August Agatz
August Agatz (born November 20, 1904 in Hagen , † July 10, 1945 in Leros , Greece ) was a German painter and sculptor .
life and work
August Agatz was born in Hagen in 1904. After an apprenticeship as a fine engraver and silversmith, he trained as a sculptor with Karel Niestrath in Hagen. His childhood friends during this time were the artists Heinrich Brocksieper , Albert Buske , Max Gebhard , Waldemar Alder , Reinhard Hilker , Günther Oberste-Berghaus - later also Emil Schumacher . From 1927 to 1929 he studied at the Bauhaus Dessau (registered number 177), attended the preliminary course with Josef Albers and worked in the metal workshop. At Joost Schmidt's , he visited the plastic workshop with Gebhard and Franz Ehrlich . From 1929 to 1930 he worked in the metal workshop of the Frankfurt art school ( Städelschule ) with Christian Dell . In 1929 he married the goldsmith Anna Rudolph, giving birth to their son Adrian.
From 1930 to 1931 he worked for the Otto Eckel architecture firm in Bad Münstereifel am Stein and worked with the architect Adam Wiehl in Hagen . From 1931 he was a freelance silversmith and sculptor in Hagen, joined the KPD in the same year and was part of the KPD city council in Hagen. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, arrest and imprisonment followed. In 1935 he was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for high treason. After his release from prison he worked as a factory worker and in 1944 was drafted into the Penal Battalion 999 in Greece for military service. On July 10, 1945 he died in British captivity on the Greek island of Leros.
Only a few works from his artistic oeuvre have survived - drawings, watercolors and sculptures - they are in private ownership and in the collection of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation .
- Bauhaus work
Bauhaus May 1, 1928
Homage to Klee
Exhibitions
- from 1950s: Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig
- 1995/96: "basis bauhaus ... westfalen", Westphalian Museum Office, Münster, traveling exhibition: Kunstmuseum, Ahlen ; Municipal Gallery, Paderborn; Municipal Gallery, Bad Oeynhausen; City Museum, Bocholt ; Vestisches Museum, Recklinghausen ; Wilhelm Morgner House, Soest ; Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dessau-Roßlau
- 2009: "From Hagen to the Bauhaus", Distance University in Hagen , Hagen
- 2013: "Bauhaus. The Art of Schoolchildren", Bauhaus Dessau Foundation / Gallery of the City of Remscheid
- 2014: "Bauhaus. The Art of Schoolchildren", Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dessau-Roßlau
literature
- Gerd Franke: Two Bauhaus members in the fight against fascism and war , in: Scientific journal of the University of Architecture and Building Weimar, Weimar 1979, issue 4/5
- Folke Dietzsch (Ed.), "The Students at the Bauhaus", Weimar 1990
- Galerie am Sachsenplatz (publisher), "Bauhaus 7", Leipzig 1991
- Westfälisches Museumsamt Münster (ed.), "Basis bauhaus ... westfalen", Münster 1995, ISBN 3-927204-31-5 .
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Geiersbach / Walter Scheiffele, "Shapes for everyday life. Wilhelm Wagenfeld and others", Fernuniversität Hagen 1996
- Weimar Art Collections (Ed.), Michael Siebenbrodt, "Heinrich Brocksieper - Nahsichten", Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-929323-15-X .
- Oliver Zybok, Wolfgang Thöner (eds.), "Bauhaus. The Art of Students", Hatje Cantz Verlag Ostfildern, ISBN 978-3-7757-3600-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eckhard Neumann (ed.): Bauhaus and Bauhäusler: Memories and Confessions . Adult new edition 1985, Cologne: DuMont, 1996 ISBN 3-7701-1673-9 , p. 196
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Agatz, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1945 |
| Place of death | Leros |