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Hermann Feierabend (* 1928 in Rorschach , Switzerland ; † 1995 in Friedrichshafen ) was a German-Swiss painter and graphic artist .

Growing up in Rorschach and supported by his father, who was an art locksmith, the family moved to Friedrichshafen on the German side of Lake Constance in 1940 , where Hermann began an apprenticeship as a painter for writing and decoration. As a result of military service (to which he was called up at the age of 16) and subsequent imprisonment, he was only able to continue his apprenticeship in 1948.

From 1951 to 1956 he studied with Mertz at the Academy for Knowledge and Design in Stuttgart, the subjects of stage design , painting and graphics and then taught portrait and nude drawing there until 1960 .

After a year as a freelance graphic designer, he worked as a commercial artist at ZF Friedrichshafen AG from 1961 to 1990 and exhibited oil paintings, watercolors and graphics in the Lake Constance area several times in the 1960s. In 1990 he left the mechanical engineering company in order to work as a freelance painter and set designer in the future . But he died five years later at the age of 67.

From the 1980s he exhibited every one or two years in different locations in southern Germany. In 1998, three years after his death, a large memorial exhibition was organized in the Graf-Zeppelin-Haus in Friedrichshafen, which was followed by more in Kressborn, Wasserburg and the castles of Maurach and Salem from 2000 to 2002 .

The painter was married to Hanne Feierabend, who published a monograph on him in 2006 , and was a long-time member of the Panta Rhei artist group . He especially loved motifs and atmospheric images from Lake Constance and its hinterland, as well as from quiet corners of his southern vacation spots. Some of the after-work oil paintings stand out because of their enigmatic, colorful forests.

Web links

• Panta Rhei, Hermann closing time
• "The silence is loud enough" (exhibition and monograph, September 2006)
• Theft of a watercolor (with illustration), 2007