Hans Feibusch

Hans Feibusch (15 August 1898 – 18 July 1998) was a German painter and sculptor of Jewish heritage who lived and worked in Britain from 1933 until his death. He is best known for his murals, particularly in Anglican churches. In all he worked in thirty Anglican churches (28 as a muralist, and two—including Ely Cathedral—as sculptor only) and produced what is probably the largest body of work in his particular métier by any artist in the history of the Church of England.

Early life in Germany

Feibusch was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany to Jewish parents. His father was a dental surgeon and his mother was an amateur painter. He served with the German Army on the Russian front during the First World War, from 1916–18.

After the war he studied art in Munich. Subsequently he worked under Karl Hofer at the Berlin University of the Arts, and then in Paris with Andre Lhote. He returned to Frankfurt in 1925 to work as an artist, with a studio in the former Carmelite convent alongside Rudolf Heinisch and Benno Elkan. He was awarded a prize by the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1931 for his painting The Fishmonger.