Diogo Graf

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Diogo Graf, around 1958 (photography by Herbert Maeder )

Diogo Graf (born October 5, 1896 in Fortaleza , Ceará , Brazil ; bourgeois von Rebstein ; †  December 19, 1966 in St. Gallen ) was a Swiss painter and teacher . As an early representative of abstract painting , he belonged to the artist group allianz . Promoting children in drawing , he was also an art teacher .

Life

The family living in Brazil as Swiss abroad returned to Switzerland in 1901. She settled in Stein am Rhein , where Diogo went to school. After training at teacher training college of Rorschach Diogo Graf was initially a teacher at various st. Gallic places and from 1929 to 1961 in the city of St. Gallen. As an autodidact, he painted in his free time and on vacation . As an adult educator , he taught painting and sculpture . A daughter emerged from the marriage with Nelly Kirchhofer. In addition to painting, he felt a strong connection with Lake Constance . Towards the end of his life, Diogo Graf was a brief teacher of drawing at the Friedberg grammar school in Gossau .

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Diogo Graf: Oil on wood, 35 × 42 cm, 1934

From 1929 to 1933 Diogo Graf trained with Alfred Staerkle , Wilhelm Meier and Fritz Gilsi at the School of Applied Arts in St. Gallen. Representative pictures and sculptures were created during these years. In 1938 he switched to abstract painting. Not understood because he was ahead of his time and thus misunderstood, he was repeatedly denied admission to the Society of Swiss Painters, Sculptors and Architects (GSMBA). Since 1942 (until 1954) a member of the artist group allianz , he turned to tachistic painting with touches on the landscape and Lake Constance. The preoccupation with children's drawings fertilized his work. In the late 1950s, light colored geometric pictures were created. Later he painted tachistically again, in shades of gray, then in the darkest color and finally in lightened colors on a dark background. He worked with a spatula and a soft brush , on wood and canvas . Diogo Graf has created an extensive work. His written estate and children's drawings are in the St. Gallen Cantonal Library (Vadiana) . Works by Diogo Graf can be found in the St. Gallen Art Museum and the Thurgau Art Museum ( Kartause Ittingen ).

Solo exhibitions

  • 1946 Galerie Gasser , Zurich.
  • 1956 Rorschach Local History Museum , Rorschach.
  • 1962 Art Museum St.Gallen , St. Gallen.
  • 1966 Waaghaus St.Gallen , St. Gallen (on his 70th birthday).
  • 1971 Kursaal Gallery , Heiden.
  • 1972 St. Gallen Historical Museum - St. Gallen Art Association , St. Gallen (memorial exhibition).
  • 1988 Art in the cloister (together with Peter Federer ), Rorsachach teacher training college, Rorschach.
  • 1990 Steiner Gallery , Zurich.
  • 2007 Culture at the St.Gallen railway station , St. Gallen.
  • 2009 Culture in St.Gallen Railway Station (watercolors, together with Walter Burger ), St. Gallen.
  • 2013 Atelier-Galerie St.Gallen (pictures and watercolors), St. Gallen.
  • 2014 Kunstverein Frauenfeld , Frauenfeld.
  • 2015 BIBLION antiquarian bookshop and gallery , Zurich.
  • 2016 Adrian Bleisch Gallery , Arbon.

Group exhibitions

Diogo Graf: Oil on jute, 120 × 110 cm, 1965

Fonts

  • Concrete art . In: Gallusstadt 1943. St. Gallen 1942.
  • Children paint ornaments. St. Gallen 1943.
  • (with Karl Stieger) Children's creative drawing. Olten and Freiburg i. Br. 1958.

literature

  • Arnold Bosshard: About modern art. In: Gallusstadt 1943. St. Gallen 1942. pp. 128-131.
  • Hermann Strehler: St. Gallen painter 64. Amriswil 1964.
  • Where the crack finds its length - Hommage à Diogo Graf . 4 original watercolors by Diogo Graf, 4 woodcuts by Peter Wullimann, 8 poems by Fritz Oser . Solothurn 1966.
  • Eduard Plüss and Christoph von Tavel (Hrsg.): Artist Lexicon of Switzerland: XX. Century. Frauenfeld / Stuttgart 1983 (p. 378).
  • Corinne Schatz: Diogo Graf. I know that these pictures can only be a painted experience . In: Departure - Painting in Eastern Switzerland from 1950 to 1965 . St. Gallen 1993.
  • Barbara Hohl: Diogo Graf . In: Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Art. Zurich 1998 (p. 422, with ill.).
  • Richard Butz, Fred Kurer (ed.): Diogo Graf - painter and art educator . St. Gallen 2007.
  • Richard Butz (Ed.): Diogo Graf 1896-1966 . St. Gallen 2014. With a detailed list of exhibitions and references.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Since 2001 visarte.schweiz, professional association for visual arts . Archived copy ( memento of the original from May 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.visarte.ch
  2. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt, February 17, 2012, p. 29.

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personal data
SURNAME Graf, Diogo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Fortaleza , Ceará, Brazil
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1966
Place of death St. Gallen