Erwin Spuler

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Erwin Spuler (born March 23, 1906 in Augsburg , † April 8, 1964 in Cagnes-sur-Mer ) was a German painter , ceramist , graphic artist , filmmaker and sculptor , who was mainly active in the field of art in architecture .

Education and family

Spuler was born as the eldest son of the pharmacist Hermann Spuler and his wife Emma Bengel. After the father had acquired today's St. Michael pharmacy in Dirmstein , where the mother came from, the family lived there for several years. The son attended elementary school here and the first classes of grammar school in Frankenthal (Palatinate) . After the First World War, the family moved to Mannheim , where Spuler attended a grammar school up to 11th grade.

From 1922 to 1923 he studied at the Württemberg State School of Applied Arts in Stuttgart under Gustav Jourdan , Alfred Lörcher and Hans von Heider. From 1923 to 1929 he continued his studies at the Badische Landeskunstschule in Karlsruhe with Georg Scholz , Karl Dillinger and Ernst Würtenberger . Eventually he became a master student with Walter Conz . Already during his studies he had a close friendship with Karl Hubbuch . In 1939 he married Elisabeth Holzwarth (1914–1988).

job

From 1926 to 1929 Spuler went on study trips to Paris , Marseille and Berlin . In 1929 he received the Baden State Prize for Graphics. In 1930 he traveled to Switzerland several times . From June 1, 1931 until his death, Spuler worked at the majolica factory in Karlsruhe. In 1932/33 he made further study trips to France. The photo series 120 Variations was created around 1934 , in which he portrayed one and the same face in the most varied of changes.

In the war years between 1939 and 1941 he also worked as a freelancer for architecture and graphics for UFA-Film AG Berlin. Participation in the major German art exhibitions in Munich is only documented for 1940. From 1941 on, he was temporarily employed as a border customs officer in the Metz district. In 1942 he was dismissed from the customs service because he was called up for the armed forces . Health problems, especially a heart attack , led to his discharge from the Wehrmacht as early as 1943.

In 1948 Spuler received a teaching position for drawing and modeling at the Faculty of Architecture at the TH Karlsruhe . One of his most important students was the Karlsruhe graphic artist and sculptor Wolfgang Trust .

Around 1950 he traveled to Italy and met the collector and art dealer Adriano Totti in Milan, which led to a further collaboration. From 1950 onwards, Spuler turned to a more abstract design language. Increasing orders and sales made it possible for him and his wife to make long trips to the Côte d'Azur every year from 1954 . It was here that the extensive cycle of drawings entitled Côte d'Azur was created . From 1960 he began to work intensively with metal .

Works (selection)

literature

  • Erwin Spuler: Art ceramics from the majolica factory in Karlsruhe 1931–1964 . Ed .: Philipp Heise. DRW-Verlag Weinbrenner, 2001, ISBN 978-3-7650-8261-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philipp Heise: Erwin Spuler (1906–1964) . Life and work. tape 1 . Karlsruhe 2000, p. 5 ( uni-karlsruhe.de [accessed on May 30, 2014] dissertation).
  2. ^ Philipp Heise: Erwin Spuler (1906–1964) . Life and work. tape 1 . Karlsruhe 2000, p. 7 ( uni-karlsruhe.de [accessed on May 30, 2014] dissertation).
  3. ^ Philipp Heise: Erwin Spuler (1906–1964) . Life and work. tape 1 . Karlsruhe 2000, p. 8 ( uni-karlsruhe.de [accessed on May 30, 2014] dissertation).
personal data
SURNAME Spuler, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, ceramist, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Augsburg , Kingdom of Bavaria , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1964
Place of death Cagnes-sur-Mer , Alpes-Maritimes department , France