Hans Looschen

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Hans Looschen, 1897

Hans Looschen (born June 23, 1859 in Berlin ; † February 11, 1923 there ) was a Berlin painter .

Life

Portrait of Wilhelm Gericke, 1918, Berlin merchant and city councilor

Looschen was the son of the porcelain painter Hermann Looschen , who worked at the Royal Porcelain Manufactory . Due to the relocation of the production facility, the family moved to Charlottenburg , where he attended the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium. He received his professional training at the Prussian Academy of the Arts . His teachers were Paul Thumann , Otto Knille , Ernst Hildebrand . For a short time he joined the Munich Luitpold Group . In 1887 Looschen first took part in the Berlin Academy exhibitions. From 1892 to 1923 he was a member of the Berlin Artists Association . From 1893 he regularly took part in the presentations of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and was its president on several occasions. From 1899 to 1901 he was represented in the Berlin Secession . In 1908 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , and four years later the large one. Equal medals were also awarded to him in Vienna, Munich and Barcelona. In 1908 he obtained the title of professor. In 1910, the city of Berlin received the honorary award. He was first a member of the Prussian State Art Commission, later the Prussian Chamber of Artistic Experts. In 1913 he was elected to the Academy of Arts, of which he was a member of the Senate until the end of his life - triggered by a heart attack .

Hans Looschen worked as a landscape painter, portraitist and illustrator; in addition, still lifes and monumental historical pictures were created , which are characterized by the realism of the late 19th century. His drawings and illustrations were found to be humorous at the time and still bear witness to his early caricature approaches, in which he satirized the works of other artists. In the summer of 1916 several prisoners of war from North Africa sat for him in the half-moon camp in Wünsdorf . Losschen was portrayed by the painter Georg Ludwig Meyn . The painting was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1905 . He himself took part in the 1914 Biennale with a painting entitled A Gift . In 1909 he was represented with the painting The Blue Clock at the traveling exhibition Exhibition of contemporary German art , which was on view in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York and the Copley Society in Boston.

His portrait of the Berlin merchant and city councilor Carl Wilhelm Gericke (Berlin-Moabit 1838–1926 Berlin) is kept in the painting collection of the Berlin City Museum Foundation . In the portrait he is shown with his chain of office.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jörg Michael Junker: The six paintings in the city council meeting room. A souvenir picture of the painter Hans Looschen . In: Steffen Iffland, Rainer Hellbers (ed.): Der Heimatbote . Local history contributions from the Nordhausen district. Issue 4. Self-published by Steffen Iffland, Nordhausen-Salza am Harz 2001, ISBN 3-9807032-3-1 , p. 21-27 .
  2. ↑ a b The day . Berlin February 18, 1923.
  3. ↑ a b Hans Looschen † . In: Vossische Zeitung . Berlinische Zeitung of state and learned things. Morning edition. Berlin February 13, 1923, p. 2 f . ( zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de [accessed on January 14, 2016]).
  4. ↑ a b c New members of the Berlin Academy of the Arts . In: German newspaper . Berlin March 8, 1913.
  5. ^ German daily newspaper . Berlin February 18, 1923.
  6. ↑ H. Looschen as a cartoonist for his colleagues . In: Düsseldorfer Nachrichten . Düsseldorf February 15, 1923, art and science.
  7. ↑ Prisoner of War Onis Gem Mahmud. In: LeMO - Living Museum Online. Retrieved March 17, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Christoph Becker, Annette Lagler: Venice Biennale: the German contribution 1895-1995 , Cantz, Stuttgart, 1995 ISBN 978-3-89322740-2

literature

  • Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Dominik Bartmann (arrangement): Paintings II. List of the holdings from the end of the 19th century to 1945. Berlin 2004, cat.-no .: 309, p. 142, ISBN 3-910029-37-X .

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personal data
SURNAME Looschen, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1923
Place of death Berlin