Hermann Huber (painter)

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Hermann Huber (born September 13, 1888 in Wiedikon ; died December 9, 1967 in Hirzel ) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist .

Life

Amtshaus III, Zurich. Wall painting (1934) by Hermann Huber (1888–1967) painter, fresco artist, draftsman, etcher and lithographer.
Wall painting (1934), Amtshaus III, Zurich

Hermann Huber attended school in Wiedikon, where he met his future artist colleague Reinhold Kündig in 1900 , who married his sister Hedi in 1916. He made friends with Otto Meyer (Otto Meyer-Amden) at the Zurich School of Applied Arts . After stays in Düsseldorf , Berlin and Munich and the first sales of his own etchings , he went to Rome with Kündig in 1908 , where he stayed at the Villa Strohl-Fern . In the following year he went to Jerusalem with Jan Verkade (Willibrord Verkade) , where he worked on the painting of the Dormition Abbey . Back in Zurich he exhibited his pictures from Palestine and had a joint exhibition with Kündig, Victor Schulte and Eduard Bick at the Kunsthaus Zurich .

In 1911 he became a member of the avant-garde association Der Moderne Bund founded by Hans Arp , Werner Helbig and Oskar Lüthy . He exhibited at the Berlin Secession in 1911, 1912 and 1918, and was also represented at the 1912 Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne . In 1912/1913 he stayed in Amden with Willi Baumeister and Meyer , Meyer stayed there until 1928. In 1913, Herwarth Walden showed three oil paintings and eleven etchings by him in the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin. In 1914 he was one of the 24 artists who Adolf Hölzel presented in the so-called " Expressionist Hall" as part of the great Stuttgart art exhibition of the Association of Art Friends in the countries on the Rhine .

In 1914 he married Eveline Grisebach (1890-1965), a cousin of the philosopher Eberhard Grisebach , whom he had met in 1913 at Cuno Amiet . In 1915 Huber turned away from expressionist imagery. Bruno Cassirer carried out a Huber solo exhibition in Berlin in 1923. A monograph on the then 36-year-old artist was published as early as 1924, written by Hans Trog , the art critic of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , and Curt Glaser , the Berlin art critic. In 1932/1933 he housed the terminally ill Meyer-Amden on the Au peninsula . From 1933 he lived withdrawn in Sihlbrugg . The retrospective shown at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1943/1944 was the highlight of its impact in Switzerland.

Literature / exhibitions

  • Eberhard Kasten: Huber, Hermann . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 75, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023180-9 , pp. 267-269.
  • Andrea Köhler: Hermann Huber. In: Otto Meyer-Amden. Encounters with Oskar Schlemmer, Willi Baumeister, Hermann Huber and other artists. Kunstmuseum Bern, Nov. 15, 1985 - Jan. 26, 1986. Bern 1986, pp. 175–177.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First German Autumn Salon. Berlin 1913. Verl. Der Sturm, Berli 1913, p. 20. (Huber shows picture I in the catalog appendix .)
  2. ^ Exhibition catalog Art Exhibition Stuttgart 1914. Kgl. Art building, Schloßplatz, May to October. Edited by the Association of Art Friends in the countries on the Rhine. Stuttgart 1914, p. 47, cat. No. 402 ( Herald ).
  3. ↑ Hermann Huber and Otto Meyer-Amden. An artist friendship. (PDF) Wooden sculptures by the sculptor Josef Carisch, Wädenswil. Lake Zurich Art Foundation, archived from the original on August 13, 2018 ; accessed on June 29, 2019 (exhibition guide).
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich-Wiedikon
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1967
Place of death Hirzel