Elmar Worgull

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Elmar Worgull (born March 8, 1949 in Speyer ) is a German visual artist , art historian and art educator .

Live and act

The son of the car mechanic Otto and the housewife Hermine Worgull attended elementary school in Otterstadt near Speyer until he entered the natural science department of the State High School in Speyer. After secondary school, Worgull moved to the Max-Planck-Gymnasium Ludwigshafen , where he also passed the Abitur. The artistic and handicraft talent was recognized and promoted early on. As a schoolboy, Worgull also did several internships in Speyer with photo master Fritz Hermann.

From 1971 to 1977 he studied art history and art education at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . A scholarship from the university enabled him to do research trips to Italy. They mainly served the study of the art of the Quattrocento , which was to remain a subject of his later research. Study trips to Europe, Asia, Africa and North America followed, where he devoted himself particularly to modern painting in New York. His academic teachers include Fritz Viktor Arens , Richard Hamann-MacLean , Hans-Jürgen Imiela and Hartmut Biermann . Gotthelf Schlotter and Eberhard Schlotter gave suggestions . Werner König promoted musical understanding, including modern music. Just as important were the suggestions of Paul Badura-Skoda on Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert , which occupy a central place in his research on iconography . The latter led to a collaboration with Eva Badura-Skoda . After the two state exams (1977/1979), Worgull taught as an art teacher at grammar schools in Mainz, Ludwigshafen and Frankenthal ( Albert Einstein grammar school ) until 2013 .

Elmar Worgull has been the artistic director of the Frankenthal Art Association since 1981, which he named " Die Treidler ". He founded the “Forum denk-mal Denkmalschützer Frankenthal e. V. ”, which he heads to this day and was a member of the advisory board of the Erkenbert Museum Frankenthal. His commitment to the preservation of monuments , his rejection of stylistic , modernist developments or the use of old monuments for what he saw as a problematic event culture was not infrequently in conflict with prevailing opinion.

As a visual artist, with a focus on painting and drawing, Worgull represents interrealism . As the art historian Hartmut Biermann explains in Worgull's words, it describes “a floating between realities” and also wants to ironically highlight the ambiguity of the concepts of numerous realisms , such as B. Illustrate photorealism , critical realism , socialist realism, etc.

Worgull's art-historical areas of responsibility include the Beethoven and Schubert iconography , the architectural history of the Middle Ages and the architectural history of the Quattrocento . The method of iso- proportional analysis developed by Worgull and used in iconography , as well as the discoveries made about Beethoven and Schubert portraits, led to collaboration on the Schubert Lexicon (Graz 1997). In 1997 I was invited to give a lecture at the international Schubert conference “Schubert and his friends” in Vienna (May 22-26, 1997).

With the help of photogrammatic measurements , Worgull put the theory that medieval architectures contained geometrical laws on a secure basis in the field of construction history in the Middle Ages . In Steinerne Geometrie (2005) he shows how the Romanesque church of the former Augustinian canons in Frankenthal (Palatinate), today's so-called Erkenbert ruin , was developed in its dimensions and proportions from the geometric figure of the equilateral triangle . Worgull's main work is also dedicated to this monastery church , founded in 1119 . Frankenthal's Romanesque Monastery Basilica (2013) is a summary of the knowledge about this sacred architecture , which is considered to be the nucleus of medieval Frankenthal. The supra-regional importance of the building is underlined and at the same time a plea for responsible handling of the cultural heritage . Worgull designs the visual part of his art-historical publications himself with his own photographic and graphic material. Worgull's efforts to put scientific knowledge into practice in art lessons are borne out by the works he did together with schoolchildren.

