Christoph Voll

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Christoph Voll (born July 27, 1897 in Munich , † June 16, 1939 in Karlsruhe ) was a German sculptor and graphic artist.

life and work

"Youth", Karlsruhe City Garden
"Eva", Karlsruhe City Garden

Christoph Voll was trained as a sculptor by Selmar Werner in Dresden and in 1920 became a member of the Dresden Secession Group in 1919 . In 1924 he exhibited with the November group at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and moved to Saarbrücken, where he was appointed director of the newly founded State School for Arts and Crafts and in 1925 professor. In 1928 he moved to Karlsruhe to the Baden State Art School , where the painter Artur Graf was one of his students.

During the Nazi era, his works were classified as " degenerate art ". In spite of this, Voll was not dismissed from teaching in 1933, but his contract was extended by two years. After attacks by students and colleagues, a more detailed “investigation” took place in 1935, which resulted in an “agreement” stating that he was “released from duty”, but was still allowed to use the studio and the training workshop, mainly to fulfill Government contracts. Due to further protests, his contract was not extended in March 1937 on the instructions of the Reich Propaganda Ministry. In July 1937 his works were defamed in the exhibition "Degenerate Art" and 43 of his works were confiscated.

His name can still be found in the membership directory of the German Association of Artists from 1936 - as one of the exhibiting artists at the last DKB exhibition in the Hamburger Kunstverein , which was forcibly closed by the Reichskunstkammer after ten days .

Voll died in 1939 at the age of forty-one, his grave is in a village cemetery in Oskby near Blaavand, Denmark.

In 2005, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum acquired five sculptures by the artist from private ownership ( Worker with Child (1922), Worker Woman with Child (around 1923), The Blind Beggar (1923), Pregnant Woman (1923) and The Critic - Portrait of the Literary Critic Arthur Binz (around 1923) 1925/1926)). In 2012 the watercolors Mönch (1921) and Sprengmeister Hantsch (1922) were rediscovered in Munich.

literature

  • Full, Christoph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 524 .
  • Full, Christoph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 50 .
  • Hubertus Adam: Christoph Voll . In: Christian Tümpel (ed.): German sculptors (1900–1945). Degenerate? Zwolle 1992, p. 243 f.
  • Anne-Marie Kassay-Friedländer: The sculptor Christoph Voll. 1897-1939. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1994, ISBN 978-3-88462-938-3 .
  • Christoph Voll - Sculpture between Expressionism and Realism. Exhib. Cat.Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen 2007.
  • Christoph Voll . In: Birgit Dalbajewa (ed.): New Objectivity in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2011, ISBN 978-3-942422-57-4 , p. 325 .

Web links

Commons : Christoph Voll  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 633.
  2. ↑ 1936 banned images. Exhibition catalog for the 34th annual exhibition of the DKB in Bonn. Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin 1986. (p. 98: incorrectly reproduced with Prof. Christian Voll - see also the discussion page )
  3. ↑ Acquisition list Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 2005  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / forschung.gnm.de  
  4. ^ [1] , [2] Lost Art Public Prosecutor Augsburg
personal data
SURNAME Full, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1939
Place of death Karlsruhe