Hermann Fischer-Roloff
Hermann Fischer-Roloff (born March 15, 1917 in Hanover , † January 29, 1988 in Hanover) was a German painter and graphic artist .
Life
Hermann Fischer-Roloff grew up as the eldest of three sons in Hanover; his younger brother Heinz also became a painter and graphic artist. Hermann's childhood was marked by difficult economic circumstances. At the beginning of the 1930s he attended the then Werkkunstschule Hannover to study painting and graphics. He was taught there by the sculptor Ludwig Vierthaler, among others . He then continued his education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. When the Second World War broke out , he was called up as a soldier at the age of 22. One of his company commanders was Ernst Jünger , who made it possible for him to continue painting. From 1941 he was in use in East Prussia and Russia. In 1945, he returned after a short captivity back to Hanover. Most of his early artistic work and his personal possessions were destroyed in the air raids on Hanover . He became a freelance artist and rented a studio apartment at Podbielskistraße 270 in the immediate vicinity of the painter Grethe Jürgens . In 1945 he was one of the founding members of the Association of Visual Artists Northwest Germany . On March 29, 1951, he married Hildegard Pawelka from Hanover. In 1953 the daughter Yvonne was born. In 1954 he won a travel grant to Yugoslavia as a prize winner from Friedrich Krupp AG . Study trips within Germany and to European countries followed. He won prizes in various competitions. From 1958 to 1962 he was a lecturer at what was then the Hanover Commercial College.
Artistic creation
Hermann Fischer-Roloff was considered a representative of the Hanover School . During his artistic career, he dedicated himself to representational painting. In view of the non-representational painting styles such as Informel and Tachism that were prevalent in the 1950s and 1960s , it was not easy for him to assert himself with his work on the art market. Nevertheless, he remained consistently true to his own style.
- “The way in which the artist Fischer-Roloff works is very characteristic: he does not draw. No nature studies, no notes, no preliminary drafts. Rather, it is an occasion, and immediately the spontaneous way to translate what you have experienced with painterly means. And in doing so, deeply felt, intensive messages succeed, which are above all an image and a self-confession of their creator. "
- Quote from Gunter Heike, University of Applied Sciences Hildesheim / Holzminden / Göttingen
Fischer-Roloff led phenomena of the everyday world back to their essence in a carefully simplistic way, whereby both Expressionism and Cubism provided him with inspiration. He painted his hometown Hanover, destroyed by the war, as well as fairground scenes, bathers by the sea, holiday impressions from Yugoslavia from a quiet, above-all attitude. The Hanover pictures are counted among his main works , which were mainly created in the 1940s and 1950s. Portraits and landscapes are also part of it. His pictures are always balanced in composition and color, sometimes characterized by objective, distant observation, but also by a poetic sheen. The differentiated division of the surfaces, the subtle, harmonious and dense choice of colors are characteristic of his work.
Travemünde, 1960
Evening on the Beach, 1951
Memories of Sylt, 1965
Exhibitions and collections
His work has been shown regularly in exhibitions at the Kunstverein Hannover , the Kestnergesellschaft and the Kubus gallery. He took part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Italy, Austria, England and Sweden. His works are in numerous public collections, e. B. Sprengel Museum , Hanover Historical Museum .
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- On the death of the painter Hermann Fischer-Roloff in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , February 1988
- Viktoria Krüger: Opening speech for the exhibition memories of the artist , Kunstverein Burgwedel-Isernhagen, March 15, 2014
- Rainer Grimm: Opening speech for the artist's exhibition , Studio Arcos, Hanover, March 10, 2002
- Galerie Gabriele Jeroch, catalog for the artist's exhibition, pictures 1948–1980, 1984
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer-Roloff, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hanover pictures, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1988 |
| Place of death | Hanover |