Eugen Mahler

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Eugen Mahler (born April 20, 1927 in Freudenstadt ; † January 26, 2019 in Morschen ) was a German doctor , artist , psychoanalyst and university professor .

Life

Eugen Mahler was drafted as a medical trainee in the Air Force in 1945 and sent to the front near Frankfurt / Oder . After a few days he was taken prisoner by the Americans. At the end of 1945 he began studying medicine in Tübingen and then continued in Würzburg . In 1950 he passed his state examination. He married Elisabeth Berger in 1952, with whom he had three children. He completed his specialist training as an internist in the Medical Clinic of the University of Würzburg with Ernst Wollheim .

After acquiring a specialist medical degree for internal affairs in 1959, he trained in psychoanalysis with Alexander Mitscherlich at the Psychosomatic Clinic in Heidelberg . From 1963 to 1965 he was senior physician at the psychosomatic clinic in Gießen under Horst-Eberhard Richter and worked as the head of the outpatient department there. From 1965 to 1967 he was senior assistant at the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt am Main. Afterwards he built up the psychotherapeutic counseling center for students on behalf of the student union and the university in Frankfurt and headed it until 1972. Since 1968 he worked as a psychoanalyst and training analyst in his own practice. In 1971 and 1972 he was given a chair at the University of Kassel for psychoanalysis and group dynamics.

In 1975 he married Annegret Bungers, with whom he also had three children. With her he moved to Morschen. Together with colleagues, he founded the Alexander Mitscherlich Institute in Kassel in 1978 as a training institute for the German Psychoanalytic Association . In 1992 he retired. In spring 2007, Ludger Hermanns published his autobiography in the series Psychoanalysts in Self- Representations. Mahler published numerous scientific papers on psychosomatics. Particularly noteworthy is his book Psychical Conflicts and University Structure . Numerous works on group and social analysis were created in connection with his teaching activities.

Artistic creation

In addition to his medical and scientific work and his work as a teacher, Mahler has been active as a visual artist since the 1950s. As early as 1955, Mahler took part in a collective exhibition of Franconian artists in Nuremberg and in the same year had his first solo exhibition with large-format tachistic pictures in the Würzburg Art Cabinet . In the following years he participated in various collective exhibitions. Landscape watercolors by him were shown in a solo exhibition in the Falkenhaus in Würzburg in 1959. From 1964 to 1971 he exhibited at numerous solo and collective exhibitions with international artists such as Christo , Beuys , Ücker , Mack , Arman and others. a. Collages and montages. Since 1980 Mahler has shown collages and montages under the title Remnants of the day in his exhibitions .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1955: "Franconian Artists" (group exhibition): Galerie am Marientor, Nuremberg
  • 1955: Solo exhibition with tachistic pictures: Würzburger Kunstkabinett
  • 1958: “Doctors as visual artists” (group exhibition): Berlin
  • 1958: “Element and Combination” (group exhibition): Galerie Springer, Berlin
  • 1958: “Art and Plastic” (group exhibition): Ludwig Riechert-Haus, Ludwigshafen / Rhein; Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
  • 1958: "Freie Gruppe Hofheim" (group exhibition): Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Städtisches Museum Wiesbaden
  • 1980: “Remnants of the day” (solo exhibition): Studio M, Bamberg
  • 1980: Works (solo exhibition): Forum of the Art Department, University of Kassel
  • 1985: “Remnants of the day” (solo exhibition): Galerie Juelich, Hamburg Heimat
  • 1985: “Nightmare and Longing” (group exhibition): Evangelical Academy, Hofgeismar
  • 1990: "Two university professors exhibit" (together with Heinz Ullrich): Gießhaus, Kassel
  • 1996: “Remnants of the day” (solo exhibition): Austria Center, Vienna
  • 1996: “Remnants of the day” (solo exhibition): Haydau Monastery , Morschen
  • 1997/1998: “From the garbage collage to the winged altar - pictures, montages, shrines and triptychs from 45 years” (solo exhibition): Foyer of the Kassel State Theater
  • 1997–1999: “Der Morschener Wandelaltar” (single presentation): Foyer of the Kassel State Theater
  • 1999: “Remnants of the day” (solo exhibition): Galerie Köhler, Melsungen
  • 2002: “Remnants of the day” (solo exhibition): As part of the DPV conference, Leipzig
  • 2007: “From the dung beetle triptych to the Morschen convertible altar - triptychs from 45 years” (solo exhibition): Haydau Monastery, Morschen
  • 2009: “Remnants of the day, rubbish and 'Globales von EDEKA'” (solo exhibition): Haydau Monastery, Morschen

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Folded and Layered Stories: History. SEK-News, April 11, 2017, accessed on March 11, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Mahler, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, artist, psychoanalyst and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Freudenstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2019
Place of death Rotten