Hans Jürgen Kallman

He was raised in Halle (Saale) and spent his early years as an artist from 1930 to 1944 in Berlin. In 1937 he was declared a degenerate artist by the Nazis and forbidden to exhibit. Some of his works were confiscated and burned on 20 March 1939 by the Berlin Fire Brigade. In 1949 he received a professorship at the Art Academy in Caracas, Venezuela, where he taught figure and portrait painting. Kallmann returned in 1952 to Germany and lived and worked as a freelance artist in Pullach in the district of Munich until his death in 1991. From the mid-1950s he became known for his portraits of renowned personalities of culture, science and politics, such as Otto Hahn, Theodor Heuss, Pope John XXIII, Mao Zedong, Bertolt Brecht, and Walther Meissner. Kallmann's preferred painting techniques were oil painting and an unusual mixed technique of pastel and tempera painting whose recipe he always kept secret. His style was influenced by the German Impressionists Max Slevogt and Max Liebermann and by the Expressionists. The observation of nature and the transformation of what is seen into a new pictorial reality were the prerequisite for artistic creation for him. In 1992 a museum dedicated to his work, the Kallmann Museum, opened in Ismaning near Munich.

The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Munich. Work by Hans Jürgen Kallman is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Wallraf–Richartz Museum and Museum Ludwig. Distinctions recorded are Bavarian Order of Merit, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo.

Hans Jürgen Kallman is recorded as having received Bavarian Order of Merit, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo.