Willy Habl

Willy Paul Rudolf Habl (born August 26, 1888 in Egeln ; † October 18, 1964 in Hamburg ) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Habl received his first painting and drawing lessons at the Kunstgewerbeschule Kassel. From 1904 to 1908 he completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer in Hamburg. At the same time he studied until 1909 at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts (today Hamburg University of Fine Arts ) with Friedrich Adler and Carl Otto Czeschka . Between 1911 and 1914 he undertook numerous study trips, including to Northern Italy, Hungary, Romania and the Balkans. During the First World War he was a soldier in France, where he was seriously wounded in 1915. In the 1920s, Habl was a member of the Hamburg Art Association and the Hamburg Art Association . He was also a member of the Hamburg Artists 'Association from 1832 and the Altona Artists' Association . From 1925 to 1931 he taught as a lecturer at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts (since 1928 Landeskunstschule) and from then on worked as a freelance artist.

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Under the influence of his teacher Czeschka and under the influence of the works of Ferdinand Hodler and Wilhelm Leibl , Habl's early work initially created drawings and etchings of processions and praying people in a decorative style. The Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein landscapes, which he created as a freelance painter, are significantly influenced by German and French impressionism . In his works of the 1920s there are mainly echoes of Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir , which express themselves in a free, relaxed style. Based on the painting of the late 19th century, Habl was in his time as a painter committed to peinture. The much-acclaimed etchings in his ex-libris cycle (1918–1922), on the other hand, refer to the graphic work of his contemporary Max Klinger .

In the 1920s and 1930s Habl was represented in numerous exhibitions, including the Commeter Gallery in Hamburg. At the Great German Art Exhibition of 1942 in the House of German Art in Munich, he was represented with two paintings. After the war it was largely forgotten.

Works (selection)

• Field Worker (1912)
• Windy Day (1924, Kunsthalle Hamburg )
• Portrait of a Girl (1924)
• Surf (1935)
• Borsteler Moor (1940)

literature

• Victor Dirksen : Habl, Willy Paul Rudolf . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 403–404 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Gustav Pauli , Peter Hirschfeld, Karl Wilhelm Tesdorpf and Hans Leip : Hundred years of Hamburg art. 1832-1932. Verlag Br. Sachse, Hamburg 1932, pp. 63-64 ( digitized version ).
• General Lexicon of Visual Artists of the XX. Century (Vollmer), second volume, Seemann Verlag 1955, p. 347.
• Catalog of the masters of the 20th century in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Hamburg 1969, p. 153.
• Axel Feuss, Gerhard Kaufmann (preface): Altonaer Künstlerverein 1905–1939. Publication accompanying the exhibition, September 7, 1990 - January 21, 1991, Altonaer Museum , Hamburg 1990, ISBN 978-3-927637-05-4 , p. 69 (1880 is given as the year of birth).
• Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer : Föhr, Amrum and the Halligen in art. Boyens, Heide 2003, ISBN 978-3-8042-1118-6 , p. 17.
• Robert Thoms: Great German Art Exhibition Munich 1937-1944. Directory of artists in two volumes, Volume I: painter and graphic artist. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937294-01-8 .
• Axel Feuss: Habl, Willy . 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. 108 f.
• Maike Bruhns : Habl, Willy In: Family Rump (Hrsg.): The new Rump. Lexicon of visual artists from Hamburg, Altona and the surrounding area. Revised new edition of Ernst Rump's dictionary . Supplemented and revised by Maike Bruhns, Wachholtz, Neumünster 2013, ISBN 978-3-529-02792-5 , p. 166.

Web links

• Willy Habl at Museum Murder
• Willy Habl at the Stahl auction house
• Willy Habl at MuitualArt
• Willy Habl on artnet