Hans Werner Matern - Artist Info

About Hans Werner Matern

  • Biography

    Hans-Werner Matern (born October 19, 1906 in Rostock , † 1996 in Lübeck ) was a German landscape painter.

    He was the son of the Rostock watchmaker and gold worker Albert Matern. Around 1911 the family moved to Lübeck, where the father was again the owner of a watch repair workshop. Matern first attended the art school of Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg in Lübeck This was followed by studies with Ferdinand Spiegel in Berlin, with Constantin Gerhardinger in Munich and with Georg Burmester at the Kassel Art Academy .

    From 1927 he taught as an academic drawing teacher in Lübeck, Kassel and Hagen. In 1939 he was awarded the Albrecht Dürer Prize of the city of Nuremberg . In 1940 ...

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