Jan Let
Jan Laß actually Johann Franz Albert Laß (born January 30, 1890 in Kappeln , on the fishing peninsula , Schleswig-Holstein , † November 4, 1958 in Kiel ) was a North German landscape painter and graphic artist .
Life
Jan Laß was born in Kappeln in Schmiedestrasse 10 as the son of the painter Peter Heinrich Carl Laß and Anna Mathilde Minna Albrecht. He was the youngest of 10 siblings and came from one of the founding families of the fishing village Maasholm .
education
1905–1909 he learned the painting trade . In addition to his apprenticeship, he attended the arts and crafts school in Flensburg as an evening student . Working as a painter's journeyman in Hamburg , he continued his artistic training from 1911 at the arts and crafts school in Altona . Drafted for World War I in August 1914 , he was wounded in France in 1915 . In 1916 he passed the master craftsman's examination in painting.
Creative periods
After the end of the war, he developed the "Hamburger Puppenspiele" project with Hans Leip . After working as a drawing teacher at a boys' school in Altona, he worked as a freelance artist from 1920. Characteristic of his creative time in Altona were monumental figure compositions on Christian themes, but also on the genre of modern industrial society. His port views and his depictions of workers' figures were particularly well received. His “Worker Madonna”, an “idealistic synthesis of religious and social image content”, which was sold to a youth home in Cologne, became famous.
Long stays on Föhr and Sylt from 1921 to 1923 allowed him to find the real theme of his art, the landscape of Northern Germany , especially the coasts of Schleswig-Holstein . A series of excellent watercolors “Sylt in Winter” and a series of oil paintings with motifs of the west coast landscape fixed his popular reputation as a landscape artist at traveling exhibitions through Schleswig-Holstein.
January Let moved in 1934 with his large family by fishing in a secluded hotel on the long lake near the village Süderfahrenstedt . The scenic grace of the lake always attracted him to new pictorial representations.
In the years 1936 to 1938, Laß accepted orders for wall paintings in barracks , the choice of topics was always limited to the historical past. Wall paintings from later years in public buildings also move in the border area between the traditional and the contemporary. His work in the Schleswig Cathedral School has been preserved, as has his tile mural beam beam (also construction workers ) from 1932 in the Fritz Schumacher School in Hamburg-Langenhorn .
In 1943/44 he tried to deal with the violence, suffering and destruction of the Second World War in large-scale compositions .
Jan Laß died in a hospital in Kiel in 1958 and was buried near the church in Böklund .
Works
The poet Hans Leip, around 1910, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg
"The Guardian", around 1917 former preparation institute, Kappeln
"Kai in Altona", around 1928. Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach, Essen
From Altona, 1930, Museumsberg Flensburg
Landscape in the Probstei, National Gallery Berlin
Am Langsee, 1936, Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig
literature
- Georg Clasen: The consecration of the school's new tile mural, with a note by Johannes Böse , De Börner , June / July 1932, p. 47 ( digitized version ).
- Peter Laurens: Murals in the settlement school , De Börner , October 1932, p. 61 ( digitized version ).
- Berthold Hamer: Biographies of the fishing landscape. Volume 2. Husum Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89876-339-4 .
- Maike Bruhns : Let, Jan . In: The new rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area . Ed .: Rump family. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary . Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 261.
- Bärbel Manitz: Jan Laß - an (un) forgotten painter between Altona and fishing. In: Schleswig-Holstein Heft 1/2, 1991, pp. 14-19.
- Wilhelm Detlefsen: Jan Laß at the Langsee. In: Yearbook Heimatverein fishing. 1992, pp. 180-184.
- Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: artist island Sylt. Heide 2018, ISBN 3-8042-1481-9 , pp. 240f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to Biographies of the Landscape Fishing November 4th , according to Der neue Rump November 5th
- ↑ Kappeln baptismal register . Born in 1890, No. 55 .
- ^ Rüdiger Schütt (ed.), Diary and Night Book of the Hamburger Puppenspiele - Expressionist Marionettentheater in Hamburg 2005.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leave it, Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Let, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kappeln , fishing , Schleswig-Holstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th November 1958 |
| Place of death | Kiel |