Works

Book publications

Publications in specialist journals, festschriften and encyclopedias

Iconography and painting

  • Iconography . In: Schubert-Lexikon / ed. by Ernst Hilmar and Magret Jestremski. Academic printing and Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1997 and 1998, pp. 206–209.
  • The Steinhauser-Schott-Beethoven youth portrait . In: Mainz magazine: Middle Rhine yearbook for archeology, art and history . ( Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Fritz Arens ). Publishing house of the Mainzer Altertumsverein , Mainz. 73/74 (1979), pp. 261-266.
  • An unscrambled picture of Beethoven . In: Mainz magazine: Middle Rhine yearbook for archeology, art and history . Publishing house of the Mainzer Altertumsverein, Mainz. 73/74 (1979), pp. 267-269.
  • Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller paints Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven iconography and art history . In: Studies in Musicology . Hans Schneider , Tutzing. 1979. (Supplement to the monuments of music art in Austria; 30), pp. 107–153.
  • A representative portrait of Schubert's youth. Schubert's external appearance in contemporary documents as the basis for an isoproportional analysis of the portrait . In: Schubert through glasses. Announcements / International Franz Schubert Institute Vienna. Hans Schneider, Tutzing. 12: 55-89 (1994).
  • Two misspellings in Schubert's iconography . In: Schubert through glasses. Communications / International Franz Schubert Institute. Vienna. Hans Schneider, Tutzing. 16/17 (1996), pp. 158-171.
  • Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller sketches Franz Schubert in the Freundeskreis. Iconography and compositional specifics of a unique pictorial document . In: Schubert through glasses. Announcements / International Franz Schubert Institute Vienna. Hans Schneider, Tutzing. 18 (1997), pp. 103-124.
  • Schubert without glasses. Schubert's face mask as a model for the painting in the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna . In: Schubert through glasses. Announcements / International Franz Schubert Institute Vienna. Hans Schneider, Tutzing. 20 (1998), pp. 133-149.
  • Franz Schubert's face mask and its role model in Moritz von Schwind's drawings . In: Biblos: Contributions to books, libraries and writing / Austrian National Library Vienna. ( Dedicated to Werner König on the occasion of his 65th birthday ). Böhlau Verlag Wien u. a. 1997, pp. 345-388.
  • Rasumowsky depictions from Roslin to Waldmüller. An aporetic of the concept of portrait . In: Biblos: Contributions to books, libraries and writing / Austrian National Library Vienna. ( Dedicated to Eva Badura-Skoda ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna a. a. 1998, pp. 207-253.
  • Art historical research methods as an interdisciplinary aspect in Schubert's iconography . In: Schubert and his friends / ed. by Eva Badura-Skoda , Gerold W. Gruber , Walburga Litschauer , Carmen Ottner . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna a. a. 1999, pp. 343-360.
  • Schubert's unknown neighbor in Kupelwieser's watercolor The Fall of Man . In: Schubert through glasses. Announcements / International Franz Schubert Institute Vienna. Hans Schneider, Tutzing. 26 (2001), pp. 101-108.
  • About painting. From grip to color to color concept . In: Festschrift for Hartmut Biermann / ed. by Christoph Andreas, Maraike Bückling u. Roland Dorn. VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, Weinheim 1990. ISBN 978-3-527-17712-7 . Pp. 275-285.

