Ewald Dülberg

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The Wolfsschlucht in the Freischütz in the Kroll Opera House (1928)
Fidelio , 4th image (1927)
"The foolish virgins", stained glass window, 1922 (Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg)

Ewald Dülberg (born December 12, 1888 in Schwerin , † July 12, 1933 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; actually: Emil Franz Constantin Dülberg ) was a German painter , set designer, director, textile artist and woodcutter of Expressionism .

Life

He was a founding member of the Darmstadt Secession , an artists' association that still exists today, which was founded in Darmstadt on June 8, 1919 and in which he was one of the most productive artists. Ewald Dülberg studied at the Art Academy in Munich and began teaching in 1910. In 1919 and 1920 worked at the Odenwald School in Ober-Hambach , from 1921 to 1926 professor of graphics and weaving at the State Art Academy in Kassel, before going to the State Building College in Weimar in 1926 . There he was considered an expert in the subjects of drawing, color theory, weaving and theater equipment. However, his hobby was the woodcut , where he had already made a name for himself before the First World War. Teaching was always with him until his dismissal from the Prussian civil service in 1931. His most famous students include the set designer Teo Otto , the Irish painter Cecil ffrench Salkeld and the painter, designer and Documenta founder Arnold Bode .

His wife Hedwig Dülberg-Arnheim , with whom he had their daughter Esther Maria, who was born in 1918, also taught at the Odenwald School and went with him to Weimar at the Bauhochschule under Bartning. She created a rich textile work and on some of Ewald Dülberg's works you can see blankets and carpets, which probably come from your hand. After the divorce in 1921, she studied in Weimar in the weaving workshop. She got into a second marriage and fled as a Jew from the Nazis to Nice. After 1943, however, she died in Auschwitz .

The artist kept following new design tendencies and developed idiosyncratic formal languages. He set ornamental, calligraphic, abstracting, cubist or geometrical accents. His 1923 woodcut Crucifixion was shown in the Nazi exhibition Degenerate Art in the section Mocking the Christian Religion . At the same time, Dülberg designed cubic sets and entire equipment programs for the Hamburg city theater, to which his friend and chief conductor Otto Klemperer had brought him. His last woodcut couple was only published posthumously in 1933.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Hans Goltz Gallery in Munich (1916)
  • Kunsthalle Rostock Masterpieces of Modernism (January 17th - March 1st, 2009)
  • Municipal Art Museum Bonn Ewald Dülberg. 1888–1933 (April 30 - June 8, 1986)
  • Museum Giersch in Frankfurt (April 3 - July 17, 2011)

literature

  • Ewald Dülberg: attempt at self-portrayal , in: Merkur. German magazine for European thinking , vol. 5 - 1951, no. 3, pp. 253-267.
  • Elke Bratke (Ed.): Ewald Dülberg. 1888-1933. Exhibition catalog, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn 1986.
  • Peter W. Marx (Ed.): Dülberg meets Wagner , ( TheaterErkundungen # 1 ), Cologne, Wienand Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-86832-161-6 .
  • Hans Curjel : Experiment Krolloper 1927–1931 . From the estate, published by Eigel Kruttge. Munich: Prestel, 1975 (1962)

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personal data
SURNAME Dülberg, Ewald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dülberg, Emil Franz Constantin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and wood cutter
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1933
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau