Herm Dienz

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Ernst Hermann "Herm" Dienz (born October 8, 1891 in Koblenz , † August 26, 1980 in Siegburg ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Dienz studied law in Munich , Berlin and Bonn . After his doctorate as Dr. jur. and a legal clerkship at the court in Koblenz , he lived with his wife Hilde and his son Rainer († April 13, 1945), born in 1922, as a freelance artist in the Westerwald , but continued his education in Berlin and made several trips (including to Sicily ).

In 1925 he began studying for an artistic teaching post at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , which he completed in Berlin in 1927. He then worked at the grammar schools in Rheydt and Odenkirchen and in 1937 was appointed full professor at the University for Teacher Training in Bonn.

In 1939 he was drafted again for military service and had to take part in the Second World War.

In his painting, Dienz used the trends of the 20th century in his own way in graphics, watercolors, gouaches, collages and oil paintings. His artistically most successful creative phases fall on the one hand in the 1920s, when he took up the themes and painting styles of Expressionism and created expressive woodcuts and woodcut cycles.

Herm Dienz "Working-class family in need", woodcut, 1923, photo by [Mathias Tietke]

In the 1950s and 1960s he made use of the abstract language of forms.

He painted until his death and experimented with a wide variety of materials. His grave of honor is in the south cemetery in Bonn-Beuel.

literature

  • Klöpfer, Britta: Herm Dienz 1891–1980, A Rhenish painter and graphic artist between figuration and abstraction - monograph and catalog raisonné . Bonn 2001, dissertation. PDF; 12.9 MB ( memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  • Schmidt, Hannes: Herm Dienz . Rheinlandverlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0494-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Dienz, Herm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dienz, Ernst Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1980
Place of death Siegburg