Werner Hahmann

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Werner Hahmann (* 1. December 1883 in Chemnitz , † 15. September 1977 in Berlin ; Complete name: Werner Franz Hahmann ) was a German painter , graphic artist and architect who, above all, through his etchings and cartoons for the magazine Kladderadatsch known has been.

Life

Werner Hahmann initially studied architecture at the Chemnitz Business Academy and received further artistic training at the Dresden , Munich and Paris art academies . He became a member of the Corps Thuringia Dresden . He liked to take his etchings or drawings with genre or satirical depictions from the Parisian subject or later from the social life of Berlin or the political landscape of Germany. Hamann presented his Parisian scenes at the Chemnitz exhibitions in 1910, 1912 and 1918, as part of the Dresden watercolor exhibitions in 1913, he participated with watercolors , with drawings at the graphic exhibitions in Hamburg also in 1913 and the exhibition for the book trade in Leipzig in 1914.

Werner Hahmann was known as an employee of the Kladderadatsch since 1914 , but also published caricatures in the Magdeburgische Zeitung , which brought out his works in collected form. Hahmann lived in Berlin and worked there as a private lecturer at the Technical University . He also worked as an illustrator, for example he contributed several text illustrations for a book of fairy tales, Thea von Harbous .

reception

Some of his caricatures became popular as image sources, such as On the Disarmament Platform , a caricature in the Kladderadatsch of June 20, 1926.

plant

  • Caricatures from the Magdeburg newspaper. A selection from the most important caricatures that have appeared in the Magdeburgische Zeitung since early 1924. The drawings and the title page are the work of the famous caricaturist Werner Hahmann. Publishing house of the Faberschen Buchdruckerei, Magdeburg approx. 1925.
  • Rhine and Ruhr. A fight album by Kladderadatsch. With 50 printed, partly colored drawings by Arthur Johnson , Werner Hahmann, Hans Lindloff . Berlin undated

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b Hahmann, Werner . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 67, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23034-9 , p. 498.
  2. Example: Etching “Madonna im Nachtlokal” (1913), from the portfolio: Verein für Originalradierung zu Berlin, Issue XXXX, Berlin 1925. Auction example : schmidt-kunstauktionen.de
  3. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. Darmstadt 1928, p. 122.
  4. Thea von Harbou: Of angels and devils. Fairy tale. (With 10 colored plates and several text illustrations by Werner Hahmann) JG Cotta, Stuttgart / Berlin 1913.
  5. Priska Jones: Europe's Peace? On a Europe caricature from the Kladderadatsch (1926). In: European History Topic Portal (2007 europa.clio-online.de ).