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Hans Haffenrichter
Hans Haffenrichter (1897–1981), born in Würzburg as the son of a printer, was a German painter, graphic designer and sculptor. Haffenrichter originally planned to become a craftsman. He followed some courses in mechanics (Mechaniker-Lehre) at a workshop of the University of Würzburg, and then served in World War I. From 1919 to 1920 he went to the Kunstschule Nürnberg. From 1921 to 1924 he studied painting, sculpturing and theatre decoration at the Bauhaus in Weimar under Oskar Schlemmer and Lothar Schreyer; here he also met Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. Haffenrichter completed his education at the Königlich Dänischen Kunstakademy in Copenhagen in 1925. His works showed abstract tendencies influenced by his Bauhaus period, with the exception of the period 1933–1945. He exhibited in 1923 in the Sturm-Galerie in Berlin. In 1927 he took part in the Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung and a year later again with three bronze statues. From 1927 to 1931 he was Director of the Art School ‘Der Weg’ in Berlin; in 1931 he was granted the professor title for Arts & Crafts at the Pädagogischen Akademie Elbing. After the Nazi’s came to power, Haffenrichter – being Bauhaus-trained (‘Bolshevik art’) – was fired in 1933. However, he did not get a ‘Berufsverbot’. He was admitted to the Reichskulturkammer as ‘professor Hans Haffenrichter’ and became a member of the ‘NS-Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur’, a militant League for German Culture led by Alfred Rosenberg (later renamed ‘Nationalsozialistische Kulturgemeinde’). Haffenrichter, not a member of the NSDAP, was able to continue working in his own atelier in Berlin and was commissioned to create several busts of Hitler and Göring (both were also printed on postcards). One of his Hitler busts was depicted on the cover of ’Die Kunstkammer’, April 1936, a magazine published by the ‘Präsident der Reichskammer der bildenden Künste’. A Göring bust by Haffenrichter was depicted in ‘Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich’, 1943; two years later the same magazine published on two full pages his bronze ‘Eurydike’ (‘Eurydice’ was also printed in 9 different versions on postcards by the ‘Film Foto Verlag’, Berlin). Commissions for other busts followed. Haffenrichter portrayed, amongst others, Johann Sebastian Bach, Mozart, composer Heinrich Schütz (destined for the city hall of Dresden), Luther, Hermann Löns, the pianist Martin H. Steinkrüger and sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider.
In 1934 Haffenrichter was responsible for the artistic design of the ‘Chemical Hall’ of the exhibition ‘Deutsches Volk – Deutsche Arbeit’ (his industrial designs were depicted in ‘Baugilde, Zeitschrift der Fachgruppe Architektur in der Reichskammer der Bildende Künste, 1937’).
In 1935 Haffenrichter displayed a Luther bust at the ‘Austellung Berliner Kunst’, an exhibition under the patronage of the ‘Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda und Präsident der Rechskulturkammer Dr. Goebbels’. A year later he displayed the Luther bust at the exhibition ‘Heroische Kunst’, NS-Kulturgemeinde, Städtischen Galerie, Lenbach-Haus, Munich.
It is unclear whether Haffenrichter’s abstract works from his Bauhaus period were displayed at the infamous 1937 exhibition ‘Entartete Kunst’ in Munich. In 1939 he moved his family to Copenhagen, were studied in the 20s, but Haffenrichter himself stayed in Germany.
He was represented at several exhibitions organised by the ‘Preussische Akademie der Künste in Berlin, for example at the ‘Frühjahrs-Ausstellung 1941’, at the ‘Frühjahrs-Ausstellung 1942’ with ‘Der Klang’, the ‘Herbstausstellung 1942’, and at the ‘Frühjahrsausstellung 1943’ with a bust of Luther. In 1938 the impressive ‘Falconer’, a life-size bronze by Haffenrichter, was placed in front of the entrance of the building of the Berlin Art Association. In 1940 Haffenrichter created a ‘Bärenbrunnen’ (‘bear-fountain’) for the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin; the fountain created in lime-shell is lost. In the same year he made a Siberian Tiger which was place on the grounds of a military barrack in Hamburg.
At the Great German Art Exhibitions, he was represented with seven works, one of them being the bust of Johann Sebastian Bach. Almost 30 different postcards depicting sculptures by Haffenrichter were issued by the ‘Film Foto Verlag’ in Berlin. In the years 1943/44 Haffenrichter was conscripted to work as scientific draft man at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Physikalische Chemie, where he specialized in the drawing of atomic and molecular structures. During the Third Reich the Berlin foundry Noack cast at least 87 bronzes by Haffenrichter.  After the war, he worked as an art teacher at the Information and Education Center of the US Army in Heidelberg, and from 1949 to 1952 he headed the department of Wall Painting of the Werkkunstschule in Wiesbaden.
In 1953 he was commissioned for a glass mosaic for the ‘Hamburgische Elektrizitätswerke’. Other commissioned works by the industry followed, including several huge glass mosaics and glass windows for the: ‘Mineralogisch-Petrologische Institut und Museum’ of the Bonn University (1955, 1956), for the ‘Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik’ in Ludwigshafen (1955), again for the ‘Hamburgischen Electricitäts-Werke AG’ (1958 and 1961), for the ‘Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk AG’ in Essen (1961), for the ‘Versicherung Iduna’ in Hamburg (1961) and for the ‘Osram Werk’ in Schwabmünchen and in Augsburg (1961).
In 1961 he moved to Hittenkirchen/Heroldsöd am Chiemsee. In 1963 he created a bronze Wild Boar for the city of Eberbach; 3 respectively 9 years later he created bronzes for two fountains in the same city. In Heidelberg Haffenrichter created in 1925% a ‘Reiherbrunnen’ (‘Heron-fountain); another bronze was created for the Städtische Museum in Mönchen-Gladbach.
Hans Haffenrichter died in 1981 in Prien am Chiemsee.
A Luther bust by Haffenrichter is in the possession of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Church in Berlin. ‘Kniende’ (created around 1923) and busts of Tilman Riemenschneider and Mozart are in the possession of the ‘Museum im Kulturspeicher’, Würzburg. A bust of Hermann Löns is in the possession of the Historisches Museum Hannover.

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