Conrad Hommel

Conrad Hommel (also: Konrad, born 16 February 1883 in Mainz, † November 11, 1971 in Sielbeck ) was a German painter. He was especially known for his portraits of leading German entrepreneurs such as Max Grundig, Herbert Quandt, and politicians such as Paul von Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering.

Life

Conrad Hommel father was Kommerzienrat in Mainz. Hommel sister " Mimi " ( Luise Mathilde Wilhelmine ) later married Albert Friedrich Speer and became the mother of Albert Speer. Hommel married 1908, divorced by the painter Georg Schuster Woldan Carolina mayor ( 1869-1938 ), and fourteen years older than he. Their child Eva, Eva van Hoboken later (1905-1987), came 28 July 1905 facts in its refuge Fiesole to the world.

Hommel was since 1906 a student of Jean -Paul Laurens in Paris and enrolled on October 19, 1909 at the Munich Academy as a student of the Art Class Hugo von Habermann. Hommel was a member of the Munich Secession, later its president, he led in 1928 the title of professor. In 1936 he was awarded " Lenbachplatz Prize".

The Spätimpressionist Hommel had Albert Einstein and Friedrich Ebert portrays. Hommel painting style corresponded to the understanding of art by the Nazis, so he was represented in the Nazi period, several times on the Great German Art Exhibitions in Munich's Haus der Deutschen Kunst, including in 1937 with portraits of General Field Marshal August von Mackensen and " Reich Minister Dr. Schacht ". For the Great German Art Exhibition, he sat as president of the Munich Secession with Adolf Ziegler, Rudolf Eisenmenger, Arno Breker, Karl Albiker, Josef Wackerle Gerdy Troost and in the jury.

After Hitler had bought in 1938 Hommel Goebbels - Portrait, in 1939 he was director of a painting class at the Berlin Academy of Art. In the same year he married Barbara of Kalckreuth. 1939 and 1940 he painted two portraits of Hitler, which were used as reproductive widespread, and Heinrich Himmler, and the Master of the Hunt Goering. The German artist exhibitions and the SS in 1944 in Wroclaw and Salzburg, he showed a "daughter of the mountains". In the final stages of World War II Hitler took him in August 1944 in the Gottbegnadeten list of the most important painters on what it in front of a war effort, even on the home front, to keep it.