Bruno Goller

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Bruno Goller (born November 5, 1901 in Gummersbach , † January 29, 1998 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter .

Life

Bruno Goller room in Hall 32 on the Steinmüller site

Goller began painting as a teenager. The landscape painter Julius Jungheim taught Goller from 1919 to 1921 in Düsseldorf. In 1924 he made a trip to Italy. From 1927 Bruno Goller lived and worked in Düsseldorf. He almost never left this city; behavior that is explained with an oknophilia .

In the same year Goller became a member of the artist group Das Junge Rheinland . In 1927/28 he took part in the Young Rhineland exhibition and was a co-founder of the Rhenish Secession , whose artists had joined the circle around Mother Ey . In 1930 Goller became a member of the Rhine group . Bruno Goller and Elisabeth Nipshagen married on August 15, 1933.

During the time of National Socialism , the artist lived largely in the inner emigration . From 1940 to 1945 he was drafted during the Second World War. In 1943, incendiary bombs destroyed his studio and destroyed most of his early work. In the winter semester of 1949/50 Goller was offered a professorship at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf , where he held a professorship for painting from 1953 to 1964. His students included Jörg Boström , Helmut Sundhaußen , Johannes Geccelli , Blinky Palermo , Konrad Fischer , Konrad Klapheck and Gerda Kratz .

Since 1967 Goller was a full member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts , and in 1984 he became an honorary member of the Düsseldorf Art Academy.

The estate is managed by his biographer Volker Kahmen and the Bruno Goller Archive in Cologne . The Bruno Goller House in Goller's hometown of Gummersbach had existed since 1989 as a municipal cultural center, which was closed at the end of 2013 and moved to the new Hall 32 on the Steinmüller site. There is a room dedicated to Bruno Goller in which some of his works can also be seen.

position

Goller's choice of motifs was influenced throughout his life by his mother's hatmaker's shop, so shop windows, decorations and similar furnishings are among the preferred themes in his world of images. In all awards, the focus is on the fact that Goller created an independent style, which "despite the tendency towards abstraction that prevailed in the post-war period [...] remained true to his painting style of 'magical' realism" . Numerous exhibitions have shown the poorly known painter Bruno Goller. In general, Goller's art is located between Art Nouveau , Expressionism and Surrealism . But the art historian Werner Schmalenbach is of the opinion that Goller was never someone who belonged somewhere. Stylistically, the artist cannot be accommodated anywhere.

Awards

Exhibitions

literature

  • Volker Kahmen: Bruno Goller . Edition Bahnhof Rolandseck Bonn, 1981 ISBN 3-923304-00-5
  • Rolandseck train station (Ed.) Bruno Goller. Pictures, drawings . Catalog for the exhibition for the 90th birthday. Collaboration with Walburga Krupp, Gregor Laschen . Rolandseck 1991, ISBN 3-927473-08-1
  • Rolandseck station: Bruno Goller on his 95th birthday. Winterscheidt, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-923304-01-3
  • Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Hrsg.): Insights. The 20th Century in the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection, Düsseldorf , Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000; ISBN 3-7757-0853-7
  • Anita Eckstaedt: Paul Klee and Bruno Goller. Two modern painters. Work analyzes from a psychoanalytic point of view. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 3-82603857-6
  • Martin Hentschel (Ed.): Bruno Goller - Retrospective for the hundredth birthday. Publication for the exhibitions 2001/2002 in the museums Haus Lange and Haus Esters, Krefeld and in the Kunstmuseum Winterthur. Kerber, Bielefeld 2001, ISBN 3-933040-78-7
  • Viola Tallowitz-Scharf: Magical Monumentalism. A new relationship to reality in the work of Bruno Goller, Domenico Gnoli, Konrad Klapheck and Peter Klasen . Univ. Diss., Osnabrück 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Werner Schmalenbach: About a great friend. In: Bahnhof Rolandseck (Ed.) Bruno Goller. Pictures, drawings . Rolandseck 1991, pp. 7-9.
  2. ↑ Anita Eckstaedt: Paul Klee and Bruno Goller. Two modern painters. Work analyzes from a psychoanalytic point of view. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008.
  3. ↑ a b Bahnhof Rolandseck (Ed.) Bruno Goller. Pictures, drawings . Rolandseck 1991, life data. (Note: Schmalenbach uses the first name Elsbeth.)
  4. ↑ Bruno Goller - Images of Women
  5. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Viola Tallowitz-Scharf, Dissertation Online.
personal data
SURNAME Goller, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Gummersbach
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1998
Place of death Dusseldorf