Carl Gunschmann

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Carl Gunschmann (born December 18, 1895 in Darmstadt , Germany, † September 26, 1984 in Darmstadt) was a German painter. In addition to painting, he worked from 1915 to the late 1920s with etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts. Much of his early work, including most of the printing blocks, was destroyed during World War II.

Life

Carl Gunschmann was born on December 18, 1895 in Darmstadt . In 1910 he began studying art with a scholarship from the Hessian Grand Duke in Adolf Beyer's painting school , but broke it off after a short time. Two years later, he and Hans Schiebelhuth moved to Munich , where he met Else Lasker-Schüler , Karl Wolfskehl , Fritz Usinger and Adam Antes . In 1914, Georg Swarzenski , then general director of the Frankfurt museums, arranged for him to study in Paris. However, when the war broke out, Gunschmann returned to Germany with Paul Thesing . There he completed his military service in a writing room in Friedberg. During the First World War he made graphics for the magazine Dachstube and worked with Pepy Würth, Carlo Mierendorff , Theodor Haubach and Kasimir Edschmid . As early as 1917, he took part in a highly regarded group exhibition of expressionist artists at the Schames Gallery .

After the chaos of war in 1919, he and Kasimir Edschmid founded the Darmstadt Secession . His preferred subjects at this time were people in their original paradisiacal states, expressionistic depictions of "bathers" and "lovers". After 1920, it was mainly still lifes and portraits in the New Objectivity style that followed . Until 1933 there was a lively exhibition and juror activity at Gunschmann. In 1920 he married his first wife, the actress Käte Meissner. In 1937 Gunschmann moved back to Munich with his second wife Marga Roeder. In 1938 his son Peter Gunschmann was born and the family moved to Gstadt am Chiemsee . Four years after the end of the Second World War, in 1949, Gunschmann received the Georg Büchner Prize. This was followed by participation in exhibitions of the New Darmstadt Secession , which was associated with a return to the city of birth in 1952. In 1957 Gunschmann finally became president of the New Darmstadt Secession and married Annemarie Kattler for the third time. In 1966 he became honorary president of the Secession. From the beginning of the 1970s until his death, the artist suffered from cataracts and became completely blind after a few years. Carl Gunschmann died on September 26, 1984 in Darmstadt. His artistic estate is looked after by the family.

Prizes and awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Gunschmann: Early graphics. Darmstadt graphic portfolios - Expressionism I - The expressionist graphics of Carl Gunschmann / short vita
  2. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Knieß: Carl Gunschmann - Leben und Werk, Verlag der Saalbau-Galerie, Darmstadt 1985 (art between worldly utopia and dignified everyday life, p. 45)
  3. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 219, November 21, 1978.

Literature (selection)

  • "Carl Gunschmann", in: Hermann von Wedderkop : Deutsche Graphik des Westens , Feuerverlag, Weimar 1922
  • "Carl Gunschmann, Political Thinking Gave Impulse", published by the Neue Darmstädter Sezession, Bulletin No. 22, January 1956, Darmstadt, 1956
  • "Karl Gunschmann", exhibition catalog of the Kunsthalle Darmstadt, with a text contribution by Heinz Winfried Sabais, Darmstadt, 1970
  • "Carl Gunschmann - Early graphics. Darmstadt graphic portfolios - Expressionism I", Verlag der Saalbau-Galerie , Darmstadt 1980
  • "Carl Gunschmann", exhibition catalog of the Kunsthalle Darmstadt, with a text contribution by Dr. Hans-Günther Sperlich, Darmstadt, 1984
  • "Carl Gunschmann - Life and Work", with contributions by Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Knieß and Claus K. Netuschil, Verlag der Saalbau-Galerie, Darmstadt, 1985
  • "Carl Gunschmann - a classic modern painter", with contributions by Dr. Elisabeth Krimmel and Dr. Reiner Welters, Darmstadt Art Edition Merck, Volume 18, Darmstadt, 1988
  • "Carl Gunschmann - The Twenties and Early Thirties", Alexa-Beatrice Christ, housework for obtaining the academic degree of a Magister Artium submitted to Faculty 15 of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, 1996

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personal data
SURNAME Gunschmann, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1984
Place of death Darmstadt