Hermann Gehri (painter)

Hermann Gehri (born September 3, 1879 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † November 27, 1944 in the bombing raid on Freiburg im Breisgau ) was professor of figural drawing at the Grand Ducal Baden State Art School in Karlsruhe . He was a painter, lithographer, and silhouette artist .

Life

Gehri was the son of the carpenter Johann Gehri from Wildtal near Freiburg. After graduating from the Berthold Gymnasium in Freiburg in 1898 , he studied architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe from 1899 to 1905 . He then studied at the Dresden Art Academy and later at the Karlsruhe State Art School , there with Ludwig Schmid-Reutte . In 1905 and 1906 he did military service as a " one-year volunteer " with the 113th Infantry Regiment in Freiburg. In 1907 and 1908 he went on a trip to Japan, probably with Ernst Grosse or Otto Kümmel . In 1910 he traveled to Italy , Vienna , Amsterdam , Paris and Northern Germany . From 1912 to 1914 he was a teacher at the Berlin School of Applied Arts .

From 1914 to 1916 he did auxiliary services at the Red Cross in Freiburg, from 1916 to 1919 he served as a soldier on the Eastern and Western Fronts and suffered a serious wound which was followed by a stay in a hospital.

From 1920 to 1933 he taught as a professor for figure drawing at the Badische Landeskunstschule in Karlsruhe, and in 1923 he became a member of the Senate. His students included Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann , Walter Boeckh , Hendrik Koehler and, as a private student, Wilhelm Kimmich .

On July 25, 1933, Gehri was dismissed from teaching for political reasons and now worked as a freelance artist. In the bomb attack in 1944 at Freiburg was his studio (then, Schlageterstraße 5 today Erasmusstraße) hit. Gehri died in the process, and a significant part of his oeuvre was destroyed.

literature

• Gehri, Hermann , in: Bernd Ottnad (Hrsg.): Badische Biographien . New episode . Volume 2 (1987), ISBN 978-3-17-009217-4 , p. 96 f.
• Leo Mülfarth : Small lexicon of Karlsruhe painters . 2nd edition, Karlsruhe 1987.
• Axel Heil and Harald Klingelhöller (eds.): State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe 150 years. The history of the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe in pictures and texts . Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2004, ISBN 3-89929-045-3 .
• Günter Meißner (Ed.): General artist lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples . Saur, Munich and Leipzig 1991ff. Volume 51 (2006), ISBN 3-598-22740-X , p. 37.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Gehri in the catalog of the German National Library