Hansegger

Hansegger , also Hans Egger , born as Johann Konstantin Egger (born May 29, 1908 in St. Gallen ; † October 1, 1989 in New York City ) was a Swiss painter .

Life

Hansegger founded the Galerie des Eaux Vives in Zurich in 1942 and was a member of the artist group Allianz . There are permanent and changing exhibitions of abstract and concrete art. In the autumn of 1943, the gallery showed works by members of the alliance founded in 1937 for the first time.

The artist group, with members such as Max Bill , Walter Bodmer , Camille Graeser , John Konstantin Hansegger, Leo Leuppi , Richard Paul Lohse , Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Verena Loewensberg , was based on the Zurich School of Concrete, inspired by Max Bill .

The gallery also showed and sold works by international artists. For example in 1944 and 1945 with the highly regarded exhibitions under the name “abstract / concrete” with exhibits by Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee .

At that time, the square at Seefeldstrasse 48 was one of the first and only a few places where exclusively and exclusively abstract art was shown.

Friendship with Else Lasker-Schüler and her son Paul. In the "Künstlerhaus am Hirschengraben", where he first had his studio, Hansegger had been holding exhibitions since around 1934. In 1938 the pictures by Paul Lasker-Schüler were shown in an exhibition there for the first time.

The artist portrayed Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, among others . Hansegger had lived in the United States since the 1950s .

literature

• Erik Larsen: Hansegger: a contribution to a critical study of his art. Ascot Publishing House, 1961.
• Martica Sawin: Hansegger: paintings 1949-1960. New York: Arts, Inc., 1962.
• Presenting Hansegger: in the words of the artist himself, the opinions of his contemporaries, and the eyes of the world at large Absolute Auctions Publishing.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hansegger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hansegger. In: Sikart