Hans Feibusch

Hans Nathan Feibusch[1] (15 August 1898 – 18 July 1998) was a German painter and sculptor of Jewish heritage who lived and worked in Britain from 1933 until his death.

Subsequently, he worked under Karl Hofer at the Berlin University of the Arts, and then in Paris with Andre Lhote.

He returned to Frankfurt in 1925 to work as an artist, with a studio in the former Carmelite convent alongside Rudolf Heinisch [de] and Benno Elkan.

His work Zwei schwebende Figuren ("Two floating figures"), confiscated from the Städtischen Galerie in Frankfurt, was displayed with works by Jankel Adler and Marc Chagall as part of the exhibition entitled Offenbarung der jüdischen Rassenseele gezeigt ("Revelation of the Jewish racial soul") Feibusch joined the London Group of artists in 1934 and the following year he married Sidonie Cramer, a daughter of David Gestetner and the divorced wife of Max Cramer.

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.

His first public mural in England was The Footwashing, for the New Methodist Hall in Colliers Wood, a commissioned by Edward D. Mills in 1937.

He was befriended by George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, whose influence caused him to receive the first of his church commissions for murals on religious themes.

He created a mural of the Trinity in Glory for St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, in 1966, his largest single work, together with fourteen Stations of the Cross and a bronze figure of Christ for the outer wall of the church.

Feibusch's artwork was created after the remodelled interior was installed with a linear feature in the nave surmounted by angels.