Bertold Haag

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Bertold Hague (* 6. January 1912 in Mannheim ; † 19th April 1981 in Berlin ; also Berthold Haag ) was a German painter who in the post-war period of abstract painting turned.

Life

Bertold Haag was the son of the Mannheim music director Hans Haag. As a teenager he took part in drawing classes. At the age of 17 he exhibited in 1929 in the exhibition "Badisches Kunstschaffen der Gegenwart" in the Kunsthalle Mannheim . In the same year he graduated from high school. He began studying philosophy and architecture in Heidelberg and Karlsruhe, but soon decided to pursue a career as a freelance artist. In this he received support from the then director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub .

Haag's early work in the 1930s was committed to representationalism. He found it difficult to make a living from it. In 1936, however, he received his first solo exhibition in the Kunsthalle Mannheim . A year later, as part of the " Degenerate Art " campaign, a still life by Haag was removed from the collection of the Kunsthalle Mannheim.

Haag was used as a soldier in Russia during World War II. He was wounded in the process and was taken prisoner by the Soviets. In Berlin, where he had lived since 1938, his studio at Tauentzienstrasse 10 was hit by bombs and all works of art were destroyed.

After he returned to Berlin in 1945, Bertold Haag became involved in the city's cultural life. He was co-organizer of the exhibition "Exhibition of Artists of the Zehlendorf district" of the Office of Public Education Zehlendorf in autumn 1945. Haag took off in 1946 at Berlin's many art exhibitions, organized by the cultural offices. But he also showed his works in private galleries. In the summer of 1948 he himself organized a studio exhibition in his house in the Zehlendorf forest settlement , Am Lappjagen 9. With over 200 pictures, Haag was able to take part in an exhibition in the Schöneberg town hall in 1951 with its own section. In 1954 he was represented in the art exhibition of the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, where it was bought by the art commission for the municipal painting collection in Ludwigshafen.

In 1955, Haag rented a small studio and apartment in Berlin at Trabener Strasse 21 in the Grunewald district . During these years he finally turned to abstract painting. The painter Franz Mutzenbecher as well as the sculptor Hermann Theunert, the ceramicist Jakob Bohleber and the draftsman Busso Malchow moved in his circle of artist friends in the 1950s and 1960s . From 1969 onwards, Haag exhibited regularly in the Pels-Leusden gallery in Berlin. He was also shown in various gallery exhibitions in West Berlin in the 1970s.

After Bertold Haag's death in 1981, the Pels-Leusden gallery held a memorial exhibition in 1983 and published a catalog with a foreword by Hans Pels-Leusden . In 2004 a comprehensive retrospective was shown in the premises of the Klosterfrau company in Berlin-Marienfelde and a catalog was published.

The artist's inheritance fell to the State of Berlin . In 1990 the Friends of Bertold Haag acquired the artistic estate and in 2008 handed it over to the Art Forum Foundation of the Berliner Volksbank .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Baden's contemporary art, Kunsthalle Mannheim , May 5 - June 30, 1929
  • Mannheim in the picture, Schlossmuseum Mannheim , around 1929
  • Self-portraits of artists from Baden, Badenschen Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, 1930
  • Solo exhibition, Kunsthalle Mannheim , July / August 1936
  • Exhibition of Artists of the Zehlendorf District, Office for Public Education Zehlendorf, September / October 1945
  • Exhibition of visual artists, Kulturbund Berlin, December 1945 / January 1946
  • Bertold Haag. Paintings, watercolors, drawings, Meyer-Heydenreich art dealer, Zehlendorf, May 1946
  • Solo exhibition in the Fritz Weber Gallery, Zehlendorf, 1946
  • Collective exhibition, Schöneberg Town Hall , March 3 - 31, 1951, represented with 200 works in a separate area
  • Bertrand Russell Centenary. International Art Exhibition and Sale, London, December 1972 / January 1973
  • Bertold Haag. Works from the years 1949–1973. Oil paintings, sheets in mixed media, miniatures, Galerie HP Buchen, Berlin, January 12th - February 2nd 1974
  • Bertold Haag, early, never-before-shown and new works, Galerie Kulbe, Berlin, November 14, 1975 - January 1976
  • Bertold Haag - pictures. 90 miniatures, Salon of New Art, Berlin, March 10 - April 29, 1978
  • Bertold Haag (1912–1981) memorial exhibition. Paintings, collages and mixed media, Galerie Pels-Leusden, June 13 - August 6, 1983
  • Bertold Haag, 1912–1981, Galerie HP Buchen, Berlin, February 28 - March 22, 1986
  • Bertold Haag, 1912–1981. Paintings, collages, miniatures, Galerie Pels-Leusden, December 7, 1991 - January 18, 1992
  • Bertold Haag retrospective. Drawings, paintings, collages and mixed media from 50 years, Klosterfrau, Berlin, October 26th - November 28th, 2004 (opening by Christoph Stölzl )

Public collections

literature

  • Bertold Haag (1912-1981). Memorial exhibition. Paintings, collages and mixed media. Exhibition from June 13, 1983 to August 6, 1983. Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin 1983 (with a foreword by Hans Pels-Leusden )
  • Bertold Haag retrospective. Drawings, paintings, collages and mixed media from 50 years (October 26 - November 28, 2004), exhibition at Klosterfrau, Berlin-Marienfelde 2004 (with a foreword by Rainer Jahn and texts by Jörg Eisemann and Marina Dinkler)
  • The art collection of the Berliner Volksbank. Inventory, ed. by the Art Forum Foundation of the Berliner Volksbank , Berlin 2013
  • Franz Roh: "Degenerate" Art. Art barbarism in the Third Reich, Hanover 1962, p. 214
  • Günther Wirth: Forbidden Art 1933–1945. Persecuted Artists in the German Southwest, Stuttgart 1987, p. 269

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personal data
SURNAME Hague, Bertold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1981
Place of death Berlin