Jo Hanns Küpper

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Jo Hanns Küpper (born November 24, 1907 in Aachen ; † March 24, 1986 there ) was a German graphic artist and painter .

Live and act

Küpper was born in Aachen as the third of six children of the married couple Wilhelm Küpper and his wife Klara, geb. Frohn, born and raised there. While attending the St. Marien elementary school in Aachen, he began to paint and draw regularly at the age of seven. From 1922 he completed an apprenticeship as a decoration and church painter with Joseph Cujé in Aachen, which he finished in 1925 with the journeyman's examination and the grade "good". In 1930 he began studying as an evening schoolboy at the Aachen School of Applied Arts , which he completed after seven semesters with the grade “very good”.

He designed interiors and film posters, and also worked in the field of nude and landscape painting. In 1932 the first participation in the annual exhibition of the "Aachener Künstlerbund" took place in the Suermondt Museum of the city of Aachen. A year later he moved into his first studio. Until the position order in 1939, he completed a regular course of study at the Werkkunstschule as a scholarship holder from the city of Aachen and from his friend, the painter and art professor August von Brandis . In the meantime, Küpper founded his third generation painting workshop in 1937, which he had to temporarily close in 1940 due to the war, but was able to reopen in 1950.

During the Second World War , Küpper belonged to the Luftwaffe's ground troops, the flak, as an e-knife. He was used in France , Denmark , Poland and Germany . In doing so, he renounced titles and promotions. During the war he drew and watercolored many landscapes and cities, made portraits of his comrades, designed sets for the front theater and, towards the end of the war, drew the devastation of cities and landscapes as well as the plight of the suffering population on the retreat and in the internment camp. Much of his early paintings and watercolors were lost during World War II.

After his release from military service and internment camp, Küpper devoted himself to numerous cityscapes of Aachen, drew landscapes in the Eifel and Westphalia as well as in the vicinity of Minden , Rheda and Wiedenbrück . In addition, processed from 1952 impressions of several trips to southern countries. In 1948 he won the competition between Düsseldorf, Cologne and Aachen artists to design the 1st class restaurant in Aachen Central Station . In 1953 he acted with the Aachen graphic artist Jupp Kuckartz as the initiator of the "Aachener Künstlerbund 1953". In 1958 the second marriage took place with the art historian Anne Küpper, b. Schumacher. In 1967 the two sons Hanns Michael and Lucas were born.

After a long illness he died on March 24, 1986 in Aachen.

reception

In addition to the representational motifs, Küpper processed existential themes in his own abstract iconography. He was also influenced by informal and pop art . Küpper also worked with acrylic, and in the early 1970s he discovered sculpture, which regularly took him to the Carrara marble quarries . The art movements of the second half of the 20th century are reflected in his works and they nevertheless show their own cosmos of thought in the different work phases.

literature

  • Jo Hanns Küpper, Jupp Kuckartz: paintings, watercolors, graphics , Neue Bücherstube, Cologne, 1947
  • Ernst Günther Grimme : Jo Hanns Küpper: Painting, Graphics , Museum Association Aachen , 1967
  • metamorphoses: painting, plastic since 1975 , Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen
  • Painting and sculpture , Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, 1988

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personal data
SURNAME Küpper, Jo Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1986
Place of death Aachen