Hermann Morres

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Hermann Morres (born May 22, 1885 in Kronstadt , Austria-Hungary ; † March 30, 1971 there ) was a painter , graphic artist , art teacher and composer .

Life

Morres learned to play the piano from Paul Richter at the age of sixteen. From 1904 to 1908 he studied in Budapest at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and worked from 1908 until his retirement (1948) as an art teacher and drawing teacher at various schools in his hometown. He had already exhibited in Budapest's Nemzeti Szalon (1906) while he was still a student . During the summer he stayed temporarily in the artist colony of Nagybánya (Baia Mare), where he worked with Hungarian painters such as Béla Iványi-Grünwald , Sándor Zahl, Oliver Pittnér, József Klein and the Saxon artists such as Anna Dörschlag, Luise Goldschmidt, Hans Mattis-Teutsch and others met who came here to exchange ideas and collaborate creative.

In Kronstadt his exhibitions were an integral part of the art events in the first half of the century. With occasional forays into the Impressionist and the Symbolist ( The Four Seasons ), he maintained representational painting into old age, with the main themes from the local landscape and the lives of its people, which are designed in a genre-like manner in numerous pictures ( Pentecost in Draas , Bockelung in Urwegen and others).

Morres composed around 400 concert songs, as well as choirs and piano pieces. His artist friends included the famous painter and sculptor Hans Mattis-Teutsch and the poet Theodor Popescu-Șoimu. In the last decade of his life, progressive blindness prevented further work. Morres died on March 30, 1971 of cholestatic jaundice , leaving behind his wife Anni.

literature

  • Claus Stephani : On the rhythm of human shapes. Conversation with Prof. Hermann Morres. In: Volk und Kultur (Bucharest), 22/11, 1970, pp. 14–15.
  • Claus Stephani: A rich life's work - Hermann Morres. In: Volk und Kultur (Bucharest), 18/1, 1966, pp. 35–37
  • Horst Schuller: The talent and achievement of the homeland. For the 100th birthday of the painter Hermann Morres. In: Brigitte Stephani (ed.): They shaped our art. Studies and essays. Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg): Dacia Verlag, 1985, pp. 230-232.
  • Lexicon of the Transylvanian Saxons. Thaur: Wort und Welt Verlag, 1993, p. 345

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personal data
SURNAME Morres, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter, graphic artist, art teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronstadt , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1971
Place of death Brașov , Romania