HANS FEUERHAHN (1907-1999)Hans Feuerhahn attended school and served an apprenticeship in Bremen, Germany. He came to New York City in 1927 and by the early 1950s he was a hand-engraver employed in jewelry design and in the engraving of fine silver and gold pieces. Around 1950 he moved on to his own copper plate engravings. His work from this period was featured in the April 16, 1951, issue of Life Magazine.
In the 1950s, in the spring and fall, Feuerhahn sketched the islands of Jamaica Bay, the old houses on stilts, the boardwalks, and the local fisherman, in that remote part of New York City. In the winter he engraved these images and printed them at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Over the years as his prints became more politically aware Feuerhahn became active in national exhibitions. He showed at the 24th Salon of the Audubon Artists in 1987, the National Copper Engravers Exhibition at the Littman & White Galleries of Portland State University in 1992, and in the Juried Show at the National Academy of Design, 1986. Michael Benson, in his April 25, New York Times review of the Academy show wrote: Hans FeuerhahnÕs engraving Cityscape with its attempt to compress urban violence, indifference, shock and victimization into a graphic image, brings to mind the political art of Sue Coe.
Around 1982 Feuerhahn relocated to San Diego, California. He died there in 1999 at the age of 92. In 2010 a piece was included in Here Not There, with the Visual Artists of San Diego County at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, in La Jolla. He made about thirty engravings as well as drawings, paintings, and photographs. His works are in the permanent collections the New York Public Library and the Littman & White Galleries of Portland State University, Oregon.
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