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Hans Jöres
He was born on 19 August 1876 in Odenkirchen; today this is a borough of Monchengladbach, which does not belong to a ‘county’ (Bundesland).
After completing his primary and secondary education, he spent three years at the college of education and teacher training college in his hometown. From 1897 to 1908, he was a teacher at the Catholic primary school in Velbert. Before he had taken his secondary teaching examination (1901), he was put in charge of drawing lessons at the college of further education in Velbert.
Jöres interrupted his teaching career several times to study at the Elberfeld College of Applied Arts and at the Art Academy in Berlin. In 1905, he began his two year training course at the college for art teachers in Düsseldorf, taking his art teacher examination in 1907.
From 1908 onwards, he taught drawing at the intermediate grammar school and the college of further education for craftsman in Eupen. In 1910, he also started teaching drawing at the Lyceum and from 1911 he went on to manage the college of further education for craftsmen for several years.
Jöres received attention and recognition for his artwork that was displayed in exhibitions during his time in Eupen. His pictures often hung next to the big names in renowned art institutes in Aachen, Düren, Monchengladbach and Düsseldorf.
When Eupen was incorporated into the Belgian nation in 1920 following a ruling by the League of Nations, Jöres decided to leave the town.
In 1921, he started his new position in Boppard.
In 1925, he played a significant role in shaping the Heimatbuch (history book of the hometown) of what was still the district of St. Goar at the time by contributing a great number of line drawings.
The exhibition of 1930 has been mentioned as a place where he displayed his artistic activities and diversity by exhibiting 40 oil paintings, 30 in pastels and just as many drawings and wood carvings.
In 1937, Hans Jöres retired at the age of 61, because of an old complaint.
He passed away on 5 March 1938.
The painter’s only daughter,
Änne Jöres, bequeathed the art work inherited from her
father to the town of Boppard in 1974.