "The sister", bronze larger than life for the municipal hospital in Monheim am Rhein
  • 1967: Stone figure for the health department in Monheim
  • 1968: "Reading boy", bronze figure for a school in Monheim
  • 1969: Memorial for the city of Monheim, Hitdorf
  • 1971: “Mother and Child” for a children's home in Monheim
  • 1972: Zille portrait, larger than life, for the “Neue Heimat” development on Zille-Platz in Monheim
  • 1972: Günther Schwietz portrait
  • 1973: "Nuclear splitting", fountain sculpture for Otto Hahn High School in Monheim
  • 1975: Reliefs and small sculptures at savings banks in Monheim, Düsseldorf
  • 1976: Portrait bust of Andreas Stihl , larger than life
  • 1976: Bronze lion and five medallions for the market fountain in Ratingen
  • 1978: August Deusser, portrait relief for the Deusser Foundation in Zurich
  • 1981: "Adoration", small sculpture "King's Group" for Dr. H. Hitzbleck
  • 1982: "Seated Man", bronze on boulder plinth for Dr. med. Ernst Sunday, Velbert
  • 1984: Portrait bust of Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Seedorf, Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • 1987: "The sea snail" for the Aquazoo (Löbbecke Museum) in Düsseldorf, Nordpark

Exhibitions

  • 1950: Gallery in Dresden
  • 1952: Angermuseum in Erfurt
  • 1954: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 1970: Langenfeld art gallery
  • 1975: "Schelmenturm" in Monheim
  • 1976: Düsseldorf-Golzheim artists' settlement
  • 1976: Work exhibition in the foyer of the Ratingen City Theater
  • 1981: Hans Breker - 75 years - exhibition in "Studio Golzheim"
  • 1985: Exhibition of paintings and small sculptures in the Trojanski Gallery
  • 1986: Exhibition in "Studio Golzheim"
  • 1991: "Schelmenturm" in Monheim
  • 1994: Posthumous exhibition in the Cranach Gallery in Weimar
  • 1995: Exhibition in the Hebecker Gallery, Weimar

literature

  • Saur: General artist lexicon. De Gruyter, 1996, ISBN 978-3-598-22754-7 .
  • Weimar Kulturjournal , 1993, pp. 20/21.
  • Studio Golzheim, catalog for the exhibition on the occasion of his 75th birthday in 1981. Text by Rolf Schmitz
  • Constructive. Newspaper of the Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen Weimar, No. 4/1962.
  • Düsseldorf Creativ. Ed. Joachim Orth, 1st edition 1980. p. 31.
  • Land on the Wupper and Rhine. Home calendar 1975, pp. 13 and 16.
  • History in Wuppertal. Volume 16. 2007. p. 113.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Breker, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breek, Hans van (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1993
Place of death Dusseldorf