Hans Feibusch German 1898-1998
Summer, 1968

£2,950

Gouache on paper
Initialed and dated (lower right)
52cm x 102cm, (59cm x 110cm framed)
Exhibited: Chichester, Pallant House Gallery (and traveling), Hans Feibusch: The Heat of Vision, 1995-96, no. 60 (illustrated in the catalogue)

A German painter and sculptor of Jewish heritage who lived and worked in Britain from 1933 until his death. He is best known for his murals, particularly in Anglican churches. In all he worked in thirty Anglican churches and produced what is probably the largest body of work by any artist in the history of the Church of England.

After serving in WWI, he studied in Munich and then worked under Karl Hofer at the Berlin University of the Arts, before working with Andre Lhote in Paris. He returned to Frankfurt in 1925. After the Nazi Party came to power, he emigrated to England in 1933. His works were subsequently exhibited in the 1937 exhibition of ‘Degenerate Art’. ‍In 1940, he naturalized as a British citizen and exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Show in 1944.

A celebration of his life work was held by the Twentieth Century Society in 1993, which was the first event of a reappraisal of his work. Feibusch died four weeks short of his 100th birthday, just after attending a celebration of his work and life held at the Royal College of Art. His estate bequeathed the entire contents of his studio at the time of his death to the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester.