Karl Huebner (painter)

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Karl Hübner (born December 24, 1902 in Segesvár , then Kingdom of Hungary , † February 8, 1981 in Brașov ) was a Transylvanian painter and graphic artist .

Life

After graduating from high school in Kronstadt, he accepted an invitation from Berlin-based pianist Selma Honigberger, an aunt, and began studying art in the German capital in 1926. One of his teachers was Ernst Honigberger, who was already known at the time. In 1927, Hübner continued his studies in Bucharest, where he had excellent teachers such as Camil Ressu (1880–1962), whose influence can be seen in Hübner's work. As a master student he stayed in Bucharest until 1933 and then returned to Kronstadt. In 1958 he married the writer and children's book author Erika Barth, known under the name of Hübner-Barth (1932–2011).

Career

In 1935, Hübner exhibited for the first time in the gallery of the ice-skating pavilion in Kronstadt and was praised by the critics in the “Kronstädter Zeitung” for “the sure mastery of the figurative”. The intensive work up to the outbreak of the Second World War and the call-up for Romanian military service and front deployment (1940–1944) was marked not least by a series of personal exhibitions by Huebner, among others in Kronstadt, Sibiu, Cluj and Bucharest. In 1938 he took part with oil paintings in the "Gesamtschau Deutscher Künstlerrumiens", which was much discussed then and later for political reasons. As in the case of no fewer artists in a comparable situation, valuable sketchbooks were obtained from the war period, some of the motifs of which reappear in later work.

In the post-war decades, Hübner belonged to the circle of visual artists known beyond Kronstadt, such as Hermann Morres , Hans Eder, Heinrich Schunn, Helfried Weiß, Harald Meschendörfer , Eduard Morres and Friedrich von Bömches .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1935: Gallery of the Ice Pavilion
  • 2012: Kronstadt Art Museum / Muzeului de Artă Braşov

Bibliography (selection)

  • Claus Stephani : The mind of a poet. To the retrospective exhibition of Karl Hübner in the Arta-Saal in Kronstadt. In: Neue Literatur (Bucharest), 19/9, 1968, pp. 115–116.
  • Mihai Nadin: Pictori din Brașov. Meridians: Bucharest 1975.
  • Claus Stephani : “ I went this way .” Thoughts on Karl Huebner's 90th birthday. In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung (Munich), 42/20, December 15, 1992, p. 5.
  • Hans Bergel: painter and graphic artist Karl Hübner born 100 years ago. In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung-Online from November 14, 2002.
  • Exhibition catalog (bilingual) " Expoziţia retrospectivă Karl Hübner (1902-1981) - Retrospective Karl Hübner (1902-1981)". Braşov: Editura Muzeului de Artă Braşov, 2012, ISBN 978-606-92557-9-7 .
  • Christine Chiriac: An unjustly forgotten painter: Karl Huebner. In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung-Online from October 19, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Huebner, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Transylvanian painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Segesvár , then the Kingdom of Hungary, now Romania
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1981
Place of death Brașov , Romania