Bruno Gimpel

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Bruno Gimpel (born January 14, 1886 in Rostock , † April 28, 1943 in Niederpoyritz ) was an expressionist German painter and graphic artist .

Live and act

Stages of Life (1914)

Gimpel came from a Rostock merchant family. His parents were Julius Gimpel (1850–1889) and Anna Gimpel, geb. Elkan (1859-1930). His sister Hella Gimpel (1883–1933) was married to Rudolf Goldschmidt . At the age of 19 he began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in 1905. At the same time, he attended the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts until 1908 . There he became a student of the graphic artist Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke and the architect Peter Behrens .

From 1911 he attended the Dresden Art Academy , where he became a student of the painter Otto Gussmann . During the First World War , Gimpel volunteered as a hospital helper. After the war he settled in Dresden as a freelance artist and in the 1920s he headed the Dresden local group in the Association of German Commercial Graphic Artists , who u. a. Arno Drescher , later director at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig , Kurt Fiedler , Paul Sinkwitz and the well-known typographer Heinrich Wieynck (1874–1931) belonged.

Landscape (n.d.)

He remained loyal to his homeland, both through annual summer stays in the artists' colony Ahrenshoop and with his motifs. In 1919 he co-founded the Rostock Artists' Association and was able to exhibit regularly in his hometown. For the new building of the Rostock University Clinic and the Lyceum, Gimpel took part in the official tender and was then also commissioned with the design of wall and glass pictures.

Gimpel was influenced by Art Nouveau , but increasingly approached the Dresden Secession without joining it. One of his best-known works is Meine Frau mit Lute in the Galerie Neue Meister Dresden. 1935 Gimpel was by the Nazis because of his Jewish origin and his as degenerate classified art with disbarment occupied.

Grave of Bruno Gimpel in the New Jewish Cemetery in Dresden

Bruno Gimpel was initially spared deportation to the concentration camp because his wife Irene, a daughter of the Dresden painter Andreas Herzing , did not get a divorce despite constant harassment. After repeated arrests and interrogations as well as years of forced labor , Gimpel committed suicide in 1943 in the face of the threat of deportation to the extermination camps , the threats against his wife, expulsion from his apartment and an increasingly worsening eye condition. The last trigger was the presumed murder of his friend Heinrich Conradi . Gimpel died at the age of 57 on April 28, 1943 in Niederpoyritz near Dresden. His grave is in the New Jewish Cemetery in Dresden. The memory of Bruno Gimpel is mainly kept in the Max-Samuel-Haus Rostock today .

literature

  • Bruno Gimpel . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 54, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22794-3 , p. 307.
  • Book of memory. Jews in Dresden - deported, murdered, missing , Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Dresden e. V. (Ed.), Thelem 2006.
  • Commercial graphics , volume 3 (1925, 2nd year), Prof. HK Frenzel (ed.), Verlag Phöenix Illustrationsdruck und Verlag, Berlin, special issue on commercial graphics in Dresden.
  • Klaus Tiedemann: The painter and graphic artist Bruno Gimpel (1886–1943) . In: Medaon . Magazine for Jewish Life in Research and Education, Issue 1, 2007 ( online ).

Web links

My wife with lute
Bruno Gimpel , 1930
State Art Collection Dresden

Link to the picture
(please note copyrights )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Rudolf Goldschmidt" (entry), in: 100 Jewish personalities from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: a companion to the exhibition of the Max-Samuel-Haus May 22 to November 22, 2003 , Max-Samuel-Haus , Foundation Meeting Center for Jewish History and Kultur in Rostock (ed.), Frank Schröder (1958-2004), Axel Attula, Christine Gundlach et al., (= Writings from the Max-Samuel-Haus; Vol. 4), Rostock: Weidner, 2003, p. 65seq ., here p. 65.
  2. ^ Evidence in the German Documentation Center for Art History, the Photo Archive Photo Marburg