Horst de Marées

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Horst de Marées (born October 25, 1896 in Weimar , † February 1, 1988 in Otterndorf ) was a German painter.

family

Marées' father Lothar de Marées was a landscape painter , his mother Claire de Marées (née Häberlin ) also a painter . Horst de Marées was a third degree great-nephew of the famous painter Hans von Marées .

Life

After school, Marées was drafted for military service in World War I and wounded in the leg. The handicapped pension enabled him to study art, first at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar with Walther Klemm , and then from October 1919 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Hugo von Habermann .

In the 1920s, Marées was a very successful portrait painter , so that he was able to move to Florence in 1927 . In 1933 he returned to Germany and initially settled in Braktin near Gerdauen in East Prussia . In the Third Reich he won some prizes and recognition, on the other hand some works were removed from exhibitions. In 1939 he made the acquaintance of the French painter Jean Giono , who inspired him for rural motifs. In the same year he bought a small farm in Barkau , Angerapp district , and in 1942 a larger farm in the nearby Ragauen . In 1943 he was drafted into the army (Wehrmacht) , but in 1944 he was released for health reasons. During the East Prussian Operation (1945) large parts of his work were lost.

He first settled down with his parents in Wasungen, Thuringia, and continued his painting activity. He was in the Soviet occupation zone and in the German Democratic Republic he was - as in the Third Reich - recognized as an artist, although here too he had to accept restrictions on exhibitions. When the GDR authorities refused him a travel permit for an operation in 1960, he fled to West Germany and settled in Osterbruch , but also kept a summer residence in Verdun-en-Lauragais . In 1988 Marées died at the age of 92.

plant

Marée's significance has not yet been fully processed scientifically. He seems to have always been somewhat distant from the artistic currents and fashions of his time, without making himself independent of them. His ambivalent relationship to both the National Socialist and later the East German art world is remarkable.

Marée's work comprises several thousand works, most of which are in museums in Meiningen , Erfurt and Altenburg and some of which were lost during the Soviet invasion of East Prussia. A part is also privately owned.

literature

  • Horst de Marées - his life - his work , documentation by Rudolf Enzian , Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Archive for Fine Arts [unpublished]
  • Horst de Marées 1896–1988. Paintings and drawings , Höxter 1982 (exhibition catalog)
  • Horst de Marées 1896–1988. Line and Color , Ottendorf 2002 (exhibition catalog)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matriculation book of the Art Academy 1884-1920, entry Horst de Marées. October 19, 1919, Retrieved October 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Marées, Horst de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1988
Place of death Otterndorf