Hans Wildermann

Hans Wilhelm Wildermann (21 February 1884[1] – 1 November 1954[1]) was a German stage designer, painter and sculptor.

[2] From 1907, Wildermann lived again in his home town, where he worked under Max Martersteig and his conductor Otto Lohse on the decoration of the Bühnen der Stadt Köln and as a sculptor.

[3] Wildermann then participated in the 1911 Opera Festival and the following year took part in the Cologne Sonderbund exhibition, where he created the group of figures "Young Man with Pony" and "Girl with Deer" for the forecourt of the exhibition hall at the Aachener Tor[4] which later stood in the green spaces of Ebertplatz [de] until World War II.

[7] Already in the 1920s, Wildermann had a deep friendship with the nationalist and, since 1933, national-socialist Regensburg music book publisher Gustav Bosse.

Bosse had him illustrate the Almanach der Deutschen Musikbücherei (1920-1927) extensively and dedicated a separate publishing line to him, Hans-Wildermann-Werke, in which almost the entire graphic work had already appeared in 1923.

For his 60th birthday in 1944, the magazine published Musik im Kriege [de] – Organ of the Office of Music at the Fuehrer's Commissioner for the Supervision of All Spiritual and Ideological Training and Education of the NSDAP the homage by Carl Niessen Hans Wildermann als Bühnenbildner (issue 1, pp. 7–9).

[7] The "Werkfolge" of Hans Wildermann's works published in 1933 by Ernst Scheyer [de], curator and deputy director of the Silesian Museum of Applied Arts and Antiquities at Breslau, comprises 589 titles.