Albert Paris Guetersloh

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Albert Paris von Gütersloh ( February 5, 1887 in Vienna – May 16, 1973 in Baden near Vienna ; actually Albert Conrad Kiehfahrer ) was an Austrian painter and writer and is considered the spiritual father of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism .

Photo taken by Ludwig Schwab around 1930

Life

Egon Schiele: Portrait of Albert Paris von Gütersloh , 1918

Albert Konrad Kiehdriver was born as the son of clerk Josef Kiehdriver and Mathilde nee Kohlgruber in Vienna Gumpendorf . From 1898 he attended the humanistic Stiftsgymnasium Melk and from 1900 the Franciscan grammar school in Bozen , since his parents planned that he should become a priest. In 1904, however, he took acting lessons under the pseudonym Albert Matthäus and played at various provincial theaters in the monarchy and in Bad Reichenhall . Max Reinhardt engaged him to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin .

Kiehfahrer first emerged as a visual artist in 1909 with an exhibition of drawings at the International Art Show in Vienna. Further exhibitions followed, including in Vienna at the Kunstschau, at the Hagenbund , in the Vienna Secession , but also in France , Germany and Italy . After his expressionist novel The dancing fool was published in 1911, he went to Paris as an art reporter , where he studied painting with Maurice Denis in 1911/12 and began to paint oil paintings. Back in Vienna he became a student of Gustav Klimt and belonged to his circle with Egon Schiele and Josef Hoffmann . He published articles in the magazines Der Ruf and Die Aktion and published the magazine Der Knockabout with Karl Adler in 1914 . During the First World War he met Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Hermann Bahr , Robert Musil and Franz Blei in the Imperial and Royal War Press Quarters . In 1918/19 he published the magazine Die Salvation with lead . In 1919, Gütersloh was portrayed by Bohuslav Kokoschka , Oskar Kokoschka 's younger brother .

In 1922, Kiehfahrer officially changed his name to Albert Paris von Gütersloh . Since 1913 he had called himself that again and again. According to Gerhard Habarta, before 1914 he was an actor in the then small German town of Gütersloh and was in love with two girls at the same time. The relationship took on forms that made it necessary for him to make a decision between the two women. For himself, he became the Paris who had to choose between several beautiful women. The choice of name is said to have arisen from this situation.

From 1919 to 1921 he was senior director at the Munich Schauspielhaus , but he also wrote and was a set designer at the Burgtheater in Vienna and a church restorer. In 1922 he received the Theodor Fontane Prize for Art and Literature for his books . In 1926 his autobiographical work Confessions of a Modern Painter was published . From 1930 to 1938 Gütersloh was a professor at the Vienna School of Applied Arts , from 1933 to 1939 a member of the Vienna Secession. Mosaics and stained glass windows for some Viennese churches were created during this period . During the 1930s he became an enthusiastic National Socialist, having previously sympathized with Austro-Fascism. After the connection, he applied for admission to the NSDAP, which was to have unforeseen consequences for him. The application was not only rejected because of his biography, on the contrary, Gütersloh's art was classified as degenerate by the National Socialists . He therefore lost his professorship in 1938 and was also banned from working in 1940.

Albert Paris Gütersloh was also one of the well-known freelancers at the Wiener Zeitung . From the late 1920s, Gütersloh had an ambivalent teacher-pupil relationship with the Austrian author Heimito von Doderer , who also published the first monograph about him ( Der Fall Gütersloh , 1930). In autumn 1938 he and Doderer moved into a studio apartment at Buchfeldgasse 6 in Vienna's 8th district of Josefstadt , which they both shared until the end of June 1948, apart from interruptions caused by the war (Doderer was drafted into the Luftwaffe in 1940). In 1962, after the publication of Gütersloh's novel Sonne und Mond , in which he had caricatured Doderer in the character of " Ariovist von Wissensdrum", the two fell out.

After the Second World War , from 1945 to 1962 Gütersloh headed a master school for painting and a fresco course at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . He set up a fresco and tapestry school here . Among his students were u. a. Ernst Fuchs and Eva Nagy . In 1953/54 he became rector and in 1955 received the title of full professor . From 1945 Gütersloh was again a member of the Art Club and the Secession and from 1950 to 1954 its president. In 1950, together with Josef Hoffmann , he founded the Federation of Modern Austrian Artists and became its first president in 1951.

