Herbert Mager

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Herbert Mager (born June 1, 1888 in Geestemünde ; † August 18, 1979 Bad Sooden-Allendorf ) was a German painter .

biography

Mager studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover . In 1907 Mager switched to the Karlsruhe School of Applied Arts and studied with the architect and ceramist Max Laeuger . In 1908 Mager spent in Munich in the teaching and experimental studio of Wilhelm von Debschitz . From 1910 to 1914 he studied art history in Berlin with Wölflin and Paul Simmel .

Mager was a soldier in Russia and France during the First World War , in the 1930s he lived for a short time in Paris and worked in a studio, but soon returned to Germany. He was a soldier again in World War II . The Mager family had been based in Karlshafen on the Weser since 1922 . He was a well-known landscape painter in the Weser Uplands . He mainly painted watercolors and oil paintings of the Weser landscape and the places. His painting style was skillfully expressive.
The presentation is characterized by a very simple language of form. The images are enlivened by the battle between colors and fog of the Weser with little contrast.
Attractive landscape paintings that are painted with safe brushstrokes on canvas or as watercolor. The views show the Weser Uplands. The scenic flair is reminiscent of old times. These intangible color particles, the melting of the fresh and young green of the leaves and the grass as an enhancement of visible reality and not as a symbol.

In terms of art history, Mager belongs to the Lost Generation and expressive realism .

Works

Its directory is representative. There is no complete catalog raisonné due to the scattering of his works. He signed with H.Mager, HM and M.

Watercolors

  • Manufacture from the banks of the Weser
  • Hanover cliffs
  • Wülmersen moated castle
  • Diemelufer near Helmarshausen
  • Steinstrasse in Helmarshausen
  • Houses in Würgassen

Oil painting

  • Helmarshausen Falenberg
  • City view of Bad Karlshafen
  • Weser bank at Lauenförde
  • Beverungen Weser landscape
  • Huguenot tower with singers' temple
  • Juliushöhe Bad Karlshafen
  • Krukenburg Helmarshausen
  • House "Alt Karlshafen"
  • Hanover cliffs

literature

  • Konrad Hammann: The painter and the shoemaker . In: Yearbook for the district of Kassel. Kassel 2002, p. 29.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive Realism. Painting of the Lost Generation. Hirmer, Munich 1994, p. 413.
personal data
SURNAME Lean, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Geestemünde near Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH 18th August 1979
Place of death Bad Sooden-Allendorf