Hans Looschen (23 June 1859, Berlin - 11 February 1923, Berlin) was a German landscape, portrait and genre painter. He also created some illustrations.
In 1893, he began exhibiting regularly at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung, and served a few terms as its president.[2] He was awarded a small gold medal there in 1908, and a large gold emdal in 1912. From 1899 to 1901, his works were presented at the Berlin Secession.
In 1908, he was also named a professor. Initially, he was a member of the Prussian State Art Commission.[3] Later, he worked with the "Preußischen künstlerischen Sachverständigenkammer" (roughly: chamber of art experts). In 1913, he was elected to the academy, and served in its Senate until his death.[2] The following year, he participated in the Venice Biennale. In 1916, he created a sensation when he visited the Halbmondlager, near Zossen, to paint six prisoners of war from North Africa.
He died in Berlin, at the age of sixty-three, from a heart attack.
^Jörg Michael Junker, Steffen Iffland, Rainer Hellbers;
"Die sechs Gemälde im Stadtverordnetensitzungssaal. Ein Erinnerungsbild an den Maler Hans Looschen", In: Der Heimatbote, self-published, Nordhausen-Salza am Harz, 2001 ISBN3-9807032-3-1
^"Neue Mitglieder der Berliner Akademie der Künste", Deutsche Zeitung (in German), Berlin, 1913-03-08
Further reading
Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Dominik Bartmann (Ed.): Gemälde II. Verzeichnis des Bestandes vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis 1945. Berlin 2004, pg.142 ISBN3-910029-37-X
Looschen, Hans, in: Detlef Lorenz: Reklamekunst um 1900. Künstlerlexikon für Sammelbilder. Berlin : Reimer, 2000 pg.133 ISBN3-496-01220-X
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