Architecture and building history

  • Hartmut Biermann / Elmar Worgull: The palace model of Giuliano da Sangallo for Ferdinand I, King of Naples . An attempt at reconstruction . In: Yearbook of the Prussian Art Collections . ( Richard Hamann-MacLean on his 70th birthday ). Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin. Neue Episode 21 (1979), pp. 91-118.
  • The architectural sculpture of the Frankenthal Erkenbertruine in contradiction to art history . In: Journal of the German Association for Art History . German publishing house for art history, Berlin. 38: 3-13 (1984). (Reprinted in: Frankenthal once and now / Stadt Frankenthal in connection with the Frankenthaler Altertumsverein, Frankenthal 1989, pp. 71–81.)
  • The Frankenthaler Rebus, a symbol of the Trinity ? . In: Frankenthal then and now / City of Frankenthal in connection with the Frankenthal antiquity association. Frankenthal 1986, pp. 79-81.
  • Numbers, compasses, ruler. Arithmetic and geometry in medieval sacred buildings and their evidence in Frankenthal's former church of the Augustinian Canons' Monastery . In: Treasures of Parchment. Medieval manuscripts from Frankenthal / ed. on behalf of the city of Frankenthal by Dr. Edgar J. Hürkey Frankenthal (Palatinate). 2007, pp. 81-97.
  • The model of the Speyer Imperial Cathedral by wood sculptor Otto Martin in the Palatinate History Museum in Speyer. On the problem of historical image documents as a selective basis for reconstructed appearance of the cathedral . In: Pfälzer Heimat: Journal of the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science in conjunction with the Historical Association of the Palatinate and the Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research . ( Dedicated in friendship to Paul Badura-Skoda on his 80th birthday ). Publishing house of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science, Speyer 2007. Issue 2 (2007), pp. 60–80.
  • Glimpses of the vita and museum works of the wood sculptor Otto Martin (1872–1950) who worked in Speyer . In: Pfälzer Heimat: Journal of the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science in conjunction with the Historical Association of the Palatinate and the Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research . Publishing house of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science, Speyer 2009. Issue 1 (2009), pp. 19–26.
  • Newly discovered medieval architectural sculptures from the former monastery in Höningen . A consideration of the rare finds . In: Pfälzer Heimat: Journal of the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science in conjunction with the Historical Association of the Palatinate and the Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research . Publishing house of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science Speyer, Speyer 2015. Issue 1 (2015), pp. 1–11.
  • A medieval lavabo from Höningen's former monastery. Inventory of a previously unknown building sculpture . In: Pfälzer Heimat: Journal of the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science in conjunction with the Historical Association of the Palatinate and the Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research . Publishing house of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science Speyer, Speyer 2015. Issue 2 (2015), pp. 100–102.
  • Frankenthal Romanesque monastery basilica and its national importance. Latest knowledge of the history of architecture and art . In: Der Wormsgau  : Scientific journal of the city of Worms and the Altertumsverein Worms e. V. ( Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Dr. Otto Böcher ). City of Worms and Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2015. 31 (2014/15), pp. 19–32.
  • From Frankenthal's Romanesque monastery basilica to the Erkenbert ruins . New insights into their medieval construction phases and the formation of the vaults in the aisles. Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dedicated to Hartmut Hofrichter . In: Pfälzer Heimat: Journal of the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science in conjunction with the Historical Association of the Palatinate and the Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research . Publishing house of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science Speyer, Speyer 2016. Issue 2 (2016) pp. 87–102.
  • The former ceiling painting in Frankenthal's baroque Dreifaltigkeitskirche on historical photos discovered in 2016. In: Pfälzer Heimat: Journal of the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science in conjunction with the Historical Association of the Palatinate and the Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research . Publishing house of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science, Speyer 2017. Issue 1 (2017). Pp. 22-28.
  • The medieval vestibule of Frankenthal's former monastery church of the Augustinian Canons monastery. Theses on its building history as a contribution to the 900-year laying of the foundation stone of the basilica . In: Pfälzer Heimat: Journal of the Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science in conjunction with the Historical Association of the Palatinate and the Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research . Publishing house of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science Speyer, Speyer 2020. Issue 1 (2020) pp. 33–43.

Didactics of art education

  • For example: Edward Hopper : 7 am In: Arts and Teaching: Journal of Education . Friedrich Verlag, Seelze. Issue 169 (1993), pp. 14-15.
  • For example: Domenico Ghirlandaio : old man and child . In: Art and Teaching. Journal of Education . Friedrich Verlag Seelze. Issue 236 (1999), pp. 41-43.
  • Young and old as a pictorial task . In: Art and Teaching. Journal of Education . Friedrich Verlag, Seelze. Issue 236 (1999), pp. 9-10.

The artistic work (selection)

