Bernhard Delsing
Bernhard Delsing (born April 9, 1906 in Holsterhausen (Dorsten) , † February 1, 1991 in Kassel ) was a German collage artist , painter , draftsman and art teacher .
education
Bernhard Delsing studied at the Kassel Art Academy from 1924 to 1938 . From 1926 he was a master student with Kay H. Nebel . In 1930 a travel grant from the city of Kassel took him to Holland , Belgium , France and Italy . From 1934 to 1938 he was supported by a state scholarship. In 1938 he received his first mural commissions for the Olympic Village in Berlin and the University of Göttingen . In 1938 he stayed in Italy. He was a soldier from 1939 to 1945. In 1943 his Kassel studio was destroyed by an air raid. In 1946 he co-founded the Hessian Secession in Kassel alongside Arnold Bode , Carl Döbel and Ernst Röttger . From 1948 to 1950 Delsing was a teacher at the evening school at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Delsing worked for Hans Leistikow until 1953 . He continued his education in landscape culture at the Werkakademie in Kassel with Hermann Mattern . In 1955 his studio was destroyed by vandalism . In 1955 he co-founded the artist group Kassel 55 . From 1957 to 1977 Bernhard Delsing was an art teacher at various private schools in Kassel.
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Picturesque work
Bernhard Delsing was an eclectic painter who recorded various styles of classical modernism in oil, with mixed techniques, collages and frottage , and who followed current trends of the 50s to 70s after 1945. He was shaped by the work of Roy Lichtenstein , Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol .
Drawing work
The extensive graphic work that began in 1930 using a variety of techniques is more timeless. He drew Mediterranean travel sketches, Kassel suburbs and landscape motifs.
Building decorations
After 1953 he also received orders for building decorations such as for the Hessian Administrative Court (1953/54), the main train station (1955), Leimborn School (1956), the Stadtbad Mitte (1967), all in Kassel, and the barracks in Wolfhagen (1960).
Museum review
- Collection of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- New gallery , Kassel
- Collection of Sparkasse Insurance, Kassel
Solo exhibitions
- 1935: Kassel
- 1954: with ( Konrad Westphal )
- 1962: Painting, sculpture, graphics and construction work , KasselerKunstVerein , Kassel
- 1969: KasselerKunstVerein, Kassel
- 1973: Palais Bellvue , Kassel
- 1998: City Museum Kassel , Kassel
Group exhibitions
- 1929: Great German exhibition Orangery , Kassel:
- 1985: Five painters in Kassel with Kurt Bunge , Felix Koller , Walter Nikusch and Ludwig Uloth , KasselerKunstVerein , Kassel
Awards
- 1st prize Great German Exhibition , 1929
literature
- Paul Schmaling: Artists' Lexicon Hessen-Kassel 1777–2000 , Kassel 2001
- Michael Eissenhauer (Ed.): A House for Modernity , Kassel, 2001.
- Manfred Marx, Heiner Georgsdorf: 150 Years of the Kasseler Kunstverein - A Chronicle . Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel 1985
- Delsing, Bernhard . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913.
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernhard Delsing in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delsing, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German collage artist, painter, draftsman and art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holsterhausen (Dorsten) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1991 |
| Place of death | kassel |