Edmund Goetz

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Edmund Götz (born March 2, 1891 in Plauen near Dresden ; † February 4, 1968 there ) was a German painter , graphic artist and educator .

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Edmund Götz was a painter who preferred a style of painting in his works that came close to the main representatives of German Impressionism . If his early works are still restrained in terms of color, the pictures become more colorful in the course of his artistic development. Soon he was painting with bright colors under the influence of the Munich School . His spirited floral still lifes are an example of this. He is a painter especially his in nature inspiration receives.

His portraits as well as the large-scale oil paintings with depictions from working life testify to his good powers of observation and his ability to grasp what is particularly characteristic.

The extensive artistic work consists mainly of works in oil , in watercolor , and charcoal and pencil drawings . The themes of the works of art include landscapes , floral still life, still lifes , nudes , portraits , people in the creative process.

Life

Edmund Götz was born as the second son of a Saxon Royal Railway Council . After attending elementary and secondary school, he began an apprenticeship as a craft draftsman . In preparation for the desired training as a drawing teacher, Götz attended courses with Richard Mebert and Arno Drescher at the Dresden School of Applied Arts . He successfully completed his studies at the Royal Drawing School in Dresden in 1913 with the state examination. Until he began teaching in 1914, he completed optional training with Richard Guhr - with whom Otto Dix also studied at the same time - and Hugo Spieler at the arts and crafts school in life drawing and sculpture . When he was drafted into the military in 1914, teaching at Dresden schools was interrupted. Only after being wounded on the Eastern Front was he released from military service in 1916 and Edmund Götz continued to work as a teacher for art education at Dresden schools until 1932, with the exception of interruptions due to university studies and study trips . B. at the Vitzthumschen Gymnasium , as well as at the teachers seminar Waldenburg . From 1919 to 1924, after being appointed by Groß, he was in charge of the painting and drawing class of the evening department at the State Academy for Applied Arts in Dresden - today's University of Fine Arts . From 1927 to 1928 Götz undertook postgraduate studies and advanced training at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . With Karl Caspar , Max Doerner and Max Mayrshofer he received further knowledge in various painting techniques as well as in fresco painting . During this time there was a study trip to Spain - studying the works of Goya , Velazquez and Greco - and three study trips to Italy , during which he was particularly concerned with the frescoes by Piero della Francesca and Giotto . Independently of his teaching activity, he made further trips through Europe .

After temporarily ending his teaching activities, Götz moved from Dresden to Berlin and from then on worked as a freelance painter. In the bombing raids in 1943, he lost almost all of his previous artistic work by destroying his studio and apartment. After losing his livelihood in Berlin, he wanted to start over in Dresden and moved into his parents' house with his family. On 13./14. In February 1945 his new studio on Dresden's Bürgerwiese was once again a victim of the bombs during the devastating air raid on the city of art and culture.

Despite the blows of fate, Götz faced new artistic challenges with energy and optimism after the end of the war. From 1945 he received appointments as a graphic teacher at the former State Academy for Applied Arts in Dresden, which has since been renamed the Master School for Designing Crafts. Further appointments and employment followed in 1946 as a teacher and head of the art education department at the State Academy for Fine Arts in Dresden , in 1947 as a lecturer in art education at the teacher training center in Dresden-Wachwitz, and in 1948 as a lecturer at the Dresden Technical University for freehand drawing . The reconstruction of the Academy of Fine Arts, the reopening and the commencement of studies were pushed forward by Hans Grundig in 1946 and, for this task, he received the help of Edmund Götz and the architect Kurt Bärig . After the Second World War, Edmund Götz was one of the founders of the renewed Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. From 1952 until his retirement in 1956 Götz was a lecturer at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts . From 1956 he worked as a freelance painter within the Association of Visual Artists , of which he was also a member. In addition to his artistic work and teaching, as a founding member of the “ Deutscher Kulturbund ” and “Kunst der Zeit” in Dresden , he conveyed his rich artistic experience to many art lovers in lectures, art talks and guided tours. During his time as a freelance artist, he still led a painting and drawing circle at the TU Dresden and undertook a major study trip by ship to Egypt , Lebanon , Turkey and the Ukraine .

Pictures (selection)

  • 1912 - Chinese vases, watercolor
  • 1917 - Self-portrait by E. Götz, charcoal drawing
  • 1918 - bouquet of peonies, watercolor
  • 1925 - afterglow on the Plauen tower , oil
  • 1927 - Still life with sculptures, oil
  • 1927 - mountain landscape, oil
  • 1927 - Bullfight / Spain, woodcut
  • 1927 - Port of Almeria / Spain, mixed media
  • 1932 - Taormina / Sicily , watercolor
  • 1934 - Portrait of Frau Götz, oil
  • 1944 - Kaitzgrund in autumn, oil
  • 1946 - Portrait of the painter Schleich, oil
  • 1952 - Still life - Irises in a yellow vase, oil
  • 1953 - In the Reick gas works , oil
  • 1955 - Gasworker, oil
  • 1957 - Head Gasmaster Folde, Oil
  • 1958 - Self-portrait of E. Götz with a red scarf, oil
  • 1958 - GST glider pilot ready to take off, oil
  • 1962 - African delegates studying at the TU Dresden
  • 1963 - View of the Italian village in Dresden, oil
  • 1963 - GST motorcyclists ready to start, oil
  • 1964 - Ethnologists at work in the ethnological museum , oil
  • 1964 - View of Dresden from the Japanese Palace , oil
  • 1964/65 - Self-portrait of E. Götz with brush, oil
  • 1965 - Death and Life, Oil
  • 1965 - View of the Wilisch , oil
  • 1966/67 - Animal experiment in the Pharmacological Institute, oil

Exhibitions (selection)

Participation in group exhibitions before 1945

in Dresden , Berlin , Munich , Vienna , Dortmund , Chemnitz

Participation in group exhibitions after 1945

Exhibitions that predominantly or exclusively presented the artistic work of Edmund Götz

  • “Art of Time” Dresden, “About the life and work of Edmund Götz”, exhibition on the occasion of Edmund Götz's 75th birthday, 1966
  • “Art of Time” Dresden, commemorative exhibition on the occasion of Edmund Götz's 80th birthday, 1971
  • Städtische Kunstsammlungen Freital, exhibition with works by Edmund Götz, 1975
  • Galerie Kühl , Dresden, commemorative exhibition on the occasion of Edmund Götz's 100th birthday, 1991

literature

  • Hans Vollmer : General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century , second volume, p. 266. EA Seemann Verlag Leipzig (1953–1958)
  • Kuhirt, Ullrich, History of German Art. Art of the GDR 1945–1959, p. 158. EA Seemann Verlag Leipzig 1982
  • DRESDEN - From the Royal Art Academy to the University of Fine Arts (1764–1989), p. 404 ff., P. 423. Verlag der Kunst Dresden 1990
  • Förster, Wieland , queried in the studio, p. 9. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich, Berlin 2005
personal data
SURNAME Götz, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1968
Place of death Dresden