Hermann Lismann

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Hermann Lismann: Self-Portrait 1920
Family of the artist

Hermann Lismann (born May 4, 1878 in Munich , † April 1943 in Majdanek concentration camp ) was a German painter and university professor .

Life

Hermann Lismann was born in Munich as the son of the Kunstverein member, commercial judge, copper smelter and rolling mill owner Benjamin Lismann (1832–1906) and his wife Julia, b. Ganz (1837-1920).

Hermann Lismann attended Munich's Maximiliansgymnasium from the 1st Latin class in the school year 1888/89 to the 8th grade, at the end of which, in 1896, he left school. It is not known at which institution he graduated from high school. From 1898 to 1903 he studied philosophy and art history in Munich and Lausanne , painting privately with Heinrich Knirr and from April 1903 at the Munich Academy in the painting class of Franz Stuck . 1903/04 he lived in Rome , from 1904 to 1914 in the group of German artists close to Fauvism at the Café du Dôme in Paris , with Rudolf Levy and Wilhelm Uhde . Lismann painted with Lodewijk Schelfhout in 1911 in southern France.

In 1914 he went to Frankfurt am Main . During the First World War , Lismann was a soldier and employee of the Red Cross for four years . Not until 1919 did he return to painting. In 1921 he took part in the German Art Exhibition in Baden-Baden . Lismann wrote essays, poems, feature pages, theater and music reviews. Since 1922 he was active in adult education. For the Volksbildungsheim Frankfurt am Main he led courses and “Städel performances”. He had his own studio and painting school at the Städel , where the later director Hanuš Burger was one of his students in the mid-1920s . From 1929 to 1934 he was a lecturer for painting technology and the philosophy of art at the University of Frankfurt .

After 1933, Lismann's works were removed from the Frankfurt Municipal Gallery and the Wuppertal Municipal Museum as “degenerate” . In 1934 he was banned from working as a Jew , but in 1935 he was still allowed to teach at the Institute of the Jewish Community. During this time the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden set up a “studio for fine arts”, where Lismann trained painters in a studio. In 1938 he emigrated to Tours via Paris . In France he was interned in the Gurs camp in 1939 , but was able to flee to Montauban in 1940 . In 1942 he was arrested by the authorities of the Vichy regime and deported to the Majdanek concentration camp on March 4, 1943. He died here in April 1943.

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the University of Frankfurt on Oct. 17, 2014, a stumbling block was laid for him at Untermainkai 68–72.

painting

Lismann's painting was partially destroyed by National Socialism and the Second World War. In 1959 and 1968 exhibitions of his surviving pictures were held in Frankfurt am Main. In his pictures he dealt with the contemporary, especially post-impressionist movements in painting. He mainly created portraits (including The Painter's Wife , 1908, Bathing Boys , around 1920) and Mediterranean landscapes.

Work (selection)

Cambridge, MA, USA, Harvard Art Museum / Busch-Reisinger Museum:

  • Crouching Nude , drawing 1915

Frankfurt am Main, Städelsches Kunstinstitut and Städtische Galerie:

  • Loving couple in the garden , oil painting
  • Portrait of Prof. V. , 1921 oil painting
  • Street in Villeneuve , ink drawing 1911
  • Villeneuve-les-Avignon , ink drawing 1911
  • Perugia , 1923, watercolor / gouache
  • Pitigliano , 1924, watercolor / gouache
  • San Marino , 1924, watercolor / gouache
  • Soriano , 1924, watercolor / gouache
  • Young girl , 1926, oil painting
  • St. Guilhem-le-Désert , 1928, watercolor / gouache
  • Still Life in White , 1929, oil painting

Frankfurt am Main, Historical Museum:

  • Portrait of the artist's wife , oil painting; sign. > H. Lismann. 08. <
  • Boyish girl portrait Grete Appelt , 1926, oil painting on plywood, 70.8 × 48.5 cm
  • Portrait of a boy , 1926, oil painting
  • Girl with a Braid , 1928
  • Still life with plaster of paris and plants, 1929, oil on panel, 58.5 × 90 cm

Kassel, State Art Collections:

  • Yellow house in Montauban , 1942

Munich, Municipal Gallery:

  • In Bad Tölz , 1911, ink drawing

Munich, State Collection of Graphics:

  • Female half nude , 1902, chalk, tempera and pencil
  • Sitting girl , 1908, ink drawing, washed
  • Sitting girl , 1908, ink drawing, washed
  • Paris, view over houses , 1908, ink drawing, washed
  • San Gimignano , 1923, ink drawing, washed over pencil

