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Hans Jaenisch

Hans Jaenisch (1907 - 1989) was active/lived in Germany.  Hans Jaenisch is known for Abstract composition painting, palette knife reliefs, figuration.

Hans Jaenisch was born in Eilenstedt, Thuringia, in 1907. After attending school, he went as a young man to Berlin, where he would spend most of his life.  Self-taught, Hans Jaenisch belonged to the generation of artists caught up in the vibrantly diverse revolutionary tendencies of the first thirty years of the 20th century.

At first leaning towards a Cubist-Expressionist* style, Jaenisch joined the 'November Group' and showed work at twenty at Herwarth Walden's 'Sturm'. From 1929 Jaenisch taught at 'Der Weg', an art school. In the early 1930s Surrealist* elements began to surface in Jaenisch's work and continued to reverberate in later paintings.

While serving as a soldier in the second world war in Tunis, Jaenisch discovered colour and became enthralled with Islamic decoration. After internment in an American prisoner-of-war camp, Jaenisch returned to war-ravaged Berlin in 1946 to execute relief paintings, whose crevassed surfaces were created with the palette k   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2554 characters.]  Artist bio

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