Hans. Belmer (1902- 1975), German. Eccentric painter, doll maker, photographer. In Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, in order to resist the Nazis, Bell Emerson began to create a series of dolls unrelated to national interests, and then fled to France under the persecution of the Nazis. The reason is that his doll creation was accused by the Nazis as a symbol of "depravity".

Chinese name: Hans. Belmer

Hans Belmer

Nationality: Germany

Occupation: art painter, sculptor

Main achievements: the founder of magic and realism movement.

Representative works: dolls

abstract

Hans Bellmer, a German painter and sculptor, became famous not for his paintings or sculptures, but for his photographic works of dolls, which showed a nihilistic and decadent life sentiment in his hands.

Character course

He grew up in a strict Christian family, and his father was a talented engineer and a "tyrant". Hans and his brother Fritz were suppressed by hatred and fear. At the same time, mothers give their children rich love. In this way, Belmer pursued a family environment and love for the world under the oppression of strong opposition to authority. (including toys and children's playground)

At his father's insistence, he worked in an iron and steel factory, and then passed the exam to obtain the qualification for university entrance. However, Bermer has been in Poland for 22 to 23 years and managed to produce some works of art and exhibitions. These works of his led to his arrest. While studying engineering at Berlin Institute of Technology, Bermer met john heartfield, Rudolf Schrichter and George Gross. 1924 Bermer dropped out of school to become a book printer, and then drew illustrations for Malik Publishing House. That winter, Bermer went to Paris for the first time in his life.

In 1933, he continued to resist the rejection because he was signed to work under fascism. In order to show that he turned his back on fascism and the aesthetics it spread, Hans Bellmer began to build a three-dimensional doll for girls, which consisted of pornographic photos.

1934, some of his works were published at his own expense, and others appeared in the surrealist magazine' ‘leminatoure', which established Belmer's important position among surrealists in Paris.

From 65438 to 0938, Hans Bellmer moved to Paris and worked as an intern with Max Ernst near the AIX concentration camp in Loehmueller, where World War II broke out. While being expelled from the concentration camp, Bermer gave up his German nationality and fled to castel in 194 1 and married his second wife in the same year. During the war, Bermer did not paint, and gradually formed a unique abstract style.

1943, "LibrairieTrentin Belmer" held his first solo exhibition in Toulouse Bookstore. Followed by many international surrealist group exhibitions.

In the post-war era, Bermer successfully rendered the illusory dream color in subconscious sex, completed accurate work with the master, and quickly supplemented the influence and aesthetic feeling of stylism. In Belmer's mature later works, the craft is more perfect, but the eroticism is more obvious, partly because death is the opposite of desire.

style

In the name of the unity of love and desire, surrealist art breaks the barrier between depravity and morality. This practice of mixing or interweaving love with a need (sometimes disturbing sexual desire) is a better performance, or the most memorable performance, of Bibel's works. Bermer's life-size dolls made him famous. 1934, Bermer began to make life-size dolls and named his works "Dolls". His first doll is based on a girl, made of paper and plastic, and equipped with mechanical devices. The doll's body can be disassembled and assembled at will.

Belmer published a Doll on 1934, which contained 10 black and white photos of his first doll. From the shapes of these dolls, we can clearly identify the female characteristics, and the body proportion is based on adolescent girls. Dolls are assembled with "spherical joints" and can be twisted into various postures at will.

At the beginning of last century, in order to protest against the values of his father and the whole Nazi rule, Bermer began to study the sexual pleasure and psychological anxiety he called "charming children's garden". He uses wood and tough paper, and each work has two big dolls, like mature teenagers. He shoots some or all nude and semi-nude toys, usually with gouache or aniline color and a little subtle highlights to enhance the visual impact of these prints.

affect

Hans Bermer died in February 1975. His photography, painting, printmaking and oil painting attract people's attention and fascination, because the erotic part of his works expresses the rebellion against traditional reason and spiritual life. Hans Bellmer, the founder of the magical realism movement, finally exerted a profound influence on Paul Leahy and Horst Zhan Sen.