Wilhelm Hugues

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Wilhelm Hugues (born July 28, 1905 in Carlshafen , † December 18, 1971 in Hümme ) was a German sculptor and painter .

Life

Hugues had Huguenot ancestors. He began an apprenticeship as a carpenter. He then studied architecture, painting, wood and stone sculpture at the Kassel School of Applied Arts from 1925 to 1930 under Professor Hans Sautter . In 1937, under the rule of the National Socialists , he was banned from working and exhibiting. Hugues was a soldier and was released from captivity in 1949.

After the Second World War he lived and worked in what is now the Hofgeismar district of Hümme , where he converted his house into an artist's workshop. Many of his works were created here, especially wood, stone and plaster sculptures but also metal sculptures , linocuts , oil paintings and watercolor paintings .

In 1950, he created a memorial stone for the prisoners shot by the Gestapo for the memorial in the former Breitenau concentration camp in North Hesse , depicting a grieving woman.

Works

Homecoming memorial in Bad Hersfeld
  • Mourning woman , in Breitenau.
  • Two nuns gardening
  • Homecoming memorial , made of sheet copper in Bad Hersfeld, Zellersgrund (former "release camp-Waldschänke")

signature

  • WH

Exhibitions

  • Kunsthandlung Lometsch Kassel, 1952
  • Art Association Darmstadt 1965
  • City Museum Kassel , 1999

museum

  • Hofgeismar City Museum
  • Kassel State Museum New Gallery
  • City Museum Kassel graphic collection

literature

  • Hugues, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 84-85 .
  • Exhibition catalog Kunstverein Kassel, 1952, p. 55
  • Exhibition booklet 4. Kassel, 1955
  • "Kassel Group", pp. 56, 60, 61, 62, 66
  • P. Schmaling, artist lexicon Hessen-Kassel 1777–2000. Kassel 2001, p.?.
  • Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Hofgeismar 1954, pp. 57, 73
  • Yearbook of the district of Kassel 1980, pp. 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 96, 97
  • Kassel cultural, 1992

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personal data
SURNAME Hugues, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlshafen
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1971
Place of death Hümme