Jean Welz
Jean Welz , actually Hans Welz (born March 4, 1900 in Salzburg , † December 24, 1975 in Cape Town , South Africa ) was an Austrian and later South African painter and architect . He was the brother of the art dealer and publisher Friedrich Welz .
Hans Welz studied under Oskar Strnad and Josef Hoffmann in Vienna Architecture and then volunteered in Hoffmann's office. From 1925 he worked in Paris with Adolf Loos and Robert Mallet-Stevens and from that time only appeared as Jean ( French form of Hans ). In 1936 he emigrated to South Africa, where he designed numerous buildings as an architect and, on the recommendation of Le Corbusier , taught at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg for two years .
For health reasons, he decided in 1938 to concentrate exclusively on painting and moved to Worcester . In his pictures, which were shaped by the French sense of color and form, he tried to implement ideas from Gestalt theory, whereby the rhythmic entanglement and color dynamization of the simple objectivity gained complexity. Jean Welz died on Christmas Eve 1975 in Cape Town and is now considered one of the most important South African artists.
source
- Adolf Haslinger and Peter Mittermayr (eds.): Salzburger Kulturlexikon . Residenz Verlag . Salzburg and Vienna 1987. ISBN 3-7017-0503-8
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| SURNAME | Welz, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Welz, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-South African painter and architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1975 |
| Place of death | Cape Town , South Africa |