Hermann Scherer

Hermann Scherer ( born February 8, 1893 in Rümmingen ( Markgraeflerland ); † May 13, 1927 Basel ) was a German -Swiss Expressionist painters.

Life

Hermann Scherer began after completion of schooling in 1907 in Lörrach trained as a stonemason in the workshop Schwab. In the years 1910-1919 he worked as a stonemason in succession at the Basel sculptors Carl Gutknecht, Otto Roos and Carl Burckhardt. To 1919/1920 Hermann Scherer had a contemporary art scene faces (and the painting). In this context, he destroyed many of his works created until then.

Decisive influence on his artistic development had in the early 1920s to attend a Edvard Munch exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich and the acquaintance with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. In this he spent 1922 to 1924 several working longer stays in women's church at Davos. In 1924, he finally had the opportunity to participate in the exhibition of recent German art in Stuttgart with three of his wood sculptures. Finally he founded in late 1924 with Paul Camenisch, Albert Müller and the art group red-blue, which is still joined in the sequence Werner Neuhaus.

For the first time large public response has been received, the group of artists for an exhibition of the Art Association of Basel in 1925. At this time Albert Müller had left the group, however, already in the following year, the opportunity for an exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich received (1925 ). Similarly as in Basel, individual works have been rejected as offensive here.

Although in 1925 Kirchner and Scherer threw the artistic contacts were maintained. So Kirchner mediated, the involvement of Red-Blue at the International Art Exhibition in Dresden 1926.

In the fall of 1926 diseased Hermann Scherer seriously and died on 13 May 1927. Kunsthalle Basel remembered the artist the following year with an exhibition, which presented more than 200 of his works.

Others

In Rümmingen a road and a fountain was named after him in commemoration of Scherer. 2004 acquired the Palatinate Gallery Kaiserslautern, the sculpture " The little girl " for over 140,000 euro by a Swiss art gallery.

Swell

• Beat Stutzer ( Eds.): Hermann Scherer - sculptures, paintings, woodcuts. Kunstmuseum Chur Grisons. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 1999.