Hans Diebschlag
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Hans Diebschlag was born in Bensheim-Auerbach, Germany in 1951. One year later his family moved to Russelsheim near Frankfurt am Main and it was here that he spent his childhood and adolescence. Later, when an art student, he moved to the Spessart countryside. Then in 1976 he moved to the south of England where he continues to live and work.
Encouraged by his father to follow a vocation he trained as a typesetter. This completed he turned to what he had always felt to be his true profession that of a painter. He studied art at the Staedel Art Academy in Frankfurt for four years (including a Master class with the late Prof. Georg Geyger) followed by a two year course at the Academy for Design in Offenbach where he obtained a diploma for arts and design.
In the mid eighties he was a founding member of the "Grinstead Group", an artists' association that exhibited in Los Angeles and Stockholm, he also illustrated the book "A Concise History of Parrott" by CBB Parselle.
In 1988 he started to work on the "Russelsheim Series" a pictorial account of his childhood and adolescence in a town dominated by the car manufacturer Opel. The first part of the series dealing with the city and Opel of the 50's and 60's, the outer circle, was first shown in the 1993 exhibition Ricksicht auf Russelsheim (Reconsider Russelsheim). This series lead to a commission from the Russelsheim city council for the town hall. The resulting work "We Love the Marching" provoked huge controversy as it recalled a dark chapter in Russelsheim's past.
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