Hermann Knecht

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Hermann Knecht (born August 24, 1893 in Stein am Rhein , † January 8, 1978 there ; entitled to live in Stein am Rhein and Wagenhausen ) was a Swiss painter .

life and work

Knecht grew up as the son of the watchmaker and optician Hermann and Berta, née Lang, with his four younger brothers in Stein am Rhein. He received his first drawing lessons from Theodor Barth . At the request of his father, he obtained a diploma as a construction technician at the Technikum Winterthur .

In Munich visited servant from 1914 to 1918 the "Westenrieder school" and the Munich Art Academy . There he was trained in drawing by Martin von Feuerstein . In 1918 Knecht attended Hugo von Habermann's painting school .

After returning to Switzerland, Knecht attended the arts and crafts school in Basel for a short time . With scant theoretical and practical preparations, he then opened a workshop for building and decorative painting in the "zum Wasserfels" house in Stein am Rhein, in the hope that he would have enough time and leisure to pursue his artistic ambitions in addition to this breadwork to dedicate. However, since he received so many commissions that he no longer had time for his actual artistic work, he closed the shop and earned his living from 1919 to 1926 as a draftsman for the Jezler silverware factory in Schaffhausen .

Knecht married Sophie Amalia Spengler in 1923. He lived with her as a freelance artist from 1926 to 1929 in Tenero . He participated regularly in exhibitions of the Schaffhausen Art Association and later in the Museum Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen and was a member of the "Tangente", a self-help organization of Schaffhausen artists. Knecht also exhibited in the Kunsthalle Bern and the Kunstmuseum Olten .

When the opportunity arose to buy a house in Berlingen , Knecht and his wife von Tenero moved there. Here he made friends with Adolf Dietrich . In Kreuzlingen , Knecht created the mural on the now dismantled power station at Bernrain station. Another mural, it is said to have been one of his most important, was attached to the entrance wall of a school building in Kreuzlingen.

From 1930 until the end of his life Knecht lived in the house "Kleeblatt" at St. Georgen Monastery in Stein am Rhein. While his wife was helping her mother-in-law in the vineyard on the Klingelberg, Knecht was able to devote himself entirely to his artistic work. Under the impression of the painting of his friend Werner Schaad , surrealist alienations arose and in the 1930s he also created pictures of supraregional importance. Hans Niederhauser was a student of Knecht.

Knecht bequeathed half of his extensive estate to the cantons of Schaffhausen and Thurgau and donated fifty oil and tempera paintings and wall art designs as well as three hundred watercolors, drawings and sketch sheets to the Thurgau Art Museum .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Academy of Fine Arts, Munich: Hermann Knecht, registry entries. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  2. ^ OstschweizerTagblatt: 1940, foundation of the artist group. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  3. ^ Kreuzlinger Zeitung: Murals in Kreuzlingen. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Tina Grütter: Werner Schaad. Sikart, accessed April 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Servant, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Stone at the Rhein
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1978
Place of death Stone at the Rhein