Hermann son

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Hermann Sohn (born April 5, 1895 in Esslingen-Mettingen , † May 14, 1971 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a German art educator and artist .

Life

Hermann Sohn was born in Esslingen-Mettingen in 1895 as the son of a wine grower. After leaving school he completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer at the Esslinger Schreiber-Verlag . From 1911 to 1913 he studied at the Kgl. Stuttgart School of Applied Arts with Bernhard Pankok . He then worked as a commercial artist. Seriously wounded during the First World War, he was dismissed from military service as an invalid in 1916. From 1918 to 1922 he studied painting at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts with Christian Speyer , Christian Landenberger , Adolf Hölzel , Arnold Waldschmidt and Heinrich Altherr. There he met Willi Baumeister and Oskar Schlemmer . After Cubist and Constructivist beginnings, he turned to Expressionism under the influence of Altherr. In 1923 he became a member of the Stuttgart Secession. In 1925 a scholarship enabled him to study for two years in Berlin, where he was supported by the art dealer Alfred Flechtheim. After the National Socialists came to power in 1937, a work and exhibition ban was imposed on him. After the war ended in 1946 he was appointed professor of painting at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts, where he worked until 1962. After his retirement he lived as a freelance artist in Esslingen am Neckar.

Works (selection)

  • Self-portrait, 1918/19 oil / box 43 × 37.5 cm
  • Village at Night, 1923 Oil / canvas 72 × 137 cm
  • Composition, 1924 watercolor
  • War invalids, 1928 oil / plywood 43 × 46
  • Self-portrait with a bottle, 1929, oil / canvas 120 × 111 cm
  • Luggage rack, 1929, oil / canvas 110 × 84 cm
  • Wounded soldier (self-portrait), 1929, oil / canvas 95 × 15 cm
  • At the hairdresser's, 1932, oil / canvas 102.5 × 85 cm
  • The black men, 1934, oil / canvas 150 × 200 cm
  • Pumpkin still life, 1947, oil / canvas 44.3 × 65.2 cm
  • Blooming trees, 1950, oil / canvas 71 × 90 cm
  • Portrait of Reinhold Nägele, 1954, oil / canvas 71.5 × 57.5
  • Japanese Ballet, 1956, pastel 44 × 62 cm
  • Painter with lamp, 1957, oil / canvas 115 × 90 cm
  • Easter in Arles, 1964 Oil / canvas 110 × 87

literature

  • Hermann Sohn: Oil Paintings - Pastels - Drawings, Esslingen: Gallery of the City of Esslingen, 1975
  • Hermann son. Retrospective for the 100th birthday, edited by Martin Heller et al., Esslingen: Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, 1995

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the period of study corresponds to a brief autobiography that appeared in the Sunday supplement to the Stuttgarter Zeitung of September 21, 1946, the newspaper page reproduced in facsimile in: Wolfgang Kermer : thirty years ago . In: Akademie-Mitteilungen 7 / Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart / For the period from April 1, 1975 to May 31, 1976 / Ed. By Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, August 1976, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Son, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art educator and artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen-Mettingen
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1971
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar