Hugo Peters

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Hugo Peters (1957)

Hugo Peters (born January 6, 1911 in Düren ( Rhineland ), † January 8, 2005 in Stuttgart ) was a German art educator, artist and writer .

Life

When Hugo Peters was ten years old, his parents separated and he grew up with his father, a sales representative. This meant that he traveled a lot with his father from a young age and these early impressions, seeing new landscapes, cities and people, shaped him throughout his life. He spent part of his school days in Vaihingen an der Enz and graduated from high school in Nuremberg in 1931 . He wanted to become a painter early on. From 1931 to 1935 he studied painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule Krefeld , and from 1937 to 1939 at the Kunstgewerbeschule Stuttgart under Ernst Schneidler . From 1940 to 1945 he was a soldier in Poland, Russia and the Balkans during the Second World War and his sketchbook was a constant companion: “Disguised as a soldier, I saw a foreign country with local people.” After the war he initially worked as a freelance painter and draftsman active. In 1947 he received a teaching position for basic artistic teaching at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . In 1961 he was appointed professor for this subject. With this his systematic school of seeing and visual exploration of the world, he left a lasting mark on a large number of young artists. When he retired in 1976, he was able to devote himself entirely to his own artistic work for many years. He has put down his extensive experience as a teacher in two publications: on the one hand, the subtle introduction to drawing: Äugel and the imaginary space from 1964; and then, as a comprehensive overview, the basic visual theory of 1994. In 1981 the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart appointed him an honorary member, in 2004 an honorary senator.

Teaching

The subject “general artistic training” at the academy in Stuttgart comprised the first two semesters. Here, Peters wanted the students to first get to know the material (paper, clay, etc.) in terms of its properties, its malleability, then experimentally test out the artistic tools (reed pen, brush, charcoal pencil, Pitt chalk) and finally the Examine different possibilities of creative means (ink, color pigments). This was followed by the elementary artistic conquest of the two-dimensional surface and space. These exercises were accompanied by an intensive theoretical questioning, by readings of classical and modern texts, from Plato to Adolf Portmann . Reading Eugen Herrigel's Zen in the Art of Archery was particularly important to him : The archer has to find the “Great Way”, so that IT doesn't shoot, but IT shoots. Peters related that to artistic creation: not I paint, but you have to get it to paint. The former rector of the Stuttgart Academy, Wolfgang Kermer , called Hugo Peters “the last steadfast advocate of general artistic education”.

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Hugo Peters mostly worked in small and medium formats on paper. His preferred painting media were tempera and gouache , often using special techniques. The subject that fascinated him again and again was the landscape: "I'm not a landscape painter - I paint pictures from landscapes". His entire artistic estate was taken over by the " Würth Collection " after his death and is scientifically processed there.

literature

  • From the class for general artistic education: Professor Hugo Peters. Edited and with a foreword by Wolfgang Kermer . State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1976 (loose sheets in folder).
  • Hugo Peters: Basic visual theory. Enke, Stuttgart 1994; Seemann, Berlin 2001, 2nd edition.
  • Hugo Peters: Der Äugel - the art of spatial drawing. Seemann, Leipzig, 2001; Reprint of the 1st edition Maier, Ravensburg 1964.
  • Hugo Peters, monograph with catalog raisonné. Theiss, Stuttgart 1990.
  • Beate Elsen-Schwedler, Sylvia Weber, Kristine Preuß: Hugo Peters, works in the Würth Collection. Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ quoted from: Heide R. Langer: The painter Hugo Peters. In: Hugo Peters. Monograph with catalog raisonné 1972–1989. Theiss, Stuttgart 1990, p. 16.
  2. ↑ quoted from: Horst Bergmann: For his services to the academy. Laudation Hugo Peters, May 17, 2004, p. 1.
  3. ↑ quoted from: Hugo Peters, Works in the Würth Collection. Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2008, p. 21; most of the biographical data were also taken from this publication.

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personal data
SURNAME Peters, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art educator, artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Düren ( Rhineland )
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2005
Place of death Stuttgart