Ernst Gock

Adolph Wilhelm Ernst Gock (born February 27, 1869 in Cuxhaven , † April 25, 1957 in Cuxhaven- Döse ) was a German painter and draftsman.

biography

Gock was the son of a large master plumber. He had a brother who took over his father's plumbing. From 1876 he attended the school on Friedrichstrasse and the community school on Deichstrasse in Cuxhaven. From 1884 he made an apprenticeship as a painter and decorative painter . From 1888 to 1889 he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Cologne and from 1889 to 1890 at the Royal Art School in Berlin . Here he obtained his diploma as a drawing teacher. He worked as a decorative painter in Berlin for two years. From 1892 to 1903 he lived in Cuxhaven and Hamburg and was active in the arts and crafts. From 1903 to 1910 he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin .

In 1910 Gock returned to Cuxhaven and exhibited his works here in the library in Friedrichstrasse. He mainly painted portraits and maritime motifs in the neo-impressionist style. From 1910 to 1912 he worked with the impressionist Carl Vinnen and from 1950 to 1956 with the sculptor Doris von Sengbusch-Eckardt (1905–2000). He received little recognition from the Cuxhaveners and later viewed his return as a big mistake.

He was buried in the cemetery in Döse .

Honors

• 1954: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• In 1964 the Ernst-Gock-Weg in Cuxhaven- Duhnen was named after him.
• The Ernst Gock Society from 1949 and 1977 respectively bears his name.

Literature, sources

• Peter Bussler: Historical city lexicon for Cuxhaven . Hg: Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern, 2002, ISBN 3-931771-36-9 .
• Peter Bussler: A painter's life in Cuxhaven . Niederelbe-Verlag, Otterndorf 1993, ISBN 3-924239-25-8 .
• Otto Böttcher: Ernst Gock - A contribution to the art of the 20th century .
• Otto Böttcher: Ernst Gock. A painter's life in Cuxhaven . Ed .: Ernst Gock Society Cuxhaven

Individual evidence

1. ↑ StadtwikiCuxhaven: Gock, Ernst .