Alexander Posch (artist)
Alexander Posch (born June 21, 1890 in Schönberg , † August 2, 1950 in Darmstadt ) was a German artist.
Life
Alexander Posch was born as the son of the Austrian locksmith Christian Posch and his wife Katharina in Schönberg an der Weinstrasse. Alexander Posch completed his training with the glass artist Hans Müller-Hickler. He then attended Adolf Beyer's private painting school in Darmstadt. Posch studied at the Munich School of Applied Arts from 1910, followed by a study visit to Vienna .
After the First World War he lived as a freelance artist in Darmstadt.
In 1920 Posch founded together with the artists Hartmuth Pfeil and Marcel Wilhelm Richter the “Darmstädter Gruppe”, which at the time of its founding saw itself as the opposite pole to the more politically oriented “ Darmstadt Secession ” and stylistically could largely be assigned to the New Objectivity . In 1928, both groups joined together to form the “Interest Group for Progressive Artists in Hesse” in order to gain more influence by appearing together. He stood up for the interests of fellow artists, was represented in numerous exhibition committees and associations and was instrumental in founding the "Reich Association of Visual Artists Hesse", of which he was the managing director. In 1926, there was a large exhibition by the “Darmstädter Gruppe” in the Kunsthalle, and in 1929 the international exhibition “The beautiful person in new art”, co-organized by Posch , followed at Mathildenhöhe .
In 1931 Alexander Posch was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize of the People's State of Hesse .
His wife died in the air raid on Darmstadt on September 11, 1944. His studio and large parts of his artistic work were destroyed. After a two-year stay in the Allgäu, he became a member of the Hessischer Kunstverein (1946) and the re-established “New Darmstädter Sezession” (1949). After 1945 numerous landscape and architectural images were created, some of which were still shaped by impressions from the Allgäu. Alexander Posch died on August 2, 1950 after a long illness in Darmstadt and was buried in the forest cemetery (grave site: L 13d 24).
His son Claudius Posch (1947–2013) also worked as a painter and graphic artist in Darmstadt.
literature
- Roland Dotzert et al .: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt , Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-1930-3 and ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , p. 719.
Individual evidence
- ^ Darmstadt painter, Paul Thesing, Carl Gunschmann, Alexander Posch, Kunstfreunde Bergstrasse eV, 1992
- ↑ Homepage of the City of Science Darmstadt
- ↑ Darmstädter Echo, Tuesday, August 21, 2018, p. 10.
- ↑ Darmstadt Echo
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Posch, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schoenberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd August 1950 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |