Hermann Schlüschen
Hermann Schlüschen (born January 12, 1904 in Hamburg , † April 10, 1996 in Lüneburg ) was a German theater painter and artist.
Life
Schlüschen completed his training as a theater painter in Hamburg and then moved to the Lübeck Theater . He was also a German painter and graphic artist, whose versatile work is assigned to Expressionism , Constructivism , Cubism and Surrealism .
From 1925 Schlüschen went to the German Theater in Milwaukee , USA and returned to Germany in 1929 to the Bremen City Theater. From 1930 to 1969 he had a permanent engagement as the first theater painter at the Hamburg State Opera . In the meantime, he was imprisoned in the USSR for some time during World War II. In 1969 he retired and from 1979 he lived in Berlin and finally moved to Tann in the Rhön in 1983.
He spent the last 8 years of his life in Lüneburg (his final resting place is in the central cemetery in 21335 Lüneburg / Scharnebeck).
Schlüschen was married twice and had three children.
Schlüschen's role models were: Wassily Kandinsky , Emil Nolde , Marc Chagall , Paul Klee and Lyonel Feininger .
Act
The techniques he used in his approx. 3,700 works were drawing, pencil and charcoal, red chalk drawings, collages, oil paintings, acrylic paintings and chalk drawings. He was friends with Reinhard Lau and took lessons from Schulz and Hartmann at the Landeskunstschule Hamburg . The Nazi era shook and shaped the artist. The subject of degenerate art caused him to withdraw for a time. Up until his old age in 1990, Hitler was repeatedly caricatured by him. Hermann Schlüschen is one of the fine artists of Classical Modernism in the 20th century. Of his 3,700 complete works, around 250 are in private collections and currently 3,150 are in the possession of the Kastner Gallery in Lower Saxony, the whereabouts of the remaining works are unknown.
Exhibitions
- 1964: Hamburg theater painter
- 1985: Hamburg - Berlin - Tann: Fantastic painting in Kleinsassen
- 1992: Lüneburg exhibition Bizarre Grimace
- 1992: Exhibition in SPK Scharnebeck
- 2013: Exhibition in Dahlenburg (Schützenhaus)
literature
- Der neue Rump, page 398, Wachholz Verlag, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , second edition 2013.
Web links
- Hermann Schlüschen on artists.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schlüschen, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater painter and artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1996 |
| Place of death | Luneburg |