Edouard Goerg

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Édouard Joseph Goerg (born June 9, 1893 in Sydney , † April 13, 1969 in Callian ) was an expressionist painter and graphic artist.

Life

Goerg was born in 1893 as the son of Gustave Goerg and Blanche Adet in Australia, where his family had founded a trading company for Champagne wines. In 1894 the family moved to London. Goerg's parents expected their son to take over the trading company, but Goerg decided to become a painter and broke up with the family. He became a student of Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis at the Académie Ranson , where he studied in 1913/14. There he met the painter Georges Préveraud de Sonneville (1889–1978), with whom he soon became lifelong friends, and Antoine Bourdelle . In 1913 and 1914 he traveled to Italy and India.

Goerg then served as a soldier in the First World War until 1919. He was sent to the Eastern Front, then to Greece, Turkey and Serbia. The following 20 years of his work were shaped by these dramatic experiences. .

In 1919 he returned to the Académie Ranson. There he met Andrée Berolzheimer, whom he married the following year. The couple bought a house in Cély-en-Bière and settled there. There André Sauvage also shot the documentary Édouard Goerg à Cély in 1928 .

The conflict with his father, which lasted until his death in 1929, prompted Goerg to work against the hypocritical morality of bourgeois society. From 1920 Goerg was one of the central figures of French Expressionism. His work was determined by bright colors, peculiar picture compositions and social themes. An entire period of work was devoted to Surrealism from 1934 after he met Emmanuel Mounier and the artist group Esprit. During this time he mainly worked with lithographs. As an illustrator, he illustrated several books. Between the two world wars, Goerg became increasingly known and had his first major solo exhibitions. He participated intensively in the activities of the Association des Écrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires . With the outbreak of World War II, his subjects changed. He mainly painted women and flowers, often in combination.

During the German occupation of France, Goerg refused to take part in a trip initiated by Arno Breker for the French artists, during which the artists were supposed to meet Hitler. His wife Andrée Berolzheimer was Jewish and had to hide with their daughter Claude-Lise. Her death in 1944 plunged Goerg into a deep depression. He was treated with electric shocks several times. In 1947 he married again.

Together with André Fougeron and Édouard Pignon , he was one of the leaders of the Front national des arts . He participated in the illustrated book Vaincre , which was published in June 1944 and whose proceeds should benefit the resistance organization of the French Résistance Francs-tireurs et partisans .

In the 1950s, Etching taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and painting at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière . Goerg was president of the Société des peintres-graveurs français from 1945 to 1958 and was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1965.

In 1969 Goerg died and was buried in the park of his castle in Callian.

Illustrations

Exhibitions

  • 1922: Galerie Panardie, Paris
  • 1922: Salon d'Automne , Paris
  • 1925: Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris
  • 1928: Art Institute of Chicago
  • 1929: Galerie Georges Bernheim, Paris
  • 1935: Galerie Jeanne Castel, Paris
  • 1937: Les Maîtres de l'art indépendant 1897–1937 , Petit Palais, Paris
  • 1954: Biennale di Venezia , exhibitions in Cairo, Alexandria and Beirut
  • 1955: Exhibitions in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires
  • 1956: Exhibitions in Nantes (Mignon-Massart), Reims (André Droulez), Nancy (Librairie des Arts, gravures), Strasbourg (Aktarius) and Lausanne (Maurice Bridel et Nane Cailler)
  • 2012: L'art en guerre , Musée National d'Art Moderne , Paris

literature

  • Carole Senille: E. Goerg. Catalog de l'œuvre de bibliophilie illustrée, Goerg inconnu . Éditions Marigny, Paris 1976
  • Jacques Lethève: Goerg: l'œuvre gravé . Bibliothèque nationale de France , Paris 1963

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lydia Harambourg: Edouard Goerg: une œuvre miroir d'une vie (1893-1969) . Chronique sur Canal Académie , January 27, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Goerg, Édouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goerg, Édouard Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1969
Place of death Callian