Carolus Vocke

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Carolus Vocke (1977)

Carolus Vocke (born June 23, 1899 in Heilbronn ; † January 6, 1979 in Mannheim ; actually Karl Vocke ) was a German painter , sculptor , graphic artist , caricaturist and restorer . He was a great-nephew of the German financial expert and bank director Wilhelm Vocke .

life and work

During the first years of his life, Vocke grew up on the same street in Heilbronn as the later Federal President Theodor Heuss , with whom he was in contact several times from 1950 onwards.

After the First World War (1914-1918), in which Vocke served as a volunteer, he attended the Karlsruhe Art Academy as a student of the painter Walter Georgi , the ceramist Carl Kornhaas and the sculptor Georg Schreyögg . There, in 1923 , Academy Professor Hans Adolf Bühler appointed him as a master class student and brought him in to paint the Karlsruhe town hall.

In 1939, he and Peter Jakob Schober were awarded the Baden State Prize for Portrait since 1935 and were awarded the contract to paint the so-called Hecht building in Tuttlingen . The result was a first, monumental mural entitled Symphony of Technology .

During the Second World War , Vocke became a prisoner of war and was sent to the Mühlau camp near Tuttlingen. During his internment, he gained recognition as a painter from the French military administration. She commissioned him to paint a large altarpiece and the Way of the Cross for the camp church (demolished in 1964). This enabled him to have his own studio outside of the camp, to create numerous portraits and frescoes in the Lake Constance area , in Hegau and in Upper Swabia .

After the liberation, he continued to live and work in the Tuttlingen area until 1957, when he moved to Mannheim .

In Mannheim, Vocke received - at the instigation of the regional building director Karl Kölmel and the government building director Ernst Throm - the order to restore the ceiling paintings of the Mannheim palace and the palace church , which had been almost completely destroyed during the war, by Cosmas Damian Asam . They are to be understood as new creations and not as reconstructions. A few black and white photographs served as the only surviving templates. The highly praised execution of this complicated and lengthy work, which lasted until 1973, not only made him well-known beyond the region, but subsequently also other commissions of a similar kind, among other things. a. the painting of the ceiling of the auditorium in the Rococo theater of the Schwetzingen Palace .

Due to irreparable moisture damage, however, the oversized screen had to be removed as part of a renovation of the theater around 2003. Nothing is currently known about their whereabouts.

Further ceiling and wall works were created from 1947 to 1966 in Mühlhausen , Überlingen , Ravensburg , Konstanz , Meersburg , Stuttgart , Frankfurt , Berlin and in Italy , near Como (Lazzago Castle).

In his oil paintings , portraits and flower still lifes, Vocke remained faithful to the figurative depiction with impressionistically iridescent brush strokes. The relaxed, fragrant atmosphere of its numerous landscape watercolors is also widely appreciated. Since Vocke did not want to see reduced as a monumental Baroque painter, satirized it as a cartoonist with a lot of humor in countless leaves the lower and upper middle class and the politics and the military.

Vocke was a master of the large format and various art techniques. He designed numerous public buildings and restored historical frescoes, ceiling and wall paintings, taking up the style of the respective epoch. His non -commissioned works were overshadowed by large formats during his lifetime. Posthumously, however, his personal artistic work increasingly attracted the interest of the art trade.

The “Carolus-Vocke-Ring” in Mannheim- Feudenheim has been named after him since 1984.

No catalog of Vocke's works is currently known.

Private

Vocke was married to Lilian , a former lady-in-waiting of Prince Max von Baden . The marriage later fell apart, but was never divorced until his death.

Their son Jürgen Vocke (†) emerged from the connection.

Carolus Vocke rests in a grave of honor at the Mannheim-Feudenheim cemetery. His tombstone was designed by the stonemason and sculptor Hans Volker Dursy (†) from Ladenburg .

Pictures on behalf of the public (selection)

Memorial hall in Tuttlingen
  • 1923: Painting of the Karlsruhe town hall hall as a master student
  • 1936: Altarpiece of the Luther Church in Bruchsal . Renewed and redesigned in 1949
  • 1937: Murals in the surgery building of the Heidelberg University ( folk medicine , no longer preserved)
  • 1939: Painting of the Hecht building in Tuttlingen
  • 1946: Painting of the dome of the memorial hall at the Tuttlingen cemetery
    • Design u. a. the altar wall ( resurrection ) and a glass window of the Tuttlinger camp church (wooden structure, demolished in 1964; the tabernacle with the door designed by Vocke is now in the church of St. Gallus in Tuttlingen; the triptych Come to me all will be in the Catholic parish of Maria Queen ibid. Kept)
  • 1947: The oversized choir arch in the neo-Gothic parish church of Lippertsreute is painted
  • 1948: Mural in the Schlatt church under crows
  • 1955: Design of the dome of Café Droste , Meersburg
  • 1955–1961: Painting of the knight's hall, the red hall, the main staircase and the castle church in the rebuilt Mannheim residential palace
    • Large ceiling painting in the rococo theater in Schwetzingen (probably no longer preserved)
  • 1958: Restoration of the fresco above the altar of the Christ Church , Mannheim
  • 1959: Memorial : "Thought of Peace" - bronze sculpture in Graben-Neudorf
  • 1964: Painting of the garden room at Lazzago Castle, the former summer residence of Pope Innocent XI (today Villa Giulini )
  • 1966: Design of the Herzog-Ulrich-Saal at Stettenfels Castle , Untergruppenbach
  • 1965: Wall painting on the history of the Peasants' War at Herdwangen town hall
  • 1977: Restoration of the frescoes by Carl von Häberlin in the cloister of the Dominican monastery in Konstanz (today Inselhotel ), which were damaged at the time due to renovations

