Hermann Haindl

Hermann Haindl (born September 30, 1927 in Berlin ; † August 16, 2013 in Hofheim am Taunus ) was a German artist and non-fiction author .

Life

The parents were both artists, the mother had studied singing, the father was a set designer. At the age of 14 he left school and began an apprenticeship as a theater painter at the Katowice Theater . Haindl was drafted into the Wehrmacht at the age of 17 and ended up as a Soviet prisoner of war , which shaped his ideas about art and life. He became seriously ill there and suffered frostbite on his feet. Later he was noticed here because of his artistic talent. In 1948 he was released and only moved to Berlin, where he found work as a commercial painter. Later he fled to relatives in Frankfurt am Main and found a job as a theater painter in 1950. Until 1980 he worked at the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt.

Since then he has only devoted himself to painting. He traveled with his wife Erika to the Indians of North America and India and was influenced by the religions and mythologies of these cultures . Previously he mainly painted abstract pictures, but under this influence he changed this more in the direction of representational and surreal art . In addition to his artistic activity, Hermann Haindl was also politically active. He fought for the renovation of the historic old town of Hofheim am Taunus, founded the "Green Open Hofheimer List" in 1984 and was committed to environmental protection. The drawings by Hermann Haindl, which he made in the early 1970s, were certainly groundbreaking for the preservation and renovation of the desolate half-timbered houses from the 17th century. He skilfully hid the decay in these drawings in order to focus on the essentials. Without Hermann Haindl, Hofheim would not have the old town it has today.

Haindl tarot

His artistic ideas flowed into the Haindl Tarot , for which Hermann Haindl is mainly known. Unlike in other tarots, Haindl did not use the usual human representations for the court cards , but replaced them with figures of gods and myths . (Swords: the Egyptian deities Nut , Re , Isis , Osiris - stones: the Indian mythical creatures Spider Woman , Old Man , White Buffalo Woman , Chief Seattle - rods: the Indian gods Kali , Brahma , Radha , Krishna - chalices: the European figures the Venus of Willendorf , Odin , Brigit of Ireland , Parzival ). Another change that Haindl made in his tarot is the assignment of runes to the cards of the major arcana . According to Haindl, this was done in order to reconcile Germany (for which the runes should stand for) and Judaism ( Hebrew letters ) at least in the tarot .

Works (selection)

• Boy, boy, what should become of you, life story of a painter , Hartmut Hegeler publishing house , Unna, 2010, ISBN 978-3-940266-98-9
• Thoughts on my painting , Hartmut Hegeler Verlag, Unna, 2010, ISBN 978-3-940266-97-2
• Bach flower cards , Saarbrücken: Neue Erde, 2005
• The Haindl Tarot , Munich: Ullstein-Taschenbuchverlag, 2002
• Hermann Haindl and his world of tarot , Idstein / Ts. : Tree, 1992
• Hofheim old town, past and future , Neuenhain im Taunus: Verlag 76, 1976

literature

• Hanna Bekker vom Rath and the artists of the Blue House in Hofheim am Taunus , Hofheim am Taunus, Magistrate, 1984
• Pohl, Claudia: Hermann Haindl , Hanau, Peters, 1978
• Hermann Haindl: Life - Art - Tarot , Erika Haindl et al., Königsfurt-Urania, 2017

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Haindl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Erika and Hermann Haindl
• Pictures by Hermann Haindl
• Hofheimer Group, CV Hermann Haindl
• Tarot cards from Haindl
• Exhibition in the Oberhessisches Museum from June 7 to July 22, 2007
• Poster Haindl As the first tree

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary for Hermann Haindl in: Hofheim  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.