Borris Goetz

Borris Goetz (born July 23, 1915 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 23, 1998 in Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Life

Borris Goetz studied from 1933 to 1935 at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main with Johann Vincenz Cissarz and Karl Peter Röhl . In 1935 he became a trainee in the studio of the commercial artist Hans Bohn , and in the following year in the Bauer foundry . He then worked as a graphic designer in Berlin, where he completed an evening course on “Klosterstrasse”. In 1937 he traveled to Switzerland, Italy and southern France, where he spent almost two years. He went to Cannes and met Picasso and Matisse, among others . During this time he also met Consuelo Suncín Sandoval , the wife of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , whom he painted several times. In the summer of 1938 he attended a summer course at the Städel School in Frankfurt am Main with Franz Karl Delavilla . The following year he stayed in Paris as a student of Jean Villeri , but returned to Frankfurt when the war broke out. There he was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo in 1940 . He was then able to work again as a painter and graphic artist, but was drafted in 1943 and spent his military service in Russia and northern France. In 1944 he was taken prisoner of war there, came to Southampton as a prisoner of war, later to the Northumberland POW Camp 18 and was then taken to POW Camp 186, Berekurch Hall near Colchester in Essex . During this time, many drawings were made by fellow prisoners, but also sketches and representations of the surrounding castles.

After his release, Goetz resumed his artistic work in Bad Schwalbach in 1946 . In the same year he became chief graphic artist in the Atelier Werbekunst - W. Schulz GmbH in Frankfurt am Main. During these years he had good contact with the AFN Symphony Orchestra in Frankfurt and made many drawings and pictures of American musicians. This contact also connected him to the Frankfurt jazz scene. For them he also designed the poster for the 1st German Jazz Festival in 1953. During this time, in 1949, he carried out commissioned work for the Lanvin fashion house and founded the studio for free and applied graphics “Quadrat” in the philanthropist of the Jewish community. In 1951 he was appointed lecturer for graphic design at the "Institut für Modeschaffen" (fashion advertising graphics). From 1954 to 1957 he was a board member of the artists' association "Frankfurt Sezession". In 1955 he sat in the "Expert Committee for Fine and Applied Arts" of the State of Hesse. In 1958, Borris Goetz co-founded the artists' association “Frankfurter Gruppe (new)” of the Zimmergalerie Franck.

In 1963 Goetz was given a teaching position for art history and musical vision at the Academy of Labor at the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1964 he was awarded the International Art Prize "Fundus Artis" and an annual grant. In the same year he suffered serious injuries in a car accident, which finally led to his having to give up teaching in 1972; Borris Goetz moved to Bad Münster and devoted himself to his artistic work until 1998.

Works (selection)

• 1955–1956 murals for the Bundespost building in Frankfurt am Main
• 1957 State contracts for art in building and a mural in the Bad Schwalbach Kurhaus
• 1959–1960 Seven ground glass windows for the engineering school in Kassel
• 1960–1961 wall mosaic Casino Ihringshausen; Mural University of Giessen
• 1961 mural carpet of Bad Nauheim District Court
• 1961 Overall artistic design for the Frankfurt Transport Exhibition. Planning for today - solutions for tomorrow
• 1965–1970 work on the sequence of pictures anamorphoses and triptych in the Protestant church in Zell am Harmersbach, Black Forest
• 1972–1973 wall pictures HL - Leibrand - concern in Rosbach / Taunus
• 1975 Glass sculpture for the fountain hall in Bad Münster a. stone
• 1975–1979 design of the Kurmittelhaus and the fountain hall in Bad Münster a. stone
• 1980–1983 Christ out of the garbage
• 1982–1984 Johannis picture door of the Fehrenbacherhof chapel / Black Forest

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1939 first exhibition in Paris
• 1948 retrospective exhibition in the Amelang Gallery in Frankfurt / Main
• 1954–1957 Participation in the annual exhibition in the Frankfurt Secession during this time
• 1955–1957 Participation in exhibitions of the Deutscher Künstlerbund in Baden-Baden and Hanover / Main
• 1959 Exhibition Extreme Format in Frankfurt / Main
• 1963 Exhibition in Lyon
• 1964 Exhibition in the Galerie Graphisches Kabinett Hollar, Prague / Czech Republic
• 1967 Exhibition Bühlerhöhe / Black Forest
• 1971 Exhibition in Ascona / Switzerland, purchase by the Seagram Foundation, New York / USA
• 1974 Ceramic painting in the Schmieder studio in Zell am Harmersbach
• 1984 Solo exhibition retrospective 1933–1983 at the Künstlerbahnhof Ebernburg eV
• 1988 Solo exhibition retrospective in the Carmelite monastery in Frankfurt / Main

Literature (selection)

• Ahrens, Dieter (ed.): Early German Informel. Jupp Lückeroth as a painter and collector, Trier 1985.
• Alfred Schmid Foundation (ed.): In Memoriam Alfred Schmid Chronicle and Call, Altdorf / Uri 1975.
• Bekker vom Rat, Hanna: 1947–1957. Ten-year exhibition, ed. from the Frankfurter Kunstkabinett, Hofheim a. T. 1957.
• Deutscher Künstlerbund, 5th exhibition in Hanover, Hanover 1955.
• Eichler, Inge: The 20th Century in View, ed. from the 1822 Foundation of Frankfurter Sparkasse for its exhibition on November 30, 1999-25. February 2000, Frankfurt / Main 1999.
• Färber, Leo Maria: the sin that called to collect, in: Simmat, William E. (Ed.): Franck and free 1949–1959. Documentation on the 10th anniversary of the Zimmergalerie Franck, Frankfurt / Main 1960, pp. 44–45.
• Frankfurt project 2. Triptych. Francis Bott. Hermann Goepfert. Boris Goetz. Hap Grieshaber. Heinz Kreutz. Christian Kruck. Unpaginated (18 sheets)., Frankfurt 1958.
• Geiger, Ursula: The painters of the Quadriga and their position in the Informel. Otto Greis, KO Goetz, Bernhard Schultze, Heinz Kreutz, Nuremberg 1987.
• Geiger, Ursula: Quadriga, Frankfurt / Main 1996.
• Goetz, Borris: Breviary Artistic Testimonies, Bad Münster a. St. 1988, ISBN 3-924824-55-X .
• Götz, Karl Otto: Memories and Work, 2nd vol., Düsseldorf 1983, Aachen 1994.
• Hinds, René: Quadriga - picture essay, Frankfurt / Main 1953.
• Hofer, Sigrid (Ed.): Unleashed Form: Fifty Years Frankfurter Quadriga, Städelsches Kunstinstitut and Städtische Galerie Frankfurt, October 1, 2002–25. January 2003, Frankfurt / Main, Basel 2002.
• Kaschnitz, Marie Luise: Return to Frankfurt, in: Silk, Adam (ed.): What is there. Art and literature in Frankfurt. Artistic tendencies using the example of a city. Frankfurt / Main 1963, pp. 52-57.
• Sauer, Walter (ed.): Borris Goetz - Apollonische Landscapes, Reicheneck 1997.
• Sauer, Walter (ed.): Borris Goetz - Feminine Landscapes, Reicheneck 1996.
• Sauer, Walter; Lauermann, Dietmar: Borris Goetz or a painter's path through his time, in: Die Graue Reihe 4, Heidenheim 1986, ISBN 3-88258-084-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Borris Goetz in the catalog of the German National Library