Hermann Peters (painter)

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Hermann Peters (born January 14, 1886 in Gelsenkirchen , † 1970 in Eschenlohe , Garmisch-Partenkirchen district ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Peters was the offspring of an artistic family. His father, Heinrich Peters (1858–1917), who was born in Erkelenz , was a composer and director of the municipal music association of Gelsenkirchen , his brother Rudolf (1902–1962) was also a composer. After graduating from high school, he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1904 to 1912 . There were Peter Janssen the Elder and Adolf Munzer his teachers. After the First World War he lived in Düsseldorf for a short time before he returned to Gelsenkirchen in 1921, where he took part in a group exhibition in the rooms of the Gelsenkirchen City Picture Show in the same year .

Peters worked mainly as a painter and illustrator and belonged to the Ruhrland artists 'community around Otto Wohlgemuth and the Gelsenkirchen Artists' Association . He became known in particular through industrial motifs , which he depicted in the portfolios "From the world of work" (Gelsenkirchen 1921) and "Industrieheimat" (Wanne in Westphalia 1925). Like his Ruhrland colleague Hermann Kätelhön , he delivered precise depictions of colliery buildings for shares as well as documents to the employees on behalf of mining companies. But he also portrayed the miners themselves, as characters or at their workplace during physical exertion underground.

During the time of National Socialism , Peters was regularly represented in solo and group exhibitions in the city of Gelsenkirchen, for example in the exhibition "Hermann Peters and his students" and in an "anniversary exhibition" dedicated to him. In 1938 he took part in a touring exhibition of the NS community Kraft durch Freude : As artistic director, he organized exhibitions in the premises of the Consolidation and Rheinelbe collieries . After his studio on Wildenbruchstrasse was destroyed by an air raid in 1944, he moved to Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In 1951 he returned.

literature

  • Peters, Hermann . In: Manfred Neureiter (Hrsg.): Lexicon of the ex-libris artist . 5th edition, Konstanz 2018, ISBN 978-3-96409-034-8 , p. 465.
  • Gerhard Kill: The painter Hermann Peters . In: Vestischer Kalender , 1955, p. 65 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Klaus : Otto Wohlgemuth and the Ruhr district. A regional group of authors in the Weimar Republic . Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1980, ISBN 978-3-7609-0537-2 , p. 23
  2. ^ Theodor Kummer: A choral work from the life of a miner. Heinrich Peters: Glückauf! In: Joseph Rossen (ed.): The home. Monthly for the country, people and art in Westphalia and the Lower Rhine . Journal of the Westphalian Heimatbund, Heimatverlag Dortmund, Dortmund 1922, Volume 4, p. 257
  3. ^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
  4. ↑ Hellweg , Volume 1 (1921), pp. 462, 501
  5. ^ Dirk Hallenberger: Industry and Home. A literary history of the Ruhr area . Klartext, Essen 2000, ISBN 978-3-8847-4745-2 , p. 162
  6. ↑ Hildegard Schneiders: Pütt and Art - Mining as a Motif in Pictures and Sculptures , article from November 9, 2018 in the isso-online.de portal , accessed on February 22, 2020
  7. ^ Christoph Schmidt : National Socialist cultural policy in the Gau Westfalen-Nord. Regional structures and local milieus (1933–1945) . Research on regional history, Volume 54, Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-5067-2983-7 , pp. 199, 201 ( Google Books )
  8. ↑ Hartmut Hering, Hugo Ernst Buyer , Michael Klaus: Hard work began for us. Gelsenkirchen post-war reading book . Asso, Oberhausen 1986, ISBN 978-3-9215-4163-0 , p. 186
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH 1970
Place of death Eschenlohe , Garmisch-Partenkirchen district