Gütersloh was married in his first marriage from February 24, 1914 until her death in 1917 to the court opera dancer Emma Anna Berger, born on November 13, 1885, and in his second marriage from 1921 until their divorce in 1932 to the dancer Vera Reichert. Wolfgang Hutter , born in 1928, was the biological son of Albert Paris Gütersloh and Milena Hutter, who shared a love affair for many years. Milena Hutter was the wife of the doctor Karl Hutter. Gütersloh only recognized Wolfgang Hutter as his son in his 1973 will. After Gütersloh's death in Baden, where he had lived since 1970, he was buried in a grave of honor in Vienna's central cemetery (group 32 C, number 35) .

Grave of Albert Gutersloh

In 2006, Güterslohgasse in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after him.

importance

As a fine artist, the multi-talented Gütersloh created watercolours , drawings , oil paintings , but also tapestry designs , mosaics and stained glass windows. The subjects of his paintings are mainly still lifes , portraits and landscapes . As a teacher of Arik Brauer , Ernst Fuchs, Wolfgang Hutter, Helmut Leherbauer , Arminio Rothstein , Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Anton Lehmden and Alois Kowald, he is considered one of the most important pioneers of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism .

As a writer, he wrote novels, short stories and poetry. Beginning with the early Expressionist work, Gütersloh later switched to a baroque, sensual style.

awards

factories

Visual arts

Mosaic morning at Dag Hammarskjöld farm
  • Still Life with Armchair (Vienna, Leopold Museum ), 1912, oil on canvas, 60.7 × 60cm
  • Woman with child (Vienna, Leopold Museum, inv. no. 85), 1913, oil on canvas, 68.3 × 55.7 cm
  • Portrait of a lady (private ownership), 1913, oil on canvas, 65 × 51.5 cm
  • Self-portrait in front of the easel ( Vienna Museum ), 1913, oil on canvas
  • Portrait of a Woman (Vienna, Leopold Museum, Inv. No. 81), 1914, oil on canvas
  • Woman in a Green Dress (private ownership), 1926, oil on canvas, 101 × 81cm
  • Still life with peaches ( Austrian National Bank Collection ), 1930, oil on canvas, 50 × 59.6 cm
  • Designs for tapestries
  • Stained glass windows and mosaics for the Mauer parish church (1934)
  • Stained glass windows and mosaics for the parish church of Sandleiten (1935)
  • Stained glass window depicting the 4 cardinal virtues (Vienna, ChurchName of Jesus ) (1950)
  • Mosaic morning at Dag Hammarskjöld Hof in Vienna-Floridsdorf (1957–1960)
  • Fantastic Museum , Vienna, as a forerunner of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism

Literary works

  • essays
    • Egon Schiele , 1911
    • Confessions of a Modern Painter , 1926
    • On the Situation of Modern Art , 1963
  • novels
    • The Dancing Fool , 1911
    • The Liar Among Citizens , 1922
    • Innocent, or the Sense and Curse of Innocence , 1922
    • A Legendary Figure , 1946
    • Sun and Moon , 1962
    • The Fable of Friendship , 1969
  • stories
    • The Vision of the Old and the New , 1921
    • The Fables of Eros , 1947
  • poems
    • Music to a CV , 1957

literature

web links

Commons : Albert Paris Gütersloh  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

itemizations

  1. ↑ In 1913 his novel The dancing fool was published by the Georg Müller publishing house in Munich with a renewed copyright already under the author's name "Paris von Gütersloh", later slightly changed to "Albert Paris Gütersloh"
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Fleischer: The denied life. Kremayr & Scheriau, 2nd edition, Vienna 1996, p. 273 ff
  3. ↑ Rebecca Unterberger: From diarium to newspaper: Wiener Zeitung on litkult1920er.aau.at, written March 2017, editorially supplemented February 2019
  4. ↑ Paris Gütersloh - Professor. In:  The Vienna Day , December 12, 1933, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template:ANNO/maintenance/tag
  5. ↑ However, not a single copy of this first print by a Berlin printer named Baumhauer exists in a public library; the Austrian National Library has a few galley proofs , but even they do not prove that the book was actually published; there were no reviews either. The publication of the (allegedly abridged) novel by Verlag Georg Müller, Munich in 1913 must therefore be regarded as the actual first edition; this book is in public library possession, three copies are offered (March 2017) in second-hand bookshops. A reprint, edited by Wolfdietrich Rasch, was published by the successor publisher Langen-Müller, Munich, in 1973, and a paperback edition a little later by Heyne-Verlag, Munich.
personal data
SURNAME Gutersloh, Albert Paris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gütersloh, Albert Paris von (full name); Herder, Albert Conrad (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and writer
BIRTH DATE February 5, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1973
PLACE OF DEATH Baden near Vienna