Friedrich Jossé

Friedrich Jossé (born July 10, 1897 in Wolfstein (West Palatinate), † February 17, 1994 in Speyer ) was a German painter , graphic artist and art teacher .

Life

Jossé was born on July 10, 1897 as the third child of a postal expedition in Wolfstein and grew up in Freinsheim ( Palatinate ). He attended the Progymnasium in Bad Dürkheim , and from 1913 to 1916 the Humanistic Gymnasium in Neuburg an der Donau . In 1915 he created his first oil painting "Dackenheim, seen from Freinsheim". This was followed by military service. Participation in the First World War took him to various theaters of war. In 1918 Jossé suffered a serious war wound and the loss of his right leg.

1920–1924 he studied art education in Munich with Maximilian Dasio and Adolf Schinnerer . He works as an assessor in Neustadt, where he becomes better acquainted with the works of Max Slevogt . As a drawing teacher, he feels "like the dog that trots behind the gypsy caravan of the artist troop". Here he illustrates Max Pfeiffer's novel “Kyrie eleison” on his own initiative. From 1927 he was an art teacher in Speyer . There he became acquainted with Hans Fay and Albert Haueisen . He is also unlikely to have escaped the influence of Hans Purrmann . Numerous exhibitions follow. Jossé worked as a book illustrator, caricaturist, landscape, flower, still life and glass window painter. He used oil painting, gouache, watercolor, graphics and also plastic modeling. He found his motifs particularly in the Rhine meadows near Speyer and in the landscape and the villages between the Rhine and Haardt . He was particularly connected to track cells , where he owned a summer cottage on the Hatzelberg.

In 1962, after his retirement, he was able to “devote himself entirely to painting”. In 1963 he exhibited abstract paintings for the first time. He became increasingly enthusiastic about abstraction, although with it he disappointed some previous friends. As Jossé's caricatures are drawn with a “sharp pen”, his thinking and speaking were modest, but accurate, funny, ironic and, where appropriate, also mocking.

In 1986 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

For about 60 years, until his death, Jossé lived with his wife Katharina in a spacious ground floor apartment in Speyer, Prinz-Luitpold-Straße. Many of his pictures and sculptures were also created there.

literature

• Clemens Jöckle: Friedrich Jossé - Pictures from the life of a small town . District group Speyer of the Historical Society of the Palatinate, 1978.
• Clemens Jöckle, Friedrich Jossé: The painter Friedrich Jossé. Life and work . Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Munich [u. a.] 1987, ISBN 978-3795402235 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Jossé in the catalog of the German National Library
• Friedrich Jossé (1897-1994). In: museum-digital: Germany.