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Hans Ludwig Fischer-Nienburg (* February 11th 1891 in Nienburg an der Weser; † May 11th1990 in Berlin-Nikolassee) was a German artist.

Career path
He was born the fifth child of his parents Luise Fischer née Riechelmann and the teacher Ludwig Fischer. In 1929 he married Margarete Heitmann (1902-1990), a daughter of the merchants Heitmann from Nienburg. Together they had three daughters.

Fischer attended primary school and grammar school in Nienburg until 1907, which he had to abandon due to laryngitis and operations. From 1907 Fischer was apprenticed to the painter Carl Plinke, and parallel to this he attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Hanover until 1910. He then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich until 1912. After completing one year's military service he returned to Nienburg and set up a studio there in Werstler Park. At the outbreak of the First World War, he was sent with the pioneer battalion from Minden to the Western Front, among other places. There he attained the rank of lieutenant. He experienced the end of the war near Kiel, including the anarchic conditions during the revolution of the navy.

After the war, Fischer moved back into his studio in Werstler Park, which he soon exchanged for a barn at the Bornemann dyer's family in Lange Straße, as the land in Werstler Park had been sold. The first exhibitions followed in Nienburg (1922) Hanover, Munich, Berlin etc. (see exhibitions). In the years up to 1929 Fischer-Nienburg, as he called himself from 1922, designed a colour concept for the old town of Nienburg and for the town's flag. For the Nienburg town hall, he designed the town hall hall hall with murals, and the storage cellar was converted into the Ratskeller according to his idea. During this time he undertook various study trips to Italy, Holland, Flanders and Paris. Through the exhibitions of his works in Berlin, he became known in the metropolis.

In 1927 he got engaged, and in 1929 he married Margarete Heitmann in Nienburg, followed by a move to Berlin. They moved into a studio flat on Karolinger Platz. In Berlin-Nikolassee, the Fischer couple built a house with a studio, which they moved into in 1933.

Fischer-Nienburg was a member of the traditional association "Berliner Künstler" (Berlin Artists' Association) from 1938 to 1966. A study trip took the couple to Italy in 1939.

Various attempts to avoid being drafted into the Second World War as a World War I reserve officer failed. He served as a construction company commander from 1940 to 1945 and was seriously wounded. After being a prisoner of war, he reunited with his family in Hamelin, who had fled from Berlin.

Diphtheria and a severe eye condition, which was alleviated by an operation in 1946, severely affected his further work. Many artists who had fled to Hamelin got together to support each other. The "Kunstkreis Hameln" (Hamelin Art Circle) was later formed from the various exhibitions through the co-initiative of H. L. Fischer-Nienburg. It was planned to design a colour plan for the old town of Hameln.

At the end of 1949, it was time to make a decision, either to be a "perpetual refugee" or to return to Berlin to repair the war-damaged house. From 1951, the family lived in Berlin again. There H.L. Fischer-Nienburg re-established contact with the VBK and remained a member until about 1966, also serving as 2nd Chairman for about two years. From 1958 to 1960, he and other artists were jurors for the "Große Berliner Kunstausstellung" at the Radio Tower, which then became jury-free. From the 1960s onwards, he no longer organised exhibitions. He painted until the early 1980s.

Hans Ludwig Fischer-Nienburg worked as a gallery of independent artists. His works can be assigned to different directions, from "Cool Romantic Realism" to "New Objectivity" to the completely free "Expressive". The emphasis is on portrait and landscape painting as well as still lifes, in addition to "socially thematic motifs".

His portraits almost always have a romantic, cool objectivity, without straying into the abstract."

Outstanding works that were not destroyed by the Second World War or were created afterwards:

Exhibitions
Excerpt from well-known exhibition catalogues

Further
One of his words of wisdom was this saying by Wilhelm Busch:

Hernach: Der fliegende Frosch, Band 4, 

Literature
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 * Fischer-Nienburg, Retrospective. An exhibition in the town hall of Nienburg from 12 April to 30 June 1992. Catalogue. Nienburg 1992.

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