Hans Hassenteufel (27 January 1887 – 15 August 1943) was a German painter of portraits and female nudes.
Life and work
He was born in
Hamburg and took private lessons there from , followed by studies at a private painting and drawing school in Munich, operated by
Walter Thor; then at the
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where his primary professors were
Peter Halm
Peter Ignaz Johann Halm, later Von Halm (14 December 1854, Mainz 25 January 1923, Munich), was a German etcher who served as a professor of etching at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, from 1901 to 1923.
Biography
He was the son of an innkeepe ...
and
Franz von Stuck
Franz von Stuck (February 23, 1863 – August 30, 1928), born Franz Stuck, was a German painter, sculptor, printmaker, and architect. Stuck was best known for his paintings of ancient mythology, receiving substantial critical acclaim with '' The ...
.
He remained in Munich throughout his subsequent career, creating an immense number of female portraits and nudes, many done in
Orientalist style. He occasionally painted landscapes and
still-life
A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or man-made (drinking glasses, boo ...
s. Many of his works were published in the form of postcards. Hassenteufel died in Munich in 1943.
Sources
* Hassenteufel, Hans. In:
Hans Vollmer (Ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts''. Vol.2: E–J. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1955,
* Horst Ludwig: ''Münchner Maler im 19. Jahrhundert''. Vol.5, Bruckmann, Munich 1993, pg.350
External links
More works by Hassenteufel@ ArtNet
1887 births
1943 deaths
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
German portrait painters
Artists from Hamburg
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