Leo Sebastian Humer

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Leo Sebastian Humer: Ceiling painting in the parish church Mariahilf ("Heldendankkirche"), Bregenz, 1931
Bozen advertising graphic Leo Sebastian Humers for car straps (1925)

Leo Sebastian Humer (born July 18, 1896 in Brixen , Austria-Hungary , † December 30, 1965 in Bregenz ) was an Austrian painter and a representative of the New Objectivity .

Life

Humer was born the son of an Imperial and Royal District Chief Secretary. From 1918 he studied at the art academy in Munich with Hugo von Habermann and Hermann Groeber . In 1921 he designed a poster for the referendum in Tyrol , which took sides for a German national solution and spoke out in favor of the annexation of Tyrol to the German Reich. In 1925 he was in Innsbruck with Hans Andre and Wilhelm Nicolaus Prachensky founder of the Tyrolean artists' association Waage and organized the traveling exhibition "Tyrolean Artists", which took place in Germany in 1925/26, first in Gelsenkirchen, then a. a. could be seen in Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Munich. In 1926 he moved to Düsseldorf, where he initially earned his living as an illustrator for daily newspapers. In 1932 he joined the NSDAP and after the seizure of power in 1933 he was appointed associate professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Humer took on the position of the dismissed professor Paul Klee . In 1940 he became a full professor in Düsseldorf. During World War II , Humer was part of a propaganda company in Belgium and Italy. In 1945 he was released from civil service and moved to Bregenz.

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Humer's artistic work spanned more than three decades and can be divided into three major work phases. These are closely linked to the changing places of residence and living conditions as well as the socio-political situation. While he was in the room Tyrol / Südtirol mainly portraits anfertigte in expressionist and later new objective manner, the illustrator activities predominate in the years in Germany after the phase after 1926, from the Theater Museum Dusseldorf about 170 roles and portrait studies at the Municipal Theater Dusseldorf receive remained, from 1936 to 1945 monumental commissioned works in fresco technique on behalf of the Nazi regime . In 1936 he executed two large wall paintings in the NS-Ordensburg Krössinsee with the titles “Sacrifice” and “Construction”, which were objected to and painted over because of their “strange stylization”. At the end of the Second World War he moved to Vorarlberg (1946–1965), where he primarily received orders from the Catholic Church . The complete works of Leo Sebastian Humer are not only characterized by their thematic variety but also by a wide range of applied art techniques.

Works

  • Waldemar Bonsels ( Deutsches Theatermuseum , Munich), o.A.
  • Self-portrait (Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum , Innsbruck), 1920
  • Poster for the referendum (City Archives / City Museum, Innsbruck), 1921
  • Sent M'Ahesa (Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck), 1924
  • Untitled (Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz), 1925
  • The Siamesin (Maggi Xander) (Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck), 1927
  • Draft sketch (Veronika) (Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck), 1931
  • Draft sketch (Pietà) (Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck), 1931
  • Study (half-length portrait of Hilde Zimmermann) (Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck), 1931
  • Haflinger peasant race (Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck), 1931
  • Ceiling painting and Stations of the Cross Parish Church Mariahilf (Heldendankkirche) Bregenz, 1931
  • Doll's corner (Brigittchen) ( Vorarlberger Landesmuseum , Bregenz), 1945
  • Draft series for provincial administrative tax stamps (Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz), o. A.
  • Draft (Pietà) (Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz), 1945/46
  • Mural ( FM Hämmerle , Dornbirn- Steinebach ), 1948
  • Sketch (string quartet) (Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz), 1949
  • Sgraffito (Castrum Brigantium, Bregenz-Oberdorf), 1951
  • Ceiling painting in the nave of the parish church Egg , 1951
  • Stations of the Cross ( Friedenskirche , Linz-Urfahr ), 1951
  • Stations of the Cross (Franciscan Church, Bozen ), 1953
  • Burghard Breitner ( University of Innsbruck / Dean's Office, Innsbruck), 1953
  • Stations of the Cross (St. Gebardskirche / Vorloster), 1959

Illustrations

  • Josef Urhahn: Rhine-Ruhr Primer , with illustrations by Else Wenz-Vietor and Leo Sebastian Humer, Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1940
  • Josef Urhahn: The child's home. A primer for town and country , with illustrations by Else Wenz-Vietor and Leo Sebastian Humer, pp. 69–73, Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1943

Exhibitions

literature

  • E. Prünster: Humer, Leo Sebastian . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 75, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023180-9 , p. 478 f.
  • Else Prünster: Leo Sebastian Humer (1896–1965). The portrait as a whole. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2005.
  • Else Prünster, Magdalena Ölzant: Leo Sebastian Humer 1896–1965. Folio Verlag , Vienna-Bozen 2009, ISBN 978-3-85256-493-7 .

Web links

Commons : Leo Sebastian Humer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilfried Kirschl: Painting and Graphics in Tirol 1900–1940 , Wiener Secession, Innsbruck, Kongresshaus, Verlag: Land Tirol, 1973, p. 66 (exhibition catalog)
  2. ^ University of Innsbruck, Brenner Archive Research Institute
  3. ^ Günter Morsch , Corinna Cossmann: Oranienburg concentration camp . Series of publications by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation , Hentrich 1994. ISBN 978-3-89468-151-7 , p. 46
personal data
SURNAME Humer, Leo Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Brixen
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1965
Place of death Bregenz