Hermann Otto Hoyer
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Hermann Otto Hoyer | |
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| Born | January 25, 1893 |
| Died | May 30, 1968 (aged 75) |
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Hermann Otto Hoyer (1893-1968) was a German painter. He was injured in World War I and fitted with a prosthesis hand. He joined the Nazi Party in 1931 and served as a deputy local group leader. He withdrew from public political activity in 1934 but continued to create Nazi-inspired paintings.
Hermann Otto Hoyer completed an apprenticeship as a glass painter and enrolled at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts in 1914. He was a participant in the First World War and went into the field with the 1st Hanseatic Infantry Regiment No. 75. Hoyer was wounded in the First Battle of the Marne in 1914 and was taken prisoner of war by the French for three years. He made four escape attempts, including from a penal camp in Tunisia, to which he had been transferred in the meantime. During the last escape in October 1917, he lost his right arm and was exchanged for Germany. Even in his last station as a prisoner of war, he received painting utensils "through the concession of a French sub-physician", which enabled him to paint.[1]
Due to his war disability, he trained to paint with his left hand.[2] Hoyer was fitted with a prosthesis by the Berlin surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch.[3] At the Munich Academy, where he enrolled in drawing at the end of May 1919,[4] he was a pupil of Hermann Groeber, Carl von Marr and Franz von Stuck.
From 1925 until his death, he lived in Oberstdorf in the Allgäu and joined the Nazi Party on 1 January 1931 (membership number 386,683).[5][2] In the meantime, he acted as deputy local group leader and at the end of April 1933 was one of ten new members of the Nazi Party municipal council as an "artist known beyond the borders of Oberstdorf".[6] However, he caused a stir several times, for example with the statement "that there are also decent Jews" and with the question of confidence during a party meeting, which as a democratic instrument violated the Führer principle and ultimately led to his withdrawal from the post of deputy local group leader.[7]
This, however, had no effect on his work and reputation as a painter. Hoyer created numerous politically influenced paintings and, from 1940 onwards, mainly peasant paintings. In 1943, he was awarded the title of professor.[2][8]
After the Second World War, in December 1948, he was classified by the Kempten Appeals Chamber as a follower within the meaning of Control Council Directive No. 38 on the basis of the Law for the Liberation from National Socialism and Militarism.
He was credited with not harming anyone, withdrew from all public political activity in 1934 and was married in church in 1936.[9]