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Work in the Mannheim Palace and caricatures, club house of the Association for Local History Feudenheim eV, Mannheim-Feudenheim (2018)
  • Drafts for wall paintings, Museum Fruchtkasten, Tuttlingen (2012)
  • Vocke Memorial Exhibition on the occasion of his 90th birthday, Reiss-Museum , Mannheim (1989)
  • Posthumous honor in the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus, Mannheim-Feudenheim (1982)
  • Special show In Memoriam Carolus Vocke , Reiss-Museum, Mannheim (1979)
  • Kunsthaus K. Ferd. Heckel, Mannheim (1975)
  • Volksbank Mannheim (1973)
  • Exhibition in the garden hall of the Mannheim Palace (1969)
  • Drafts of stained glass windows and Mannheim pictures on the occasion of the Mannheim State Teachers' Day in the large hall of the union building (1966)
  • Carolus Vocke at the Reutlingen Spendhaus (1954)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Carolus Vocke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carolus Vocke. In: zum.de. Accessed January 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ HEGAU yearbook 2016 . MarkOrPlan, ISBN 978-3-933356-88-8 .
  3. ^ Regional studies on the Upper Rhine. In: zum.de. Retrieved April 5, 2018 .
  4. ^ Karl J. Svoboda: Residence out of spite and nevertheless . Südwestdeutsche Verlagsanstalt, Mannheim 1977, ISBN 978-3-87804-050-7 .
  5. ↑ Carthalia - Schwetzingen Rococo Theater. Retrieved April 5, 2018 .
  6. ↑ POW camp in Tuttlingen: Cage d Armée N o 2 Cage CSTO N o 2 Dépôt de transit N o 2 Bureau de Contrôle et Démobilisation. (PDF) Retrieved April 5, 2018 .
  7. ↑ A 3/109 memorandum Carolus-Vocke-Ring, Ernst-Throm-Straße for a ceremony in the Dietrich Bonhoefer House on the occasion of the dedication of new streets in the Mannheim-Feudenheim Süd-Ost development area (library) In: scopearchiv.ch , accessed on 13 June 2018.
  8. ↑ Ehrengrab, p. 16. (PDF) Accessed April 7, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Lutherkirche Bruchsal - Stadtwiki Karlsruhe. Retrieved April 6, 2018 .
  10. ^ Peter Anselm Riedl: The artistic equipment of the university since 1945 . In: The buildings of the University of Heidelberg . Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg 1985, ISBN 978-3-662-36931-9 , pp. 587-598 .
  11. ↑ Mühlau Camp Memorial Trail | City of Tuttlingen. Retrieved April 6, 2018 .
  12. ^ A b Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Bringmann | FB 07 - IKM Department of Art History. Retrieved April 5, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Forced laborers, prisoners of war, refugees - a new book presents the history of the Mühlau camp | City of Tuttlingen - information on the go. Retrieved April 6, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Lippertsreute resort. Retrieved April 5, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Helmut Fluck: The work of the painter Carolus Vocke (1899-1979) on western Lake Constance . In: Hegau: Journal for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance . tape 73 . MarkOrPlan Agency & Publishing, Singen (Hohentwiel) / Bonn 2016, p. 157-170 .
  16. ↑ Droste-Café in Meersburg has reopened . In: Swabian . ( schwaebische.de [accessed on April 6, 2018]).
  17. ^ Rittersaal: State Palaces and Gardens of Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved April 6, 2018 .
  18. ^ Regional studies on the Upper Rhine. In: zum.de. Retrieved April 6, 2018 .
  19. ^ Karl J. Svoboda: The Mannheim Castle. History of the reconstruction. Munich . Ed .: Bayerische Vereinsbank. Bavaria, Munich 1990.
  20. ↑ Carl von Haeberlin and History Painting, Dr. J. Shoemaker. Retrieved April 6, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Triptych enriches Vocke exhibition in the fruit box. July 18, 2012, accessed April 5, 2018 .
  22. ↑ a b MARCHIVUM : Chronicle star . July 12, 1989. Retrieved September 30, 2018 .
  23. ↑ MARCHIVUM: Mannheim street names, Carolus-Vocke-Ring. Retrieved September 30, 2018 .
  24. ↑ University of Mannheim - Honors. Retrieved April 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Vocke, Carolus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vocke, Carolus Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and restorer
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn , Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1979
Place of death Mannheim , Germany