Emil Bartoschek

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Emil Bartoschek (born July 30, 1899 in Czuchow , Rybnik district , Upper Silesia ; † February 26, 1969 in Waldbrunn , Hesse, Germany) was a German painter and artist of the Bauhaus .

life and work

Emil Bartoschek's birthplace (2004)

Bartoschek was born in Czuchow , which came to Poland in 1922. In 1914 he began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter in Czerwionka , where he also received painting and drawing lessons from the academic painter Gotschlich. The first works were shown in a collective exhibition in Hindenburg in 1919 .

In 1920 he began his studies with Johannes Itten's preliminary course at the Bauhaus in Weimar . Klee and Kandinsky were other masters in their studies. Because of the politically uneasy situation in the border area between Poland and Upper Silesia, he left Weimar and went to study at the State Academy for Arts and Crafts in Wroclaw in 1921 . He became a master student of Otto Mueller , a member of the artist group “ Die Brücke ”, and Oskar Moll . From 1925 Bartoschek lived as a freelance painter in Breslau, had solo exhibitions and took part in exhibitions. He was actually well beyond the Expressionist period, but a reference to Expressionism is noticeable in several pictures of his early creative periods. Bartoschek worked in the joint studio with Alexander Camaro . In 1930 Bartoschek married Elsa Lichter.

In 1937 Bartoschek moved to Berlin . He had a flourishing studio there near the zoo . He had the economic success necessary for his existence as a painter with impressionistic and naturalistic paintings, mainly depicting motifs from the Brandenburg area. They found buyers in the galleries of Sarcander and Kallide in the passage on Friedrichstrasse . In this way Emil Bartoschek was able to work - protected from the public eye - on pictures that would have been banned from his profession as “degenerate art” if they had become public. In 1939 Emil Bartoschek bought a plot of land in Groß Schönebeck in the Schorfheide , where he built a weekend house so that he could work undisturbed.

In 1942 his Berlin studio and a large part of his work were destroyed by aerial bombs. Then he retired to his house in the Schorfheide. In 1945 he had to flee from the approaching Soviet army to friends in Grevenbrück with only a few saved painting utensils . Almost all of his early work, stored in a Berlin bunker, was destroyed in the fighting.

Hildegard Grunert , who was to become his second wife, was among his painting students in Grevenbrück . In 1947 he became a member of the Hagenring Artists' Association in Hagen . His pictures have been shown in several exhibitions. In 1949 he separated from his first wife. Bartoschek moved to Cologne in 1951 with Hildegard Grunert, who began studying ceramics and decorative painting at the Cologne Werkkunstschulen. Here he turned back to modern painting. Impressionist, abstract, expressionist and surrealist oil paintings, drawings, watercolors, tempera pictures, charcoal, chalk and graphite drawings were created, which were shown in individual and group exhibitions. Cologne gallery owners sold his works well, but Bartoschek could no longer build on the successes in Berlin. Hildegard Grunert opened a ceramics workshop after completing her training. They married in 1965 and left Cologne to live in Waldbrunn, far away from the hustle and bustle of the big city, in a secluded and undisturbed art. But after just a few years, in 1969, Emil Bartoschek died shortly before his 70th birthday. He left an extensive late work.

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His pictures, which he painted in large numbers to hide his abstract work, the extensive destruction of his main work and his extensive and wide-ranging late work today give a falsified picture of the work of the Bauhaus artist Bartoschek.

Works by him are in the Museum Haus Schlesien (German Culture and Education Center) in Heisterbacherrott , in the Museum of the City of Lennestadt and in private ownership. In 1986 the House of Silesia showed an exhibition with works by Bartoschek. In 2013 Amnesty International presented the exhibition “Art and Human Rights” , including works by Bartoschek.

Bartoschek in the mirror of art criticism

The art critic Horst Richter wrote about an exhibition in Cologne in 1960 in the Kölner Kulturspiegel of April 12, 1960:

“(...) Bartoschek recognized the expressive values ​​of painterly abstraction at a time when it was still a risk to ban the object completely from the picture. Basically his spiritual home was the Berlin “Sturm”, although Bartoschek neither exhibited at Walden nor was it a member of Walden's circle of artists. The Silesian struggled through life as a creative hermit, even through the arid artistic years of the Third Reich, when he outwardly operated a "bread painting" of an impressionistic character in order to be able to further refine the now ostracized abstract means of expression in the quiet. (...) "

Web links

Commons : Emil Bartoschek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.archive-in-thueringen.de/finding_aids/main.php?path=0;25055;32141&searchTerms=Bauhaus