Hans Christiansen ( German: Hans Christiansen ; March 6, 1866 , Flensburg - January 5, 1945 , Wiesbaden) is a German modernist artist. In the 1920s, he was recognized as an artist-decorator. His work is diverse and includes fine art, architecture, light experiments, elements of the design of the house in which he lived, posters, illustrations of magazines.
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Biography
Hans Christiansen was born on March 6, 1866 in Flensburg. In his youth, he worked as an apprentice artist, then as a decorator in Hamburg, where he was engaged in interior decoration of the store.
In 1888, he attended the Higher School of Applied Arts (Kunstgewerbeschule München) in Munich . In 1892 he published his work, and in 1883 he visited Chicago. Here he was impressed by the glass works of Louis Tiffany .
In 1895, Christiansen quit his job and went to study at the Julian Academy in Paris.
Upon graduation in 1899, he joined a group of artists in Darmstadt . During this time, he designed many Art Nouveau style jewelry. Along with painting, Hans Christiansen worked with objects of decorative art.
Since 1902, he worked as an artist in Paris, then collaborated with the art and literary magazine Jugend . Since 1911 he taught at the art school in Wiesbaden .
Since 1914, the artist returned to painting. Since 1918, portraits have been his main works in painting.
In the 1920s, Christiansen gained recognition as a decorator. In this area, his work included patterned wallpaper, tapestries, ceramics, patterns for embroidery, frescoes and ceiling paintings, glass windows decorated with bright colors. Recent works reflect the influence on the artist of Japanese art and Toulouse-Lautrec .
Since he was married to a Jewess, a ban was imposed on his paintings in the Third Reich.
He died on January 5, 1945 in Wiesbaden. Christiansen's artistic and graphic work had a significant impact on the art of his time. Hans Christiansen worked a lot to decorate his house, which he called "Villa Rose", since the rose served as the main item to decorate all the rooms of the house and its windows. His house, Villa Rose, was destroyed during World War II, and many of his artworks were lost.
Exhibitions
- 1901: Exhibition "Ein Dokument deutscher Kunst". Darmstadt. Germany.
- October 2014 / January 2015: Hans Christiansen. Retrospective. Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt, Darmstadt.
- February 2015 / May 2015 Hans Christiansen. Die Wiederentdeckung eines Jugendstil-Künstlers. Bröhan-Museum, Berlin
- June 2015 / September 2015: Hans Christiansen - Gesamtkunstwerker des Jugendstils. Villa Stuck, Munich
- October 2015 / January 2016: Hans Christiansen. Die Retrospektive. Museumsberg Flensburg, Flensburg.
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 11879969X // General Normative Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Hans Christiansen
- ↑ 1 2 Hans Christiansen - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- ↑ RKDartists
Literature
- Ralf Beil, Dorothee Bieske, Michael Fuhr ua (Hrsg.): Hans Christiansen - Die Retrospektive. (Ausstellungskatalog) Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2014; ISBN 978-3-7757-3896-5 .
- G. Fanelli, E. Godoli: Art Nouveau Postcards , Rizzoli, New York 1987, S. 331 f
- Margret Zimmermann-Degen: Hans Christiansen - Leben und Werk eines Jugendstilkünstlers , Teil I (Einführung und Werkanalyse) und Teil II (Werkverzeichnis), Königstein i. Ts. ( Verlag Langewiesche ) 1985.
Links
- Werke des Künstlers - Museen Nord
- http://www.christiansen-hans.com/