Hermann Fechenbach

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Hermann Fechenbach (born January 11, 1897 in Bad Mergentheim ; died December 6, 1986 in Denham , Buckinghamshire ) was a German-British graphic artist.

Life

Hermann Fechenbach grew up as a child of a long-established Jewish family in Bad Mergentheim . After a brief commercial apprenticeship and activity, he attended the Erfurt School of Applied Arts and worked as a decorator in Dortmund until the beginning of the First World War . In 1916 he was called up for military service and seriously wounded in August 1917 . As part of the rehabilitation he received drawing lessons; After the end of the war, he first attended the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts, then until 1923 the State Academy for Applied Arts in Munich.

In 1927 he became a member of the Stuttgarter Künstlerbund , from which he was excluded in 1933 for "racial reasons". In 1930 he married the non-Jewish photographer Margarete Batzke. In 1936 he was expelled from the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts . In the 1930s Fechenbach was active in the Jewish youth movement in Stuttgart. Since 1936 he tried in vain to emigrate to Palestine . In 1938 he took his parents in, who were expelled from Bad Mergentheim in the course of the November pogroms. In 1939 his wife, who had accepted a job as domestic help in England, made it possible for him to emigrate . In 1940 he was interned on the Isle of Man for ten months . After his release in 1941, Fechenbach moved to Oxford and later to London , where he worked as a porcelain restorer in addition to his artistic work . In 1962 the couple moved to Denham.

Works

During a one-year stay in Florence in 1924 he began a cycle for the book of Genesis , which consists of 135 woodcuts and an edition of 200 copies. Woodcuts and etchings depicting landscapes were also created in Italy. The experiences in emigration led to the cycle of woodcuts "My Impressions as Refugee" (1941–1945), which appeared in small editions.

literature

  • Max Eisler, From our young artists (Hermann Fechenbach), in: Menorah, vol. 3, issue 10 (October 1925), pp. 209–211.
  • Fechenbach's "Bereschith", in: Israelitisches Familienblatt (Hamburg), February 26, 1931
  • Fechenbach, Hermann: Genesis. The first Book of Moses. Wood Engravings by Hermann Fechenbach, London (inter alia): Mowbray 1969
  • Fechenbach, Hermann: The last Mergentheimer Jews and the history of the Fechenbach families. Stuttgart 1972.
  • Bittel, Christoph; Larass, Petra (1997): Between Home and Exile. The artist Hermann Fechenbach 1897–1986. Booklet accompanying the special exhibition in the Teutonic Order Museum. Bad Mergentheim undated (1997)
  • Fechenbach, Hermann , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 87
  • Rosamunde Neugebauer: Fechenbach, Hermann . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 37, Saur, Munich a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-598-22777-9 , p. 361 f.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Fechenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna J. Deylitz: History of the Stuttgarter Künstlerbund from 1898 to the present day Stuttgarter Künstlerbund, accessed on July 17, 2018.
  2. ^ Douglas, Isle of Man 1941. "Happy New Year!" Imperial War Museum. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
  3. ↑ Patrick Mooney / Geoffrey Burne: Wood Engravings, Lino Cuts and Prints website "Hermann Fechenbach", accessed on July 17, 2018.
  4. ↑ Bad Mergentheim, TBB; "The last move 1940" (woodcut by Hermann Fechenbach) Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, accessed on July 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Fechenbach, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Mergentheim
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1986
Place of death Denham , Buckinghamshire