Paul Hey

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Paul Hey (born October 19, 1867 in Munich , † October 14, 1952 in Gauting ) was a German painter , graphic artist , draftsman and illustrator .

Life

Paul Friedrich Hey was a son of the first marriage of the music teacher Julius Hey to Karoline, geb. Benfey. With his siblings Oskar (classical philologist), Else (married Gürleth-Hey; painter), Siegfried (diplomat), Ottilie (opera singer) and Johannes Julius, called Hans Erwin (singer and singing teacher), he grew up in Munich and visited from 1877 to 1886 (Abitur) the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium , in the final class with the Bavarian Crown Prince Rupprecht among others .

On October 18, 1886, his entry into the 2nd course of the preschool at the Munich Art Academy is documented, where he studied with Karl Raupp (1837–1918), Johann Caspar Herterich (1843–1905), Ludwig Löfftz ( 1893–1918) until the summer semester of 1893. 1845-1910) and Heinrich Zügel (1850-1941) was registered. In the vicinity of Munich and u. a. in Franconia (1892 in Pappenheim ) he made numerous studies based on nature. He received numerous honorable mentions, prizes and medals, for example the Silver Medal of Honor of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1892 for an oil painting with a motif from Pappenheim. At an early age he became a member of the artists' association “Wurstkessel” in the Künstler-Sänger-Verein eV in Munich.

In 1889 Paul Hey joined the 1st Bavarian Infantry Regiment. During the First World War he was employed as a soldier and war painter on the western and eastern fronts. In 1920 he was appointed lieutenant in the reserve.

In 1906 Paul Hey married the piano teacher Elisabeth Wilhelmine Duensing (1879–1952) in Partenkirchen, who in 1919 was the first woman to be elected to the Gautingen local council for the SPD. The adopted son Hans Hey emigrated to Argentina in 1934.

Around 1900 Paul Hey drew postcards for the Munich publisher Ottmar Zieher , as did other well-known graphic artists of his time, such as Michael Zeno Diemer , Emil Nolde and Heinrich Kley . Hey developed his own style. He created poetic, realistic graphics of old objects and illustrated, primarily using painting techniques, fairy tales and folk songs, including Sang und Klang für Kinderherz , published in 1909 by Engelbert Humperdinck , and the folk song album by Kathreiner in the mid-1930s . Hey was characterized by an intimate connection with nature and people. He is considered a painter of the German mind . Modern technology and technology remain hidden from his work.

Paul Hey achieved great fame with his illustrations for the German fairy tales as a series of cigarette pictures commissioned by Reemtsma . The scrapbook was published in 1939 with around 100 painted illustrations. It contained the printed fairy tales and was affordable for everyone at a price of one Reichsmark . The pictures for the fairy tales were available when buying a pack of cigarettes.

In 1940 Andersen's fairy tales were published by Thienemanns-Verlag in Stuttgart with four color plates and numerous illustrations drawn by Paul Hey, a new edition of which was published in the 1990s.

Several calendars with postcards by Paul Hey were published by Ackermanns Kunstverlag in Munich.

As an illustrator, he mostly translated the themes into a painterly work that, despite its high degree of naturalism, never slipped into kitsch and received an unmistakable note thanks to painterly discipline and great skill. A skillful approach to the choice of lighting can often be observed. This creates a very unique atmosphere in his work, which brought the work to be illustrated to life. Hey's paintings can be found in the market every now and then.

In Gauting near Munich, where he was based from March 1910, a street and a middle school were named after him.

literature

  • Dressler's art manual 1921.
  • Hey Paul . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924, p. 14 .
  • Paul Hey . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955.
  • Sonja Baranow: Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 2, Munich 1982.
  • Klaus Doderer (ed.): Lexicon of children's and youth literature. Weinheim / Basel 1982, Volume 4, pp. 277-278.
  • Alfred C. Baumgärtner, Heinrich Pleticha (Hrsg.): Children's and youth literature - a lexicon. 3. Supplementary delivery. Meitingen 1997 (portrait photo; 4 figs.).
  • Hans Ries: Illustrations and Illustrators 1871–1914. The range of images from the Wilhelminian era. History and aesthetics of the original and printing techniques. International lexicon of illustrators Bibliography of their work in German-language books and magazines, on picture sheets and blackboards. H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-87898-329-8 .
  • Moser, Dietz-Rüdiger: Paul Hey - the painter of perfect fairy tale worlds. On the 50th anniversary of his death on October 14, 2002. In: Literatur in Bayern. 70, 2001, pp. 48-64.
  • Carolin Raffelsbauer: Paul Hey - the painter of perfect worlds. A cultural and literary historical study of illustrative practical art in the first half of the 20th century. 2 volumes. Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-8316-0675-7 .
  • Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 375–381 (Fig.).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ * 27. April 1838 in Göttingen; Daughter of senior court attorney Samuel Benfey (1806–1871) and Caroline, b. Coppel (1814-1880 Munich); married June 10, 1865; died in 1880.
  2. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1877/78 and the following until 1885/86.
  3. ^ Diepholz near Hanover July 6, 1879 - August 11, 1952 Gauting; Daughter of Friedrich Christian Duensing, economist, and Sophie Friederike, b. Lehmann, in Berlin.
  4. ↑ * 1909 in Eglisau, Switzerland; According to information from the Gauting archive.
personal data
SURNAME Hey Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hey, Paul Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, illustrator and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1952
Place of death Gauting