painting

literature

  • Rupert Feuchtmüller: The Beethoven portrait by Georg Waldmüller (1823) . In: A Beethoven Collection in Brussels: Exhibition in the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, December 15, 1991 to March 12, 1992. Beethoven-Haus, Bonn 1992. Page 5 ff.
  • Eberhard Gößmann: Images between realities. Intellectual provocation from Frankenthal (via Elmar Worgull). In: Die Rheinpfalz of May 31, 1980, 'Artists and Authors'.
  • Eberhard Gößmann: Man in his contradiction. "Interrealism". Pictures by the Frankenthal painter Elmar Worgull in the Mainz State Museum . In: Die Rheinpfalz of June 11, 1980, 'Feuilleton'.
  • Rolf Gauweiler: Worgull's style: "Interrealism". Exhibition in the Speyer Art Association . In: Die Rheinpfalz from June 15, 1988, 'Speyerer Rundschau'.
  • What is it about Schubert that fascinates you? (Interview with Elmar Worgull on the invitation to the International Schubert Congress in Vienna). In: Die Rheinpfalz from May 14, 1997, 'Culture regional'.
  • Ellen Kohlhaas: Drawing and death mask by Franz Schubert . In: FAZ of August 5, 1998, 'Nature and Science'. P. 6.
  • Susanne Armbruster: On the State Exhibition of Rhineland-Palatinate 1973 in Koblenz . In: Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung of September 3, 1973.
  • Professional Association of Visual Artists Rhineland-Palatinate: Documentation Elmar Worgull . Münchweiler and Pirmasens 1978.
  • Con motivo de la exposición de Iberflora en Valencia en octubre de 1978 . On the occasion of the Iberflora exhibition in Valencia in October 1978. Freundeskreis bildender Kunst e. V. on behalf of the city of Mainz.
  • Hartmut Biermann: Notes on Elmar Worgull's pictures . In: Elmar Worgull. Interrealism. Paintings - drawings - objects . Middle Rhine State Museum Mainz. July 9 to August 17, 1980. Catalog editor: Hartmut Biermann. University printing and publishing house Dr. Hans Krach, Mainz 1980. pp. 4-7.
  • Sigfrid Gauch : Floating between realities. Elmar Worgull. Encounters II. Art in Rhineland-Palatinate . In: Yearbook of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Rhineland-Palatinate . 1980/81, pp. 83-86, p. 177.
  • Hell or nothing: at Worgull's object on display on Rathausplatz . In: The Rheinpfalz of September 7, 1981, 'Frankenthaler Rundschau'.
  • Eugen Kling: Elmar Worgull's Interrealism in the Landau Villa Streccius . In: The Rheinpfalz of August 30, 1984, 'Frankenthaler Rundschau'.
  • Maren Felle: A look into the work of the painter and art educator Elmar Worgull. Design and forms become abstractions. In: The Rheinpfalz of February 24, 1988, 'Frankenthaler Rundschau'.
  • Art and artists from Rhineland-Palatinate 1984 . An exhibition of panel paintings in the Middle Rhine Museum in Koblenz and Lincoln (England). Usher-Gallery, Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Culture. Mainz, p. 23.
  • Leppla: Art times two . Exhibition with works by Heinrich R. Gruber and Elmar Worgull. In: Wochenblatt Kaiserslautern . Vol. 17 No. 8 from February 25, 1988.
  • Pictures of the master of omission. Elmar Worgull exhibits at the Kant-Gymnasium (Pirmasens). In: Pirmasenser Zeitung of March 16, 1988.
  • Christina Eichhorn: Depth of the picture versus superficiality of the photo. Elmar Worgull portrays the famous Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda . In: Die Rheinpfalz from June 16, 1999, 'Culture regional'.
  • Large stumps in the picture. Elmar Worgull shows expressive tree torsos in the Künstlerhaus . In: Tagespost Speyer from April 20, 1999.
  • Eberhard Gößmann: Church building - a matter of geometry. The Frankenthaler Erkenbert ruin  : Elmar Worgull's investigations into the architectural principle of the former monastery church . In: Die Rheinpfalz from August 6, 2005, 'Palatina'.
  • Michael Lorenz: Reply to Elmar Worgull's reply . In: Schubert through glasses. Announcements / International Franz Schubert Institute Vienna. Hans Schneider, Tutzing. 26 (2001), p. 109.
  • Dreieck inspires planners of church building. The art historian and educator Elmar Worgull discovered the possible architectural principle of the Erkenbert ruin . In: Die Rheinpfalz of December 21, 2005, 'Frankenthaler Rundschau, Kultur regional'.
  • Karl Rudolf Müller: Elmar Worgull: Stone geometry. The equilateral triangle as a construction principle for the Romanesque church of the Augustinian Canons in Frankenthal. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2005 . Review in: Pfälzer Heimat . 57/1 (2006), p. 45 ff.
  • Dagmar Gilcher: ruin with a great past. Elmar Worgull's building history of the Romanesque monastery basilica of Frankenthal . In: Die Rheinpfalz of January 4, 2014, 'Palatino Library'.

