Josef Hunstiger (painter)
Josef Hunstiger (born November 1, 1889 in Höxter , † November 2, 1960 in Paderborn ) was a German painter.
Life
He attended the Art Academy in Düsseldorf from 1908 to 1914 , where he studied painting with Adolf Maennchen and Willy Spatz, among others . After the First World War , he moved to Paderborn in 1918, where he worked as a freelance artist until the 1950s.
Works
He made large-format portraits of numerous personalities in the region, trying to characterize the person portrayed by taking into account the social environment. In addition, he created religious art such as monumental altar paintings, paintings of the Stations of the Cross, pictures of the Madonna and colored church windows, painted scenes from mythology and history and copied pictures of old masters from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Many of his pictures are kept in the Paderborn City Museum.
His works include u. a .:
- Stained glass in the Church of St. Johann Baptist , Brilon-Nehden (1930)
- Portrait of the landowner Theodor Nolte with the Spiegelhof Germete (1930)
- Wedding at Cana according to Paolo Caliari (1933)
- Pen drawing of Adolf Hitler on his 50th birthday (1939)
- The Apostle Jude Thaddeus (1945)
- Portrait of the Cardinal of Chicago , George Mundelein (1956)
- Portrait of the cathedral capitular Alois Fuchs
- Meeting of Charlemagne with Pope Leo III.
Literature and Sources
- Friederike Steinmann, Karl Josef Schwieters, Michael Assmann: Paderborner Künstlerlexikon, pp. 110–112
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ News from OWL: Portraits of the painter Josef Hunstiger in the new Paderborn City Museum , Paderborn, August 13, 2017 [1]
- ^ Full-page drawing in Die Warte , Paderborn, April 1939 [2]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hunstiger, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Höxter |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2, 1960 |
| Place of death | Paderborn |