Saarbrücken, Saarland Museum; Saarland Art Collection Foundation:

  • Dancers in the Tabarin , 1905, gouache
  • Two waiters , 1905, gouache
  • Paris suburb , 1911
  • Cività castellana , 1924, gouache

Wuppertal, from the Heydt Museum:

  • Apple harvest , 1909
  • Apple harvest , 1910
  • Bathers by the river , 1910
  • Girls bathing , 1910
  • Portrait of a lady , 1909

Fonts

  • The painter's school . In: Art for All. Volume 20, p. 202, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1905.
  • Paths to Art. Considerations of a painter . Munich u. a. 1920 ( digitized edition )
  • Gustave Flaubert: The Temptation of Saint Anthony. Translated by Hermann Lismann. With 14 original woodcuts by Hermann Lismann. F. Schmidt, Munich, Berlin and Leipzig 1921
  • The elements of visual representation and limits of the arts (in the estate)

literature

  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
  • Lismann, Hermann . In: Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia. KG Saur Verlag, Munich, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2005, p. 1193.
  • Johannes Weisbecker (Ed.): Hermann Lismann 1878–1943. Memorial exhibition for the 80th birthday . Frankfurt am Main 1959. (exhibition catalog)
  • Christina Uslular-Thiele (ed.): Hermann Lismann 1878–1943. A Frankfurt painter. Frankfurt am Main 1979. (Exhibition catalog, conference proceedings)
  • Annette Gautherie-Kampka: Hermann Lismann. German painter of the Café du Dôme . In: Weltkunst. 66 (1996) 19, p. 2248 f.
  • Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1849 to 1918 . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 514-521 (Fig.)
  • Siegfried Weiß : The merchant and head of the Jewish community in Büdingen Heinemann Lismann and his descendants. In: Büdinger Geschichtsverein (Ed.): Büdinger Geschichtsblätter, Volume XXIV, edited and published by the Geschichtswerkstatt Büdingen Joachim Cott, 2016, pp. 133–175 (Fig.)

Web links

Commons : Hermann Lismann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report on the existence and work of the Munich Art Association during 1867 . Gotteswinter & Mößl, Munich 1868, p. 20 ( online)
  2. ↑ Bayerischer Kurier (Munich), No. 181 of July 4, 1864, p. 1296 (online)
  3. ^ Benjamin Lismann came from Büdingen in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . - See Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums (Leipzig), No. 26 of June 25, 1861, Volume 20, p. 368 (online)
  4. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1888/89 to 1895/96
  5. ^ Hermann Lismann (matriculation number 2563) in the matriculation book of the academy.
  6. ↑ Reggy Havekes-van Creij, Sabine Fehlemann: From Waldmüller to Warhol. Paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries in the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal . Museum Schloss Moyland Foundation, 1998, p. 96.
  7. ^ German art. Exhibition, Baden-Baden, 1921. , catalog, accessed on the bad-bad.de portal on January 26, 2014.
  8. ^ Institute for Urban History, Carmelite Monastery, Frankfurt am Main: Inventory overview of the "Collections" department: 3.6.17 Legacies, aristocratic and family archives "Li – Lz": Lismann, Hermann (signature: S 1/81) ( Memento of the original from 3 February 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved in the portal stadtgeschichte-ffm.de on January 26, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de
  9. ↑ Hanuš Burger : Spring was worth it. Memories . C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1977, p. 33.
  10. ↑ Galia Bar Or: Mordechai Gumpel ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website in the portal museumeinharod.org.il (Museum of Art Ein Harod), accessed on January 26, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museumeinharod.org.il
  11. ^ Alfred Werner : Lismann, Hermann . Website (according to the Encyclopaedia Judaica ) in the portal jewishvirtuallibrary.org , 2008, accessed on January 26, 2014.
  12. ^ The Holocaust Chronicle
  13. ^ Martin Papenbrock: Degenerate Art, Exile Art, Resistance Art in West German Exhibitions after 1945. A bibliography with commentary . (Writings of the Guernica Society, Volume 3). Publishing house and database for the humanities, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-932124-09-X , p. 491.
  14. ↑ The exhibition organized by the Frankfurter Kunstverein in 1959 showed 132 of his works. - See Alfred Werner (jewishvirtuallibrary.org).
  15. ↑ Academic Nudes of the 19th Century , website from December 17, 2012 in the portal academicnudes19thcentury.blogspot.de , accessed on January 26, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Lismann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, writer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 1943
Place of death Majdanek concentration camp