TV reports

Susanne Armbruster: Two exhibitions in the Middle Rhine State Museum in Mainz: Kurt Lehmann and Elmar Worgull . SWF Mainz, TV report from July 14, 1980, Kulturspiegel .

Elmar Worgull in the "Blue House" of the Kunstverein in Speyer . SWF Mainz, TV report from June 23, 1988 (editor in charge: Helmut Riedl ), Blick ins Land .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Today the school is called Gymnasium am Kaiserdom and after the natural science department moved out (today's Friedrich-Magnus-Schwerd-Gymnasium) in 1967 it is a purely old-language grammar school.
  2. ↑ Important objects were the Feuerbachhaus and the Villa Ecarius in Speyer and especially the Erkenbert ruins in Frankenthal.
  3. ↑ One example is the Erkenbert ruin in Frankenthal (Palatinate). It is sometimes the location of events which, according to the art historian, are difficult to reconcile with the character and importance of a sacred building. S. The Rheinpfalz 'Frankenthaler Zeitung' , edition of June 30, 2009, p. 17.
  4. ↑ This term, which he coined, is first published in: Who's who in the arts . Who's Who-Book and Publishing, Ottobrunn, 1975, p. 201.
  5. ↑ Hartmut Biermann: Notes on Elmar Worgull's pictures . In: Elmar Worgull. Interrealism. Paintings - drawings - objects . Middle Rhine State Museum Mainz. July 9 to August 17, 1980. Catalog editor: Hartmut Biermann. University printing and publishing house Dr. Hans Krach, Mainz 1980. pp. 4-7.
  6. ↑ The artistic analysis steps are described in the article Art History Research Methods as an interdisciplinary aspect in Schubert's iconography . In: Schubert and his friends / ed. by Eva Badura-Skoda, Gerold W. Gruber, Walburga Litschauer, Carmen Ottner. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna a. a. 1999, p. 348.
  7. ^ Art historical research methods as an interdisciplinary aspect in Schubert iconography . In: Schubert and his friends / ed. by Eva Badura-Skoda, Gerold W. Gruber, Walburga Litschauer, Carmen Ottner. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna a. a. 1999, pp. 343-360.
  8. ↑ When applying his method to the original version of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller's painting by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1823, Worgull was able to verify the historically controversial similarity of the sitter in 1979. This picture, recovered in 1966, was only considered a copy. Worgull's realization that this is the previously unrecognized original portrait study of Beethoven by Waldmüller was honored by Rupert Feuchtmüller . (see literature). The research results prompted the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien to auction the painting at Christie's in London in autumn 1996 ( German and Austrian Art '96 . Christie's London, October 1996, pp. 22–23). Current location: Department of Ancient Musical Instruments of the Art History Museum.
  9. ↑ On Worgull's publications on Schubert iconography, see Janet Wassermann: A Schubert-Iconography: painters, sculptors, lithographiert, Illustrators, silhouettists, engravers and others known or said to have produced a likeness of Franz Schubert . In: Music in Art. Research Center for Music Iconography: The Graduate Center. City of New York, XXXVIII / 1-2 (2003), p. 205, 209, 216, 226, 229, 230, 231.
  10. ↑ z. B .: Model of the former Frankenthal monastery church in the Erkenbert Museum Frankenthal (inventory no. 2414), published in: Elmar Worgull: Steinerne Geometrie . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2005, ISBN 3-88462-214-5 , fig. 50, p. 61 / and in: Elmar Worgull: Frankenthal's Romanesque monastery basilica in the context of the reform architecture of Cluny and Hirsau. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-343-5 , Fig. 96, p. 48. See also the notice board with the picture of the model including the inscription on site at the Erkenbert ruin, Frankenthal. Student works that were created in the context of a class are published in: "Art and Teaching" 1999, issue 236.
personal data
SURNAME Worgull, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer , Germany