Johannes Sass (painter)
Johannes Friedrich Sass (born May 5, 1897 in Magdeburg , † 1972 in Hanover ) was a German painter and art teacher.
Life
From 1911 to 1914 Johannes Sass learned the profession of lithographer . He then attended the arts and crafts school in Magdeburg . At the end of the First World War he was still a soldier in 1918. He returned to the applied arts school in 1919 and worked there part-time until 1921.
From 1921 Johannes Sass worked as a freelance artist. He became second chairman of the Börde artists' association in Magdeburg (1922) until he moved to Berlin in 1925. Study trips took him to Italy , the Netherlands and southern France . In 1928 he joined the German Association of Artists and was honored by them in 1933 and awarded a scholarship to the Villa Romana in Florence until 1935 .
During the Nazi era he was a member of the NSDAP . William Fahrenholtz , first head of the Chamber of Commerce Magdeburg, asked at the NSDAP Party Chancellery approval for Johannes Sass, the Nazi Party in 1936 from near sketches by Adolf Hitler for a painting at the community center Magdeburg draw to be allowed. However, Martin Bormann refused. In the Second World War , Johannes Sass served as a soldier again from 1939 to 1945, while a bomb attack in 1944 destroyed his studio apartment in Berlin-Wilmersdorf and destroyed large parts of his work. In 1950 he moved to Hanover and from 1956 taught at the local art school .
In his artistic work he was particularly connected to the artist group Brücke . From the 1950s he increasingly turned to landscape painting with oil tempera. His work includes, with watercolor sketch sheets, portrait painting, still life and the preoccupation with the art of the Far East and antiquity, however, even more diverse works.
Publicly owned exhibitions and works
Exhibitions
- 1932: Exhibition of modern German art, Oslo
- 1933: Exhibition of 30 German artists in Berlin
- 1936: Painting and sculpture in Germany , Hamburger Kunstverein
- 1936: Participation in the Venice Biennale
- 1952: Contemporary painting and sculpture , 2nd exhibition of the German Association of Artists, State House at Rheinpark , Cologne
- 1956: 6th exhibition of the German Association of Artists, exhibition halls at the Ehrenhof , Düsseldorf
Publicly owned works
- Murals (1927), Stretense Chapel
- Murals (1929) Magdalenenkapelle , Magdeburg
- Mural in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior , Hanover
- Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg , Lord Mayor Hermann Beims (1930)
- Loans in the modern department of the Nationalgalerie Berlin in the Kronprinzenpalais (until 1936)
- Watercolors from the 1950s in the Hannover Medical School (including station 43)
Awards
- Villa Romana Prize of the German Association of Artists (1933)
Individual evidence
- ^ Institute for Contemporary History (Ed.), Edited by Helmut Haiber: files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP. Reconstruction of a lost stock; Collection of the correspondence handed down in other provenances, minutes of meetings, etc. with the deputy of the Führer and his staff or the party chancellery, their offices, departments and subdivisions as well as with Hess and Bormann personally , Volume 1, Saur, Munich / London / New York / Paris, 1983, ISBN 3-486-49641-7 , p. 191
- ↑ see entry Johannes Saß in the list of the members exhibiting in 1936, in: 34th Annual Exhibition Bonn. Pictures banned in 1936 , Deutscher Künstlerbund eV, Berlin 1986. (p. 99)
- ↑ Christoph Becker / Annette Lagler, Venice Biennale. The German contribution 1895-1995 , Cantz, Ostfildern 1995, ISBN 3-89322-740-7
- ↑ flickr.com: Lord Mayor Hermann Beims (accessed on January 5, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sass, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sass, Johannes Friedrich (full name); Sat, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1972 |
| Place of death | Hanover |