Richard Hohly

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Richard Hohly (born March 13, 1902 in Löwenstein , † April 11, 1995 in Bietigheim-Bissingen ) was a German painter.

Life

Richard Hohly was born in Löwenstein in 1902. His father was an innkeeper and winemaker. From 1915 to 1922 he attended a teacher training college in Kirchheim unter Teck and in Heilbronn and was then initially unemployed. Later he worked as a laborer and in a bank.

From 1924 he studied at the Art Academy in Stuttgart and graduated for a higher teaching post in 1929/1930. In between he was a master class student at the Kassel Art Academy in 1926 . In 1930 he met the painter Edvard Munch and joined the Berlin Secession . At the time, this group of artists included Max Pechstein , Lovis Corinth , Emil Nolde , Max Slevogt and Max Liebermann . He had previously married Annemarie Neumann from Pyritz in Pomerania.

During the National Socialist era , his works were classified as Degenerate Art from 1936 onwards , and his painting Lady with Service was removed from the Ulm Museum and destroyed. In 1936 he was transferred from Leonberg to Bietigheim for political reasons and taught at the local grammar school.

Despite the fact that the National Socialists viewed his works as degenerate, he was drafted into the military in November 1941. He was initially employed on the Eastern Front - in Stalingrad and the Ukraine - as a "war painter special leader " with the rank of lieutenant. The task of the war painters was to glorify the war, to motivate the soldiers ideologically and to support morale. However, Hohly's pictures were classified as negative and “not usable for propaganda purposes”. Since he did not see the "Slavic subhumans " in the Russian and Ukrainian people as required , he portrayed them much too humanly and, in the opinion of the National Socialists, too "sympathetic". His approximately 50 studies and sketches from this period, which were to be destroyed, he was able to bring it back into his possession in March 1943, so that it survived the war. In March 1943 he was posted to the intelligence service in France. Here he met Ernst Jünger , who was stationed in Paris.

Grave of the Hohly family

After the war he was a member of the artist group Der Rote Reiter and dealt intensively with the color theory of Adolf Hölzel and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as well as the ideas of Rudolf Steiner . In the 1950s he created works for building art and developed his own technique of glass inlay . In this glass painting without intermediate bars, he glued colored glasses to a carrier plate. The individual pieces were connected by a light joint made of synthetic resin that he developed . This technique made it possible for him to place different glasses on top of one another, which create luminous nuances.

His first wife Annemarie died in 1976. He then created his own museum, the rock gallery in Bietigheim-Bissingen. In 1978 he married a second time and in the same year received the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit for his extensive artistic life's work . Richard Hohly died in Bietigheim-Bissingen in 1995 and was buried in the forest cemetery in his hometown Löwenstein.

Works (selection)

His works are characterized by expressionistic colors and, above all, by their religious, Christian-philosophical and meditative motifs.

Today, works by Hohly can be found in the Stadt- und Manfred-Kyber-Museum Löwenstein, in the town hall and in the restaurant Hohly in Löwenstein and in the archive of the municipal museums in Heilbronn.

Richard Hohly would have been 100 years old in 2002. On this occasion, an exhibition entitled “Themes in Variations” was held from September 27, 2002 to November 17, 2002 in the municipal gallery of Bietigheim-Bissingen. A cross-section of his work with around 125 works was shown there.

literature

  • Richard Hohly, Dorothea Rapp: Richard Hohly. Life and Work - Life Pictures by Richard Hohly . Free Spiritual Life Publishing House, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-7725-0726-3
  • Herbert Eichhorn, Richard Hohly, Lieselotte Hahn: Richard Hohly on his ninetieth birthday, September 12 to November 15, 1992 , Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, City of Culture and Sports Office, 1992, ISBN 3-927877-09-3
  • Herbert Eichhorn, Richard Hohly, Isabell Schenk-Weininger: Richard Hohly on the 100th birthday, themes in variations , Städtische Galerie September 27 to November 17, 2002, Bietigheim-Bissingen 2002, ISBN 3-927877-53-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Eberhard Birk: The war painter Richard Hohly - Russia viewed too sympathetically, not usable for propaganda purposes. Publication of the Military History Research Office in Potsdam: Military History Issue 3/2006, page 18ff (PDF file, 3.4 MB)
  2. ↑ Museum database at kunst-und-kultur.de ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Hohly, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Lion's Arch
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1995
Place of death Bietigheim-Bissingen