Hermann Ober

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Hermann Ober (born July 10, 1920 in Freilassing ; † August 12, 1997 ibid) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Hermann Ober was born in Freilassing (Upper Bavaria) in 1920 in the home of the former Seidl farm on the corner of Westendstrasse and Salzstrasse. He completed his apprenticeship with the church painter Engelbert Staller, Salzburghofen. The first exhibition of his pictures took place in 1937.

In 1939 he was called up for military service with the mountain troops in Oberammergau . During this time, many landscape sketches and watercolors were created in various theaters of war. After being seriously wounded by a grenade in 1942, one leg had to be removed and he came back home. The painter was transferred from a Viennese hospital to a military hospital in Salzburg. During his recovery, further drawings and paintings were made there.

From 1944 he studied with interruptions at the Academy of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts under Josef Hillerbrand in Munich. At that time Hermann Ober saw the first exhibitions of modern art with international participation. Here he shaped his opinion that after the past “realistic art”, only “abstract art” could follow. While most art students painted flute players or other musicians on the subject of music, Ober painted the music abstractly, simply the colors of the music.

From 1949 to 1951 he studied with Slavi Soucek in Salzburg , who was decisive for Ober's artistic development. The separation from the "natural" to the abstract were the decisive stages for his artistic development. In 1951 he was a founding member of the “ Salzburg Group ”.

From 1951 to 1955 he studied again in Munich, where he was Franz Nagel's master class at the Academy of Fine Arts and graduated with the title "Academic Painter". After that he lived and worked in Freilassing, Munich and Salzburg. After graduating, he turned back to his homeland and Salzburg and from 1961 had a studio in the artist's house there. The mountains of the Tennengebirge changed his artistic work again. This was followed by the artistic exploration of the mountains and the initiation of the Rauriser Malertage 1975 as well as the founding of the " Group 73 " in Salzburg before that . Most recently he taught at the Künstlerhaus Salzburg. He died in 1997 at the age of 77.

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Until the end of his life, Hermann Ober experimented with shapes and materials. In the course of his work, Ober developed his own relief printing technique. He created idiosyncratic forms of embossing, as well as varying the technical printing possibilities of linocut .

Large-format murals by the artist can still be viewed in the train stations of Freilassing, Bad Reichenhall and Traunstein.

Works by Ober are represented in many museums u. a. Galerie Kunst der Gegenwart Vienna, Landesmuseum Münster, The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura & Hayama (Japan), Graphic Collection Munich, Folkwang Museum Essen, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Cincinnati Museum, Japan Print Association Tokyo, Museum Salzburg, etc. v. a.

honors and awards

  • 1977 Grand Prize for Fine Arts of the Salzburg Economy
  • 1980 citizen medal of the city of Freilassing in silver
  • 1988 Slavi Soucek Prize from the State of Salzburg
  • 1990 Citizen Medal of the City of Freilassing in gold

literature

  • Hermann Ober. Art in architecture: applied work . Freilassing 2017.
  • Hermann Ober. Nature and Figure - Paintings from 1943 to 1994 for his 75th birthday . Freilassing 1995
  • Hermann Ober: Works from 1950 to 1985. Exhibition from June 4th to 30th in the Künstlerhaus Salzburg . Salzburg 1985
  • Rolf Schmücking: Hermann Ober. Catalog raisonné of the graphic 1951-1968 . Verlag Galerie Schmücking, Braunschweig 1969
  • Abstract images of nature. With an introductory text about art and natural beauty . Color photos by Hermann Ober u. a. Bruckmann, Munich 1960

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Enzinger: Freilassing. Story of a young city . Rupertus Verlag, Schwarzach im Pongau 2003, ISBN 3-902317-01-9 , p. 408.
personal data
SURNAME Ober, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Freilassing
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1997
Place of death Freilassing