Paul Haustein

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Paul Haustein (born May 17, 1880 in Chemnitz , † September 6, 1944 in Stuttgart ) was a German goldsmith, book designer, craftsman, medalist and university professor.

Education and professional career

In Dresden and Munich he attended the arts and crafts school. At the Royal Art Academy in Munich he was a student of Johann Caspar Herterich .

Wine label designed for Wilhelm Gerstung with the monogram Paul Haustein "PH"

In 1901 Theodor von Kramer , the director of the Bavarian Industrial Museum , succeeded in winning Paul Haustein as well as Peter Behrens and Richard Riemerschmid for the annual arts and crafts master classes. He participated in the United Workshops for Arts in Crafts . In 1904 Paul Haustein became a member of the Darmstadt artists' colony . 1905-1907 he was an assistant teacher for the metal subject at the royal arts and crafts teaching and experimental workshop in Stuttgart, which later in the royal arts and crafts school and in 1918 in Staatl. Württembergische Kunstgewerbeschule is renamed. From 1907 to 1944 he taught there as a professor of metal art, from 1938 to 1940 he was the deputy director of the Württemberg State School of Applied Arts .

His best-known student and at times also an employee at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts was the goldsmith and silversmith Paula Straus, who was murdered in the Holocaust .

He was married to the concert pianist Johanna Haustein .

literature

  • Wolfgang Kermer (Ed.): Between book art and book design. Book designer for the academy and former arts and crafts school in Stuttgart: examples of works and texts. Edition Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1996, ISBN 3-89322-893-4 (including detailed bio / bibliographical data about Willi Baumeister, Gunter Böhmer, Walter Brudi, Johann Vincenz Cissarz, Heinz Edelmann, Paul Haustein, Hans Meid, Bernhard Pankok, Karl Rössing, FH Ernst Schneidler, Kurt Weidemann).
  • Moritz Otto Baron Lasser: From Paul Haustein's work. In: German art and decoration. XIII. Volume, pp. 178–188.
  • Johann Friedrich Häuselmann: Jewelry by Paul Haustein. In: Illustrirte Zeitung. 151. Volume, 1918, No. 3928, p. 395.
  • Heide Marie Roeder: Paul Haustein (1880–1944). A mediator of the German reform movement - work and material. Dissertation, University of Stuttgart, 1989.
  • Haustein, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 150-151 .
  • Haustein, Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 393 .
  • Petra Klara Gamke-Breitschopf: Haustein, Paul . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 70, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023175-5 , p. 245.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Haustein. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 16, 2015 .
  2. ↑ The rediscovery of a modern designer
personal data
SURNAME Haustein, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES PH (monogram)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German goldsmith
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1944
Place of death Stuttgart