Biography

Hans Christiansen (Flensburg 1866 - 1945 Wiesbaden)

After training as a decorative painter in Flensburg, Hans Christiansen enrolled at the School of Applied Arts in Munich. After completing a study trip across Italy, he obtained a position as a technical school teacher in Hamburg. At the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, he became acquainted with the glass works of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Inspired by this, he gave up his job as a teacher and eventually attended the Académie Julian in Paris. Back in Germany, he was soon very successful as a painter, commercial artist and craftsman, so it is not surprising that Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse appointed him to the Mathildenhöhe together with Peter Behrens and Joseph Maria Olbrich as one of the first seven members of the Darmstadt Artists' Colony. After World War I, in addition to graphics and paintings, he created ceramics, glass, jewelry, and stained glass windows for cathedrals. After the National Socialists came to power, Hans Christiansen was sidelined because he refused to separate from his Jewish wife. Hans Christiansen could not live to see the end of the war; he died in Wiesbaden on January 5, 1945.

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